Quite some time ago I was wondering how many dishes we can make from banana! I asked my friends, and no one could give me a good answer!
Banana to Vietnamese is exactly the same as apple to Westerners, we have banana every day, banana everywhere in the city, every corner, every street: either on simple stall-cart or right on the sidewalk!
Image of banana is so familiar in our food culture and at the same time in our language the word "banana" is used as casual jargon to express some unreasonable character, behavior (!?)
Within this post, I want to share about banana as one of the most popular street foods! I may call banana as "
King of sweet street food", because so many good things from this ordinary tropical fruit!
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| One of the most popular sweet dessert soups with banana (chè chuối chưng) |
Chè chuối chưng, this's a sweet desert with banana, coconut milk, tapioca pearl, cassava...very popular! Similar we have "
chuối xào dừa" (cooked unripe banana with coconut milk) that I didn't see for long!
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| Steamed banana cake served with coconut sauce |
Bánh chuối hấp and
chuối nướng always nearby.
Bánh chuối hấp is a "steamed" banana cake, "
steamed" to differentiate from another famous
baked banana cake. Nice taste and chewy with strong banana flavor, served with coconut sauce (nước cốt dừa) and a bit of salted sesame or peanut!
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| Baked banana cake (my homemade!) |
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| Cooked semin-ripe banana served with coconut sauce (chuối xào dừa) |
