Xoi (sticky rice) is an extremely simple dish that is also cheap, so it is often used for breakfast, or to carry it for brunch.
But now it’s much more expensive. Of course, it is only expensive compared to it in the past but is still cheaper than many other dishes. In return, sticky rice now is so diversified! You can enjoy sticky rice with many toppings such as chicken meat, Offal stew, Char siu, and so on.
Bui Thi Xuan Sticky rice and sweet soup shop
There is a bit of a hilarious story is that nearly 40 years ago, this shop is just a tiny shop with some simple sticky rice and sweet soup. However, that simple dishes is “not mediocre” but extremely delicious, flavorful, and their quality is also high unsuspiciously. Therefore, people come to enjoy more and more, from then the name Bui Thi Xuan sticky rice and sweet soup shop gradually developed, became the famous shop in Saigon.
After nearly 40 years of development, Bui Thi Xuan sticky rice and sweet soup shop has become a great and modern shop. Here are dozens of different sticky rice, but the most famous is the chicken sticky rice and sticky rice with char siu meat which is marinated in the perfect manner. One of the interesting things when coming here is that travellers on vietnam food tours can enjoy the delicious sweet soups as a dessert besides sticky rice.
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Sticky rice covered with lotus leaf on Co Giang Street
The taste of sticky rice is dependent on the plasticity, moisture, and color of each grain. Delicious sticky rice must be plastic and soft and have attractive colors. In addition, it must have the fragrant aroma. Therefore, owners of sticky rice shops often used lotus leaves to cover the sticky rice to make the pack of rice become more flavorful. Until now, the lotus leaves become rarer and rarer in the city, sticky rice sellers gradually replace lotus leaves into banana leaves or plastic bag and box Styrofoam to reduce cost burden.
Rarely, a sticky rice shop on Co Giang Street still preserves style of cooking sticky rice with lotus leaves. A set of sticky rice in this shop including chicken meat, shrimp, rousong and sauce is covered with a lotus leaf and then steamed. Thanks to the hot steam, the fragrance of lotus leaf gradually soak into the sticky rice and even the core inside. Therefore, when enjoying it, visitors on food walking tour will feel the flavorful of lotus.
Cambodian sticky rice
This is a very strange dish for Vietnamese people because its origin is derived from Cambodian but the taste is quite familiar because it is made from simple ingredients such as Jaggery, chicken eggs, durian and coconut milk outside to add fatty taste to the specialty.
And the famous sticky rice original taste is located in the Cambodia market on Le Hong Phong District 10. Not only eating this special sticky, but you can also enjoy a lot of other sweet soups of the Cambodian in the heart of Saigon but still retaining the original flavor.
“Funeral home” stiicky rice
If you still like the taste of traditional sticky rice and still love the inherent cheapness of sticky rice, you can come here to enjoy. But you will feel the name of this shop is a little bit horror? In fact, this name has nothing connected with this sticky rice shop, but because it is located near funeral homes, and people created this name to remember easily. But because of the name that people find easy to find it, and help this shop have existed for more than 40 years.
Sticky rice in Ba Chieu Market
This place is an ideal stop for those who like “sticky rice full of meat”. A set with delicious sticky rice, so much meat, the attractive flavor is only from 14 to 25 thousand VND. Sticky rice is wrapped in the fresh green banana leaf, which makes visitors on Vietnam food tour feel very excited and helps the package of rice become more delicious.