"The Making of Pop Rice" Top 5 Page for this destination Can Tho Travelogue by muddybok

Sands were fried until very hot before the rice was to be poured in.

Popping!!!

The residual heat from the hot sand will pop the rice grain into almost 5-6 times of its original size and making it very crispy.

Stir quickly

While the rice was popping, it has to be stirred very quickly so that none of the popped grains will be over-burned. The whole process will take only 12-15 seconds.

The worker (the same guy who do the stirring) will quickly scope all those popped rice into the filter and eliminate those that not so completely popped from the process. This pop rice will keep in gunny sack for cooling down & waiting for next process.

Boiling the mixture

The sticky sweeten and flavored mixture will be boiled and pop rice will be poured in for mixing purposes.

Next step will be molding and cutting process. The table is made of stainless steel and you can see great cutting skill by these workers. Each pop rice cube is almost of same measure and make ready for packing.

Fast...

The picture shows packing of pop rice. You will be surprise of the speed these young ladies doing the packing.

Final product

The final product… the crispy pop rice.