Banh gio is used with molasses.

The cake is called banh gio (rice cake with herbal ash), a cake made from glutinous rice soaked in ash water.

The ingredients to make banh gio include glutinous rice, ash liquor of clean straw, molasses and banana leaves.

To get the fragrant ash liquid, people must burn mistletoe or sau (dracontomelon duperreanum) leaves and pour the ash into a clean water basin, and filter the water.

Meanwhile, the glutinous rice is washed, soaked in the ash water. The banana leaves are washed and steamed to make it soft and clean.

Next, people put the rice in the banana leaves carefully, roll up the leaves, fold the leaves edge tightly, then boil the cake.

Boiled cake has amber colour that looks very eye-catching and attractive.

Eating banh gio with molasses will bring you unforgettable taste.