Ms. Dam (Thoi Ninh area, Thoi An Dong ward, Binh Thuy district) is wrapping coconut leaf cake. Salted pork skin cake, also known as salty cake, is created into various types of flatbreads, vegetarian cakes. According to Ms. Loan, making savory pork skin cakes is not difficult, but you must have your own secret to make the cake crispy, chewy and have a characteristic fatty taste. To have a delicious pork skin cake, the main ingredient is rice flour; The filling is made from cassava root, red radish and dried shrimp. And an indispensable ingredient is coconut milk, which contributes to making the cake more flavorful, fatty and fragrant. Currently, when technology develops, many bakers switch to electric ovens, but Loan still maintains the method of manual steaming, pinching with rice husks to adjust the temperature accordingly. Every day, Ms. Loan steams about 150 salty pork skin cakes, priced at 3,000 VND/piece, with dried shrimp filling; 2,000 VND/piece for flatbread and cake filled with cassava, red radish. Ms. Loan said: “Every day, I sell salty pork skin cakes with other dishes, such as silkworm cakes, wet cakes, etc. Depending on the number of orders from customers, I increase or decrease the number of cakes.” For most folk cakes, although the ingredients are easy to find, it also requires a lot of care and ingenuity of the workers to produce eye-catching and delicious batches of cakes. Huynh Thi Ha’s family, commonly known as Ms. 3 Dam, 65 years old (living in Thoi Ninh area, Thoi An Dong ward, Binh Thuy district), making coconut leaf cakes has helped her family “eat well, made” over the past 14 years. Ms. Dam said that, when she was a girl in the countryside, everyone knew how to make cakes, because they were taught the craft by their grandparents and learned from neighbors. While quickly wrapping the cakes, Ms. Dam shared: “I can pack 17 cakes for 1 kg of sticky rice. To get a delicious, fragrant coconut cake, you have to go through many stages. First buy a plant (coconut leaves) used to wrap the barrel of the cake. Glutinous must choose to buy new sticky rice to stir-fry, squeeze coconut milk and mix it with coconut carcasses, add salt, sugar, and beans. To make the cake, must cook green beans, cut ripe bananas. After all the preliminaries were done, I started wrapping the cake.” Every day, on a small bicycle, Ms. Dam only sells coconut leaf cakes around the area of ​​Thoi An Dong market. Her cakes sold quite well, by 6 a.m. sold out. On average, she packs over 100 cakes every day, both retailing and removing termites for 5,000 VND/piece; minus expenses, she made a profit of over 120,000 dong. Particularly on holidays and Tet, neighbors come to her to order a package of Tet cakes. Although the money is not much, it also helps her to live with the profession, satisfying her desire to preserve the taste of country cakes. Currently, with the pace of urbanization, many types of cakes have been born, meeting the increasing tastes of customers, but folk cakes still have a certain place in the market, helping many small business households to earn income. stable input. Through the skillful hands of artisans, the folk cakes are more delicious, rounder, and converge the essence of home products.

In Can Tho, Ms. Tran Van My Tram (46 years old) said she bought a lot of potatoes to help farmers in Vinh Long. “I bought a few times now, just bought another 5kg today. All week, my family eats potatoes, mainly for breakfast, just hoping to be able to partly help people” – she laughed. Ms. Tram creates many unique dishes such as meatballs with potato sauce, potato donuts filled with cheese, mochi cakes with potatoes, purple sweet potato noodle soup, Doraemon donuts filled with potatoes, … Donuts are created by Ms. Tram from purple sweet potatoes. Photo: NVCC Cake soup with noodles made from purple sweet potatoes. Photo: NVCC Mochi cake filled with purple sweet potato. Photo: NVCC Purple sweet potato soup with minced meat. Photo: NVCC Ms. Tram confided: “The dishes made from potatoes are very diverse, easy to make, but also very delicious. I hope more people know to buy potatoes to help farmers, but see that they work too hard. It’s hard to grow but still not enough. For export, they cannot be sold. Those who have no one to carry them to retail must dump the fruits of their labor.” And in Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Thi Kieu Diem (27 years old, district 7) also makes small cakes from glutinous rice flour and purple sweet potatoes. The purple color of the potato helps the familiar cake to become beautiful and attractive. Diem also uses this ingredient to make purple sweet potato rolls. “Purple sweet potato is both good for health and beautifies the food. This roll cake is very simple and quick to make, delicious and easy to eat. Mothers can make babies eat weaning too. I just making cakes, while filming and editing the