After looking at the beams green figs full of leaves, Ms. Nguyen Thu Vinh from Trinh Dinh Cuu (Hoang Mai, Hanoi) decided to buy them to display on the New Year’s five-fruit tray even though the shop owner sold them for 250,000 VND/kg.
“Figs Only making salt water, people also rarely eat, so every day they go to their hometown to ask for donations, if they buy it, it’s only a few thousand dong per kilogram. Now, a bunch of figs at the Tet market weighs 400 grams and costs 100,000 VND,” she said.
Reviewing the fruits such as bananas, grapefruits, dragon fruit, oranges and figs that I bought to display the five-fruit tray to worship Tet, Mai Thi Giang from Tran Dien (Thanh Xuan, Hanoi) said, bananas and pomelos at the Tet market this year. Now the price is relatively cheap. She bought a bunch of 16 rather large bananas and a yellow-skinned Dien pomelo for only 120,000 VND. The price of dragon fruit and orange is 60,000 VND/kg.
Particularly, she bought 2 bunches of 220,000 VND/kg – the most expensive of the fruits that Giang bought on the five-fruit tray today.
“Last year, I bought a bunch of bunches old fig Not very beautiful, the price is also 180,000 VND/kg. This year, there are young figs with small, green, shiny fruits, round bunches with leaves, but the price is so high,” she said.
These days at the Tet market in Hanoi, almost every fruit shop sells figs. Because this is one of the fruits that many families choose to display on the five-fruit tray to worship Tet with the hope of a prosperous and prosperous new year. Accordingly, small traders often sell young round figs for 220,000-250,000 VND/kg and old figs with long clusters for 150,000-180,000 VND/kg.
Ms. Phan Thi Lan, a small fruit seller at Dai Tu market (Hoang Mai), said that young figs with round clusters are more beautiful than old ones, so many people choose to buy them even though they are very expensive.
This type of young round-shaped fig is a fig in the West, which Lan imported to sell for 250,000 VND/kg. A bunch of these round figs usually weighs 300-400 grams. In the days close to the Lunar New Year, she sold out regarding 30-40kg of this type of fig. Long beam figs only sell regarding 10kg.
“This is Tet price. On weekdays, if anyone’s family goes to the market to buy figs, the price is only 10,000-15,000 VND/kg. Going back to her hometown, she can also ask for a donation because many families grow figs in the garden, the pond banks are full of ripe and ripe fruit, but no one eats it”, she shared.
Talking to PV.VietNamNet, Mr. Dang Manh Khuong – wholesaler of fruit in Can Tho, admitted that only on New Year’s day, figs are chosen by many people despite the expensive price. Normally, this fruit is as cheap as giving.
According to him, this year in the West, some gardeners have figs to pick young fruits and tie them with strings to form a round bunch with very eye-catching leaves. As a result, figs are also much more valuable than previous years.
On this occasion, Mr. Khuong also bought figs to sell to wholesalers. But he only dumped figs with a long bunch of old fruit.
“A few days ago, I had an order for dozens of kilograms of figs wholesale for a contact in Canada. Because there are many Vietnamese people living and working there. On New Year’s Day, they also display a tray of five fruits to worship, so there is a need to buy fruits such as figs, coconuts, bananas, grapefruits, papayas, … “, he said.