1A few words about Hue tapioca cake
Hue cuisine has great appeal to tourists because of its simple dishes but always unique flavors. And Hue tapioca cake is one of them. This cake attracts diners thanks to its delicate transparent appearance and the filling showing through the dough layer. Up to now, when mentioning Hue cuisine, tourists often immediately mention the tapioca cake from the Ancient Capital. Because of its special flavor, Hue tapioca cake was honored to be on the list of the 30 most delicious cakes in the world voted by the CNNGo travel website of CNN news agency in 2012.
Banh loc cake is a cake that has appeared in the ancient capital of Hue for a long time. Hue tapioca cake is not only famous in the place where it was born but also popular in many provinces and cities in the Central and North Central regions such as Da Nang, Quang Tri, Quang Binh, Ha Tinh… But perhaps only in Hue , new visitors can enjoy the most authentic tapioca cake.
Hue tapioca cake wrapped in banana leaves – One of the simple dishes loved by domestic and international tourists
Banh loc, along with other Hue cakes, has long become a favorite dish in the mornings, noons and evenings, as light meals of Hue people. Therefore, there is no shortage of Hue cake shops opening here to please diners. There are 2 types of tapioca cake, which are naked tapioca cake and tapioca cake wrapped in banana leaves. Each type has its own flavor and is loved by diners.
Plain tapioca cake filled with salty and vegetarian fillings is also popular like tapioca cake wrapped in banana leaves
The main ingredients used to prepare this specialty are tapioca starch, shrimp and pork. The tapioca starch will be made from the best type of rice, the fresh shrimp will be washed, leaving the shell intact so that the shrimp cake will have a beautiful red color when steamed. The filling of this delicious Hue dish will include braised pork. The crispy and fragrant taste of shrimp, mixed with pork, will help make the cake more delicious. In particular, the dipping sauce for the cake will take advantage of the shrimp stir-fry liquid still in the pan.
It is a very delicious cake, suitable for the taste of many diners. However, this cake is made from very basic, easy-to-find ingredients such as: tapioca starch, tapioca starch, shrimp, meat, spices… Because of that simplicity and rusticity, it must have made it possible. A unique flavor that captivates even picky diners.
The ingredients are very simple, but the chef must be very meticulous to create delicious Hue tapioca cake
The reason the cake is called “filter powder” also comes from the way it is made. The cake crust is made from filtered tapioca flour, the inside does not contain any grit or residue, the flour is filtered clean so people call it tapioca cake.
To make a delicious batch of cakes with Hue flavors, the process of processing ingredients also requires meticulousness. For example: when you buy shrimp, wash it thoroughly and cut off the head and back, only the inside of the shrimp, cut off all the legs and tail; Pork, cut into cubes to fit the tapioca cake, marinate with spices to taste… In addition, the banana leaves used to wrap the cake must be fresh and green.
After preparing the ingredients, creating flavor is an extremely important step. Shrimp and meat filling will probably be the soul of this famous Hue dish. The processor needs to be skillful in preparing the ingredients, marinating them, then stir-frying the shrimp to get a richer filling. After being wrapped, the cake will be steamed for about 20 minutes, then enjoyed with dipping sauce.
The dipping sauce is also very important as it will help make the tapioca cake have the best taste. Hue people have a very strange recipe for dipping sauce, they still use basic ingredients such as fish sauce, sugar, filtered water, minced garlic, chili… however, strangely, the dipping sauce for tapioca cake in Hue is giving diners a more delicious and authentic experience than other places. This is also one of the things that makes this cake unique in Hue.
Hue tapioca cake eaten with the right dipping sauce will make diners enjoy authentic Hue dishes
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2Suggest some places to enjoy delicious Hue tapioca cake in the ancient capital of Hue
In Hue, people consider banh loc as an indispensable dish in daily life. That’s why diners can easily encounter tapioca cake in many places, from luxury restaurants to small sidewalk eateries and street vendors. The price of a plate of 10 pieces of tapioca cake costs about 15,000 – 25,000 VND/plate.
– Address: No. 08 Nguyen Binh Khiem, Phu Hiep, Hue City, Thua Thien Hue.
– Business hours: 08h00 – 21h30
Ba Do Restaurant has been a famous cake shop in the Hue community for a long time, one of the most famous restaurants. With a spacious design and a large, comfortable parking area, it makes it more convenient for tourists to travel by car with many people, and can park for a long time without worrying about traffic jams.
Traditional Hue cakes at Ba Do restaurant
– Address: No. 109 Le Huan, Hue City, Thua Thien Hue.
– Business hours: 06h00 – 21h00
This is a cake shop that is known for its cheap prices but is very delicious and has a very special flavor. Most customers line up to buy food because the seats are overloaded. Restaurant 109 is undoubtedly one of the delicious Hue cake restaurants in Hue.
“Full” cake tray at Restaurant 109
– Address: No. 104/17/9 Kim Long, Hue City, Thua Thien Hue.
– Business hours: 06h00 – 10h00
Although it is a restaurant located in an alley, its popularity is not inferior to other storefront bakeries. With its rustic style, airy yard, and friendly owner, visitors have loved this place. Me Le restaurant is one of the delicious Hue cake restaurants in Hue that Western customers love. The banh loc is soft, the giant shrimp is bigger than the cake. No one has come to criticize, the flavors of the other cakes are also unique, the shrimp paste is fragrant, salty, salty, sweet and hard to resist. The restaurant space has a garden style, diners also enjoy Hue cakes that are as simple and rustic as the taste of the food here.
– Address: No. 16 To Hien Thanh, Phu Cat, Hue City, Thua Thien Hue
– Business hours: 06h30 – 19h30
The big plus points that can be said when mentioning Trung Bo restaurant are delicious cakes, clean restaurant, cute, cheerful and enthusiastic shop owner. Also in the style of selling in pretty little bowls even though each one is tiny, and comes with a dried shrimp paste mixed with a piece of fatty shrimp eaten with fish sauce mixed very deliciously and to the right taste. Eating Banh Loc cake that is still hot because the shop owner has just steamed it makes it many times more delicious. The moist shrimp and meat filling is extremely delicious, rich in Hue flavor.
– Address: No. 23/177 Phan Dinh Phung Street, Phu Nhuan, Hue City, Thua Thien Hue
– Business hours: 07h00 – 21h00
Although the restaurant is located in an alley, it is very clean and airy, although a bit difficult to find. But because of the delicious flavor brought by Ba Cu restaurant, the restaurant is still crowded with visitors every day. The waitresses are older but very agile, enthusiastic and cute. Tourists come here constantly and there are very few Vietnamese customers, so the restaurant is considered one of the delicious Hue cake restaurants in Hue on foreign tourism sites.
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Hue tapioca cake is one of the cakes that creates the diverse and quintessential colors of the ancient capital’s cuisine. So if you have the opportunity to come to Hue, try the tapioca cake to feel the most delicious cake in the world. Surely its rich flavor will make you linger forever.
