Definition

1. Noun:
   • A type of baked cake/pie: A traditional Vietnamese baked pastry, typically round or square, with a crust and a filling. The most famous type is "bánh nướng Trung thu" (Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake), but the term can refer to other baked pastries as well.
   • Oven-baked pastry: Any cake or pie that is cooked by baking in an oven.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Mẹ tôi mua bánh nướng đậu xanh để cúng rằm tháng Tám. (My mother bought mung bean bánh nướng for the Mid-Autumn Festival offering.)
  • Ở tiệm bánh này có bánh nướng thập cẩm rất ngon. (This bakery sells a very delicious mixed filling bánh nướng.)
  • Bánh nướng thường có vỏ hơi cứng và màu nâu. (Bánh nướng usually has a slightly hard, brown crust.)

Advanced Usage

• "bánh nướng chảo": This refers to a type of that is pan-baked or cooked on a griddle, not in a traditional oven. It is a specific variant.
  • Bánh nướng chảo thường mỏng và giòn hơn. (Pan-baked bánh nướng is usually thinner and crispier.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bánh dẻo (noun): A type of mooncake with a soft, chewy glutinous rice flour skin, as opposed to the baked crust of .
• Bánh nướng Trung thu / Bánh Trung thu (noun): Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake; this is the most common context for .
• Bánh pie (noun): The general English term "pie" is often used as a translation, though has specific cultural connotations.

Synonyms

• Bánh ngọt nướng: Baked sweet cake/pastry.
• Bánh Âu (in some contexts): Western-style cake, often baked.

Related Phrases

• Làm bánh nướng: To make/bake .
  • Cả nhà cùng nhau làm bánh nướng vào dịp Trung thu. (The whole family makes bánh nướng together for the Mid-Autumn Festival.)
• Khuôn bánh nướng: mold (used for shaping the cakes).
  • Khuôn bánh nướng thường có hoa văn đẹp. (Bánh nướng molds often have beautiful patterns.)

Related Idioms

• (Không a common idiom directly with "bánh nướng". It is primarily a concrete noun for food items.)

noun

1. Pie (filled with various stuff)