Westlake shrimp cake

In the 30s of the 21st century, shrimp cakes began to become popular in Hanoi. At the time, the West Lake area along Thanh Nien Road, which runs between Truc Bach and West Lake, was under much of a burden for street vendors selling shrimp cakes. That’s why the Ho Tay Shrimp cake is named.

There are many changes in time and space, but the way this dish is processed and enjoyed is no different. The shrimp cake is made with shrimp sandwiched from West Lake, with pale skin, firm meat and distinctive fat. The filter flour is fried so when served with fresh vegetable soaked sauce and spicy fish sauce, it has a meaty, sweet and greasy taste.

It’s enough to look at the shrimp cake table and see harmony, refined, multi-colored mutual honor. It is a mix of three main colors: yellow, green and bright red. The red colour of ripe shrimp stands out among the yellow colour of Crispet nuts. The fragile white beans in the young green of lettuce, basil resonates with perilla.
With skilled hands and aesthetics, the bakery has inspired people to feel comfortable. The yellow cake was swayed with bright red shrimp that stood out against the white porcelain platter. Green lettuce, dark green herbs. A thin portion of papaya white moon dotted with slices of red chili pepper in a bowl of dipping sauce. The shrimp, which live in freshwater lakes, just ripen on aged float on the surface of a yellow cake and catches the eye very much.

The best shrimp cakes are hot. People eat flour, fatty fat, sweet shrimp, fresh fresh vegetables and crispy green papaya. It is a sum of sour, spicy, salty, crunchy, sweet to give us the tongue taste of the tongue of the beautiful natural scenery that the waves of the western lake soothe the afternoon breeze.
For Hanoi people, Ho Tay shrimp cakes are not only a dish, but also remind us of many family memories. On happy days, parents often take their children to the streets of young people and watch ginseng fly over the water and eat shrimp cake. People in Hanoi still say it. Enjoying the hot, crispy, hot shrimp cakes, watching the peaceful, calm waters of Westlake, nothing more poetic.

Many people became obsessed with Hanoi when this place was also engraved in the memories of the unique aftertaste and aftertaste with shrimp cakes from West Lake. Regarding many visitors when they came to Hanoi, they also “fall in love” this speciality, and remember the love forever…