To Hai Phong remember to enjoy special castings

Not as prominent as the specialties in Hai Phong, but the castings ship is extremely special and makes it impossible to ignore when coming here.

Cake casting - the name of the snack is quite strange, but with the people, especially the young people in Hai Phong, this is a very familiar dish.

To Hai Phong, besides many famous dishes such as crab cakes, snails or spicy bread, you should definitely try this special cake, sure to never regret it.

In Hai Phong, there are only two to three places that sell castings, but the most famous and crowded place is the sandwich shop at Cat Dai - Cat Cu crossroads.

Sale on the sidewalk, section 186 Cat Dai (now changed to 186 Hai Ba Trung). Just go to this intersection, do not need to remember the exact address, see where the crowded visit. That is the famous cake shop.

This bakery opened for 27 years. According to Ms. Chuyen, owner and also the person who was introduced to make this cake, the origin of the castings ship is quite special. One of her grandparents married a Chinese, then learned the recipe of this cake and brought it back to Hai Phong for sale. So, the craft of casting wheel ships continues to be transmitted until now.

The casting cake is placed in a large hot tray. The salesman clutched his hands, cut off all the castings, lovers and then chan sauce. When the guests sit eating, she quickly handles the cake for the customer to wait.

The salesman's hands are rattling, rhythmically, cut off the cake, lovers and then chan sauce fish sauce, bring the cake to bring back ...

A bowl of castings includes chopped tortillas, minced meat and shrimp, chopped pomegranate seeds, chopped strands of chopped spinach, chopped chili sauce. Depending on taste, guests can give more, less or not to chili, so that the cake here is divided into three categories are not spicy, spicy and spicy.

The cake here is very smooth, sure, cut to eat. Fish Sauce is a kind of sauce mixed with full of sour, spicy, salty, sweet mix. When eaten, the fish sauce into the cake, eat more meat and shrimp crispy tan is extremely wonderful.

The meat chosen to make this dish is a meat tenderloin, just a little lean, just fat, then fried with shrimp. Meat and shrimp are crispy but not dried, not eaten and easy to eat.

Especially, the papaya is well-processed diced papaya, with the color of cashew nuts, both beautifully and with attractive taste. Unconscious guests can not recognize it as papaya, even many people think that they are eating ... kohlrabi or radish.

Cake casting to the customer is still hot. The moderate heat makes the aroma of the cake, meat and shrimp fry up, aromatic, attractive.

Transfer the slices of cakes with vinegar sauce to eat, then eat some of the papaya, fen stuff, meat and shrimp fried crispy, all blended together to create a very special taste.

Bowls of cake were brought to customers still hot ...

The beauty of this dish is that it is a bowl of bread that can eat enough, but it makes people feel hungry to eat more bowls.

Price for such a bowl is only 10 thousand, very reasonable for a snack.

Not only is the favorite snack of young people in Hai Phong, castings have also been known to many people in other places. Many visitors to Hai Phong tourism expressed interest in this dish.

Quan is simple but always crowded, busy. Apart from the people who come to eat at the bar, there are many people who choose to buy and take home.

Starting from 7 am and 2 pm, selling until the end of the goods, so on the day after, customers come back to pity for the cake. Often, guests come to crowded during break time. 

Cake casting ship

Address: Cat Dai Crossroads - Cat Cuoi (186 Tran Cat pavement), Le Chan, Hai Phong.

Time: Open from 7am and 2pm.