These fatty and sweet sticky rice dishes have touched the heart of not only people in Saigon but also the visitors on Vietnam food tours.
In the cuisine of Saigon, perhaps there is no dish as diverse and rich as sticky rice. Not mentioning salty sticky rice, just the combination of sticky rice with fruits and toppings has also made people hesitate about dozen choices of attractive sweet sticky rice. And in the long list of sweet sticky rice, this is the four flavors mentioned most by Saigon people.
Sticky rice with jackfruit
Sticky rice with jackfruit is a snack imported from Thailand recently and gradually occupied the taste of many gourmet people of Saigon who love sweet. The ingredients are simply sticky rice and jackfruit. However, the two things make up a great deal of fusion between the buttery taste and sweet aroma. Especially, the appearance of the sticky rice looks very cutely with eye-catching colour.
The sticky rice is cooked with coconut milk, so it has a great flexibility and naturally sweet taste. The sellers will cleverly put the wisp of sticky rice into the round segment of jackfruit and then sprinkle coconut milk and roasted peanuts. The fresh jackfruit mixed within the fat of coconut milk, and the sweet taste of sticky rice, “vibrating” the heart of all visitors on food walking tour who try it once.
You can visit Saigon Chef Shop on Co Giang Street (District 1) or the online snack shops to order these delicious sweet sticky rice!
Sticky rice with mango
The delicious and eye-catching set of sticky rice originated from Thailand has now become a familiar snack to young Saigonese. Long grains of sticky rice are cooked with coconut milk until they are tender, soft and fragrant with the fatty smell full of excitement. People choose the ripe mango but still retain the firm taste. Ingredients indispensable – coconut milk – is sprinkled all over the set of sticky rice, arousing appetite of gourmets.
Desserts make people “fall in love” with it by the delicate blend of fatty sticky rice and sweet from sliced mango. The more you enjoy, the more levels of ecstatic flavours spreading you feel. Sticky rice with mango is available at Mango Story Restaurant or you can also order at the online snack shop.
Xoi cade
The small and cute set of xoi cade gently wrapped in fresh green banana leaves is a typical Chinese dish in Saigon. Xoi cade is not sophisticated in form, just scraped a layer of sweet cade into the sticky rice. The smooth cade is made from flour, eggs, coconut milk has brought a little salty and sweet, fatty tastes harmonize each other to enhance the taste for this popular dish.
To enjoy the delicious xoi cade in Saigon, you have to go to the corner of Tran Phu – Nguyen Tri Phuong (District 10). This place is famous for the delicious, attractive xoi cade with extremely affordable prices.
Sticky rice with coconut ice-cream
Eye-catching appearance and new flavours are factors that make sticky rice with coconut cream become a dessert that many young people love. Different shops will have different types of decoration, but the most prominent feature is the round ice-cream put on the smooth and sticky rice texture. Including this dish cannot lack some grains of corn, dried coconut or roasted peanuts.
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Thanks to the cool and aromatic flavour of ice cream when mixed with the fatty sticky rice, the dish becomes more and more attractive. To try the speciality in Saigon, visitors on vietnam food tour can come to discover is Ca Lem (District 3), ice cream shop roadside in Co Giang (District 1).