Chattogram Bureau :
“Bhapa Pitha” having been a delicate winter food, a lot of people throng those temporary pitha shops and purchase. Besides, being a low-cost food item, it has been consumed abundantly.
Traditional and seasonal delicious steamed rice cake locally called “Bhapa pitha” draws huge public attention, enticing them to have this mouth-watering winter food along with bringing boons for the occasional poor cake-makers.
Hundreds of seasonal “Bhapa pitha” makers are bustling with customers erecting makeshift enterprises beside road, village markets, bus stands, and ferry ghats even by the side of playgrounds and tea-stalls.Ali, (40) a Bhapa pitha maker, at GEC bus-stand said some bus passengers before getting on bus early in the morning like to have one or two “Bhapa Pitha” as their breakfast. So he opens his temporary ‘pitha shop’ at dawn.
He said he earns at least Tk. 400-500 per day. Rahima khatun, (30) who runs his “pitha shop” at Riaz uddin bazar said her husband Khalek buys the ingredients of cake rice, molasses and coconuts from market and their earnings from selling pitha is pretty good.
A middle aged woman customer told this correspondent that she herself and her family members like very much coconut mixing ‘Bhapa pitha’. But there is no scope of making it at home. So they buy it from the market especially in the winter.
“Bhapa pitha” is a seasonal stream cake that generally made in the winter season. It is tasty and popular to both the rural and urban people in the district. “Bhapa pitha” needs some flour of rice, molasses, and coconut to be made. These are steamed rice cakes made out of freshly ground rice flour. The filling is composed of coconut and molasses. Either brown sugar or jiggery can often be used as a substitute for the molasses.
“Bhapa Pitha” having been a delicate winter food, a lot of people throng those temporary pitha shops and purchase. Besides, being a low-cost food item, it has been consumed abundantly.
Traditional and seasonal delicious steamed rice cake locally called “Bhapa pitha” draws huge public attention, enticing them to have this mouth-watering winter food along with bringing boons for the occasional poor cake-makers.
Hundreds of seasonal “Bhapa pitha” makers are bustling with customers erecting makeshift enterprises beside road, village markets, bus stands, and ferry ghats even by the side of playgrounds and tea-stalls.Ali, (40) a Bhapa pitha maker, at GEC bus-stand said some bus passengers before getting on bus early in the morning like to have one or two “Bhapa Pitha” as their breakfast. So he opens his temporary ‘pitha shop’ at dawn.
He said he earns at least Tk. 400-500 per day. Rahima khatun, (30) who runs his “pitha shop” at Riaz uddin bazar said her husband Khalek buys the ingredients of cake rice, molasses and coconuts from market and their earnings from selling pitha is pretty good.
A middle aged woman customer told this correspondent that she herself and her family members like very much coconut mixing ‘Bhapa pitha’. But there is no scope of making it at home. So they buy it from the market especially in the winter.
“Bhapa pitha” is a seasonal stream cake that generally made in the winter season. It is tasty and popular to both the rural and urban people in the district. “Bhapa pitha” needs some flour of rice, molasses, and coconut to be made. These are steamed rice cakes made out of freshly ground rice flour. The filling is composed of coconut and molasses. Either brown sugar or jiggery can often be used as a substitute for the molasses.
