From the video sharing the strange cake, many netizens were curious about this special cake of Lang Son land.
The story begins with a video of a girl looking to buy a traditional cake from her hometown on the street. According to the share, she had to look for a long time to buy this cake because there are very few sellers on the street. Seeing the cake wrapped in eye-catching leaves, unique in a smooth green color, so many netizens do not know what this cake is called. Only when her friend asked if this was wormwood cake, everyone knew about this special cake.
Don’t know what special shape the cake inside has?(Photo: huongnguyenlolita)
The seller also enthusiastically opened the package, and took out the cakes inside for her friend to return to the image of a forgotten specialty. After the layers of leaves, the cake appears with a dark green color and the characteristic aroma of wormwood leaves. But the ingredients to make the cake are none other than wormwood leaves – a familiar vegetable in Vietnam.
Eating cakes is also good for health, because wormwood leaves in cakes have many great effects such as: regulating blood, stopping bleeding, and helping blood circulation,… In addition, wormwood leaves also have ingredients. Contains vitamin B, so this cake also has a positive effect on the metabolism of substances, helping visitors to eat better.
Close-up of wormwood cake with fancy green color (Photo: Dien May Xanh, Teaching Asian – European cakes)
Each piece of cake is molded evenly, arranged evenly, looking like giant marshmallows hidden in the leaves. Such a large circle that the girl revealed that only about 20,000 can buy a package of this quality wormwood cake.
The somewhat lovely shape of the wormwood cake (Photo: huongnguyenlolita)
The cake is quite firm when holding, you can feel the smooth soft shell with the sweet bean, coconut, and sugar filling. The cake is like wrapping the cool spring of the highlands. Biting a cake makes people think so that the scent of the wild forest lingers on the tip of the tongue.
The taste of wormwood cake will have a slight bitter taste, but adding a sweet and fragrant filling will neutralize everything. Many people who do not like the smell and slightly bitter taste of wormwood leaves will be a little afraid of this cake. But in fact, that ring is the perfect combination with the flesh of the sticky rice and the rich sugar filling, making it not picky about who eats. She also did not forget to remind everyone, if you have the opportunity to come to Lang Son, do not miss this cake.
Just looking at her eating makes me feel hungry… (Photo: huongnguyenlolita)
Although still far away from tourists, this is a familiar cake of the people of Lang on the occasion of the Thanh Minh New Year and the full moon of July of the Tay ethnic group. On each special occasion, Tet like this time, the cake is also ancestral to the ethnic minorities.
The sweet and soft taste of the cake has “fascinated” many diners when coming to Lang Son. Although not sold much on the street anymore, people still sell wormwood cakes in local markets such as Dong Kinh market, Tan Thanh Lang Son market…
Photo: thanghidep.com, Tuta Foods
This is also a good gift for health that many people choose. But there are a few notes when preserving this specialty cake, which is that the cake can only be preserved for 2-3 days. So, if you want to enjoy the best wormwood cake, you should eat it within the day, otherwise the surface will start to dry out and the smoothness will be reduced.
Wormwood cake is often bought as a gift by tourists when they have the opportunity to visit Lang Son (Artwork).
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