Floating cakes for Cold Foods Festival

The third day of the third lunar month is the Cold Foods Festival of Vietnamese people. During this day, every household prepare traditional floating cakes, ‘banh troi’ (made of bits of brown sugar wrapped in glutinous rice paste and cooked by scalding in boiling water) and ‘banh chay’ (glutinous rice balls with mung beans filling, served in fragrant sweet soup) to offer to their ancestors.
Floating cakes for Cold Foods Festival ảnh 1Ingredients for ‘banh troi’ include wet glutinous rice powder for wrapping and brown sugar for filling. Meanwhile, making ‘banh chay’ requires wet rice powder for wrapping, pounded mung beans and sugar for fillings; cassava powder, water and sugar to make soup. (Photo: VNA)
Floating cakes for Cold Foods Festival ảnh 2In order to make banh troi, first, one should wrap pieces of brown sugar with wet rice powder. (Photo: VNA)
Floating cakes for Cold Foods Festival ảnh 3After moulding, round glutinous rice balls are brought to boil. When two third of them float, they are ready to serve. (Photo: VNA)
Floating cakes for Cold Foods Festival ảnh 4Cooked ‘banh troi’ are served on plates. (Photo: VNA)
Floating cakes for Cold Foods Festival ảnh 5They are sprinkled with roasted sesame before offered to altars. (Photo: VNA)
Floating cakes for Cold Foods Festival ảnh 6‘Banh troi’ and ‘banh chay’ are offered to ancestors in the Cold Foods Festival. (Photo: VNA)
Floating cakes for Cold Foods Festival ảnh 7‘Banh troi’ is served on plate while ‘banh chay’ in bowl. (Photo: VNA)
Floating cakes for Cold Foods Festival ảnh 8‘Banh troi’ nowadays is more colorful as being mixed with natural food colourings, such as gac fruit, taro, etc. (Photo: VNA)
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