Rice pancake folded in half Today I would like to introduce an traditional food in my hometown. Its name is "Bánh xèo". English name is rice pancake folded in half. It made of rice powder. To make bánh xèo you need rice powder, scallion, oil. The first step, you add water into rice powder to attain proper dilution and add a litle salt and scallion. Then you put a pan on the stove to heat it. After that, pour a litle oil into pan. When the oil becomes very hot, pour and spread rice power suspension into the pan. Close the cover and wait two or three minute untill rice power is cooked. "Bánh xèo" is accompanied vegetable and special sauce called "mắm nêm". We often have "bánh xèo" in rainy day or winter. When the weather is cold, every family gathers in the kitchen, cook and has "bánh xèo". There are many kind of "bánh xèo" in many different areas in Vietnam. Other countries such as Japan, Korea have also "bánh xèo". They differ about ingredient, the method of cook, the size, the color with each other. In other places, people add shrimps, meat, squips,... and tumeric power to make color into "bánh xèo". I have already had various kind of "bánh xèo" of many different places in Vietnam and a kind of "bánh xèo" named "Haemulpajeon" in Korea. Thay are very delicious. But I like "bánh xèo" in my hometown the most due to the taste and smell of either pure rice powder or special sauce.