Many tourists enjoyed taking photos and filming the process of making giant pancakes.
A familiar address for decades for locals and tourists who have come to Tay Ninh is the Banh Xeo and Banh Khot Ba Tam restaurant of Ms. Huynh Thi My Loan (people often call her Ba Tam) located on Chau Van Liem Street, Hoa Thanh Town.
On normal days, Mrs. Tam's banh xeo and banh khot restaurant is already crowded, but since the "super giant" banh xeo was born, it has attracted even more customers. Many people find the banh xeo interesting, but many also find it expensive. However, when they learn about how the 1 million VND banh xeo was born, many people are amazed and surprised.
This special pancake is poured by Mrs. Loan and her husband on a pan with a diameter of 1.2m and a thickness of 5mm. Because the pan is so large, to spread the batter evenly on the pan, the owner pours the batter into a funnel, uses a steamer with a filter to spray the batter. Depending on the customer's request, Mrs. Loan will make the cake with a price ranging from 300,000 VND to 1 million VND.
The "technology" of spraying flour onto the pan helps the pancake batter spread evenly onto the pan.
With the 1 million VND cake that is causing a stir, Ms. Loan said that the filling of the pancake is made of more than 5 kg of "high-quality" ingredients, including 1 kg of green-legged shrimp, 1 kg of whiteleg shrimp, 1 kg of large squid, the rest is stir-fried beef with mushrooms, stir-fried fresh bamboo shoots with meat... Because of the large pan, the owner also used a very large spatula. This also became an interesting prop that many tourists borrowed to take souvenir photos with the restaurant's special pancake.
The giant pancake costs 1 million VND and serves 8-10 guests.
Because of the large amount of ingredients, anyone who wants to eat this special banh xeo must order at least 30 minutes in advance so that the owner can prepare everything from weighing the ingredients, stir-frying the filling to preparing the batter. On days when customers order, the restaurant becomes much busier because of the unique performance of pouring the pancake in Tay Ninh. To serve diners eating giant banh xeo, Ba Tam restaurant does not put the pancake on a tray but designs a separate table with a hole just big enough to fit the pancake pan.
The staff became experts at pouring banh xeo into 10 pans at once at extremely fast speed.
Ms. Loan shared: "This giant pancake serves about 8-10 people, if divided equally, each person only spends 100,000 VND". According to Ms. Loan, with the amount of filling of the giant pancake, she can make up to 12-13 small pancakes, but she thinks making a big cake will make customers happy and have an experience, especially a group of about ten guests can eat the same cake.
Banh xeo will be served with rice paper, dipped in sweet and sour fish sauce, rolled with dozens of types of vegetables that customers choose such as: cinnamon, fish mint, basil, perilla, lettuce. In addition, there are also typical forest species in Tay Ninh such as: blood fern, coc leaf, guava myrtle... making strange guests always impressed and remember forever.
Dozens of vegetables for guests to choose from, especially wild vegetables typical of Tay Ninh.
Ms. Loan said that she has been attached to Banh Xeo for decades. A few months ago, she tried making a special Banh Xeo to satisfy her passion for creativity. Unexpectedly, the giant Banh Xeo that was just created made many people excited, ordered and spread the word.
Another special thing about this banh xeo restaurant is that even though it is crowded, customers do not have to wait too long because the staff pours the pancakes into 10 pans at a time. Many customers who witnessed it were startled because pouring it into a regular pan is difficult for many people, but only experts can pour it into 10 pans at the same time.
The secret to pouring quickly here is that the pan is placed on an automatic rotating stove, the filling for each cake is placed separately while the hands of the person pouring the cake work continuously at high speed.
Banh xeo filling over 5 kg includes green prawns, whiteleg shrimp, squid, stir-fried beef with mushrooms, stir-fried fresh bamboo shoots with meat.
This interesting feature has created a unique feature for diners to have new experiences when coming to Tay Ninh to enjoy specialties, especially for those who love banh xeo.
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