The Southwest is a tourist land attracting a large number of tourists from all over the world. The cuisine of the delicious cakes in the West also attracts many unique, strange and famous cakes.
With a simple and rustic beauty, Western cakes have given diners a unique taste that is not available anywhere else. In this article, let us explore 5 delicious western cakes that show the characteristics of this river region.
Tribute cake – delicious western cake
Banh tribute is a very unique taste of Western cuisine . Although not so popular in Saigon, everyone who once enjoyed it will “fall in love” with this dish. The round cake, full of filling including green beans, fatty meat, cassava roots … all fit in a round mold that has diluted rice flour available.
The cake is delicious, typical of the South West.
The highlight of the main dish is that there must always be a “squat” shrimp above to add fresh sweetness. The fried cake is immersed in hot oil so it is evenly golden, taking a crispy bite, dissolving with the fat filling that spreads throughout the mouth.
The rich and greasy flavor of the pastry makes visitors delightful.
Khot cake
For those who love cuisine in the southwestern region, surely you must know these round, fragrant khot cake. Banh khot dough is similar to banh xeo but has a fatty taste due to the added ingredients of coconut milk. The filling is simpler, can be shrimp, minced pork, placed inside the cake.
Banh khot in the southwestern region is loved by many tourists from near and far.
Khot cake is attractive thanks to the golden brown shell, which is both eye-catching and crispy, and delightful. Many workers generously added a little coconut milk and sprinkled green beans on the cake when it was just cooked to add fat. Finely chopped scallions are added to embellish green colors to attract diners. Banh khot is a typical dish of the Southwest cuisine that many people love.
Enjoy the western dish cake that makes you remember forever.
Apricot leaf cake
Apricot leaf cake is not popular with most Saigon diners, but this dish has a unique taste. Only from three main ingredients are rice flour, coconut milk and apricot leaves that Westerners create a very interesting dish. The cake dough is dark green, shaped into a flat shape and steamed. When eaten with cooked coconut milk, it creates an attractive dish.
Apricot leaf cake is a unique Western dish that few regions have.
Apricot leaf cake is simple, rustic but different in the strange chewable chewy texture. If you enjoy it for the first time, the characteristic apricot leaf smell is a bit pungent, difficult to eat, when you get used to this flavor you will be attracted by the sweet bar mixed with the fragrant coconut milk. Sometimes sellers even add peanuts topped with pulp to flavor the cake.
The attractive sticky flavor of the cake attracts many visitors to love.
Pineapple leaf tube cake
This special Western cake of the Khmer in Tra Vinh and Soc Trang has now become a familiar snack in Saigon. The pasta has the turquoise color of the pandan leaves, the small layer of tapioca flour mixed with glutinous rice flour and grated coconut in appropriate proportions.
The pasta has a turquoise color of pineapple leaves, a layer of minced cassava flour mixed with glutinous rice flour.
The way to make the cake is quite strange, just pour the fluffy dough into the tube with the bamboo stick placed in the middle, about a few minutes the cake is cooked, drawn hot and has a beautiful green color. The cake is cut along the length, then filled with grated coconut, sesame salt and rolled. The best pineapple leaf cake is when eaten hot, then the greasy taste from the grated coconut mixed with the cake dough and sesame salt with the faint aroma of the pandan leaves.
This is also 1 of 5 Western cakes that attract visitors to enjoy.
Silkworm cake
Silkworm cake with popular ingredients but makes diners remember forever when combining dishes between fish sauce and sweet fat coconut milk. The simple dish consists of only silkworm cake (the cake is from rice flour similar to vermicelli, but larger and softer), skin, lean meat … The unique thing is that the dish is covered with coconut water. ripe and thick.
Silkworm bread has a mild, greasy and rich aroma.
The most delicious, not to mention the topping above, which is roasted peanuts, scallions, onion fat, sour food … fully adorn the dish. Mix well so that each strand of bread is blended into coconut water, filled with garlic and chili fish sauce, lined with raw vegetables has created an attractive and irresistible taste. There are also places to eat with little commercial or curry water to add more fun to the dish.
The unique feature of the dish is covered with coconut water that has been cooked and thickened.
Above are the western western cakes favored by both Vietnamese and foreign visitors. If you have not once enjoyed this fascinating flavor, you should reward yourself with a trip to the West today. Wish you have enjoyable trips with friends and relatives!