HA GIANG – Thang Den has two types: vegetarian and mung bean filling, but vegetarian cakes are often preferred by diners.
This is a rustic and traditional dish of the border people. Ingredients include glutinous rice, green beans chan in apricot sugar water. The rice here is fragrant upland sticky rice, the seeds are soaked overnight, drained, and then ground into powder. The powder is then poured into a cloth bag that is hung up to dry. The dough is thick and smooth, then it is molded into a cake.
Thang Den is round, each cake is big or small depending on the person who molds it. Usually, the bean curd cake is a little bigger than a finger, and the vegetarian cake is smaller. In addition to white, the cake also has other colors such as purple, yellow, red…
The next step is to boil the cake. The dough balls are dropped into boiling water, when floating, they are picked up and placed in a bowl, then filled with sugar water. Whether a bowl of wonton is delicious or not is largely determined by the sugar water. Each person has their own recipe, but the common ingredients usually include sugar, coconut milk, heated ginger juice and sprinkled with sesame and peanuts.
In order to win the round, the taste is not crushed, and the customer calls the seller to boil it. The bowl of cake is always hot, ideal on the cold night of the highland markets. In Dong Van town, wonton is considered a snack and snack of the people on cold nights. The price for each bowl is about 5,000 to 10,000 VND.
At first glance, many diners may be confused with rice cakes because they have the same shape. But when you try Thang Den, you will immediately realize the difference in the cuisine of the border region – perhaps from the rustic sticky rice, from the cold weather of the highlands, or the kind heart of the people in the highlands. stone.