Been to a Vietnamese wedding banquet? If so, you must have tried banh giay, a white, flat round cake made of glutinous rice with or without mung beans inside. The white, “chubby” cakes, which are packed neatly in either green dong leaves or banana…

In the cold of the northern upland, tourists to market sessions of ethnic minority communities in Bac Ha District, Lao Cai Province may be attracted to hot round cakes in green, black and white. The cake is called banh giay (glutinous rice cake), a…