{"id":15383,"date":"2022-04-11T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T03:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietnam-destinations.com\/en\/famous-specialty\/banh-gat-gu-tien-yen-quang-ninh\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T04:49:39","slug":"banh-gat-gu-tien-yen-quang-ninh","status":"publish","type":"famous-specialty","link":"https:\/\/vietnam-destinations.com\/en\/famous-specialty\/banh-gat-gu-tien-yen-quang-ninh\/","title":{"rendered":"Tien Yen nodding cake – Quang Ninh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Quang Ninh, specifically in Tien Yen district, there is a cake with a very funny name that is “nodding cake”, this cake along with Tien Yen hill chicken is a delicious specialty here. <\/font>About the origin of the name “nodding cake” many people said that in the past, in Tien Yen village, some households made pho cakes to sell. <\/font>Because the elderly and children often like to eat unfilled cakes rolled into long rolls, the flexible cake keeps nodding up and down (like a person nodding his head up and down), when dipped in fish sauce, it feels very delicious, so the The name \u201cnod\u201d carries the meaning and comes from that.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nodding cake is only available at Tien Yen<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nodding cake is made from plain rice flour with a similar appearance to pho and banh cuon and then ground into powdered water. <\/font>When grinding the dough, you must add a little cold rice to make the cake both puffy, supple and soft. <\/font>The way to make nodding cakes in terms of form is similar to the way to make banh cuon. <\/font>Also the flour is milled from delicious rice, pre-soaked. <\/font>The secret to making nodding cake is that when grinding rice, the host will add a little cold rice to make the cake more delicious, in addition, grind the water and grind it with a stone mortar.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The cake is white and very fragrant<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nodding cake also needs a dipping sauce, usually, the sauce is made quite sophisticated. <\/font>Dip fish sauce with chicken fat, fried onions and add a little minced meat to make the sauce richer and more delicious. <\/font>The accompanying food is a dish of humiliation (steamed meat). <\/font>If you don’t eat it all, put it in the fridge, the next day cut it into small pieces and then stir-fry with beef or eat with bone broth like vermicelli and pho.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sauce served with nodding cake<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The soft, cool nodding cake blends the rich taste of the humiliation piece, along with the chicken fat dipping sauce, whoever has eaten it will want to eat it again and again. <\/font>Local people often say, eating nodding cake is not only delicious and nutritious, but also an extremely effective antidote.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n