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Pancake Pagoda in Mekong Delta

For the past 18 years, Đông Lai Pagoda (Tinh Bien district, An Giang Province) has been making pancakes for guests whenever they come to pray.

Đông Lai Pagoda is also known as the Buddhist Temple, or “Pancake Pagoda” because the pagoda often provides free vegetarian pancakes for visitors when they come to pray.

“Since 1999, there are many visitors to Đông Lai Pagoda, so the monks thought of cooking this dish for them. At first, there were only a few pans, but thanks to the rumors, visitors to the pagoda are growing, so from some pan in the past, it has grown to 40 and serve customers throughout the week in the future” Bui Van Tam said (he is chef in the pagoda for 10 years.

Currently, 10 volunteers cook this dish. Ingredients include rice flour, coconut milk, tofu, green beans and pickles in Cam Mountain.

From 5 to 10 minutes, there will be cooked pancakes.

On weekdays, local people will cook 300 pancakes, on weekends, the number of pancakes doubled. When visitors give money for the pagoda, it also the way they pay for these pancakes.

Everyone who is enjoying this dish has to queue in front of the chef, then the chef will put the cake on each plate as soon as the pancakes are cooked.

The food court is very spacious, for visitors to rest and enjoy this dish. They will donate money to the charity.