Hoi An corn flying to American market

Hoi An ancient town (Quang Nam) are always proud of the rustic cuisine which is preserved and developed strongly. In one of them are boiled corn, roasted corn which is delicious cuisines and very famous. Every once visitors to Hoi An, if have chance to enjoy it and they always remember the natural corn taste….And the flavour of Hoi An corn is sold in the American market now.
In Hoi An town, whenever walking on the narrow roads where nestled in the moss streets or the ancient house, we are also encountered the simple images of peasants who sell the boiled corn and roasted corn. In the middle of a bustling city where have the native people and foreigner, the boorish accent of Quang Nam seller that sometime we are heard  the English, Japanese, Chinese or Thai language is advertised for sale from them…So that can make stoped the foot of anyone who passing through their department.
Ms. Le Thi Trung Truc who live in Xuyen Trung village, Nam Cam Ward is one of the person who have the best famous corn pavilion in here. The villager in Xuyên Trung paired her name with her property that made her fame and she is called with the intimate name is “Ms. Truc corn” – “This name is close to whole my life” she said.
The villagers in Xuyen Trung say that, although the village has many corn stove, no oven stove are as good as Ms.Truc ‘s corn stove. There are some people had learned to her way but can not imitate and success as her.
Vien Trung village has the famous boiled corn craft from long-standing. The village elders told that they did not know the boiled corn craft is appeared when and they just know that when they born this craft had done by their relatives. In the olden times, everyone, every house have the boiled corn craft. Now, this village gather at 6 boiled corn furnace. There are many people quit the craft because the land are being narrow and achieve a low output. Furthermore, only having the love keep the heirloom craft.
“This job just enough to survive day by day” Ms.Truc said. Xuyen Trung’s corn is delicious and famous; therefore,it is sold in everywhere in this country. Ms.Truc tell that now in Quang Nam province – Da Nang city, the Xuyen Trung’s corn is sold everyday. In the fact that if all six of corn stove ran – “red fire” that they will cook about nearly 20,000 corns. Xuyen Trung village’s corn is grown in Bai Boi and Bai My, this is two float sand dunes on the Thu Bon river. And to enough the number of corn to supply for everywhere they have to collect and buy in Cam Kim town. Each year, the corn furnace operate about 9 months. This cycle is from the fifteenth of the lunar month in December in last year to the mid-autumn next year. In the flood season, this land sink deeply in water so they can not plant the corn else.
Xuyen Trung’s Corn “flying” to the U.S. The boiled corn craft in Xuyen Trung village had been survived about one hundred years ago, but nobody can plant the delicious corn like this land. According to Ms. Truc tell that each family has its own secret which pass from generation to generation and is handed down by their grandparent. To get a delicious pot of corn, required to a serious process its start from the stage of plucking of the corn in the right time (when the beard of corn is curly, corn leaf fell the color). If you pluck it so earlier or later the corn is not good. Especially, you have to pluck it in the midnight and the time is from 1 am to 3 am. In this time corn can absorb all nutrients and water.
To have the sweet corn,  from the breaking corn stage to the boiling corn stage for 5 hours and experience to have a delicous pot of corn is cook it in small fire condition and absolutely not so hot.
To have a delicous pot of corn that we have to add some salt and sugar candy. On average, a pot of corn about 1,000 corns we need about 2 kilogram of salt and 2 kilogram of sugar candy. And we also pay attention to the water in a boiled corn process. If you are wrong in one of this stage that the pot of corn will be fail.
Ms. Truc said that the fame of the corn is spread so far, anyone who come to Hoi An town is also buy the her cooked corn and see its as a gift for their relative. Two years ago, there was a trader merchant who live in Ho Chi Minh City to Hoi An town and know her famous corn. Then he represents for the Searefico company and he discuss the problems with her to exports the corn to the United State market. “when I heard that my corn will be exported to the U.S i feel creepy and it so incredibly ” Ms. Truc recalled.
Listening to her story that she will be become a partner exports the corn to the U.S., no one can believe that is true. Someone said that he maybe cheated her. But then a few days later, everyone was surprised when she delivered the first row for him. Since then, she supplied the corns to export to America follow the agreement twice a months. She can’t do by herself so she employ some people to help herself, all of them are the relative in her family. Even her son who live away that he also come back home to help her.
“In the past we were quite hard but economic’s my family are better now. I don’t know that How do Americans feel when they eat my corn? They will give good or bad comments? As for me, I only know complete and prepare for enough the goods to supply to them, and i become old unheeded” Ms. Truc laughed said.