instructional clip for making cakes so that many people who want to do it can follow, and join hands to rescue purple sweet potatoes to help people in the West,” said Kieu Diem. Two cakes are made by Kieu Diem from purple sweet potatoes. Photo: NVCC The epidemic lasted for a long time, worried that her children would be bored during the summer vacation, so Nguyen Thi Hong Quynh (32 years old, Thu Duc City) and her two daughters made cakes from sweet potatoes. She and her children boiled potatoes, used them to make tea and made fried purple sweet potatoes. These are the children’s favorite dishes, and easy to make, so Quynh let her children cook freely. The happy moment of two children of Hong Quynh’s family when they together knead purple potato flour for their mother to cook tea. Photo: NVCC She recounted: “The baby grew up after learning that farmers were having difficulties because they could not sell potatoes, told me to support buying a lot of potatoes to help them. Cooking is also her hobby. Many of my friends still have a hobby. making yoghurt, pork skin cake from potatoes, very creative”. Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong Tuyen (36 years old, Thu Duc City) also bought a lot of “relief” purple sweet potatoes. She learns how to cook online and changes to suit her and her husband’s taste. The dishes she made by steaming potatoes with vegetables, coconut milk and tea. Hong Tuyen’s purple sweet potato soup. Photo: NVCC Steamed purple sweet potato with coconut milk. Photo: NVCC Some unique dishes with purple sweet potato ingredients “rescued” from Henry Nguyen’s family (Phu Nhuan) and friends: Sweet potato vermicelli Pork skin cake from sweet potato Purple and yellow sweet potato Sweet potato cake

Cauldron cake It is loved by diners by its crispy crust, soft and smooth inner dough, not greasy, and full and rich filling. The old bakery on Hai Thuong Lan Ong Street (District 5) is one of the rare places serving this dish. Guests can choose to buy quail egg or salted egg cake. When enjoying the cake, you just need to add chili sauce to complete the taste. The price of each cake is only about 15,000 VND. Image: Nguyen Thanh Truc . Green bean fruit cake With beautiful shapes, bright colors, it is a familiar snack for many generations of Saigon’s childhood. Le Van Sy Street (District 3) is the address for you to find and buy this delicious dish. Diner Thanh Thao shared: “Mung bean cake, in addition to fruit, now also has the form of lovely animals. The cake is shaped quite large, inside the filling has raisins to help prevent boredom. I have the opportunity to eat again and still addicted. like when I was a kid.” Price from 90,000 VND/box. Image: Banhtraicaydauxanhchausg . Jaggery beef cake Ingredients include flour, eggs, jaggery. The mixture is put in a small aluminum pan, baked quickly so that the cake is golden, thin and fragrant. This childhood-reminiscent gift has the characteristic sweetness of jaggery, a little fat from the egg and the soft porosity of the flour. In addition to the traditional type, sellers at the shop on Nguyen Trai Street (District 5) also add green tea sauce, strawberries, chocolate or cheese. Image: Canquetsaigon . Pig skin cake With sweet green bean paste, fragrant pandan leaves have long been a familiar specialty of the people of the South. The bakery in Thanh Thai (District 10) is a suitable rendezvous for diners to order this dish, priced at 30,000 VND/box. Image: Hukha.foodaholic . Pineapple beef cake The form of spongy cotton, the sweet taste is also a suggestion not to be missed if you want to enjoy the snack of your childhood. A full piece of cake, fragrant with pandan leaves, adding a little sesame salt is suitable for morning energy. You can buy cakes in front of the Student Culture House (District 3) between 6-10pm every day. Image: Ansapsaigon . Chestnut cake It has a shell similar to a pia cake but is drier, the highlight is the toasted sesame covered on the surface and the chestnut puree. On the personal page, the account Kaiwaii.food shared: “The filling is quite dry, but still has the fatness and characteristic aroma from chestnuts”. The cake is not only suitable for children but also for adults when sipping with tea. Guests can visit the chestnut bakery on Nguyen Trai Street (District 5) or order through the app for door-to-door delivery. Image: Kaiwaii.food. Shrimp rice paper is the taste of childhood for so many people. Loan shop on Phan Dinh Phung street (Phu Nhuan district) is one of the few places attracting young people to buy this dish. Simple ingredients include rice paper served with onion fat, peanuts and dried shrimp, soft, seasoned and seasoned. Price from 5,000-10,000 VND/pack. Image: Samlacareview . How to fry crispy spiral potatoes for snacks at home Spiral-shaped crispy potato pieces are suitable for family members to enjoy at home. You can see how to do it below.