“Bánh cống” – The cheap and delicious cake from Can Tho

“Bánh cống” is a common, cheap and delicious cake, who has eaten one will not easily forgotten. The people in Can Tho city use this dish as a snack cake and usually eat in the afternoon or evening.

The mould (cái cống) is a tribute to small items and deep that looks like a coffee pot with a long handles like a soup ladle.

Ingredients for this cake are: baking powder, green beans and shrimp. Meal preparation through many stages. Soarked the mixture including three of rice, a sticky rice over night then floured. After filtering glutinous rice flour in a cloth bag to drain it back into the mix glutinous rice flour is a third kind of good wheat flour, add water, chopped onion and spices. This mixture is not liquid like pouring Vietnamese pancake flour. Someone also added some egg powder to delicious. 

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The cake served with sweet and sour sauce and the lettuce, mango shoots, basil … Just look yellow cake plate nursery and a basket of fresh vegetables like green is already enjoying. Green beans smell, the smell of meat, fried shrimp flavor mix fragrant nose, beads dotted bowl chili sauce, lemon shrimp, pure papaya pickles Machine. What a dish rich in both flavor and color.