VietNamNet Bridge – On the the third day of the third lunar month or Tet Han Thuc (Cold Food Festival), Vietnamese families offer banh troi and banh chay to their ancestors. Hanoians no longer make the cakes at home but buy them.

Banh troi are glutinous rice flour cakes stuffed with plum of brown sugar and banh chay are glutinous rice flour cakes stuffed with green bean paste. Tet Han Thuc is an occasion for people to visit and tidy the burial graves of relatives, while enjoying the spring.

A banh troi, banh chay vendor.

Banh troi sold at Hanoi’s Hang Be market.

Banh chay

Banh troi

This woman buys three bows of banh chay and three plates of banh troi.

The cakes are sold very well.

Some people buy glutinous rice flour to make banh troi, banh chay at home.

At the Van Chuong market.

At Cau Go street.

Banh troi and banh chay on the altar of a Hanoian family.

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