Banh khoai (Pancake) is a popular dish in Hue. It’s easy to
find a pancake store in Hue but Thuong Tu pancake is the most delicious and
authentic one with more than 40 years old.
Thuong Tu gate is an
ancient name, which is located at Southeast of Hue ex-capital. On Dinh Tien
Hoang street leading to Thuong Tu gate, there are a pancake store of a very
special family: everybody are dumb and deaf but they make very good pancakes.
Thuong Tu pancake is
made specially
The owner is Madam Ho Thi Tra-90 years old, has 7 good children but all
dumb and deaf, communicating by body language only. However, with the good
special pancake dish, her family made a very famous brand name of Thuong Tu
pancake. The original store is at Lac Thien pancake, at 6 Dinh Tien Hoang, the
others next to it are her children’s.
The pancake’s stuff
includes shrimp, pork paste, egg, pork belly
There are
many places selling pancake: Dong Ba, Kim Long, Gia Hoi, Vi Da…, yet, Thuong Tu
pancake is more well-known due to their cake’s flour mixture and the sauce made
from 10 spices: soybean sauce, peanut, sesame, liver, pork, shrimp paste…
Because of
good dough, Thuong Tu pancake has perfect crispiness. The filling has shrimp,
pork paste, egg, pork belly that is very easy to replicate, but mixing the dough to
have a crunchy, flavorful, chewy pancake is just at Thuong Tu pancake.
Thuong Tu pancake has
perfect crunchiness
The sauce to
eat with pancake is similar, so enough with the sweetness goodness that nobody
can replicate. The word is that even Madam Tra’s children might not be able to
do it without learning carefully from her.
This is not only Hue people’s favorite place, but Thuong Tu pancake is
also a popular place with foreign tourists. It appeared in Viet Nam reality
show of Luke Nguyen.
If there is any
chance to come to Hue, pancake is a dish that you cannot miss besides baby
mussels rice, beef noodle soup, rice flour cake, etc…
*Taro**
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