Sponge cake in Saigon - Bánh bông lan

I have no idea how it comes - the Vietnamese name for "sponge cake", and it's really a beautiful name for this popular, light and soft and spongy cake - we call it "bông lan". It's literally means "flower - orchid", word by word! Actually the name itself sounds also really light as a feather!

             A familiar image of sponge cake vendor in Đồng Khởi street. 

World of Desserts - Tong Pak Fu (Đường Bá Hổ)

These days most of the new eating business is created for the youth - they are surely the biggest spender. Last night I've been to a quite new dessert place - named after a famous Chinese poet of 15th century, Tong Pak Fu (Đường Bá Hổ). I don't know is there any connection between the desserts and the poet, maybe the sweetness in his poem, the tasty love in his words? 

The place is very Chinese in many details: the dessert and its name, the decoration and staff working there : the waiter and even the cashier-lady!