Banh Banh...

The other day, Dung and Tyna brought me to eat banh beo. It is the food that is in tiny plates on the left. It is actually like our zui gui, but minus the cai poh and oil. The dish next to it is a combination of banh beo and banh nam. Banh nam looks different as it is a flat, rectangular piece of rice cake. I like banh nam better as it has meat in it, so it's not so bland. Needless to say, we eat all these different banhs with fish sauce..... Is there anything that they do not eat fish sauce with? I can't think of anything! There is bound to be a bowl of fish sauce during every meal!

Look at the mess we created from our meal! But it sure was satisfying! The ba zhang looking food is just meat wrapped inside the leaf.

On the left is banh it. I can't describe it..... It's just like a kind of rice cake with meat fillings. On the right is nem nuong. It is a local food from Nah Thrang, Dung's province. We had to wrap it inside the rice paper together with fresh vegatables. The sausage-like stuff you see on the plate are actually made from pork.

In case you haven't noticed, alot of food here has the word banh in it. This means that the food is made from rice..... For example, banh trang = rice paper, banh hoi = rice cake roll, banh beo = rice cake in tiny plates, banh nam = flat, rectangular rice cake with meat, banh it = rice cake with meat fiilings . The list does not end here.... Ironically, rice = com (read: kerm) , and not banh.