People from the North of Vietnam have "chưng" cake year around. That is a small kind of "chưng" cake, only with size of a palm. People like to have it hot or fried and enjoyed with vegetable pickles and soya sauce. Only a small pick-up can make you feel comfort...
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| Much simple, fried "chưng" cake in winter days. |
In the North, especially in Ha Noi (Hà Nội), there are a lot of ambulatory vendors of "chưng" cake or roadside small tottering shops. No matter what kind of sales vendors may follow, fried "chưng" cakes stay as a popular dish that may easily meet up with enjoyers' tastes.
As to elegant restaurants, every crispily-fried "chưng" cake is cut into small pieces, served with vegetable pickles, dipped in soya sauce, had with fork. This is really a combination of both oriental and occidental style applied to a traditional dish of Vietnamese cuisine. It is actually an amazing curiosity to enjoyers.
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Small tottering shops offer more simple "chưng" cakes with only an oven, which is carried everywhere with cakes put in bamboo baskets. Once having a "client", vendor stops and sits down, peels cake(s), heats up oil, and fries these cakes until they turn out to be yellow. The way enjoying these cakes is also much simple with a small plate, a pair of chopsticks, chilly sauce, or soya sauce, sitting flat on the ground or on a low plastic chair, eating while blowing to cool down. After a short while, it is done, then payment. Just to be so full.
There are various kinds of snacks between meals in winter in the North that may help you to get rid of hunger. Nevertheless, the best snack to keep you away from hunger is still fried "chưng" cake. In Winter, having a piece of this cake will definitely lead you to another one...
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