Bahn Khoai

After the show cave visit we went for a little 'snacklet' in one of the market cafes, whose speciality seems to be Banh Khoai, pronounced 'Baang Kwai'.

Adding the batter

This consists of some green salad leaves, sliced cucumber and shredded cabbage and carrots on one plate, another plate has rice 'paper', incredibly thin, tough and flexible and a third plate has crispy battered beansprout 'pancakes' cut into sections.

Adding the beansprouts

To eat, you take a sheet of the rice paper and add a portion of the ingredients and then roll it all up and dip it into a thin peanut sauce. Chilli sauce is an optional extra.

Cooked and ready

As much as a normal person can eat, together with a can of drink costs about 30,000 Dong which equates to about 90p.

The finished article