Jumping-shrimp pancakes Bánh xèo tôm nhảy

A small rice-flour pancake about a hand wide, filled with bean sprouts and seafood, usually shrimp and sometimes squid. You eat several, rolled in rice paper with herbs.

Jumping-shrimp pancakes, Bánh xèo tôm nhảy
Photo: Kent Wang · CC BY-SA 2.0
Jumping-shrimp pancakes, Bánh xèo tôm nhảy Food tours Jumping-shrimp pancakes

Search a food tour or a cooking class for this dish.

Search on Klook
FromPhu Yen
PriceCheck on arrival

Texture

Each cake is about a quarter the size of a southern bánh xèo. The batter is rice flour alone, mixed to the cook’s own formula, with no wheat.

How to enjoy it

Roll it in rice paper with herbs and dip it in sweet-sour fish sauce or mắm nêm.

Where to try it

Lê Duẩn and Chu Mạnh Trinh.