Bánh giò

Name: Bánh giò
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Vietnamese (Hanoi / North)
Ingredients: 200 g Rice flour; 50 g Tapioca starch; 1 L Pork or chicken stock, unsalted; 3 tbsp Neutral oil; 1 tsp Salt; 250 g Minced pork; 15 g Dried wood-ear mushrooms, soaked and chopped; 3 Shallots, finely chopped; 1 tbsp Fish sauce; 1 tsp Black pepper; 6 Quail eggs, boiled and peeled (optional); 12 pieces Banana leaves, softened over a flame

A pyramid of banana leaf hiding a soft, wobbly rice-flour dough around a heart of minced pork, wood-ear mushroom and shallot. Steamed, sold warm from a cart at seven in the morning, eaten with a spoon and a shake of chilli sauce. The Hanoi breakfast that never made it onto tourist menus.

Nguồn

Công thức của Hanoi kitchens and street stalls · 🏺 Truyền thống · Northern Vietnamese cooking — Hanoi households and the pavement stalls of the Old Quarter

Hanoi · the breakfast pyramid — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms bánh giò as a Vietnamese steamed pyramid-shaped savory rice cake with a filling of ground pork, wood-ear mushrooms and onions under a thin layer of rice-flour dough, wrapped in banana leaves and steamed, eaten plain or with soy or chilli sauce, from northern Vietnam and sold warm from carts as breakfast. The pre-cooked dough method, the quail egg, timings and quantities are this book's own.

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Filling: fry the shallots in 1 tablespoon of oil 2 minutes, add the pork and break it up, then the mushrooms, fish sauce and pepper. Cook 5 minutes until dry. Cool.
Dough: whisk the rice flour, tapioca starch, stock, salt and remaining oil in a pan until smooth. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly with a spatula, 8–10 minutes until it thickens to a smooth, glossy paste that just holds a trail — like thick porridge, not a dough.
💡 Stop while it still pours slowly. Cook it stiff and the finished cake is rubbery; the wobble is the whole point of bánh giò.
Fold each banana leaf into a cone (two leaves crossed for strength). Spoon in 2 tablespoons of dough, a spoon of filling and a quail egg, then more dough to cover. Fold the leaf over into a pyramid and tie with string.
Steam 25–30 minutes over a rolling boil. Rest 5 minutes before unwrapping — the dough sets a little as it cools.
Unwrap onto a plate. Eat warm with chilli sauce or soy, and a few slices of cucumber or chả lụa on the side the way the carts do.

💡 Mẹo

They keep two days in the fridge in their leaves and re-steam in 10 minutes. Better than microwaving, which dries the skin.
No quail eggs, no problem — most Hanoi carts sell them without. The pork and mushroom is the constant.