The dish is cooked simply with the ingredients including wheat flour and a kind of Vietnamese typical flour and fresh shrimp. The shrimp must be caught from the West Lake, they are small but firm with soft cover which is different from ones of other places. That is the reason why it is called “West lake Shrimp cake”.  A mouth bowl-size cake with two shrimps on it is fried until it is well done, light golden brown and crispy. The cake is cut into 2 pieces with a shrimp on each one and enjoyed with the sauce blended of sourness, spiciness, sapidness and sweetness with fresh herbs.

The ideal destinations for West Lake Shrimp cake enjoyment are restaurants along the lakefront, in a poetic atmosphere of summer breeze or warm sun of winter afternoon.

                                                        Source: Hanoi’s cuisine - Hanoi City Tourism Department