One of specific products of New Orleans, Louisiana is King Cake. The colorful and very sweet style pastries.
The cake is made, eaten and associates with Mardi Gras celebration. It was tradition from French since 300 years ago.
The cake is commonly sugar (colorful sugar) on the top, but there are many variations of filling of inside the cake.
What inside the King Cake is depend on the countries tradition outside French.
In Louisiana, it is commonly bean inside. Moreover, many cakes are filling with combines of several these items:
- pear
- apple
- cheese
- banana
- and almond.
There are a lot of migrants from many countries settled in New Orleans. One of them is Vietnamese.
The Vietnamese communities in New Orleans, Louisiana have their own varieties of King Cake.
What different between local and Vietnamese varieties?
# To be continued to Part 2
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