Bánh giầy

Bánh giầy

Bánh giầy (incorrectly^[1][2] written as bánh dầy or bánh dày) is a Vietnamese snack. Bánh giầy is a white, flat, round glutinous rice cake with a chewy texture. They are presented in a pair, wrapped in small pieces of banana leaves. They are usually served with Vietnamese sausage giò lụa.^[3] But they can also be fried to a thin crispy golden crust, and eaten by itself or with the Vietnamese sausage. Another variation is called "bánh giầy đậu", where the ground boiled mung bean (dậu xanh) - salted or sweetened - is stuffed inside then covered with rice flour. It is very similar to another Vietnamese glutinous rice dish known as Bánh chưng.

References

1. "Bánh giầy" hay "bánh dầy"? ["Bánh giầy" or "bánh dầy"?], Tuổi Trẻ Online, 16 April 2008
2. Lỗi chính tả tại lễ hội Đền Hùng [Spelling error at Hung Kings' Festival], VnExpress, 20 April 2010. Citation: "GS.TS Nguyễn Đức Tồn, Viện trưởng Viện Ngôn ngữ học cho biết, chỉ duy nhất cách viết "bánh chưng", "bánh giầy" là đúng, không có biến thể hay cách viết tương tự." [Nguyen Duc Ton, Head of the Institute of Linguistics [Vietnam] says, the correct spellings are "bánh chưng", "bánh giầy"; there is no variation or similar spellings.]
3. Đình Hoà Nguyễn - From the City Inside the Red River -1999 Page 16, the glutinous rice cakes (bánh giầy) from Quan Ganh, ...