Bánh giầy

[3] Bánh giầy can be fried to a thin crispy golden crust or be eaten with giò lụa.

It is very similar to other Asian glutinous rice cakes like Japanese mochi, Korean tteok or Chinese lo mai chi.

Almost immediately, the princes left for their homes and started looking for the most delicious food to offer the emperor.

The round cake was made with glutinous rice dough and was called bánh dầy by Lang Liêu.

[6] He named the square shaped cake bánh chưng[7] which he made with rice, green beans wrapped in leaves.

But after tasting all the food brought to court by his sons, the emperor decided that the first prize should be awarded to Lang Liêu.

[6] The emperor then said that his youngest son's gifts were not only the purest, but also the most meaningful because Lang Liêu[6] had used nothing except rice which was the basic foodstuff of the people to make them.