This is a pretty famous address with the best honey donuts in Hanoi. The number of customers coming to the shop every day is very crowded, so you often have to wait for a long time. The price of the cake is cheap, so people come here to buy it “dozen one” always come back to eat. Donuts with yellow cockroach wings are super attractive – Photo: Ut Vuong The cake “bathed” with honey is an undeniable delicacy – Photo: Nguyen Duy Donuts have a moderate sweet taste, not too harsh, so it takes a long time to eat. Honey donuts are slug with honey, bringing a characteristic, familiar taste. This is also a dish best-seller of the shop, in the amount given “spread out” in an uncountable day. In addition, the shop also has sweet donuts that are also worth a try. Inside the cake is the green bean paste, eating the fleshy flesh to the mouth. The filling is extremely rich with green beans and pureed – Photo: Ha Candy You can remind the seller of the cake a little longer and carefully so that the honey sticks to the cake better, eating will be “lived” Because sometimes the shop is too crowded, so the cake is turned a bit quickly. Trang Tien ice cream Trang Tien ice cream brand is too old and famous. Those who have the opportunity to visit Hanoi or take a one-way roundabout on the pedestrian street often invite each other to buy some ice cream to cool their guts. Prominent facade – Photo: Linh Ngo The “baby” ice cream cones lie neatly – Photo: Swan Lake Hồ The ice cream here still retains its traditional flavor over the years. Creamy, delicious, sweet but not boring. The taste is also quite varied. Especially the ice cream best-seller it’s ice cream cone. The cone shell is crispy, greasy, not mushy or spongy like many other types. Chocolate ice cream – Photo Viettiptop Famous delicious ice cream cone – Photo: Linh Ngo On weekday afternoons and weekends, the shop will be quite crowded. If you don’t mind being crowded and waiting, you should avoid this time frame! Ms. Am’s Shrimp Cake – Dong Xuan Alley Co Am shrimp cake is located at the beginning of Dong Xuan market lane, the intersection with Hang Chieu. The space is small, quite simple with only a few sets of plastic tables and chairs. It’s also nice to sit and eat shrimp cakes while watching the peaceful streets of Hanoi. The owner is very cute – Photo: Nguyen Van Khu The shrimp cakes here are fried to golden brown and crispy, the cakes sold to them are always fried, so they are always hot and fragrant. Each cake has 3 to 5 “uncle” of fresh shrimp and sweet potato chips. A person eats about 2 to 3 pieces and is full. Crispy shrimp cakes – Photo: Ha Thu Thao Let’s eat, wait! – Photo: Dau Thuy Trang The shop also serves more raw vegetables and herbs to help reduce boredom. The sweet and sour dipping sauce is quite suitable for the cake, even the kohlrabi is very tasty. The minus point at the shop is that you have to wait a long time, about 20 to 30 minutes to have the cake.

