An interesting secret about fried bananas that Xuan Son is passionate about, identical to 1 dish in Brazil

Living in Vietnam for more than 5 years, player Nguyen Xuan Son and his wife are familiar with Vietnamese food. The No. 12 player has a favorite dish, fried banana cake, a rustic dish that makes people excited after listening to it.

He is often seen driving his wife and children to a sidewalk shop in Nam Dinh city in the afternoons. This is a popular dish, especially in winter, that can be found in most localities from North to South.

The type of banana cake Xuan Son eats is a traditional long fried style. The bananas are peeled, flattened, rolled through the dough and fried in a hot pan. The cake dough is quite sophisticated, each shop has its own secret, which is the combination of glutinous flour, wheat flour, and rice flour. The cake is usually fried twice, the first time it is fried first and then put on a tray to drain the fat. When a customer calls, the owner will continue to drop it into the frying pan a second time so that the crust is crispy and hot.

Banana cake has a crispy crust but is not hard, and the inside still retains its flexibility. The taste of bananas depends on the type and season, sometimes it is a sweet banana, sometimes it is a banana with a sour and sour taste. The best cake is eaten as soon as it is fryed, ideally eaten in cold weather. Diners can find banana cakes in most food districts, on the sidewalks, near schools for only a few thousand VND each.

This dish is similar to the Banana Empanada in Brazil, Nguyen Xuan Son's hometown. Breaded fried bananas are a quick, easy-to-make dish that is often served with feijoada (black bean soup) or barbecue, and can also be used as a dessert, sprinkled with sugar, or topped with cream. Nguyen Xuan Son often has the habit of rolling banana cakes across the street before eating, just like in Brazil.

The people of the South American country use 5 ingredients: bananas, all-purpose flour, eggs, breadcrumbs and cooking oil. The bananas are cut in half, then breaded with flour, eggs, breadcrumbs, and finally deep-fried in oil. The special feature is that instead of just eating it as a snack or sweet dessert, Brazilians can eat fried banana cakes with some savory dishes such as blackstone pork, beef steak and eggs.

In particular, they are often eaten with feijoada. This is a dish that originated in Portugal and spread to countries that were once Portuguese colonies, including Brazil. Black bean soup cooked with pork, served with fried banana cakes is considered to be a blend of salty and sweet, very tasty. In addition to bananas, they also often breaded pineapple flour and then fried and served with black bean soup.

Xuan Son's fried banana cake cart often stopped by to buy belongs to Ms. Pham Thi Thu Ha's family at the intersection of Nguyen Du Street - Bac Ninh (Nam Dinh City) recently attracted a lot of diners after the image of player Nguyen Xuan Son waiting to buy cakes was widely shared on social networks.

Ms. Ha shared, she has been selling here for 3 years. For about 1 year now, Xuan Son's family has become a regular customer of the restaurant. Initially, this player's wife often visited the shop to buy banana cakes. Recently, Xuan Son often buys by himself, sometimes alone, sometimes with the whole family. Each time, Xuan Son player usually buys 8-10 cakes and is ready to wait if the restaurant is crowded.

"Both Xuan Son and his wife speak Vietnamese quite well, every time they come, they are happy and laughing. She usually buys in the time frame from 16-17:30. If she sees a lot of customers, she will say '10 minutes later', then come back exactly 10 minutes later to get the cake," Ms. Ha said.

Ms. Ha added that every time Xuan Son's family stops by to buy cakes, she simply thinks of taking photos and posting them on social networks as a way of sharing about her customers on a daily basis. "Xuan Son knows that I share my images on social networks. Before being recruited, she drove her wife and children to buy cakes. The photo of her waving her hand was when she saw me holding up the camera to take a picture, she laughed and said: 'Stop going on Facebook anymore'", Ms. Ha said.

According to the review of TikToker Nam Dinh Girl (@cogainamdinh), these days, this banana cake shop is quite crowded. And when this TikToker came to buy, the owner said he would have to wait a little longer. It is known that this banana cake is already considered quite delicious, loved by many people, so it is also crowded. After being known through the images of Xuan Son players coming to buy, it became even busier.

According to the owner of this banana cake shop, in recent days, they have sold more than 200 banana cakes every day. The bakery owner also revealed that Xuan Son comes here almost every day to buy cakes, once he even bought 10 pieces.

Also according to the comment of TikToker Nam Dinh Girl, each banana cake here is quite large but costs only 10k/piece. The ripe banana inside has been rolled thin, then covered with 2 layers of flour and then fried, so the cake is very puffy and crispy. The bananas inside are fried hot, very sweet.

After the team won, this TikToker shared that she would be ready to treat the whole team to Xuan Son to eat banana cakes here for a whole week. Along with this girl, many other netizens said that they also wanted to invite Xuan Son to eat a "lifetime" banana cake.

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