What’s on the invitation party for Mr. Duke and Mr. Tao?
On December 23 every year, Vietnamese people often clean the kitchen and prepare a feast to worship the Kitchen Gods to report to their ancestors about the achievements of the past year. However, each region and family has a different understanding of Mr. Cong and Mr. Tao.
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The tray offered to worship the Cong Ong Tao needs thoughtfulness, showing the sincerity of the homeowner before the altar of the god who governs the land and the god who governs the kitchen. Depending on each family, offerings can be vegetarian or non-vegetarian.
Savory tray:
1 plate of rice; 1 plate of salt; 5 ounces of boiled shoulder meat or boiled chicken with rose hips
Bowl of sprout soup or bamboo shoot soup; 1 plate of mixed stir-fry
1 plate of spring rolls; 1 plate of gac sticky rice or banh chung
Sweet treat:
1 plate of braised tea; 1 plate of fruit; 1 pot of lotus tea
3 cups of wine; 1 grapefruit; 1 areca nut, betel leaf
1 small jar of peach blossoms; 1 jar of chrysanthemums; stacks of paper money and joss paper; live carp.
With the suggestions above, Trau Ngon Quan hopes that the family’s offering tray will be full of meaning, and the homeowner’s new year will be filled with happiness and fortune!
Hopefully, with suggestions from Trau Ngon Quan, diners will have more options for reasonable offerings to the Kitchen God.
