Loving Moc Chau roll cake

Back to Moc Chau (Son La province) for a rest after a long mountain trek, the raging hunger brought us to the market of Nong Truong town (Phieng Luong commune, Moc Chau town) to find food to eat. Here, most of the people sell simple dishes that are processed such as bun cha, rolls, fried cakes, vermicelli, pho … The whole restaurant area is just like each other and turns on the cake shop. Tiny Truong Sinh with a few guests waiting, the scent faintly followed the smoke soaring.
The market’s only hot rolled cake shop is made on site and brought directly to the table of diners. The shop is small but the buyers are very crowded, waiting in line to hold hot batches of cake. Waiting for our turn, we kept rubbing the shop’s nostalgia. Everything here wears traces of time, the kitchen, the table, the chair, probably a few decades old.

We pre-ordered a tasting. The restaurant’s white plastic crust has just coated on the cooked mold, took out the tray and added some cat mushrooms to make a filling, then rolled it up, cut it into small pieces and sprinkled fragrant scallions on top and presented a plate to customers. While I was constantly watching the strange plate of rice rolls for the first time, the shopkeeper brought a cup of hot fish sauce to smoke. In the cold of the misty plateau, each piece of rolled cake is dipped with hot sauce to eat warmly. God, how delicious it is! Without any hesitation, we called tap, 2, and 3 dishes, despite having to wait a long time for our turn. Eating rice rolls here, you can feel the fatty aroma from the rice flour and the filling, while the scent of scallions and a cup of hot fish sauce blends into the mouth is the perfect final combination. At the time of charging, the whole group was confused when the owner said “30,000 VND”. “Oh, is there a mistake, uncle?” – I asked surprised, but he smiled dryly: “How wrong!”. Indeed in my life I have never eaten such delicious and cheap rolls. If you have the opportunity to visit Moc Chau, you should visit the Truong Sinh restaurant in the market of Nong Truong to experience the rice rolls that I am sure that anyone who eats once will love it forever.