In the early twentieth century when flour appeared in Vietnam, Hanoi housewives created shrimp cakes. It is a harmonious combination between Vietnamese cuisine, which is eaten with many vegetables and Western cuisine with lots of fat. Initially, shrimp cakes were just a popular dish during the subsidy period. Later, Ho Tay Food Company raised the level of shrimp cakes to become a specialty, a gift of Hanoi. Ho Tay Shrimp Cake uses the West Lake shrimp, like small shrimp, but firm meat, soft shell and very sweet. Along with that is a little sweet potato from the Red River field, sliced, creating a ruffled crust, but eaten crunchy and mildly fragrant. At that time, about 40 years ago, there were rarely any restaurants that met the two criteria of spaciousness and beautiful space. Ho Tay shrimp cake restaurant becomes the ideal party place for student groups and couples dating. A serving of shrimp cake 5, each 3 moat, served with beer 3 moat a cup. It is not cheap, but delicious, eating while watching the scenery and enjoying the cool West Lake wind. Remembering the subsidy period, Trang Tien ice cream was the obsession and desire of the 6X, 7X, 8X generation … “Going to eat ice cream, watching the train” was a beautiful memory of Hanoi people. But now, the tinkling sound of the train is gone, but the taste of Trang Tien ice cream remains the same, timeless, with the years. It is called Trang Tien ice cream because the original ice cream was made on Trang Tien street in the 1950s. As a state-owned ice cream restaurant under the subsidy period, experiencing many ups and downs, when state-owned stores gradually lost, Trang Tien ice cream still existed. The original cream flavor was only: rice nuggets, coconut milk, green beans and cocoa, later on, there was a bit of cinnamon. Nuggets are creamy and soft, with a double grain of rice, green bean ice cream is fragrant, bar, coconut cream is creamy, … Many people think that the most delicious is cone ice cream, fragrant with the scent of milk. but not greasy, sweet but not bored, and rich in coolness. Recently, after more than 60 years of existence, Trang Tien ice cream suddenly “put on” a new shirt color with a cool green tone and the design has both the old street look and the breath of modernity. However, Trang Tien ice cream still retains its original sweet and fragrant flavor. Even though more and more different brands of ice cream are imported, diversified and more expensive, Hanoians still look to luxury ice cream as a habit and a hobby that is hard to break. Perhaps, Trang Tien ice cream is not simply an ice cream, a simple Hanoi specialty, but also a sky of childhood memories of many people. Along with the dishes that have been identified in Thang Long – Hanoi such as bun cha, pho, fish ball, nuggets …, cold vermicelli is also considered one of the traditional gifts, marking the time of the land. period. Cold noodle vermicelli is considered a traditional dish, only available in Hanoi with the characteristic flavor of sudden vinegar, vermicelli leaves and especially not eaten with herbs. One of the famous cold vermicelli shops in Ha Thanh is Mrs. Xuan cold vermicelli, located at the corner of Dao Duy Tu intersection with Hang Chieu street. Snail processing must be a type of snail, the snail to sit to be crisp enough and greasy. Snails must be soaked overnight with rice water or alcohol to remove the oil and remove the fishy smell. The soul of cold vermicelli lies in vinegar and chilli. This dish is not the combination of many ingredients such as tomatoes, snails, noodles, ribs, beans … in the same bowl, but everything is separate. Vermicelli is cut into small pieces, stuffed snails are sliced ​​and dropped into the bowl of sauce. When eating, the vermicelli is picked up into the bowl. Close your eyes to enjoy the cool, spicy flavor of the distilled chili, shiny red snail juice, kept without mixing with any other ingredients, just add vinegar and just enough spices. Cakes are traditional Vietnamese cakes and are especially popular in the North. The dish made of soy sauce appeared around the 60s of the twentieth century. Peanut cast and poor sauce is a simple yet dear country gift. There is no need for luxurious ingredients, just from the rice grain of the village with the ingenuity of the mothers and sisters, this cake has made many people far away from the countryside remember. Rice soaked with clear lime water, crushed into powder for cooking pot and stir well. When near, let roasted peanuts and mix well. When the cake is poured into the banana leaf lining, wait for it to cool, then slice the dots with the same soy sauce. The delicious peanut molded cake must not be crushed, but it must be soft, flexible, crispy, without sticking to the hand, smooth and shiny. The pulp of roasted peanuts, along with the delicate and rich rice flavor, the fat leopard blends together, both simple, and evokes a lot of emotions about a very peaceful land. Cakes can be eaten with many kinds of sauces, but the most popular and popular is still the sauce casting cake. Today, cast cakes are sold a lot in the street hangs or markets in Dong Xuan, Hang Be, but the most is still in Tay Ho. Sticky rice in Hanoi is not sold many places, so the sticky rice in Ngo Si Lien is always crowded. Many diners are too familiar with the sticky rice trolley sold by two owners who are over 70 years old. At 2:00 pm, every day, Mr. Luan and Mrs. Kim push