Dong Thap: Sa Dec rice flour making profession becomes a National Intangible Cultural Heritage

On the evening of April 26, at Sa Dec City Square, the City People’s Committee and the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Dong Thap province held a ceremony to receive the National Intangible Cultural Heritage of Traditional Crafts. Traditional knowledge, Folk knowledge “Sa Dec rice flour making profession,” Tan Phu Dong commune and Ward 2, Sa Dec city, Dong Thap province.

Sa Dec rice flour products have become the pride of the people here. Any visitor to Sa Dec is interested and impressed by the diverse and rich culinary culture made from flour; understand the formation and development of the dough making profession for more than 100 years and is worthy of being listed on the list of national intangible cultural heritage.

According to the Dong Thap Provincial Museum, the Sa Dec flour making profession has nearly 350 flour producing households with more than 2,000 workers mainly in Tan Phu Dong commune and Ward 2, Sa Dec city, Dong Thap province.

The flour consumption market is increasingly growing, food processing factories inside and outside the province consume an average of hundreds of tons of fresh flour every day to make instant products such as noodles, noodles, pho, and banh canh. , porridge.

At the same time, hundreds of folk cakes are created such as banh xeo, banh khot, banana cake, beef cake, pork skin cake, wrap cake, banh hoi, and types of sweet soup, dishes that create a unique flavor not found anywhere else. also.

Sa Dec rice flour making profession is the focal point supplying flour to all Western provinces, Ho Chi Minh City, and the Southeast region, exporting to Southeast Asian countries and some European countries; creating jobs for 2,000 workers, producing over 50 thousand tons of flour/year.

With traditional handmade methods, many establishments produce flour products that are delicious, flexible, and smooth white. The profession of making rice flour must go through 10 stages such as: Selecting broken rice, cleaning broken rice, grinding broken rice, ballasting flour, beating flour, decanting, skimming flour, dividing flour, breaking flour. , drying the powder and packaging the finished product.

Currently, Sa Dec has formed and maintained an effective community tourism destination in a traditional rice flour production village. Here, the display introduces the production process of Sa Dec rice flour through the ages, products after the flour and culinary dishes made from rice flour.

OCOP products made from Sa Dec flour are rated 4 stars such as brown rice flour, lotus seed barley, dry banh hoi, coconut pancake flour, rice noodles, brown rice vermicelli, brown rice noodles, brown rice pho, rice noodles. dry diarrhea, dry pho.

OCOP products made from rice flour are brought into supermarkets and shopping centers to provide to consumers.

Mr. Pham Thien Nghia – Chairman of the People’s Committee of Dong Thap province was pleased to share that Sa Dec rice flour making profession was included in the list of National Intangible Cultural Heritage. This is the result of the process of cherishing, preserving and promoting values, associated with the living habits of residents.

Mr. Pham Thien Nghia requested all levels and sectors to promote and honor the profession of rice flour making, contributing to preserving national cultural heritage; We request the Party Committee and government of Sa Dec city to soon find solutions to improve quality and cooperate in powder production and trading to increasingly reach domestic and international markets./.