Food

Steamed Rice Cakes Offer a Blank Canvas for Global Snacking

Liz Grossman

There’s something hypnotic about staring at white rice flour batter as it’s spread into paper-thin circles atop a griddle, before it’s steamed, rolled, and transferred to bamboo mats to dry. Watching cooks make light-as-air rice báhn cuon one delicate disk at a time is just one of the mesmerizing...