Banh Pia is one of the traditional desserts dishes from Viet Nam and it really related to traditional moon cake but the flour that was use for the pia is different than moon cakes. When you talk about durian moon cakes we all know that is a dessert that was use during the moon festival. To describe moon cakes it have variety of different flavor like banh pia the different between the two popular dessert is the crust of the cake. While Pia cake is really fluffy and smooth and moon cake have a more structure and harder outer shell. What that keep in mind thy are both most love dessert for all Asian eater. The history behind banh pia is back to it original produce place that is Soc Trang in Viet Nam. The process of making banh pia is not easy. Just the ingredients alone have to be high quality and hand picked by the most perfect patch of produce. After ingredients is the process of dough making and forming. The difficult thing is that this cake is build by layer, this is why you have that the dough goes from crispy to soft when you bite in the cakes. The two layer is wet dough use tapioca starch, wheat flour, oil and dry dough you need wheat flour, sugar, baking soda and oil. Banh pia is what Soc Trang people call it or pia cake have variety of different flavor there are fifty to be exact from durian, taro, even custard, and mung bean each flavor give you different feeling. All these filling are really hard to combine with other like durian due to it strong smell and quite over power but it a perfect combination with banh pia cake. Durian is originally found in Malay and people from there usually call it as king of fruit due to it appearance and the strong creamy like butter taste but exchange to that is the strong smell.
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