In every fall, when the wind gently blows through the streets of Hanoi, people often remember green sticky rice. It is the Hanoi traditional food, is the gift of Trang An people in every autumn.
A story of green sticky rice
It is not known exactly when the green sticky rice is created. However, there is a story about the origin of this traditional dish.
On a fall a thousand years ago, when the rice was still young, it rained heavily, the wind was strong. The broken dike made rice fields be flooded.
People in Vong Village cut the young rice, fry roasted to overcome famine. Unbelievably, the product had its own very attractive flavor, making the villagers often do to eat every fall. Accumulating more experiences and creativities, the people made the green sticky rice thinner, more delicious and more fragrant.
This special food passed over the border of Village was given to people from the street vendors. Then it became the special gift to Ly Dynasty and one of the famous elegant dishes of the Trang An people.
The Autumn – the season of green sticky rice
If you take a Hanoi street food tour in autumn, you will have a chance to enjoy the unforgettable flavor of green sticky rice from the street vendors. This gift of autumn is both soft and fragrant – the simple and fresh fragrance of young sticky rice with the milk flavor.
Along with the two rice seasons, the young sticky rice is almost year-round. Especially, when each family has a refrigerator, the preservation of fresh young sticky rice also become easier. Therefore, when the fall is over, Hanoians are still able to hold the flavor of the fresh delicious dish for a long time.
However, it is the best to eat young sticky rice in the fall. In this season, the lotus leaves incorporate quintessential aroma of nature. The young green rice is covered with the lotus leaves, begins to follow the footsteps of vendors in each alley. Thanks to the favorable weather, the green sticky rice in the autumn are always softer, greener and more fragrant than in the summer.
The young sticky rice with fresh green as emerald wrapped in the dark-green of lotus leaves is the gift of nature to people.
Enjoyment of young green rice
Green sticky rice is often eaten by hand, directly from the lotus leaves and very slowly to appreciate all its perfect flavors. Therefore, young sticky rice only belongs to people who can have freetime. Hanoians buy this special present one by one.
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There are many ways to enjoy the young green rice. People often eat directly, but other people use it to make some delicious food such as sweet gruel, young rice cake, ice cream, young rice cake stir-fried with coconut, etc. if you find Hanoi street food, you certainly can enjoy this dishes made from young green rice.