Being a familiar snack of Hanoi young people every time in winter, pillow cake has brought features of street food into the diversity of cuisine of Hanoi. This winter, you should not miss the restaurant has the best pillow cake in Hanoi to feel the warmth when enjoying it.
How to make pillow cakes
Half-moon shaped cakes are pretty and strangely attractive. Pillow cakes is a combination of crispy cake coat and aromatic and delicious of the cake core. The cake is most delicious when taken from the hot pan, that is the reason why this type of cake only sold in winter.
Although just a snack, to make delicious pillow cake is quite picky because the material includes a lot of things. First of all, the flour used to make the cake is wheat flour mixed with water, kneaded thoroughly, laminated into a smooth and sticky crust.
The pillow cake core is a mixture of different materials such as pork meat, egg, vermicelli, fungus, mushroom, pepper, and spices. In addition, depending on the taste of each people, the sellers can add vegetables such as cubed kohlrabi, carrots or jicama.
Firstly, vermicelli is soaked in water for about five minutes, then cleaned and cut into the short fibers. Fungus and mushroom are soaked in hot water for 15 minutes and cut into fibers. Carrots and kohlrabies are peeled, washed and then grated. Scallion leaves are cleaned, chopped. Quail eggs are boiled and peeled when cooked.
All the mentioned materials will be mixed with minced meat and added spices and pepper.
When the ingredients have been prepared in cooking class in Hanoi, you can wrap the cake. This is an important step, requires ingenuity, to make a cake which is not only delicious but also beautiful, attractive from the first sight. The cake will be fried in the pan with boiling oil. This dish will be eaten with sweet and sour sauce added with chili, sliced carrots and papaya.
Some ideal destination for enjoying pillow cakes
Enjoying hot pillow cakes is one of many favorite options for tourists on Hanoi local food tours in Hanoi. We will introduce three delicious restaurants for visitors.
Ly Quoc Su Street
Traveling along Ly Quoc Su Street, you can easily see this famous pillow cake restaurant. The cakes here have a crispy and golden cake coat. Inside is a kind of chopped minced meat with polony, mushrooms, vermicelli and a little pepper. The cake just eaten with sweet and sour sauce makes everyone enjoy.
Hoang Tich Tri Street
The special point of this shop is that they do not use boiled eggs but fried cut eggs and then mixed with cake core including minced meat, vermicelli, fungus. At the same time, the owner has tightened the two edges of the cake, so when frying, oil is not absorbed back into the cake. Thanks to that, the cake has a crispy coat, the core is still dry, soft and has beautiful colors.
Hang Chieu Street
Compared to many places, pillow cake core here is so “full”. Minced meat is not too small so when you eat you still feel the fatty and crunchy taste. Besides, the sauce is strongly delicious, so it is an ideal destination for visitors on Hanoi street food tour. One cake is about 10,000 VND.
In addition, you can order more fried cakes. This dish impresses with the thin shell, yellow-brown color, and the tough core. This cake has two types of salty and sweet to choose.
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