When coming to Ca Mau, don't forget to enjoy the unique spicy cake

Ca Mau is famous for its rustic cuisine derived from the simplest and most simple ingredients of the countryside, but it is still as attractive as the way the people here bring to visitors, typical of which is the dish. Strange spicy cake but familiar with the Western flavor makes many people fall in love.

Spicy sturgeon cake – a dish imbued with the true Western flavor

Spicy sturgeon cake is also known as spicy silkworm cake because its fibers are big, fat, and white like silkworms. There are many types of silkworm cakes such as sweet buns, buns, shumai cakes, or spicy curry silkworm cakes, but the specialty of Ca Mau that we learn about here is the spicy curry sturgeon and the tangy bun. Vietnamese meatball.Spicy chicken and shumai cake is a specialty of Ca Mau (Photo @thd_foods)

This is a famous cake that only Ca Mau people can make, so the recipe is quite sophisticated and complicated. As for the cake making part, it took quite a lot of effort: from choosing the rice that was really delicious, really soft, then soaked overnight and then ground in the early morning into a powder, until the powder was fine, mixed with water and then boiled over low fire until it was smooth. when compared. Then put in the blender to form the most standard cake fibers.

For those who do not have machines, they will use tough hands to challenge the solidified dough into a yarn about half the size of a little finger, this way takes more effort and time, but in return, the cake is also more chewy and delicious.

After processing Ca Mau silkworm cake , people will make accompanying ingredients such as shumai, chicken curry, grilled meat or tofu ky. Each person will have a different way of preparing dishes with different flavors but usually curry powder will have to be full: star anise, cloves, turmeric, cinnamon, dried chili and fragrant dried coriander seeds. and grind finely to blend well. In particular, curry is considered the “soul” of this dish, so it must be carefully prepared and prepared.Curry water is considered the soul of the dish (Photo @eatenbylinh)

In each restaurant, you will see a big pot full of red curry, which is always boiling on the charcoal stove, when a customer calls, the hostess will take it out from the pot and pour it into a bowl of pure white sturgeon. Don’t forget to serve it with a plate of raw vegetables with fresh white bean sprouts, fragrant cinnamon and salt and pepper lemon served with chicken.

At first glance, we will see that the spicy cake is quite similar to the curry vermicelli, but you have to try it to know that the water of this dish will be thicker and its main flavor is spicy, pungent, tearing, spicy, wanting to “spit fire” but no lose the taste of other ingredients and if it’s not spicy, it’s considered to have lost all of its deliciousness.Super spicy cake (Photo @toovann)

The noodles are chubby, plump, more pronounced than Hue beef noodles, but they are a bit bigger than regular vermicelli and have a more chewy and fleshy taste. It is made from a special recipe of the Ca Mau people so you will not be able to find it anywhere else, if there is another place to sell it in Ca Mau, you must definitely import the ingredients from here.

Normally, Ca Mau standard spicy cake will be served with shumai, chicken curry or young chicken eggs… for richness and enough quality. Each dish has its own flavor: the chicken gizzard cake is sprinkled with a layer of yellow curry sauce on top of the cake, add a little meat and chicken gizzard, when eaten, mix it up to make the bread soaked with the sauce and serve with wave vegetables , bean sprouts, basil and a cup of salt and pepper lemon will see the spicy, sweet, salty, and cool flavors blend together, making it possible to eat over and over without getting bored.Spicy chicken cake filled with chicken (Photo @mey__m.ey)

Meanwhile, spicy shumai cake needs delicious meat with full lean fat, seasoning and spices to suit your hand so that when mixed with passionate curry sauce, you can still clearly see the taste of shumai, the spicy taste. The smell of the sauce plus the fatness of the meat and the crispness of the bread, makes all our senses seem to be awakened, just full, full of nutrients, and even to the bone marrow.Spicy rice cake with shumai ú nu ú debt (Photo @cogiannays)

Revealing, this cake can both be eaten and eaten, so you can use it for breakfast, lunch, supper or dinner.

The famous spicy cake shops in Ca Mau

Although it is a specialty of Ca Mau cuisine, spicy cake is just a rustic street food, so coming to Mui Dat you will see sidewalks, mobile cars or under the porch there are many shops. selling more than luxury stores, so all classes from working people, students, students to knowledge can enjoy.

Here are the famous spicy silkworm cake shops in Ca Mau that you can refer to: