Mugwort rice cake Bánh dày lá ngải

Upland sticky rice pounded with mugwort, soft, and filled with sesame or beans. The mugwort gives a mountain smell, and the cake is not cloying.

Mugwort rice cake, Bánh dày lá ngải
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Texture

The portal says the pounded rice is soft.

Taste

The Thái Nguyên portal says the mugwort gives the cake its mountain smell, and that the cake is not cloying.

How to enjoy it

Steam nếp nương, pound it soft with cleaned mugwort, and fill it with sesame or beans. It fragrant, easy to eat, and not cloying.

At Pac Ngoi, visitors pound bánh giầy with the village. That cake goes by its own name.

Where to try it

The house, and as a cake to carry.