Saturday, 27/04/2024,

Unique “banh vat vai” cake of Cao Lan People

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“banh vat vai” cake is quite strange to me, strange from form to name. Once I arrived in Luc Ngan (Bac Giang), I was fortunate to enjoy this unique dish of the Cao Lan ethnic group.

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Cao Lao women are preparing to wrap “banh vat vai” cake

It was very difficult to reach Gia Pass after nearly three hours of "managing" with the "elephant holes", "chicken holes" on the road. But in return, I was very excited by the first time to enjoy the strange “banh vat vai” cake of the people here. For the Cao Lan ethnic group, “banh vat vai” cake cake is indispensable on the ancestral altar of each family on festival, important New Year.

On this day, Mr. Chung Van Thao (67 years old), the Dong Buoi also full of all the above, the lower hamlet for the heaven and earth, hoping for good luck for the village and homeowners. He said: Usually one year, the Cao Lan make “banh vat vai” cake twice (Lunar New Year and 3 - 3 lunar calendar). In addition to worshiping ancestors, “banh vat vai” cakeis also a gift. Cake is made with two separate parts at the two ends, wrapped in the middle so can be squeezed on the shoulder to bring a family or bring to the field.. 

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“banh vat vai” cake

Ms. Dam Thi Hong, Dong But village bust just past the cake just fun to say: making “banh vat vai” cake do not so hard but quite picky, requires ingenuity and experience. In the family, the cake is made by women, so girls from the age of 8 are taught by parents to make the cake. The ingredients for making cake include: Phi Dien sticky rice (delicious and famous field rice in Luc Ngan), sugar, green beans, banana leaves, wormwood ...

To make the delicious “banh vat vai” cake, it is necessary to perform many steps: small grated rice with stone grater; wormwood is mixed with boiled lime water for releasing the bitterness, then mashed with flour mixture. The cake shaping step is quite simple, how to make the round tablets then the cake of sugar, green beans in the middle. Use fresh banana leaves grilled over the charcoal to pack the cake. Finished, the cake is boiled about two hours, removed to drain the water for use

A satisfying cake must ensure both the form and taste, the green of the banana leaf, the aroma of green beans, the wormwood, the sweetness of the sugar ... For long, “banh vat vai” cakehas been considered an unique dish of ethnic Cao Lan.