How to pronounce Bánh căn

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ɓǎjŋ̟ kan˧/. In plain English letters that is BUN KAHN, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Bánh căn?

Bánh căn is a snack of Vietnam. Where it comes from: South Central Coast. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are rice, egg and seafood. It tastes savory.

Where Bánh căn comes from

Bánh căn is one of 36 signature dishes of Vietnam on this map. See all dishes from Đông Nam Bộ.

• Bánh mì · Street food · Saigon

  Bánh mì first meant simply "wheat bread", the baguette the French brought to Vietnam in the 19th century.

• Cơm tấm · Rice dish · Saigon

  Cơm tấm means "broken rice": fragments of grain cracked during milling, once thought inferior and sold cheaply.

• Gỏi cuốn · Snack · Southern Vietnam

  Gỏi cuốn are fresh rolls, not fried: rice paper is dipped in water and wrapped around boiled pork, prawns, rice vermicelli, lettuce and herbs such as basil, perilla and mint.

• Bánh khọt · Snack · Vũng Tàu

  Bánh khọt are bite-size cakes of rice flour or tapioca, fried in a mould of small round hollows until the edges are crisp, each with a shrimp on top.

• Cà phê sữa đá · Drink · Saigon

  Cà phê sữa đá is iced milk coffee: dark-roast robusta drips slowly through a small metal filter, the phin, onto sweetened condensed milk, and is then stirred and poured over ice.

• Bánh tráng phơi sương · Snack · Trảng Bàng (Tây Ninh)

  Bánh tráng phơi sương, "dew-dried rice paper", is a speciality of Trảng Bàng in Tây Ninh province.

Food of Vietnam

Dishes like Bánh căn in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Bánh căn:

• Kokis කොකිස් · Snack · All Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka

  Kokis is a crisp, deep-fried Sri Lankan snack made by dipping a decorative mould, often shaped like a flower and called a kokis achchuwa, into a thick batter of rice flour, coconut milk and beaten egg, then into boiling coconut oil; halfway through, the kokis is shaken off the mould to finish frying.

• Toast Skagen · Snack · Stockholm, Sweden

  Toast Skagen is one of Sweden's most common starters: a slice of bread fried in butter or toasted, topped with skagenröra, a salad of shrimp in mayonnaise or sour cream with dill, and finished with fish roe, a sprig of dill and perhaps lemon.

• Khanom bueang ขนมเบื้อง · Snack · Central Thailand, Thailand

  Khanom bueang are crisp, taco-shaped Thai crêpes.

• Chwee kueh 水粿 · Snack · Hawker centres, Singapore

  Chwee kueh, "water rice cake", is a steamed rice cake that began in Teochew cooking and was brought by Teochew migrants to Southeast Asia, where it became established above all in Malaysia and Singapore.