Hunchback chung cake Bánh chưng gù
A palm-sized Red Dao chưng cake with a hunched back, shaped like a woman carrying a basket. Upland sticky rice, mung beans, and black or fatty pork boil for hours in dong or galangal leaves until the cake is soft, chewy, and fragrant.
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Texture
Soft and chewy, from upland sticky rice.
How to enjoy it
Eat it as a cake.
One recipe wraps upland sticky rice, small green beans, and black pork in galangal leaves and boils it 8–10 hours on a wood stove. Another wraps sticky rice, mung beans, and fatty meat in a single layer of dong leaves.
Where to try it
On the plateau, and in Đồng Văn.