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HCMCIn the early days, a 50-year-old Frenchman was dumbfounded that he could only sell a few cakes.
Towards the end of November, the people of Tran Dinh Xu and Nguyen Cu Trinh streets (District 1) couldn’t help but be curious to see Mr. Tay, tall and tall, standing behind a small stroller with the words “fried banana Fried, fragrant “for 10,000 VND. .
Fabrice (1971), a French tourist who did not want to return to his country of origin due to Covid-19, owned a fried wheel. Every day from 5 a.m. M. At 6 p. M., was pushing his car on the sidewalk, toward the convenience store and the nearby market to buy ingredients. Around 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., he shipped the goods. The reason Mr. Tay only sells in the mornings is because he believes this dish can be used as a light breakfast for students and employees; Besides in the afternoon selling many other dishes around here, diners won’t pay much attention to the little fried cake.
In the cart includes a small gas stove, pots of flour, a tray containing ripe cake, cutting board for banana, plantain and fresh pineapple (pineapple). The pineapple comes pre-cut into slices, kept in a box to store some sugar overnight, and some kitchen utensils such as knives, flours, forks … In particular, the ingredients of male visitors cannot be lacking in butter without Salt. – change fried oil.
“This fried cake has more aroma and does not absorb oil like Vietnamese banana cake,” commented a customer of Anh Thu.
Mr. Tay processes and sells cakes in a small cart on the sidewalk, receiving attention from people around and elsewhere. Video: Spirituality
In the new days of sales, there must be customers coming to buy, Mr. Fabrice started dipping bananas, fragrant in a pot of flour and fried in gold. It takes at least 5 minutes to cook. If the sleeve was too thick, he sometimes struggled for 10 minutes. Afraid that customers would wait for a long time, while making cakes, he clasped his hands towards customers and smiled, expressing his sympathy.
“I think showing customers how I cook is letting them know that the cake they buy is always new,” he explained. After a few days, she learned from experience, so she fried some cakes, just put them in a pan to heat up, in case customers don’t buy more than they can.
Vietnamese love to eat sweets, they often give suggestions for adding sweets to the cake, hearing Mr. Fabrice laugh. He said that he would not change his original recipe, because it was impossible to please everyone’s taste. “If my cakes please the customers, they will buy them again, and I have a lot of customers lately,” Fabrice said.
Fabrice’s customers are mostly people from the surrounding area, students from a nearby school, and visitors come to buy them because he sells them on the sidewalk. Some residents commented that this Mr. Tay never caused a public disorder, was friendly to everyone, often bought ingredients or food from others. A small shopkeeper said that people only reflect the fact that he is often naked when he sits down to rest, which causes a loss of beauty, and reminds him to always wear a shirt.
The French guest believed that the idea to sell fried cakes came from Covid-19. After a period of social separation, Mr. Fabrice got out more because he was so reserved about staying at the hotel for so long.
“I want to be active, go to the market to cook, enjoy many Vietnamese dishes in stores and I need income,” he said. He noticed that Vietnamese people often use bananas and pineapples to cook everything from savory to sweet dishes. Enjoying the Vietnamese fried banana cake, and adding that in the West, they often eat banana with pancakes, Fabrice devises a new recipe in his own style.
Unable to communicate in English or Vietnamese, Mr. Fabrice often used gestures to express his kindness to vendors and customers buying cakes. Image: Spirituality
This French tourist entered Vietnam on January 16, 2020, a visa is limited to April 15, 2020, and is among the approximately 3,000 foreign visitors trapped in Vietnam as of April 2020. Mr. Fabrice is one of the many people who choose to extend their visa to stay in Vietnam instead of returning home, where there is tension in the middle of the translation.
The western visitor revealed that his family used to live in Saigon in the 1970s and then return to France. He also said that his biological mother is Vietnamese with black hair and yellow skin, but her facial features are Western. That is why he always felt attached and wanted to return to Vietnam. He currently lives in a hotel near the bakery. “If I sell fried bread and I can live, I’ll keep it here,” Fabrice said.
