In addition to the rice cake, what kind of childhood snacks have children in Hanoi fall in love with?

When mentioning Hanoi, everyone will think of Vong village nuggets, spousal cakes, … but not many people know that Hanoi has another special snack.
Banh cha – a familiar snack of Hanoi people, is loved by all ages, from old to young. No one knows who cakes are created by anyone and since when, just know that throughout the streets of Ha Thanh, there were families who specialized in handcraft production and trading this cake.

Banh cha – a childhood snack of many people in Hanoi. (Photo: Internet) From the luscious taste of lemon leaves combined with the fragrant creamy fat of fatty meat, together with the crispness of the outer crust create a great appeal for this snack. Banh cha is a special traditional Hanoi snack cake, which always has a very specific taste. (Photo: Internet) A small pretty yellow cake, inside with a mixture of flour covered with flour, looks very similar to a minced meat ball, so it is called a banh cha. Like other pastries, banh cha is the best when enjoyed with hot tea. Just one bite, you can feel the cakes like breaking in your mouth, crunchy. The muddy taste of fried wheat flour makes people easily addicted. In addition, the fatty taste of fatty meat, sausage is called “drunk like a cigarette”. Those fragrant golden spring rolls are the perfect blend of the lime leaf stick, the fatty taste of the sausage fat, the sweetness of pumpkin jam. (Artwork: Internet) Ingredients for baking are only pork fat, sausage, lime leaves, flour, sugar, white salt. The dough for making the cake crust must be kneaded evenly, smooth, incubated for a certain time so that the dough can ferment enough to make the cake crunchy and fluffy. The ingredients are diced into small pomegranate evenly, mixed together. After being incubated, the dough is spread thin, put inside, rolled into a tube, then cut into small pieces with a knife, finally put in a golden oven. In addition to the flour layer, what makes a difference and determines the quality of the pastry is the selection of lime leaves. (Photo: Internet) Lemon leaf is the main factor that makes the aroma of the cake. Therefore, people often pick old lemon leaves and don’t leave them for too long before baking to avoid evaporation of lemon essential oil. Lemon leaf rolls deep into the culinary culture of Hanoi people, although simple and simple, it is enough to make everyone fall in love and love. Indeed, no place has this flavor. It is no shame that it is a Hanoi specialty, so that people who eat it must remember forever.