the cart to the top of the alley to sell sticky rice. To have a fragrant cassava sticky rice dish, the two grandparents had to work hard to prepare the ingredients from 5 am: scrap the cassava skin, soak it in salt water for at least 4-5 hours to let the plastic out of the cassava, so as not to be bitter. After that, scoop up and mix with a little salt and then cook. At about 11-12 noon, Ms. Kim mixed cassava with next-class sticky rice to make it sticky and soft. “Tapioca rice padded rice is a popular dish in ancient times, because without money to buy meat and fish, her grandparents have come up with a way to mix cassava cooked with rice to change meals,” said Mrs. Kim. No matter what, what my family eats, they sell it, gradually get support from customers, so I also change some side dishes such as fat tart, beef rolls, sweet and sour pickles … indispensable is scallions with lard ”. From the modifications to a few toppings included, the diners probably had to “wait in line” for a long time. Sticky cassava of the last century is simply cassava stuffed into sticky rice, now served with cucumber, fat … has created a rich taste for this rustic dish. The pulp of cassava is mixed in the aroma of sticky sticky rice, eaten with grease, pickles … just as much as it will dispel the hunger of the afternoon. Braised tea is a traditional dish with bold flavors of the Northern people. The best braised tea must be cooked from green beans with green pepper, whole seeds, tiny, light green, not choose big-bean, crushed yellow beans, which are sold throughout the market. Green beans after being crushed, soaked in cold water for 6 hours. When the shell is loose, treat it well. After that, sprinkle a little salt and drain to bring the contents to the pot to cook. Crush the cooked beans so that they are smooth, and then hold each handful with a small grapefruit. Those handfuls of beans use a thin sliced ​​knife to let the beans fall apart. Done again, bring the beans and cut them into the hand. Just like that a few times, the new beans are smooth. Thoroughly filter the unripe beans. The white sugar is thoroughly beaten with water, boiled to cool it to sugar water, then mixed with the crushed beans. Put this mixture on the stove, stirring with chopsticks both hands and lower heat gradually. Before that, boil some cardamom juice and then filter the clear water and pour it into a pot of tea warehouse. One of the familiar addresses in Hanoi also sells traditional warehouse tea: Sticky rice with Ba Thin tea. Every morning to noon, the corner of Hai Ba Trung street is crowded with people, waiting to enjoy a delicious cup of egg cream and fragrant crispy bread. That is the address of Ms. Khanh’s egg ice cream shop, opened in 1987, starting with the “machines” for making homemade eggs, created by her husband’s hands, so much “age” but sticking to the end. now. Whipped cream or Whipped cream. Called the childhood dish of many Hanoi people, but there are still many people who have never tasted it, even confused with current egg coffee. Because this dish is not too popular, but in the 1980s – 1990s, outside of Hanoi, there was nothing. Each cup of whipped cream contains only 2 egg yolks and a little sugar, carefully beaten until it becomes fluffy, soft, and then flavored with vanilla, coffee, green tea or a teaspoon of beans. big green cooks sugar. Whipped cream eggs of the old days and whipped cream eggs of 30 years later, the taste is still intact, probably because the hands of the craftsmen still retain their love of the profession. Many people who hear the name for the first time often wonder: What combination is so absurd. Ice cream sandwiches, it sounds strange, but actually just a small, soft bread, can be held in your hand with cool, sweet ice cream inside. Accompanying it is a little peanuts and fresh milk directly from the bottom to create a very special flavor. Many people in Hanoi recounted that this dish was invented for the first time by some wagon dealers in Hanoi. Because they spend the whole day on the street eating bread, in the hot sun they come to buy popsicles at Trang Tien ice cream shop or other ice cream shops on the street, to eat with bread to relieve thirst. Some people in a hurry have sandwiched the cream on the bread to make it easy to eat, reduce flow, taste delicious, so others imitate and follow. So “cream sandwiches” was born from there. Ice cream sandwiches have become a “luxury” dish of 7X and 8X generation children. Just hear the loud bell of the ice cream vending machine and the kids gather around. Eyes eagerly watched the cream of the round cream clatter, bringing each round cream ball into the bread. Later, as their lives improved, Hanoians no longer remember ice cream sandwiches as much as they used to, and the ice cream sandwich shops also gradually closed. Ice cream sandwiches are now just nostalgia, only living in the memory of old generations. But even so, the memory of an ice cream sandwich will remind every Hanoian of a past, difficult, needy, but still full of “sweet”. These simple dishes have accompanied our grandparents and parents through the past difficult and difficult. Over time, many new dishes were born, gifts from the subsidized period were no longer so popular as in the past. However, the Hanoians still remember the greasy Khanh’s egg creams, the idyllic dot cake or sweet stewed tea … as a way to cherish the past and past memories./.

