Banh cake is a familiar and traditional dish that has been around for a long time. In the past, banh chung was made with simple ingredients such as rice flour mixed with lime juice, when eaten it was crunchy, cool, smooth, full stomach, easy to digest, easy to make and very cheap. associated with the poor, eating instead of rice on hungry days.
Now, when life is good with countless new dishes, in all Asian-European styles, old molded cakes are still a great “hot” and are bought and enjoyed by city dwellers. . From the type of cake that is only made from rice flour, now the cake has many variations such as peanut cake, coconut cake, corn cake…
Banh mi is a dish for poor and rural families that has been around since time immemorial
Recalling her grandmother’s cake, friend Hoang Linh (in Hanoi) shared: “When I was a child, I liked my grandmother’s peanut cake the most. It was different from other country food I have ever tasted. Every summer afternoon, next to the bamboo cot, my grandmother spread out thin mats and served cakes for the little grandchildren.
The peanut cake is made of rice flour, salt and sugar and when eaten, is dipped in an oily cork sauce. Our kids love it when we can eat cake. Use your hands to pick it up a little at a time and then dip it in the soy sauce, but barely rub it in.
Then, when I grew up, my grandmother was also weak and we couldn’t eat her cakes for a long time. Now people eat hot cakes, crab cakes and some other variations, but I only buy peanut cakes, to remember the taste of the past and remember it with unforgettable memories.”
Peanut cake with dipping sauce
Peanut cake is made from rice flour mixed with lime juice plus boiled peanuts, and cut into bite-sized pieces. Compared to other cakes, peanut cookies are usually cheap and easy to find. This rustic dish is present on all roads in Hanoi and the northern provinces.
Walking around online marketplaces and apartment markets, peanut cookies are sold in many places with prices ranging from 4,000-6,000 VND/piece depending on the size.
In the online marketplace, just type in the keyword “peanut cake” and there will be many addresses selling this poor cake.
Selling peanut cakes at the Xa La apartment market (Ha Dong, Hanoi), Lan Anh said that peanut cakes cost 60,000 VND, including 10 cakes with shrimp paste, cork sauce, vegetables, kumquats and chilies. “This is a cake that I made myself with the help of my mother-in-law. This cake is guaranteed to be crunchy, delicious, without preservatives, whoever is the first time to order next because they love the taste. cake that I made”, Ms. Lan Anh introduced.
Lan Anh is from Nghe An, when she was little she lived with her grandmother and enjoyed the peanut cookies she made many times, then when she grew up she was taught by her grandmother. “I often cook for my family, my in-laws also compliment me because it tastes good. Saw someone selling peanut cake, I also tried it. I didn’t expect everyone to support me. Now I sell hundreds of them every day the apartment market, sometimes when there are still items, they will be posted on their personal page to sell more.
Peanut cake is now also served with raw vegetables, kumquat, chili
I think only people who live in the countryside know about this dish, but almost every family after eating it loves it, so they often order it. The average is about 300-400 units per day. Moreover, on weekends it is sometimes higher,” said Lan Anh.
To make sure the cakes are delicious, she takes great care in choosing the ingredients and makes every step to make the batch of cakes even and delicious. The cake is now also served with vegetables, kumquat, and chili, both of which are delicious and retain their old taste.
The seller also adds grated coconut to make the cake taste better
Oanh Tran (in Cau Giay, Hanoi) says his customers like cakes with lots of nuts and adding fresh grated coconut, so he makes several types of cakes depending on the customer’s preference, including traditional cakes, cakes with less nuts, cakes with lots of nuts and coconut. “It takes a lot of time to make so many varieties, but everyone likes one style, so I try to keep it fun. Apart from retail, I also import wholesale for several street food shops. Except costs and money. every day, I also earn several hundred thousand dong,” said Ms. Oanh.
Peanut cake is divided into 0.5kg pieces for sale to customers
Some places don’t bake small cakes but divide them into large chunks to put in boxes, each half pound box costs 40,000 VND with sauce. The seller said, when brought back to the customer, cut it to eat according to their preferences, if they don’t eat it all, cover it carefully, store it in the refrigerator, they can be eaten in a few days and still retain it. delicious taste.
In addition to selling in online or traditional markets, restaurants and hawker shops in Hanoi also include peanut cakes in their menus. On a cold and windy winter afternoon, or on an empty stomach, enjoying a bowl of hot peanut sauce cake is great.
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