Bánh

In Vietnamese, the term bánh translates loosely as "cake" or "bread", but refers to a wide variety of prepared foods that can easily be eaten by hands or chopsticks. With the addition of qualifying adjectives, bánh refers to a wide variety of sweet or savory, distinct cakes, buns, pastries, sandwiches, and other food items, which may be cooked by steaming, baking, frying, deep-frying, or boiling. Foods made from wheat flour or rice flour are generally called bánh, but the term may also refer to certain varieties of noodle and fish cake dishes, such as bánh canh and bánh hỏi. Each variety of bánh is designated by a descriptive word or phrase that follows the word bánh, such as bánh bò (lit. 'cow cake') or bánh chuối (lit. 'banana cake'). Bánh that are wrapped in leaves before steaming are called bánh lá (lit. 'leaf cakes').

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