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The name originated in the Netherlands, where it is known as tijgerbrood [5] or tijgerbol (tiger bun), and where it has been sold at least since the early 1930s. [citation needed] The first published reference in the USA to "Dutch crunch" bread was in 1935 in Oregon, according to food historian Erica J. Peters, where it appeared in a bakery advertisement.
The dish's name is believed to have come from its clear, dumpling-like appearance, as the term bánh bột lọc Huế loosely translates to "clear flour cake." In Vietnamese, the word bánh can mean "cake" or "bread," but can also be used as a general term for foods that are made from any type of flour, the most common being rice or tapioca.
To distinguish Vietnamese-style bread from other kinds of bread, the term bánh mì Sài Gòn ("Saigon-style bread") or bánh mì Việt Nam ("Vietnam-style bread") can be used. A folk etymology claims that the word bánh mì is a corruption of the French pain de mie , meaning soft, white bread. [ 11 ]
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.
The latter translation sounds right as it literally means "tiger bread"; the first means "tiger ball" which sounds disturbingly carnivorous. The Dutch article calls it tijgerbrood although, according to the talk page , it is known in some parts of the Netherlands as luipaardbrood .
Bánh pía, sometimes spelled as bánh bía, is a type of Vietnamese bánh (translated loosely as "cake" or "bread"). A Suzhou style mooncake adapted from Teochew cuisine, The Vietnamese name comes from the Teochew word for pastry, pia. In Saigon, the pastry is called bánh bía, while in Sóc Trăng and Vũng Thơm, it is known as bánh pía.
Tiger bone glue is the prevailing tiger product purchased for medicinal purposes in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. [188] "Tiger farm" facilities in China and Southeast Asia breed tigers for their parts, but these appear to make the threat to wild populations worse by increasing the demand for tiger products. [189]
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the official language. It belongs to the Vietic subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family. [5] Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [6]