Pâté chaud (), "hot pastry pie"), also known as patê sô, is a
Vietnamese savory
puff pastry. The pastry is made of a light layered and flaky exterior with a meat filling. Traditionally, the filling consists of ground
pork
Pork is the culinary name for the meat of the pig (''Sus domesticus''). It is the most commonly consumed meat worldwide, with evidence of pig animal husbandry, husbandry dating back to 8000–9000 BCE.
Pork is eaten both freshly cooke ...
, but chicken and beef are also now commonly used. This pastry is
French-inspired but is now commonly found in bakeries in both Vietnam and the
diaspora
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, much like the
Haitian patty.
Etymology
The masculine French noun "
pâté
Pâté ( , , ) is a forcemeat. Originally, the dish was cooked in a pastry case; in more recent times it is more usually cooked without pastry in a terrine. Various ingredients are used, which may include meat from pork, poultry, fish or bee ...
" in combination with "chaud" (hot) was the name of the "hot pie" in
French colonial Vietnam. It was the same usage as in France at the time; for example,
Urbain Dubois (1818–1901), in his ''La Cuisine classique'' of 1868, describes Pâté-chaud à la Marinière as a moulded meat pie. This wording is now obsolete in modern French where a pie is designated ''tourte'', and ''pâté'' simply means "mixture of finely chopped meat".
However, the more appropriate translation for the Vietnamese ''bánh patê sô'' would be "pâté en croûte", aka "mixture of meat in crust".
See also
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Vietnamese cuisine
Vietnamese cuisine encompasses the foods and beverages originated from Vietnam. Meals feature a combination of five fundamental tastes (): sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and Piquant, spicy. The distinctive nature of each dish reflects one or more ...
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Puff pastry
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List of pastries
References
External links
French Loan Words in Vietnam
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Vietnamese pastries
Vietnamese words and phrases