Bánh giầy

Bánh giầy is a traditional Vietnamese cake, a white, flat, round cake of glutinous rice wrapped in cut pieces of banana leaf. Its name is often confused with or spelled bánh dầy, bánh dày or bánh giày. It is usually served with giò lụa, a Vietnamese sausage, and can also be fried until it has a thin, crisp, golden crust. A variation called bánh giầy đậu is stuffed with ground boiled mung bean, salted or sweetened. The source compares it with Japanese mochi, Korean tteok and Chinese lo mai chi and ciba. A traditional story tells how Lang Liêu, the youngest and farming son of Emperor Hùng Huy Vương, won the throne by offering two rice cakes, the round bánh dầy and the square bánh chưng, which the emperor judged the purest gifts because they used nothing but rice, the basic foodstuff of the people.