Hanoi specialty shrimp cakes in the perception of many diners are golden pieces of shrimp wrapped with shrimp, served with sweet and sour sauce like the sentences described by Thach Lam in the book “Hanoi chopped six streets”: “The intestines tightened first, we watched the cake gradually yellow, gradually yellow, the shrimp shrank, the sweet potato hatched, and the cake curled up a little hotly, wanting to lie on the plate. A faint scent floats into the air, which we take in a refreshing breath along with the cold north wind … ” Looking for the taste of Hanoi shrimp cakes in Ho Chi Minh City, I happened to know that Bom Gastronomy restaurant also serves this cake, but it is an alternative version, out of the shape of the original dish. Not following the traditional processing steps, the shrimp cakes at this restaurant have been completely redone thanks to a new cooking method called: Molecular Cuisine. Bom Gastronomy has refreshed the shrimp cake by shrinking and consolidating the ingredients from the powder coating, to the shrimp filling, dipping sauce and raw vegetables, the small ingredients in the palm of the hand. That fusion is one of the techniques of a modern cooking method called: Molecular gastronomy. This method is a cross between cuisine, science and art. In each dish, the chef will apply the rules of physics and chemistry to the processing, altering the structure of the dish, providing an alternative culinary experience. Compared with the traditional version, the ingredients for shrimp cakes in the molecular cuisine version are almost unchanged, including fresh shrimp, eggs, flour, fried flour, fish sauce, purple onion, garlic, herbs. Sharing about the difference between traditional cakes and molecular-style shrimp cakes, Mr. Do Bao Duong, founder of Bom Gastronomy restaurant, said that the traditional cooking method is somewhat relative, the cook tasting based on experience and senses. For example, dipping sauces are mixed not according to specific quantities, taste can change at salty, sometimes light. On the contrary, molecular cuisine is about the precision when weighing ingredients, which is one of the rules of this cooking method. Each ingredient in the culinary version of shrimp cakes is calculated to balance the flavor and nutritional value. Some diners may not be familiar with the recipe-based accuracy, as each person’s taste is different. “Bom introduces molecular cuisine into traditional dishes, using familiar ingredients to suit a wide range of Vietnamese diners. The restaurant also wants young guests to feel the traditional taste from a modern perspective. The dishes here apply basic techniques so that customers can easily receive and learn about this interesting culinary trend ”, Mr. Duong shared about the innovation of traditional dishes by processing methods. modern. “The kitchen becomes a miniature laboratory when chefs create dishes according to the method of molecular cuisine”, Mr. Duong said. At the “laboratory” in Bom Gastronomy, chefs apply desconstructed and faux caves techniques to create the modern version of shrimp cakes. First of all, it must be deconstructed. This is a technique that changes the structure and shape of the original dish, creating a completely new version but still ensuring the original taste. When applied deconstructed, the chef does not wrap the whole shrimp in the dough but chopped and divided it into 2 parts. The base of the cake is minced shrimp coated with crispy flour, the top layer is sautéed minced shrimp. In the traditional version, the sauce is the liquid in a bowl to add seasoning. To the molecular culinary version, fish sauce is condensed into a fixed gel layer directly onto the cake thanks to the faux caves technique. Here’s how to make a solution in the form of a liquid glue. The liquid is held by a thin, viscous, non-melting gel film. Instead of dipping shrimp cakes with their own sweet and sour fish sauce, the molecular cuisine version has fused the sauce with the other ingredients. To make fish sauce gel, the chef uses normal fish sauce, adding gelatin to thicken. The ingredients are carefully weighed so that the gel layer is not too loose or too thick, has a transparent texture, a deep yellow honey color. This way of processing is completely different from the traditional shrimp cake making steps. The original dish consists of 3 separate crust, filling and sauces. When processing, the chef will prepare the ingredients in pieces, the cake is wrapped in dough and then fried until golden crispy. Cake is served with sweet and sour fish sauce. In the molecular culinary version, the chef prepares fresh shrimp, peels and then purees it. Shrimp meat is mixed