Travel to the central provinces from Thua Thien Hue to Ninh Thuan, beside enjoying the beautiful scenery, eating the rich seafood dishes, you can find and taste Banh Dap – an unique food here. Vietnam travel packages
Literally translated as cracked/smashed rice pancakes, Banh Dap is perhaps one of the simplest foods in central region cuisine, but its contradictory textures easily make the biggest impression on foreigners.
Banh Dap is famous in many areas in the center of Vietnam. Visitors can easily find this pancake in Cam Nam village where is regarded as “Banh Dap village” in Hoian town. But if you want to go further to understand well of local people’s lifestyle, you can come to the other small village in Quang Nam such as Ma Chau silk village.
The over 400 – year – old village located in Nam Phuoc town is well – known of silk weaving. It provides domestic and international markets millions of meters of fabric every year. Travel to Ma Chau village, you can not only know how to weave fabrics but also have opportunity to enjoy some special foods here such as Banh Dap.
Located in the winding alley, Mis Lan’ small restaurant is a place many people gather in every morning and give tourist memorable experiences.
Banh Dap’s main material is rice. Rice is soaked for half a day and then taken out a blanket blooms, ground into powder. The next step is keeping powder with salts for about 3 hours in water. This is one of important tips to make a savoury pancake. Then, make the pancake on a very tight piece of clothes over steaming foot and steamed them. So the processes that they spread evenly pancake cover it. It is ready in one minute and they chop sticks too many few wave with a pancake. When you make it at home, you can do them on a pen like a regular pancake but you use it and do not turn them.
The sauce for this dish is also very special thing deciding success of making Banh Dap. It is made from fish sauce, peanut oil, chopped pineapple, garlic, chili and fried shallots. To enjoy this sauce, you should add a little sugar. To local people, they like eating this sauce with many chili, garlic and whole salted anchovies. And to tourists or people who cannot state spicy, it is suitable to use Mam Nem with easier flavor.
These steamed rice pancakes served as a group between rice crackers which are roasted rice papers and what you do before anything is that you crashed them. This is the reason why this pancakes are called as Banh Dap.
It is great in the morning for you to both enjoy this special food and talk to outgoing restaurant owner in the peaceful village. When break each rice paper, dip in special sauce, taste the simple pancakes, hear to famers’ story of daily life, you can feel well the flavor ofrural area and the warmth of friendly people here.
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