Many types of small cakes are made from rice flour, lard, and other ingredients. These include the following:
Banh Beo: small balls of rice flour mixed with onions and pork, set on banana leaves and steamed.
Banh Beo
Banh Bong: rice balls or grilled corn mixed with molasses.
Banh Cha: baked with rice flour mixed with minced pork and lime leaves. bánh cốm: see young rice.
Banh Deo: sticky rice kneaded with sugar and water, shaped in a mould, and stuffed with jellied squash, lard, and sesame seeds, eaten at Mid- Autumn Festival.
Banh Dau Xanh (green bean cake): grilled mung bean flour mixed with water, sugar and fat. The most famous cakes are made in Hai Duong and Nam Dinh province.
Banh Gai (hemp cake): sticky rice flour mixed with molasses and black juice obtained from pounded hemp leaves, stuffed with flour of green beans, sugar and small bits of coconut. The best known cakes are made in Ninh Giang (Hai Duong) and Nam Dinh.
Banh Tro (ash cake): amber-colored cake made of sticky rice flour soaked in water and ashes, and wrapped in leaves; eaten with molasses.
Banh Hoi: rice flour stuffed with onions and fat.
Banh It: cone-shaped cake, made of rice flour, stuffed with pork, shrimp or mashed green beans and wrapped in leaves.
Banh Khao: grilled sticky rice flour, mixed with sugar, may be stuffed with jellied squash.
Banh Mat (molasses cake): sticky rice paste kneaded with molasses, Muffed with green beans, wrapped in banana leaves and steamed. Common saying: Da Banh Mat (skin the color of a molasses cake): tanned complexion.
Banh Nep: sticky rice stuffed with green bean flour and pork fat, wrapped in banana leaves and steamed.
i oven- baked cake for Mid-Autumn Festival, stuffed with green bean paste, pork fat, egg yolks and jam.
Vietnam traditional moon cake-Banh Nuong with tea.
Banh Que (cinnamon cake): flour mixed with sugar and cinnamon powder, rolled into a cylindrical shape like cinnamon harks.
Banh Ran (fried cake): small halls of sticky rice paste stuffed with sweetened green bean paste and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Banh Tom (shrimp pancakes): made of (lour mixed with minced potatoes with a shrimp on top, deep-fried and eaten with lettuce and a sour sauce. Specialty of Hanoi West Lake.
Banh Xeo: pancake made of rice flour with eggs, stuffed with shrimp, pork, and bean sprouts, spread on a greased pan and fried; eaten with salad and a sauce made of fish sauce, meat and chili peppers. A Hue specialty.
Banh Xu Xe: small cake eaten at weddings, made of sticky rice flour or manioc flour, colored amber with the juice of the gardenia flower (Hoa Danh Danh), stuffed with sweetened green beans, shredded coconut and then steamed.
