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🥮 Soc Trang Banh Pia (Durian Pastry)

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A thousand-layer pastry with a soft crust and a filling of durian, mung bean and salted egg yolk — the sweet, rich 'melt-in-your-mouth' treat of Soc Trang.

The Teochew people of Vung Thom brought the craft of this pastry with them in the 17th century. The silk-thin crust is folded into a thousand layers around a filling of real durian mingled with salted egg yolk — a box of banh pia is the gift of the Mekong Delta whose fragrance 'fills the whole bus'.

Flavour: Sweet, rich durian with salty egg yolk

Ingredients

• Thousand-layer flour pastry
• Durian
• Mung bean
• Salted egg yolk