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Tay Dinh cake - Vinh Phuc | Famous specialty of Vinh Phuc Province

Banh gio often appears during the Lunar New Year and the village party of the Tay Dinh people. The way to make cakes is very simple but not everyone can make delicious cakes.

To make banh gio, one has to choose rice, soak the rice and pack it well. Tay Dinh gio cake  is wrapped with boiled leaves that have been boiled and faded. Wanting to have a beautiful color, Tay Dinh people soak the cake with water. According to the elders, when wrapping banh gio, they must abstain from grease or else the cake will be fragmented and not delicious.

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Tay Dinh gio cake  when ripe has a transparent golden brown color. Wrapped in each layer of leaves is the taste of the mountains, the molasses, the plants around the house. The taste of Tay Dinh gio cake makes so many visitors’ hearts sob.

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