Coming to Da Lat, tourists will have a chance to enjoy popular street cooking like grilled corn, grilled eggs, grilled batata, and especially grilled egg cake with onion… Da Lat is known with many beautiful nicknames such as “the city of thousands of flower”, “the city in forest”… At the height of 900-1,600 meters above the sea level, Da Lat is compared to the city lying in the halfway of the sky with winding roads.

Grilled egg cake with onion is the typical dish here. The cake has yellow colour and good smell. The process of making the cake is quite simple. Girdle cake is grilled by charcoal and then is dusted with stuffing. After that, breaking an egg onto the cake and waiting until it is cooked well done. When customers come to buy the cake, saleperson will heat up the cake and spray chilli sauce onto the cake before wrapping with papers for customers. It is sure that tourists will satisfy with the wonderful taste and the aromatic smell of the cake. Tourists cannot forget the flavor of onion, egg, oil and chilli sauce.

The egg cake with onion has the root from Hue city and then comes to Da Lat. It has become a favourite cake to young people, especially students. After school, they will gather together, chat and enjoy the hot cakes. Nowadays, the cake also becomes the favourite cake to tourists. The price for a cake is only 10,000 VND.

Translated by Nguyen Quynh