Trying Traditional Vietnamese Dessert Cakes | Bánh Miền Tây, HCMC

Today we're having some traditional South West Vietnamese cake in Saigon. I've been waiting so long to do this. Let's go! This is one of the most impressive dessert scene in Saigon. And we're talking about traditional South West Vietnamese dessert. All kinds of bánh, that's how we say dessert in Vietnamese. They have more than 20 kinds of traditional Vietnamese dessert. And they give you a tray and a tong and then you can pick anything that you want 100 gram is only 53 cents so you can get the kg for less than six dollars I'm starting with some sticky rice leaf cake and some pandan cake so beautiful i don't know where to start to be honest like everything looks so colorful vibrant and i know it's gonna be so great because at the end you're gonna dunk all this goodness into the sweet creamy coconut gravy all right this looks great to me it's the cassava cake with rice cake topped with coconut milk on top this is what you want to steam banana cake you know what the great news for you guys is all the cake here are made with rice flour sticky rice flour and tapioca starch that's it this one is one of my favorite it's mung bean cake or mung bean pandan cake beautiful i love how they use the all the natural colors this is uh from jamanta leaf anyway in vietnam we call it and that gave the beautiful purple color and the green color made from pandan look at this getting very heavy but i'm also want some bánh bò i'm going to top it up with one of my favorites it's palm sugar honeycomb cake bánh bò thốt nốt wow that beautiful and then guess what now we we're going to wait it and see how much it costs and they all give you the coconut sauce so you can dip in it or you can like pour over top so excited it's only cost me about four dollars for very heavy box of cake they just opened up the shop for a few months but they've been busy with local customers because of how inviting how colorful their cake and I'm sure by the look of the cake it cannot not be good. This is one of my favorite street for eating in Binh Thanh district. It's called Vang Kyp. In the night time the street is packed with locals and I think it's very smart for them to pick the location to be on the street. I can't believe they make a combination cake of Banh Chuoi, steamed banana cake and Banh Gia Lon. It's a mung bean pandan cake try it by itself so soft but has a beautiful chewy texture and it's not too sweet and you're supposed to dunk them in the coconut gravy that they homemade as well i'm very curious to try this thing it's the cassava pandan coconut cake look at how beefy they are and look at how local love they're sweet i mean vietnamese people we do have a little sweet tooth this is bun ball as you know as honeycomb cake but i like to call that cow cake because that's how banh bo literally translates to you know what the cheat code for all this is a coconut gravy when everything dunked in the sauce it's so rich what else do i want to do oh this is bánh đúc or traditional vietnamese rice cake but the southwest vietnam version so it had beautiful green pandan color it's so floral i don't think i have so many of this cake in my life it's a bánh khoai mì so it's made from cassava roots imagine a delicious mochi cake with coconut flakes and coconut milk inside the batter like you're having a giant piece of boba this thing is my favorite it's a palm sugar bánh bò it's already great by itself bánh bò is one of the most famous southwest vietnam dessert you cannot come to southern vietnam without having it make sure to save all the tips and save this spot for your Saigon trip as well