Ear oat cakes in Saigon Vietnam

For those who prefer junk food in Saigon Vietnam, is probably well known to nest cake disaster, but now the image peddlers selling cakes burden has gradually sparse.

Ear nest cake comes from the West, follow people home to Saigon career. I do not know ever since, oat cakes ears become familiar dishes of the people of Saigon, swift photos tai wheel load right on street corners and roadsides become familiar in people's eyes.


The reason, cakes, called oat ear for the appearance of bread like the birds nest. In some places, rice is also known as ear nest cake cone. Ear oat cake recipe is quite simple, raw materials mainly include sugar, rice flour, a little flour, coconut milk. Mix the ingredients together, stir, leave to powder from 3 to 4 hours. Cooking oil into a small pan, then pour hot oil until each tablespoon of flour to the pan upside, moves quickly and decisively to have powder clinging to each other in a circle, not sifted around. When the nine-rising flour, bent wheel rim, golden tan, cake-shaped hat turning the fish out, put bread on absorbent paper towels to remove oil, then laid out the disc.
Oat cake disasters and qualified people who enjoy that delicious crackers are the edges and bend without raised goes to the back, the center of soft bread tough. As a deep-fried dishes, so little is used oat cakes ear right before or after every meal, especially dinner, which is usually used in the morning or late afternoon range, as a gift for fun oral classifieds. People often eat cake while still hot ear nest to enjoy the crisp sweetness of it, accompanied by a cup of hot tea. But there are people to enjoy the cake cool and then, by ear nest for as long as the soft part of bread intestine long, very fragrant food cool.

In the life of the West, oat cakes disasters is the popular gifts that people do to eat or play or even anti-poverty ... the city should not always feel all that sweet sweet, cool cool which gives the cake.She In Ha (donut ear nest on Cao Thang - District 3) said earlier in Saigon still have a lot of street vendors selling bread burden ear nest, especially in the Khoi Street (District 1), Bananas Fair Park (District 3) ... about five years, oat cakes disasters themselves disappear on the sidewalks of Saigon, now only a few scattered ears oat cake seller. Burden of her cakes so far been pretty crowded come to enjoy, including many who are guests West, so easy to eat pie, strange taste, price is just right, a range of only 5,000 contracts.