Visiting San Sa Ho - the "territory" of chayotes

Visiting San Sa Ho - the "territory" of chayotes

About 12km from Sapa town center, San Sa Ho commune is considered by many as the "land" of chayotes. Along the road to the Silver Falls, there are many "mountains" of the vast chayote plantation.

The chests in Sapa as giant green carpet - Photo: N.T. LUONG


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Chayote is a variety of vegetables grown in many places but there a a lots in Sapa, Lao Cai. The nature is favorable, the climate is cool all year round, so all year round, chayote trees grow well in this area.

Indigenous people in San Tu Ho grow rubber trees in the mountainside and rigs in the mountainous terrain. To secure the rig, people often use iron wires into the grid, catching the cement pillars as support.

Thus, the footsteps to the "territory" of the chayote, visitors will admire the rigid platform to run up to the mountain peak. From a distance or from the high above the valleys, the trusses resembled giant green carpets.

In particular, one can save large chunks from year to year to create trusses in the next crop.

Visitors to the garden, the most interesting is hidden under the rubber gong, wearing a backpack and then picking fruit manually. Like always pick the fruits that you take to bring weight as a gift to relatives, friends.

The owners of chayote plantation here on the day wears go to the cherry picking frame and then gather at the foot of the mountain and carry rubber back by motorcycle. Fruits and tops are picked up at the roadside and there are vehicles to enter.

A large slab of rubber in San Sa Ho harvested several tons a year. Each retail price is about 0.25 cents. At the market, chayote vegetables are painted by the Mong, Dao, Giay and down to sell.

Chayote - Photo: N.T. LUONG

People use iron wires to create giant chests - Picture: N.T. LƯỢNG

Chayotes are planted both under the valley - Photo: N.T. LUONG

Visitors to the garden picking the fruit of his choice - Picture: N.T. LƯỢNG

Chayotes are packed in bags waiting for vehicles to enter in large quantities - Photo: N.T. LUONG

People use motor scooters after harvesting each day - Photo: N.T. LUONG

Sapa chayote is a fruit and vegetable product and is popular in the near and far. This is also the place to supply large seeds of the North. Therefore, in the journey to Sapa, visitors will enjoy chay as a specialty of this land.

Chayote can be processed into dishes such as sesame boiled salted sesame, fried chayote, chay su dum, cooked soup. But the most famous is still served with sesame salt and sauteed with garlic.

Sapa chayote tastes sweet, soft. Piece of chayote cooked to medium green, fresh crispy and raw sweet and aromatic forest mountains mixed with a little salt of sesame and pineapple, eat nostalgic do not know boring.

Especially, fried chops are favorite dishes in the restaurants in Sapa. The young green veggies look just see the crave. Simply delicious chopped garlic but when eaten also feel the delicious, sweet characteristics are rare comparable.

Indigenous female paintings on rubber trees for sale at the market - Photo: N.T. LUONG

Newly harvested chayote is sold along the road - Photo: V.N.A

Chayote boiled - Photos: V.N.A

Sauteed sliced ​​garlic, "specialty" of Sapa - Photo: V.N.A.