Terrified of Western specialties, everyone looks terrible but eating will be fascinated, unique and delicious

Going to the West, visitors will enjoy the very rustic, cheap and delicious shrimp pancakes. But few people know that this place also has a unique type of banh xeo made from rat meat.

Quynh Diem (32 years old, An Giang) said: “For many people, pancakes filled with rat meat are quite strange and even scary, but people in the West find it normal and rustic, associated with so many people. generation”.

According to Quynh Diem, after being caught in the field, the field mouse will go through the straw, peel the skin and clean it. After that, people use a sharp knife to mince the meat and then marinate it with salt and sugar to taste, put the pan on the stove and fry the onion and garlic and stir-fry until cooked.

After being caught in the field, the field mouse will go through the straw, peel the skin and clean it.

“The next stage of this specialty is processing coconut milk. It sounds easy but in fact it is extremely difficult, for the people of my hometown, coconut milk must be taken from the copra to have a greasy and sweet taste. Then they prepare raw vegetables, chopped shallots, soft cooked green beans, thinly sliced ​​onions…

And the flour chosen to make banh xeo must be rice flour so that the cake is crispy and not soft. They will mix flour with coconut milk, fresh turmeric to make the cake more beautiful, duck eggs and spices,” said Quynh Diem.

After preparing all the ingredients, the Westerners will proceed to cast pancakes in the simplest way. They put the pan on the stove, spread lard evenly on the heart, scooped up the dough with a spoon, and gently rotated it so that the dough was coated in a thin, circular layer, and the edges of the cake were not torn. When the cake was just cooked, they put in the minced rat meat and the prepared ingredients. When they are cooked, use chopsticks to fold the cake into a semicircle and place it on a plate.

After preparing all the ingredients, the Westerners will proceed to cast pancakes in the simplest way.

“Moving pancakes filled with rat meat is only half of the completion of this specialty because the dipping sauce is also very important. How to make dipping sauce is not easy, Westerners are quite picky in making dipping sauce for pancakes. Accordingly, the sauce must be delicious, spicy, so you dip a piece of rat meat pancake and put it in your mouth to feel all the sweet and fatty taste of rat meat, the flesh of green peas, and the crispiness of the crust. …”, Quynh Diem said.

After finishing her words, Quynh Diem added: “If anyone from another region comes here to travel, at first hearing the pancakes filled with rat meat, they will be scared to eat because they are afraid of rats. But they dare to try a few pieces will find it delicious, better than the usual pork and shrimp pancakes. This dish is also very easy to find, you can visit the countryside markets to enjoy it for from 20,000 to 30,000 VND/piece.