Chung Cake ( Banh Chung )

A cauldron full of cakes

Besides New Year on the First Day of the Year, Vietnamese have a much more important holiday held after New Year Celebration 1 month - Tet Holiday. It's based on the Lunar Year that Tet was born. Tet is time for gathering everyone after one year of hard-working...


In Tet Holiday, Chung cake is of the most-eaten  traditional food. To make a cake needing so many procedures and boiling 12 hours before get a best one. The image showed the period of boiling Chung cakes in my house.What an experience!


Chung cake is often eaten with "gio"- a kind of minced pork that is boil in 3,4 hours.It's wrapped in some layers of unique leaves only have in Vietnam.

Sadly, not so many families make Chung cake nowadays. Instead, they can go to the supermarket and buy some with a reasonable price and no need to burn much time.