The Toong Song Cake and Rolls Cake are also Cao Bang specialties that every visitor coming here will not forget to enjoy. To make these 2 dishes requires a lot of meticulous and extremely skillful steps.
Toong Song Cake and Rolls Cake- Cao Bang specialties
Cakes Cao Bang
The Tày people’s Toong Song Cake in Cao Bằng
The ingredients for making Toong Song Cake, Cao Bang specialty , must choose rice, sugar, and wormwood leaves carefully. In particular, the cake is wrapped in bamboo leaves, taken from the forest. However, this type of leaf only grows in a few places, so it takes a lot of time to find the leaves. Toong Song Cake are quite picky with rice, so not all types of rice can be used to make cakes. For the scent of the cake to be fragrant and flexible, you must choose a type of upland rice that is not mixed with non-glutinous rice. Wipe off the rice, soak it in water and grind the flour. Then, people use cloth bags to hang the dough to drain.
Choose wormwood to make cake. Wormwood leaves underneath are white, fresh, and boiled in lime water to retain their green color. In addition to lime juice, many people also use ash water to boil the leaves quickly. Note, the wormwood leaf properties will be very bitter even though it has been boiled. Therefore, the Tay will bring wormwood leaves after being boiled, washed and chopped, and then put in a pan and stir-fry again. Wrought wormwood leaves must be very careful not to let the fire get too big, and the leaves will dry again. After stirring is finished, put wormwood leaves in a mortar, crush them and mix with flour. Finally, wrap the dough with giant leaves and steam for about 1 and a half hours to ripen.
Choose wormwood as a cake
The Tay people spread from each other the experience of hanging cake on a pole, leaving it in a dry and cool place, the cake will last for many days without being spoiled or moldy. The cake is easy to eat, cool and not greasy, if anyone ever eats it once, he will not forget the taste of the rustic cakes in Cao Bang cuisine . The pungent, fragrant flavor of wormwood leaves, harmonizing the viscosity and sweetness of sticky rice, of sugar, and especially the characteristic aroma of succulent leaves, this special Cao Bang cake leaves a lot of unforgettable aftertaste in your heart. Diners.
Cao Bang rolls
Cao Bang town is located about 280km from Hanoi. From Hanoi to Cao Bang via Highway 3 going through Thai Nguyen and Bac Kan. You can also go to the direction of National Highway 1 to Lang Son and then turn Highway 4 through That Khe, Dong Khe to Cao Bang.
Delicious rice rolls, the first step is to prepare the main ingredient, which is rice
The longtime baker here shares to have a delicious batch of rolls, the first step is to prepare the main ingredient, which is rice. Banh rice is non-glutinous rice grown on Cao Bang land, the grain is white, even, fragrant and tough. If the rice is not delicious, the cake will not be smooth white and has no characteristic aroma ”.
Nghe people call Banh Cuon cake. There really is no better word to describe the feeling that hits the human eye. The rice roll is probably better because it makes people wait. While all the senses were being touched by the smelly rice rolls, there was a fragrant aroma of new rice, of onions, of tantalizingly sweet broth, to be sure that the delicious piece was far from over. It was not very pleasant in my turn. But it is like countless other traumatic animals, the best food is always from the next table, it is the restlessness of waiting that counts.
Cao Bang specialty Rolls Cakenot pre-coated
Cao Bang specialty rolls are not pre-coated, with customers calling, subjectively quickly coated the dough, rolling the cake, but the ingredients can be fried. Therefore, eating Cao Bang rice Rolls Cakecannot be fast, having to wait for the owner to roll each cake, though many people are still ready to wait in line to enjoy with a hot plate in the early morning. But the unique feature of Cao Bang rice Rolls Cakeis in the broth. It is a delicious broth made from pork bones, when pouring into the bowl, it is clear that the bone marrow aroma is fragrant, sweet because the bones have been cooked by the shopkeeper since the night before.
Comes with a bowl of broth to be added to a few tablespoons of minced meat, sprinkled with green onions that look extremely attractive. Therefore, Cao Bang rice Rolls Cakeare also called Toong Song Cake canh to distinguish them from fish sauce rolls from other regions.
Depending on the taste, someone likes to eat the soup roll or not, who wants to add flavor with an egg or a piece of rice rolls. Rolls Caketo eat with rolls are carefully wrapped in banana leaves. If you order spring rolls, the shopkeeper put the rolls in the same pot of simmering bone soup and picked it up with the cake soup. As for eggs, depending on the requirements of customers that can be cooked bare with broth, or beat the egg into the hot piece of rice paper on the mold. The cooked cake wrapped with the egg yolk is then placed in the soup bowl.
The original Cao Bang people also ate rolls with pickled bamboo shoots and honey berries
The original Cao Bang people also eat rice Rolls Cakewith pickled bamboo shoots and berries. This salted bamboo shoots seem to be the specialty of all the northern mountainous provinces, but not much salt with pickled berries like in Cao Bang. Bamboo shoots must be fresh bamboo shoots, bring to soak, boil and then salt with a lot of chili. Fruit pickling honey to salt must also choose ripe ones, not green ones. Therefore, it is guaranteed that the taste is sweet, sour and fragrant. Absorbed honey hook will secrete a characteristic honey, strangely blending with bamboo shoots like heaven and earth, like girls and boys.
Eat Cao Bang specialty Rolls Caketo enjoy a bowl of hot soup, hot rolled cake, rub before the spiciness of the chili sauce that has a sweet and fragrant fruit taste, the eaters have a very close upland feeling. The Toong Song Cake is therefore as simple as a nostalgic gift that anyone stopping at Cao Bang cannot help but enjoy.
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