Traditional cakes The tradition of using leaves to wrap food of the Vietnamese people is shown most strongly and clearly in traditional cakes. Banana leaves are the most popular, but sometimes they can be replaced with coconut leaves, dong leaves… but the trend of using natural leaves for wrapping cakes remains unchanged. No matter how deep the history of Vietnamese cakes, the leaves have accompanied them for such a long time. The oldest can mention banh chung. Right from the first appearance in the legend, it was also introduced as a cake wrapped in dong leaves. According to the development of Vietnamese cuisine, in turn, other leaf wrap cakes gradually appeared, not limited to a certain region but almost any cake, specialties of any region will be wrapped in leaves. . From far away, from gai cake, honey cake of the North to Hue cakes such as Nam cake, filter cake. In the Southern region, we have banh ú and little cakes that are also associated with the leaves picked in the garden. Spring rolls, spring rolls, spring rolls All dishes made from meat and to be eaten for a long time, gradually eaten like spring rolls or fermented meats like spring rolls are wrapped with banana leaves. This is an old way of doing things, because banana leaves have the ability to keep fresh very well and can help preserve food in conditions where there is no refrigerator. The spring rolls and spring rolls that we often prepare during Tet holidays are wrapped in leaves. On the other hand, some spring rolls, small rolls such as spring rolls, sweet rolls… are also meticulously wrapped with banana leaves into pretty small packages. It can be seen that, even if it is a large size of spring rolls or tiny pieces of spring rolls, grandparents do not change their ways because of a word “convenient”. They still take the time to carefully wrap and tie each spring roll, one by one. Sticky rice and rice dishes No matter what kind of rice is sticky rice, what color, served with beans or coconut or savory dishes, sticky rice with banana leaves is almost never changed. Currently, there are many places that use styrofoam boxes to store, but the image of sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves – lotus leaves is so familiar that we all prefer such traditional sticky rice shops. Snacks, snacks Not only in traditional cakes, spring rolls or sticky rice dishes. Grandparents also used leaves in “seafood” dishes, such as pandan tube cake, baked sticky rice, banh xeo, and molded cake… In addition, do we have a “theorem”? The official is: any dish eaten with mam, rattan basket, that dish must be lined with banana leaves such as bean vermicelli, cakes… Along with the long history of cake culture in Vietnam, the leaves have contributed significantly to creating a delicious and close taste. It has wrapped and protected the cake to keep the perfect color, smell and taste that very few people notice.

To have a delicious thorn cake, people choose yellow flower sticky rice, soak it overnight and then grind it into flour. Thorn leaves after drying will be stripped of tendons, boiled, pureed and mixed with flour and molasses to make cake crust. Part of the cake includes green beans, pumpkin seeds, fresh coconut, lotus seeds and lard are cleverly wrapped in the crust, the outer layer is dried banana leaves. When enjoying, the flavor of the thorn leaves blends with the aroma of the cake to create a unique flavor that makes visitors remember forever. Ant eggs cake. Ant eggs cake To Tuyen Quang, visitors must definitely try the ant egg cake – a specialty of the Tay ethnic group. The cake is made from young ant eggs, minced meat, onions, cumin, and crushed peanuts. The crust is made of ground rice powder made from upland sticky rice and is covered with young fig leaves. After steaming in the water from 45 to 50 minutes, the cake is ripe for visitors to enjoy. Ham Yen Sanhed Orange Ham Yen Sanhed Orange is grown mainly in the foothills – where there is natural water source and high mineral content in the soil, giving great nutritional value and vitamins. Ham Yen Sanhed Orange has a cool sweet taste and eye-catching form, so many tourists choose to buy it as a gift for their relatives. Tea Tuyen Quang has a large tea plantation area and production due to its favorable climatic and soil conditions. Each land here gives a different flavor of tea, creating its own brand name such as Phu Lam green tea (Phu Lam commune, Yen Son district), shan tea (Hong Thai commune, Na Hang district. Pa Then tea (Linh Phu commune, Chiem Hoa district) … Na Hang corn wine Na Hang corn wine is processed by a unique formula from the main ingredients of corn and yeast from more than 20 rare herbs and distilled according to the traditional recipe. In addition, Na Hang wine is also used for healing wounds and bone and joint diseases … Fish field fish Fish field fish is made from carp farmed. To process this dish, people have a rather unique way of brewing: After the glutinous rice is turned into sticky rice, let it cool, people mix it with yeast and keep it sealed. Aromatic fermented sticky sticky rice will be mixed with fish, galangal, betel leaves, red rice leaves, salt … then put in a jar, add water and cover for several months. Fish sauce is not only used for boiled meat, boiled vegetables, raw vegetables … but also has the effect of detoxifying and effectively detoxifying.

Looks like chocolate cookies, but in fact these are cakes made from mosquitoes. (Photo: Internet) The mosquito burger, also known as the mosquito burger, as its name suggests, this burger is made from 100% mosquitoes, not mixed with any ingredients. The cakes have ingredients from 100% mosquito meat. They also have another name, Mosquito Burger, sound and like, but few people dare to try. (Photo: Internet) The method of catching mosquitoes is also very simple. People will find a large pot or a wooden board dipped in water, then spread all over the air to get the mosquitoes to stick, in just a few moments you can catch a few kilograms of mosquitoes very easily. Africans catch mosquitoes to make a 1-0-2 cake. (Photo: Internet) The next step is to dip mosquitoes into a pot of boiled water and knead like flour, make round, flat cakes like donuts, drop on greasy cooking oil, and give off a characteristic aroma. It looks like a dough to make a ramie, but it’s actually made up of thousands of mosquitoes. (Photo: Internet) In addition, Africans still have another way of processing. They will put mosquitoes in special sauce then cook them on stone slabs. It is estimated that each mosquito cake needs from 200,000 to 500,000 mosquitoes, especially this cake has a protein content 7 times higher than beef. Although mosquito cakes are good for the body, not everyone has the courage to eat an animal that specializes in sucking human blood. This dish is very nutritious, the protein is 7 times higher than beef. (Photo: Internet)