with eggs, purple onion, garlic, salt and pepper spices, shaped into a flat circle, rolled over the deep fried dough and deep fried until both sides are golden. The remaining ground shrimp meat is also rounded, flat, steamed, then sautéed golden. Separating 2 parts of shrimp is lettuce. The top part is carrot and perilla leaves. All are fixed with a bamboo toothpick. The dish’s molecular culinary spirit lies in the fish sauce gel droplets decorated on the perilla leaf layer. The innovative version of the shrimp cake is simply decorated with layers of ingredients stacked on top of each other. The crust is the crispy fried shrimp, followed by the rounded lettuce layer, followed by the pan-fried shrimp. The top layer is perilla leaf dotted with 3 drops of honey-colored, transparent fish sauce gel. The fish sauce gel drops on the perilla leaves make the dish more prominent, stimulating the taste buds. The chef instructed me to eat by holding a bamboo toothpick, bringing the whole piece of cake into my mouth in one go. If chopped or eaten separately, it will be difficult to recognize the flavor of this dish like the original version. Even though it’s finger food (the appetizer is small in size), I found the shrimp cake to be quite large to eat in one piece. I cut the cake in half from the top with a knife, and fixed the falling ingredients with a fork. The chopped portion is still 2 layers of shrimp, raw vegetables and fish sauce gel. The taste of the dish reminded me of the times I sat down to eat shrimp cakes at the West Lake sidewalk restaurant. This time I also eat shrimp cakes, but in a more luxurious place with dark space, yellow lights, on a table with candles, knives and forks, there is a attentive service staff. Unlike a plate of golden yellow cake on a plastic plate, with a basket of raw vegetables and a bowl of garlic and chili sauce, the shrimp cake at Bom Gastronomy is placed in a polite white ceramic plate, neatly trimmed vegetables, dipping sauce. are beautiful gel drops. Before enjoying it, I expect the taste of the dish to be similar to the original version. However, this cake does not have the traditional sweet potato so the new flavor lacks sweetness. In return, the shrimp meat tastes well even though it has been minced. Deep-fried shrimp coated with flour, pan-fried shrimp reminds me of fried dishes. The dish does not create a greasy feeling because raw vegetables balance the flavor. In the traditional version, the delicious shrimp cake or not depends largely on the dipping sauce. Likewise, the fish sauce gel portion forms the soul of a molecular cuisine version of shrimp cake. This gel layer has a strong taste of salty fish sauce, clear the smell of garlic and chili spices, adding sweetness of sugar. It is this gel sauce that makes me feel similar to traditional shrimp cakes. It is difficult to judge which version of the cake is better because each type of processing has its own characteristics. If you like the feeling of eating hot cakes, biting crunchy dough blended with sweet potato pulp, chewing intact shrimp with fish sauce, you should choose the original version of shrimp cake. If you are curious about the modern culinary trend, want to experience a dish that exceeds the standards of traditional rules, dine in a luxurious space, you should immediately try shrimp cake in molecular cuisine. For diners who choose to enjoy the taste of modern cuisine, chef Bom Gastronomy suggests that after appetizing with shrimp cakes, diners can order more Bom Iberico, Mushroom Ravioli and a glass of Bom signature cocktail. These are all typical dishes of the molecular culinary approach. Iberico pork dish is served with sweet potato and melon jelly (cantaloupe jelly). This type of jelly was made from the edible paper method. Jelly includes potato powder, soybeans, fresh fruit color and flavor, creating a combination that is not ideal but the opposite flavor stimulates the taste of diners. The Mushroom Ravitol is the wonton soup of Italy. The texture of this dish is just foam. There is also another cooking technique of molecular cuisine called foam (sauce whisk). The foam has a fragrant, smoked, smoked meat flavor that melts right away when it touches the tip of the tongue. The chef introduces the restaurant’s signature cocktail, inspired by his trip to Da Lat (Lam Dong). The glass of water brings a familiar tamarind scent in the new wine taste, creating an attractive sweet and sour taste. In a modern space with traditional features from the image of Bom, mo fan to bronze drums decorated in the restaurant, Bom Gastronomy is the ideal place for diners to explore the taste of Vietnamese food, refreshing by modern cooking method.

