What to do with the coconuts
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00:00He's going to use this knife to crush the coconut shells, so you know this job is easy for him but difficult for me, because you know that if they make it fast, one day they can make about 1,500 coconuts, like this, okay.
00:17And you know, Vietnamese people, we make full use of the coconut. With this, because this is the coconut fiber, you can make the rub, or you can make the mass.
00:27And you know, this one is, because this is very flammable, so you use a lot of food fuel, but before you use a lot of fuel, you have to make this dry under the sun, so you see, they burn there.
00:40And in Mekong, when you go here in the rainy season, you know that the mosquitoes are very big, this can bite you, even you wear jeans.
00:48So if you take this, you burn, and you put it under your bed, so the smell from this, the mosquitoes will hate this, so they will stay away, so they can use it like a mosquito repellent.
01:01And then, you see, the coconut with two eyes and one mouth.
01:06Yes, and then they will use a knife to break it, so you can keep that juice for cooking.
01:12For anyone, if you don't want sweet juice, you can drink that, and then they will attract the coconut meat.
01:20Yeah, so you see.
01:26And in here, you know that they don't throw this into the garbage.
01:30You know, they burn this, and people, they make activated carbon from this.
01:37And you see, all the handicrafts from the coconut, they make from this as well.
01:41So this is like a bowl to dry, so you can take one or two.
01:50So you know, right now, everything is so easy, because you have a machine to make everything become straighter.
01:59But a long time ago, people, if they want to take the coconut meat, you have to sit here all day.
02:06So you know, right now, everything is so easy, because you have a machine to make everything become straighter.
02:12But a long time ago, people, if they want to take the coconut meat, you have to sit here all day.
02:22And if you have the coconut meat already intact from this machine, you move to here.
02:28So this one, like when you squeeze the lemon, right?
02:31So you're gonna squeeze the coconut and then you see the coconut milk go out this way.
02:43Okay, so now I give you everybody you can try to taste.
02:48You know, as I told you, in Mekong Delta, the coconut is very sweet, right?
02:53So if you don't believe, you can taste.
02:57Very fatty and milky.
03:00And after this, you taste this and then you taste the coconut candy.
03:06And you can find all the original flavor from the coconut milk.
03:18And this is the main ingredient to make the candy.
03:21But you know, for this one, we use like a fertilizer.
03:27And this is for the chicken.
03:37And no more.
03:51Okay.
03:56So to make the coconut candy, we only use 60% coconut milk and 1% milk more.
04:07So the whole thing is made from the young sticky rice.
04:10So after many process, they have the condensed liquid.
04:14And then we mix together.
04:16So this machine will stir about one hour.
04:19And after you see one hour, you can see that the line will change like this.
04:24And then they have to take the big piece on the table.
04:34Then we mix.
04:37Put into the rectangle or smaller candy.
04:42But you know, that's why right now we have this coconut.
04:46Because sometimes people don't like the original flavor.
04:50Then you can add there the chocolate.
04:52So that's why I have a lot of color.
04:54This is the liquid of the vintage.
04:57We have the jackfruit, coconut candy.
05:02Pomegranate, coconut candy, everything.
05:06Ginger, all the flavor.
05:09You can taste.
05:12It's mixed with...
05:18And you know, when you taste, in this shop, around the main point,
05:22you know that all the coconut candy, you feel the sweet.
05:25So the sweet, this is original flavor from the coconut milk.
05:29So in here, they don't use any sugar.
05:31If you buy in Ho Chi Minh City, you know that they use sugar.
05:35You can feel the sweet from the sugar.
05:39Okay.
05:47Okay, so now we come here, please.