The stories about my three sticky rice's street vendors

When I was a little boy, one of my favorite morning meal was the sticky rice, I can even list down now where I used to buy this popular breakfast. Let's me start with the newest story.

The today's story 

I have no idea how long this nice couple, selling sticky rice here, in Ton That Tung street, near to the junction of Bui Thi Xuan street. It could be 20 years or even more, but my first time to buy from them was around 10-12 years ago!

            

Sticky rice - sweet taste (xôi ngọt) - Part One

Along with well-known breakfast-dishes as beef noodle, broken rice, bread...sticky rice is considered as one of most affordable breakfasts for many different-income level people in Vietnam. They could be school children, students, white & blue collar workers, housewives...everyone! 

Vietnam is a country with rice and fish sauce culture, that's why dishes made of rice, sticky rice are part of our life, very diversified! We have sweet and savory sticky rice dishes. I would suggest to try some good sweet sticky rice first! My favorite are corn-sticky rice (xôi bắp) in Northern style, pandan leaves sticky rice (xôi lá dứa) with coconut sauce!

Corn sticky rice in Northern style 

Corn sticky rice (xôi bắp)is speciality from the North. It's a mixture between corn and sticky rice, corn should be well-cooked, but not too soft, it's served with green bean, crispy fried shallot, a little bit of oil, sugar...at some place, people localize for Southern taste, they add fresh grated coconut meat (dừa nạo). Talking about this, I remember a woman selling this corn sticky rice near to my house , I bought it from her mother when I was kid,  and now from her, but since early this year I didn't see her old stall anymore at usual corner, maybe family business already finished when many new spots appear nearby, means more competition!