Coming to Quang Nam, when mentioning girdle-cake, everyone adverts Dai Loc girdle-cake.  These big round and smooth white girdle-cakes are made from rice creating an unique flavor and always attractive anyone who enjoys.

Dai Loc district is located in the northern of Quang Nam province. Almost people's lives are here associated with agriculture. In addition to sericulture, weaving, knitting…the profession of making girdle-cake in Dai Loc also had a long-standing brand in the market.

If having chances to go through Quang Nam land, you should visit some famous villages for making this cake, and have the opportunity to witness the diligence, skill of the famers when making delicious ones and providing them inside and outside the province.

In addition to the sweet girdle-cake, sesame girdle-cake, coconut girdle-cake….here mainly makes stuffed pancake.  Girdle-cake Dai Loc has a unique flavor in comparison with popular ones in Quang land, particularly indispensable in the trays of the Tet holiday or other feasts…

When being away from the home, whenever wanting to enjoy girdle-cake,  Quang Nam people must find and buy a few from the market immediately. Also having vegetables, seasoning sauce, pork, but everything seems less delicious because it is lack of the fragrant smell of new rice and crispness.

To have delicious ones, it requires maker to be skilled in the preparation of ingredients as well as manipulate to coat cake on the stove. After washing rice, you must soak it thoroughly and constantly in two days, then decorticate finely.

Mixing flour is also very important. You have to mix it carefully to be smooth, and just enough water so that the flour mixture is not too liquid or too solid, affecting to the quality of cakes. 

Translated by Nguyen Hao

Source:24h