Hanoi specialty shrimp cakes in the perception of many diners are golden pieces of shrimp wrapped with shrimp, served with sweet and sour sauce like the sentences described by Thach Lam in the book “Hanoi chopped six streets”:

“The intestines tightened first, we watched the cake gradually yellow, gradually yellow, the shrimp shrank, the sweet potato hatched, and the cake curled up a bit impatiently, wanting to lie on the plate. A faint scent floats into the air, which we take in a refreshing breath along with the cold north wind … ”

Looking for the taste of Hanoi shrimp cakes in Ho Chi Minh City, I happened to know that Bom Gastronomy restaurant also serves this cake, but it is an alternative version, out of the shape of the original dish.

Not following the traditional processing steps, the shrimp cakes at this restaurant have been completely redone thanks to a new cooking method called: Molecular Cuisine.

Bom Gastronomy has refreshed the shrimp cake by shrinking and consolidating the ingredients from the powder coating, to the shrimp filling, dipping sauce and raw vegetables, the small ingredients in the palm of the hand.

That fusion is one of the techniques of a modern cooking method called: Molecular gastronomy. This method is a cross between cuisine, science and art. In each dish, the chef will apply the rules of physics, chemistry in the processing, altering the structure of the dish, providing a different culinary experience.

Compared with the traditional version, the ingredients for shrimp cakes in the molecular cuisine version are almost unchanged, including fresh shrimp, eggs, flour, fried flour, fish sauce, purple onion, garlic, herbs.

Sharing about the difference between traditional cakes and molecular-style shrimp cakes, Mr. Do Bao Duong, founder of Bom Gastronomy restaurant, said that the traditional cooking method is somewhat relative, the cook tasting based on experience and senses. For example, dipping sauces are mixed not according to specific quantities, the taste can change when salty or light.

On the contrary, molecular cuisine is about the precision when weighing ingredients, which is one of the rules of this cooking method. Each ingredient in the culinary version of shrimp cakes is calculated to balance the flavor and nutritional value. Some diners may not be familiar with the recipe-based accuracy, as each person’s taste is different.

“Bom introduces molecular cuisine into traditional dishes, using familiar ingredients to suit a wide range of Vietnamese diners. The restaurant also wants young guests to feel the traditional taste from a modern perspective. The dishes here apply basic techniques so that customers can easily accept and learn about this interesting culinary trend ”, Mr. Duong shared about the innovation of traditional dishes by processing methods. modern.

“The kitchen becomes a miniature laboratory when chefs create dishes according to the method of molecular cuisine”, Mr. Duong said. At the “laboratory” in Bom Gastronomy, chefs apply desconstructed and faux caves techniques to create the modern version of shrimp cakes.

First of all, it must be deconstructed. This is a technique that changes the structure and shape of the original dish, creating a completely new version but still ensuring the original taste. When applied deconstructed, the chef does not wrap the whole shrimp in the dough but chopped and divided it into 2 parts. The base of the cake is minced shrimp coated with crispy flour, the top layer is sautéed minced shrimp.

In the traditional version, the sauce is the liquid in a bowl to add seasoning. To the molecular culinary version, fish sauce is condensed into a fixed gel layer directly onto the cake thanks to the faux caves technique. Here’s how to make a solution in the form of a liquid glue. The liquid is held by a thin, viscous, non-melting gel film. Instead of dipping shrimp cakes with their own sweet and sour fish sauce, the molecular cuisine version has fused the sauce with the other ingredients.

To make fish sauce gel, the chef uses normal fish sauce, adding gelatin to thicken. The ingredients are carefully weighed so that the gel layer is not too loose or too thick, has a transparent texture, a deep yellow honey color.

This way of processing is completely different from the traditional shrimp cake making steps. The original dish consists of 3 separate crust, filling and sauce. When processing, the chef will prepare the ingredients in pieces, the cake is wrapped in dough and then fried until golden crispy. Cake is served with sweet and sour fish sauce.

In the molecular culinary version, the chef prepares fresh shrimp, peels and then purees it. The shrimp meat is mixed with eggs, purple onion, garlic, salt and pepper spices, shaped into a flat circle, rolled over the fried dough and deep fried until both sides are golden. The remaining ground shrimp meat is also rounded, flat, steamed, then pan-fried.

