VIETNAM Northern – filter flour filled with minced shrimp and meat, the Central is wrapped with shrimp and pork, while the Southern-style cake has shrimp with sweet rim.
The processing method and ingredients for making filter dough are similar between the three regions, only the difference in the filling, side dishes, enjoyment, and calling method. The cake crust in the Central region is not made from tapioca but it is from tapioca or tapioca. And the filter cake of the North and the South is made from tapioca flour, from tapioca. These two types of flour are supple while ripe, but tapioca tubers will be chewy and crispy, and the tapioca flour will be sticky.
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The Northern filter cake is mainly made from flour, the filling with minced meat, wood ear, mushrooms and fried shrimp before steaming. Cake shaped semi-circle, large thick pieces. In Hanoi, a dumpling dumpling dipped in fish sauce with garlic and chilli vinegar added a bit of roasted peanuts and served with oregano. Flour cake shops in the capital often have dried beef salad, spring rolls.
Also in the North, Hai Phong filter cake has similar ingredients and processing methods. But on each plate of filter flour, sprinkle with onion and shrimp paste, dipping with sweet and sour fish sauce, adding papaya, sliced carrot.
The Central region is the hometown of flour cake There are many variations of the cake with the most filtered flour, from the bare filter powder, the leaf-wrapped powder, the fried filter powder to the vegetarian filter powder … The most popular filling is the shrimp with fat meat, next to the shrimp, the rim meat, salty green bean paste … In some places like Quang Binh, Quang Tri, people add bamboo shoots, mushrooms, scallions …
Diners who want to explore the diverse flavors of filter cake can not miss Hue, where there are many diverse variations of this cake. Flour cakes are present all over Hue street, steamed on the spot, so it is always hot. In addition to leaf-wrapped cakes, Hue people eat plain flour cake, salty bean paste or sandwiched with bread … With only shrimp and fat meat, sweet and sour fish sauce or sauce with garlic and chili sauce.
Meanwhile, the Quang Tri people have a version of plain filter cake in Vinh Linh, which is as famous as banana leaf baguette. The filling is varied, depending on the taste and taste, the maker can choose shrimp with bacon, freshly thrown peanuts (onions), minced cuckoo … The sauce is delicious thanks to the fragrant scallion, Spicy chili powder, pure fish sauce and some sugar. In particular, this dish comes with bean sprouts to help customers get bored.
In terms of calling, while most of the central provinces call it banh dumpling, the Nghe An people used to call it banh beo; people in Quang Nam, Phan Thiet, Binh Dinh call it cake
Nghe An water fern cake has a thin shell, tiny shrimp filling. Thanh Nga, 22 years old (Vinh city), said that in Nghe An there are 2 types of cake and leaves. She said: “Bare cakes are often arranged in small bowls, filled with fish sauce over the surface of the cake. Sprinkle with a little coriander, onion”.
And the most famous version of cauldron cake belongs to Hoi City of Quang Nam. Western visitors who see a plate of cauldron for the first time in Hoi An have to say “White rose”, from which the beautiful name “white rose” is associated with this specialty.
The main ingredients for making the cake crust are white rice, crushed ground shrimp and mixed with a little pepper, garlic, onions, lemongrass … but the processing is quite meticulous. To make the dough delicious, the milled rice needs to be filtered several times through the water. After carefully stuffing, the dough will be molded by skillful hands into elongated ones, rotating a few times to form a tiny, thin piece of dough. From that piece of dough, the hand of the worker lightly moved it in a circle to widen and widen, into a thin crust like a white rose. Ca ca cake is usually put a little bit of shrimp in the middle, lightly stroked one end like a cauldron shape.
In Saigon, visitors can easily find both types of filter cake: bare flour cake and leaf bag cake. Variant from Hue filter cake, the Saigon filter cake usually only has shrimp filling, without added meat and sweet dipping sauce. Diners often sip this cake to get another taste.
Thien Minh, 36 years old, a person living in Hue who lived for 8 years in Saigon, said: “Saigon filter flour also has shrimp meat, green beans, many other ingredients such as sauces, fat onions, sausages … . compared to the Central version “.
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