Banh cuon is a Vietnamese dish of rice batter crepes, filled with a savory meat filling. More details coming soon: http://migrationology.com/
Before going to Saigon this trip, I had eaten it a number of times, and it had always been one of my personal favorite Vietnamese snacks or light meals / foods. Although it’s originally known to be a northern Vietnamese food, it’s widely available throughout Saigon as well, from street food stall to nearly every market. When I was in Saigon, I went to a restaurant called Bánh Cuốn Hải Nam a number of times, once with Kyle (), and a few other times as well. It was quite good, and though there are many other places to eat banh cuon in the city, this restaurant was very close to where I was staying, so it was very convenient.
So what is banh cuon? It is a Vietnamese means rolled cake, and it all begins with a thin batter that’s made from rice flour and is lightly fermented. On top of a pot that has water boiling below, there’s a cloth that’s pulled onto the top, in order to be the crepe steamer. The thin batter is poured on top of the steaming cloth, flattened into a thin crepe, then covered and steamed for just a few minutes. The wrapper really only takes about 1 minute to steam, and them it’s carefully removed with a wooden stick, and filled with a mixture of minced pork, garlic, wood ear mushrooms, and in this case I noticed some small dried shrimp in the mix as well. After the banh cuon is rolled up, it’s then put onto a plate, cut up into pieces, garnished with bean sprouts, lettuce, and the all important handful of crispy shallots. Sometimes you’ll find other toppings and the addition of Vietnamese sausage on top, but the version at Bánh Cuốn Hải Nam came with the sausage on the side.
In order to eat the rice crepe rolls, you must have the Vietnamese sweet fish sauce dipping sauce, which at this restaurant was sitting on every table in an inviting jar. After putting a scoop of the fish sauce into my bowl, I then added in a scoop of fresh crushed chili to give it even more flavor. I have to say that banh cuon is one of my favorite Vietnamese light foods or snacks. The outer crepe wrapper is thin, silky and just slightly sticky, while the inside filling is savory, meaty, and has a wonderful garlic flavor. The sweet fish was is salty and tangy, and the extra spoon of chilies also adds some marvelous flavor.
Along with my plate of rice crepe rolls, I also ordered a plate of something called banh beo, this version topped with minced pork. Banh beo are small steamed rice cakes, and the batter in this case had a wonderful coconut milk flavor to it – so I think they used coconut milk into the bottom pancake mixture? The banh beo was wiggly and creamy, and the same meaty pork mixture was placed on top along with what I think was a handful of yellow crushed shrimp… or coconut, I’m still not sure. Anyway, it was quite good, but overall I think I preferred the banh cuon over the banh beo.
Bánh Cuốn Hải Nam
Address: 11A Cao Thang road, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Open hours: 7:30 am – 10:45 pm daily
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Look like coffee shop very clean and fresh healthy foods thank you for sharing your beautiful video love your video thanks.
Yum!!! My favourite!!!
Who is responsible for the captions?? Hilarious ?
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Thanks you
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I like the videos and one orgasm after the first bite but after every bite gets old.
You can really eat spicy food 🙂
literally one of my childhood food, I literally grow up eating this, right in the nostalgia
The best sauce for this dish is a chili dip that consists of fresh Thai Chili pepper, cilantro, green onion, dry, roasted chili powder, roasted, ground peanuts, MSG, fish sauce, a little bit of water and lime juice. You can add toasted sticky rice too if you want. This sauce tastes better than that one.
chào các bạn, Công ty SIMBA ECO có sản xuất và phân phối máy làm bánh cuốn nhé cả nhà.
xem thêm tại kênh youtube, Facebook.com/simbaeco, http://www.simbaeco.com nhé, cảm ơn cả nhà.
It is coconut milk, and there is a variant that may well be Lao since it was at a Laotian Market I used to get it that is the coconut batter cooked with green onions on the top. Sweet, coconut with onion sounded strange to me, so I tried it and fell in love.
It is not the best banh cuon and banh beo ,if you go to little Saigon
in California you will enjoy the best Vietnamese foods there
Nice video. I don’t know how to eat this stuff so I looked here and found this video.
I get this stuff at THH Sandwiches and Coffee in Tustin, Ca. They have it ready to go at the register in a plastic wrapped plate. Comes with around 6 rice paper & ground pork pouches, dipping sauce, crispy onion & garlic sprinkles, and a side of sprouts.
They have spring rolls with peanut sauce and other ready to go dishes too.
The sandwiches there are the bomb.
Gooood goood goood! ????
Ông này ăn ớt quá giỏi. Nhiều người Việt còn không thể ăn nhiều ớt như thế.
When I was a child my grandma used to give me every morning few coins to have my banh cuon breakfast at the next door restaurant. My favorite breakfast dish then
Love it ! My half Chinese brother
ăn nhiều ớt vkl
Hey you
a great suggestion even for a Vietnamese person like me, who's living in Vietnam, but never been to HCM city. Thank you!
Chuc ban nhiu suc khoe thah cong trong tuong lai
Này mới đúng những món ăn ngon ở SaiGon,ăn món nào cũng nhiều ớt nhìn ngon vãi,mà nó cay lắm
That’s a lot of chilli (for the small amount of fish sauce), Mark! ?
I like to pour fish sauce onto the whole dish
My mouth is watering watching you eat. Banh cuon is one my favorite VN dishes, I grew up eating them in Saigon. No one can make them like that in Canada. 🙁
Just give me this Banh Cuon and a bowl of hot beef Pho…..then I am the happiest creature on earth.
Check his videos….same pretentious fake smile.
Same fake smile every time you eat….why ?
thx .., for ba'nh cuo^'n…
You made the fish sauce so wonderful. The fish sauce is watered down a little bit bit for these dishes in order to make it less salty. So, you need to pour the fish sauce into the dish to get the full effect. The Banh Beo you eat is a dry version. There is also another version with some kind of paste on top rather than the dry toppings and it is more common I guess. So wonderful to see you enjoy Vietnamese cuisine.
you know the foood is super duper amazing good is when mark tilt his head to the right 45 degree with closing eyes and that "hmm" humming. The food is good, not super duper is when he only tilts his head to the right at 45 degree but with no closing eyes
My favorite dishes
Mark you should have seen that Banh Trang Re in Vietnam. Banh trang Re is a spider netted egg roll wrapper it is made there.
mark just to let you know the correct way to eat it is to pour the fish souce on the banh country and bang beo
It is NOT fermented!
Vietnam my hometown
Heh, heh, I watch a couple of your videos and my Recommended List is nothing but Vietnamese foods. My wife is Vietnamese and knows how to make most of them and ones she doesn't know how to make she turns her IPad into a Vietnamese site that shows her how. I got it made.
in bánh bèo it's not pork skin that is fried bread
wow you eat too much chili