Separating 2 parts of shrimp is lettuce. The top part is carrot and perilla leaves. All are fixed with a bamboo toothpick. The dish’s molecular culinary spirit lies in the fish sauce gel droplets decorated on the perilla leaf layer.

The innovative version of the shrimp cake is simply decorated with layers of ingredients stacked on top of each other. The crust is the crispy fried shrimp, followed by the rounded lettuce layer, followed by the pan-fried shrimp. The top layer is perilla leaf dotted with 3 drops of honey-colored, transparent fish sauce gel.

The fish sauce gel drops on the perilla leaves make the dish more prominent, stimulating the taste buds.

The chef instructed me to eat by holding a bamboo toothpick, bringing the whole piece of cake into my mouth in one go. If chopped or eaten separately, it will be difficult to recognize the flavor of this dish like the original version.

Even though it’s finger food (the appetizer is small in size), I found the shrimp cake to be quite large to eat in one piece. I cut the cake in half from the top with a knife, fixed the spilled ingredients with a fork. The chopped portion is still 2 layers of shrimp, raw vegetables and fish sauce gel.

The taste of the dish reminded me of the times I sat down to eat shrimp cakes at the West Lake sidewalk restaurant. This time I also eat shrimp cakes, but in a more luxurious place with dark space, yellow lights, candles, knives and forks on the table, there is a attentive service staff.

Unlike a plate of golden yellow cake on a plastic plate, with a basket of raw vegetables and a bowl of garlic and chili sauce, the shrimp cake at Bom Gastronomy is placed in a polite white ceramic plate, neatly trimmed vegetables, dipping sauce. are beautiful gel drops.

Before enjoying it, I expect the taste of the dish to be similar to the original version. However, this cake does not have the traditional sweet potato so the new flavor lacks sweetness. In return, the shrimp meat tastes well even though it has been minced. Deep-fried shrimp coated with flour, pan-fried shrimp reminds me of fried dishes. The dish does not create a greasy feeling because raw vegetables balance the flavor.

In the traditional version, the delicious shrimp cake or not depends largely on the dipping sauce. Likewise, the fish sauce gel portion forms the soul of a molecular cuisine version of shrimp cake. This gel layer has a strong taste of salty fish sauce, clear the smell of garlic and chili spices, adding sweetness of sugar. It is this gel sauce that makes me feel similar to traditional shrimp cakes.

It is difficult to judge which version of the cake is better because each type of processing has its own characteristics.

If you like the feeling of eating hot cakes, biting crunchy dough blended with sweet potato pulp, chewing an intact shrimp flavored with fish sauce, you should choose the original version of shrimp cake.

If you are curious about the modern culinary trend, want to experience a dish that exceeds the standards of traditional rules, dine in a luxurious space, you should immediately try shrimp cake in molecular cuisine.

For diners who choose to enjoy the taste of modern cuisine, chef Bom Gastronomy suggests that after appetizing with shrimp cakes, diners can order more Bom Iberico, Mushroom Ravioli and a glass of Bom signature cocktail.

These are all typical dishes of the molecular culinary approach. Iberico pork dish is served with sweet potato and melon jelly (cantaloupe jelly). This type of jelly was made from the edible paper method. Jelly includes potato powder, soybeans, fresh fruit color and flavor, creating a combination that is not ideal but the opposite flavor stimulates the taste of diners.

The Mushroom Ravitol is the wonton soup of Italy. The texture of this dish is just foam. There is also another cooking technique of molecular cuisine called foam (sauce whisk). The foam has a fragrant, smoked, smoked meat flavor that melts right when it touches the tip of the tongue.

The chef introduces the restaurant’s signature cocktail, inspired by his trip to Da Lat (Lam Dong). The glass of water brings a familiar tamarind scent in the new wine taste, creating an attractive sweet and sour taste.

In a modern space with traditional features from the image of Bom, mo fan to bronze drums decorated in the restaurant, Bom Gastronomy is the ideal place for diners to explore the taste of Vietnamese food, refreshing by modern cooking method.