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  banh com

 

Vietnam

Banh com is the name of a Vietnamese sweet snack or dessert, which consists of a sweetened paste made of green mung beans, which is wrapped in a chewy dough, made from pounded sticky rice and coloured green.

 

It is typically sold wrapped in a transparent plastic film, and is sometimes packed additionally in a small, square, carton box. dessert. These type of rice cakes are often part of the traditional Vietnamese pre-matrimonial wedding gifts called cuoi hoi tron goi (fig.).

 

  banh com