Today I took a private boat tour to the floating market. That's a separate post though. In this post I'm going to write about all the rest. Ly took me with his motorbike to the ferry terminal of Can Tho when we boarded his motorized boat on the Mekong. We visited a cacao plantation. Besides my brief touch of fresh cacao two days ago I never experienced it's taste before. Crashing the shell is easy, you just have to crack it against some stone or the floor. As the hard shell broke I could open the whole structure and see the white meat which is delicious. However in the white meat hides the cacao seeds which are bitter when they're raw. Then they're fermenting the fruit for five days covered with some banana leaves. The white meat and its sugar content trigger the fermentation process. From this product they produce the cacao wine. The beans are taken to dry on the sun for a couple of days, then they roast then. Once the beans are roasted you can peel them (they become tasty), get rid of the skin and use the seed for chocolates manufacturing.
The way to the plantation:
Cacao products:
A cacao:
Ly:
In a rice noodles factory I was explained how it is made. It all begins with pulverizing the rice. Then they squeeze out all the remaining water from it so it's really really dry. Mixing 80% of rice powder with 20% of tapioca and water gives it a special flexibility. They bake it like a pancake for some seconds, and they dry it for 4-5 hours on the sun.
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