People line up to buy sticky rice with gac fruit for the New Year's Eve offering.

Xoi gac is a familiar dish to Vietnamese people. The red color of the sticky rice symbolizes luck, warmth, and fullness. This is also what every family wishes to achieve in the new year.

In Hai Duong City, there are many shops selling sticky rice with gac fruit. The sticky rice is molded into plates with patterns such as lotus, chrysanthemum, carp, beautiful and eye-catching colors. The price of each plate of sticky rice with gac fruit on the 30th of Tet ranges from 20,000 VND - 50,000 VND, depending on the size.

Below are some photos taken by Hai Duong Newspaper reporters on the morning of the 30th of Tet:

People stand in line waiting their turn to buy sticky rice with gac fruit at a store on Pham Hong Thai street.


The shop owner at 67B Dong Xuan Street is busy packing sticky rice with gac fruit for customers.


Almost every sticky rice shop is crowded on the 30th of Tet.


Gac sticky rice with lotus flower pattern made from green bean filling is bought by many people to burn incense at the end of the year and on New Year's Eve.

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