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Banh da lon cakes is a Vietnamese cakes. If you translate it roughly it got literal meaning of pig skin cake, don’t know exactly why they name it like that, I guest because of the texture or layer of the cake like pig skin culinary.

Some people even saying that they called it ‘Banh Da Lon’ because the cake have Chewy texture when chewed.
These cake of Vietnam has a unique sense of ‘pig skin cake’. The shape and texture, the color of green and white made ​​of pandan, green beans, or durian. Curious?

For the Chinese community, a kind of cake is also known as the 9-layer cake. But the banh da lon itself is identical with the color green alternating with white.

Traditional cakes that taste sweet is made from a mixture of tapioca flour and rice flour. Delicious sweet flavor comes from a mixture of coconut milk, milk, and sugar that makes the white layer. While the green color derived from pandan, mung beans, aka green beans, and even durian. Even in their home countries often use the leaves ‘he cam’ to produce a purplish color.

Over time most banh da lon made ​​more practical by the use of elements of food coloring. Chewy texture with a sweet taste makes it well-liked. Banh da lon usually served as dessert or a snack in the afternoon. Well, interested taste it? You might found it everywhere through the street of Vietnam, and its quite cheap as well.