Festival serves up traditional cakes
A southern traditional cake festival is taking place in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho’s Cai Khe Islet, with more than 100 kinds of traditional cakes on show.
The cakes care made from rice, glutinous rice, and other ingredients available in the Mekong Delta region.
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At the three-day festival, from January 23 to 25, visitors can see artisans make various kinds of cakes like bank tet (cylinder-shaped glutinous rice cake filled with green bean past and pork) and bank xeo (Vietnamese rice-flour pancake filled with green bean, bean sprouts, shrimp, and pork).
Visitors can also take part in a contest on traditional cakes.