Sacred water in the middle of the jungle

For a long time, the Nam Dat Stream in Yeng Hamlet had a mysterious manifestation: the water is warm in the winter while the water is cool in the summer. In the middle of the stream, there is a geyser of water that erupts from the ground during day and night.

Local people often soak their feet and bathe in the hot water sstream in yeng Hamlet.

Nam Dat stream in Nung language is hot spring. It associated with legends of their origin, creating an attractiveness and mystery: in the past, here was the gate of heaven. Ngoc Hoang (king of heaven) often sends fairies down to welcome talented people on earth to heaven. The hot spring is located far from the road and surrounded by trees. This is a place where fairies often bathe. Other legend about this hot spring is in the past, a group of people came to Yeng Hamlet to reclaim and settle down. Due to severe weather, this land is dry without water. People bring offerings to ask Ngoc Hoang for water. As a result, Nam Dat Stream appeared.

Nam Dat hot spring in Yeng Hamlet attracts many visitors to camp and experience.

The interesting thing about the stream is that the temperature changes according to the seasons. In the winter, the water is hot and steamy while the water is milder in the summer. Many people say that bathing here helps heal all skin diseases and joint pains.

In recent years, many visitors have come to the stream to camp, bathe and relax.

Besides hot springs, there are beautiful caves in Yeng Hamlet with hundred-year stalactites. In the cool climate of these caves, many kinds of birds live. This is also a destination for tourists who love to explore and experience.

Delicious dishes from soybeans

Yeng Hamlet has 86 households, mainly Nung ethnic group. People here always preserve their traditional identity with unique culinary features, including many strange and delicious dishes from soybeans.

Sung Van Tay, a Nung ethnic person shared, thanks to the quality of the soil suitable for soybeans, local people grow a lot of beans and cook many delicious dishes from this seed such as soy sauce and mold tofu.

Soy sauce and mold tofu dishes of the Nung people.

The ingredients for making soy sauce include large, round and even soybeans. Then, crisply roast the beans, pour water and cook until tender. Take out and ferment for about 4 days - 5 days. Next, mix it well with spices such as ginger, orange peel, chili, salt, and wine. Finally, put them in sealed jars for two weeks and enjoy. Soy sauce is very suitable when eaten with fresh vegetables, boiled vegetables and boiled meat.

Nung women in Yeng Hamlet introduce their village's cuisine.

It is not easy to make mold tofu dish. Soybeans grown on the fields are ground and pressed into tofu. After that, the Nung people cut the tofu into small squares and dry them in the sun. After drying the beans, put them in a jar to ferment during about 1 week to 10 days. When incubating beans on mold, take out the beans, wash them, and mix them with spices. When mixing mold tofu with heirloom spices, add rice wine to enhance the flavor. Then, people wait about 3 month - 6 months to enjoy this dish.

Indigo dyeing culture has always been preserved by local people in Yeng Hamlet.

The cuisine of the Nung people in Yeng Hamlet is quite rich with a lot of dishes. In addition, there are many customs and habits such as dyeing indigo with different abstentions. At present, most of the women in Yeng Hamlet know how to make their own traditional costumes. All make a distinct identity of the hamlet.