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Thứ Bảy, 18 tháng 7, 2015

HUMBLE BANH BAO (MEAT BUN), BANH VAC (DUMPLING) IN HOI AN

Coming to Hoi An, you will be freely enjoy many outstanding specialties such as Chicken rice, Quang noodle, Cao lau, Banh dap (Crispy rice cake snacker),… Among those, it will be sorted without mentioning the clear, pure, simple cakes – Banh bao (meat bun) and Banh vac (dumpling), or can be call White Rose. This fancy name cause the curious to tourists.
The word is the name was made by foreign tourists in Hoi An. They imagined the dumplings as white roses and named it “White rose”. The petite cakes have shape like white roses, are placed right on a plate, and decorated with the green of basil vegetable, the red of chili. 

Banh bao, Banh vac are usually placed together on a plate
Banh bao, Banh vac is different but usually placed together on a same dish and use the same special sauce: not too salt, not light and have the flavor, the sweetness of shrimp.
Have to assure many principle to have the sweetness, white smoothly dough outside
The stuff inside includes shrimp, less fat pork, black fungus, bean sprouts and scallion, all are thinly sliced, stir fry nicely with spices. Banh vac is usually added a bit more blended shrimp in the core. Banh bao has stuff with pork, mushroom, bean sprout and be rimmed around like a rose. 


The small pretty cakes inspire many tourists
Banh bao, Banh vac are made from rice flour, but require the clever from the cook from refining rice to shaping cakes. Rice used to make the cake is new, aroma, sticky. To have good dough, blended rice need to be refined many times through water, absolutely without using any bleach or borax.
After that, dough will be knead into long pieces, then will be rolled into small thin pieces of dough.
Have to be skillful to shape the cakes into these petite nice roses
After making the cakes, lightly set them into a big pot to steam, about 15 minutes. Have them on a dish, Banh bao is in the middle or on top, Banh vac is around at the edge or under, then sprinkle fry onion, a spoon of oil on top of the cakes.
The soft sticky white cakes
The sauce is made carefully from shrimp broth, has to be had 3 savors sour, spicy, sweet with the flavor from shrimp. The balance of sweetness, not too sour and crushed chili has to be green and red. That how comes a tasty flavorful fish sauce mixture.

All over Hoi An, there are many stores that serve Banh bao, Banh vac not only for tourists but also for the local people.


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