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Kien Bai incense Village

( Update: 31/07/2014 )

These days along the road in Kien Bai commune (Thuy Nguyen) full of dried hot red luxuriant bamboo flower hundred thousand spread like wings. Throughout the house, outside lane, where also found yellow powder incense, incense red legs ... 
Located right on the main road in the commune, production facilities Thanh Lam scent with nearly a dozen workers were busy working. The competition will taste, odor exposure, package ... and singing will guide the workers, Nguyen Thi Lam, all sharing basis: "The incense busy year round. But the closer the festival as much. Because this time, the market needs a large amount of incense to prepare for the New Year ". 
Mr. Pham Khac Ngoc, said village head 6: Although not a traditional job but doing job in Kien Bai flavor has more than 20 years. "At first only a few people in the village as incense but it has gradually become the main occupation of many households. So far society has about 60 households flavor year round "- Mr. Ngoc said. 
Scent production in Kien Bai has many types but the most common ones would probably taste. According to Lin, the flavor will not be hard to do: just mix the puree flavored powder from a variety of flavors, including things such as post-flavored powder, cinnamon, herbs and water glue ... Then wrap the foot odor powder , will leave with dry powder and exposing. First create a distinct aroma and flavoring. However, each person has the secret flavoring mix separately, can not reveal to outsiders. Mixing is complete, the suture material will guide. This stage requires workers to perform fast movements, new compact making the incense stick can be uniform in size, the amount of material used, smooth body odor, dry, high cohesion. 
The way is so simple but so lit stick of incense, scented particular, compression and torsion fire all round buds, the flavoring ingredients to choose very carefully. The first is foot odor. It must be made of bamboo is soaked young children, are bathing, there is new so flammable. Next to the ground incense powder from a cedar post. Most households were incense in Kien Bai was not until the provinces such as Quang Ninh, Hai Duong, Bac Giang ... and bring about purchasing dried, crushed. In addition, each incense sticks usually have more certain components from many different types of medicinal rhubarb, rustic flavor, licorice, clove ... All finely pulverized, mixed together in a certain ratio. 
We can say, incense are consumed throughout the year, whereas the vast consumer market. Therefore, in recent years many households Kien Bai affluent, even many rich families in the village of incense. So, story high-rise building, automotive mu ax from doing a lot of flavor in Kien Bai family is not uncommon. Recently, a number of households in the village flavor invested in packaging, printing labels for branding. Hoang Anh Thang Bui, owner of Hong Ngoc scent in 6 villages delighted to know: Each service, his family makes about 4 tons of flavor, creating jobs for over 15 seasonal employees per capita income from 2-2.5 million VND / person / month. Goods produced is exported to base his Hanoi, Hai Duong, Thua Thien - Hue to HCMC. Ho Chi Minh, even outside the country.

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