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!
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| 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!
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