How to buy Pia cake in Ho Chi Minh?
How to buy Pia cake in Ho Chi Minh?
Coming to South of Vietnam, tourists don’t forget to try Pia cake, that is specialty of three ethnic: Kinh, Hoa and Khmer in Soc Trang province.
Pia cake is in moon shape made from wheat flour, green bean/ taro, winter melon jam, yolk of salted duck egg, and special characteristic is fresh durian. In the past, Pia Cake made cover from wheat flour with green bean or taro and pork fat inside. Nowadays, Pia Cake has many types with different fillings such as lotus seeds, black sesame, pineapple, but the best still is grean bean combine with durian.
Pia cake Vietnam
Normally, Pia cake in Soc Trang has two typical types, the first one is taro taste and the second one was bean taste. The process to make it includes many steps and it requires a skillful hand and professional method from inputs to finished cakes.
Firstly, flour is rolled over to create the cover. To have a thin cover with many layers, people have to process flour via many complicated steps like stir flour together, make it thin and then roll it over…And it is also not easy to make the core of Pia, it should be carefully done from the step of collecting materials and merging them all together to creat a good taste and attractive scent for Pia.
The core of cake is done through the steps as follows: bean or taro should be well-cooked, then they are grilled, and then they are merged with fresh durian and salted eggs. After that, the core will be put inside the cover of the cake, people will pour some oil on the cake before they are cooked.
Pia has soft crust with many layers combine with green bean and scent of durian will lure your taste. It should be served with tea. That is the best way to enjoy Pia cake. Eating a piece of cake, drinking a gulp of tea, you will feel from your tongue the bitterness of tea being dissolved with the sweetness of Pia. This habit of drinking and eating has been one of the most typical enjoyments of Mekong people and it is a special characteristics of Soc Trang culture.
There are 2 brands most famous in Vietnam: Tan Hung and Tan Hue Vien. Local people prefer Tan Hung than Tan Hue Vien. They said Tan Hung make cover thinner and less sugar than Tan Hue Vien.
How has Pia cake HALAL certificate?
Tan Hue Vien has completed HALAL certificate to meet foreign markets.
How to buy Pia cake in Ho Chi Minh?
You can easy find out the Pia cake agent in Ho Chi Minh, very close city center.
Pia cake shop
Branch 1: 95 Nguyen Thai Binh, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.
Branch 2: 156 Thich Quang Duc, Ward 4, Phu Nhuan District , Ho Chi Minh City.
Branch 3: 236 Nguyen Hong Dao, Ward 14, Tan Binh District , Ho Chi Minh City.
Website: www.banhpia.vn , www.dacsanbanhpia.com
Phone: +84909528769 (Whatsapp/ Viber/ Zalo) or +84963313849
