Bánh cuốn

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A dish of homemade bánh cuốn

Bánh cuốn is a dish from northern Vietnam. It is a crêpe-like roll made from a thin, wide sheet of rice noodle (similar to Shahe fen) that can be filled with ground pork and other ingredients. Sides for this dish usually consist of chả lụa (Vietnamese pork sausage) and bean sprouts, while the dipping sauce is called nước chấm. Sometimes, a drop of cà cuống, which is the essence of a giant water bug, Lethocerus indicus, is added to the nước chấm for extra flavor, although this ingredient is scarce and quite expensive.

It is a light dish, and is generally eaten for breakfast. Although it is generally only found in northern Vietnam, it may occasionally also be found in Ho Chi Minh City. Perhaps the most famous bánh cuốn, called Bánh cuốn Thanh Trì, may be found in Thanh Trì, a southern district of Hanoi. See the article [1].

Bánh cuốn Thanh Trì

A very similar Chinese dish is the Cantonese dish coeng4 fan2 (肠粉; pinyin: chángfěn), usually translated into English as "steamed rice roll" or "rice noodle roll," which is a form of dim sum.