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🍤 Bánh khọt Vũng Tàu (Vung Tau mini savory pancakes)

terence from Singapore · CC BY 2.0

Bite-sized rice-flour pancakes fried crisp in tiny moulds, each crowned with a ruby-red shrimp, wrapped in mustard greens and dipped in sweet fish sauce.

Weekend mornings in the seaside town of Vung Tau bring long queues for bánh khọt. Cast-iron moulds heated screaming hot, thin rice batter fried to a lacy edge, shrimp just cooked through — wrapped in a mustard-green leaf, the way the locals do it.

Flavour: Crackling crisp, sweet with fresh shrimp

Ingredients

• Rice flour
• Ground shrimp
• Scallion oil
• Mustard greens
• Pickled vegetables