Leaf soup noodle dish from the 'new economy'

Wheat leaves (cassava) to wheat leaf soup is one. The hybrid noodles, Japanese noodles thick broad leaves, eating more toxic and less tasty.
My parents from central to Krongpa, Gia Lai, settlers from the 80s of the last century. Krongpa poor arid land can not grow coffee, rubber or pepper as the fertile Central Highlands others, only the green wheat plants with wind and sun breaker compartment. My childhood is associated with wheat cultivation, cultivation of maize and wheat leaf soup went into my mind as something very dear.

My parents said to leaf soup noodles from fellow friends Gia-rai. He said he first thought leaves not dare to eat because not eating bread at home and ate three leaves Wheat none at all. Yet eating aggressively and grinding.

Wheat leaf to leaf noodle soup is one, the hybrid noodles, Japanese noodles thick broad leaves, eating more toxic and less tasty. Especially three leaves just picked from the tree of bread does not apply any fertilizer yet. Choose pick the young leaves near the tops, leaving long stems, washed earned smashed into rocks and trees, clear blue water off the leaves and put them in the pot. Cook the pasta sheets also included bitter coffee, coffee things from people, small, but very tasty bitter, add some male papaya flower branch smashed and crushed chilli, spicy shredded insurance.

Previously the Gia-rai fellow soup often leaves little dry noodles with deer, hang dry kitchen, hung from a forest walk or less dried anchovies from district market exchange. Better off this life, farming wheat leaves also come less variation: bitter coffee can replace it with green beans, tomato dishes, cook pasta sheets together chopped chicken entrails or some chopped bacon, home cooks how to shredded beef with dried fibers, dried squid are delicious ... both.

Raw materials for noodle soup consisting of leaf pound leaves, green beans, papaya flowers. Photo: Nguyen Bich Phuong.
Raw materials for noodle soup consisting of leaf pound leaves, green beans, papaya flowers. Photo: Nguyen Bich Phuong.
All the ingredients into a saucepan, institutional little water to boil tires coming. When boiling soup remember opening a wheat leaves less time for toxic, then up again, boiled until the leaves turn from green to gold, fish seasoning salt to taste MSG is finished. New leaf soup noodles do not look very appealing, but eat somewhere interesting to see. What bitterness of wheat leaves, tomato and papaya flower male mixed taste of sweet chewy chewy and spicy shredded beef tongue chili insurance is charming taste.

Many years of schooling away from home, between storm suddenly summer day or evening rains poured from the ancient capital, yet I crave to please her mother cook soup noodle sheets. Simple naivete that vast land and enjoy fresh as human Krongpa

Nguyen Bich Phuong