Com lam - specialty mountains

Unlike the traditional way of cooking rice, cook it in a pot, the pot rice dishes here are cooked in bamboo tubes and the people here called gifts of rice.

It may sound strange but also rice, simply cooked rice into rice. However the difference in this cooking rice dish made with strange names attached to the mountains have children for a long time already.

Rice, simply invoking familiar with how mountain people cook with bamboo tube. Can understand that "blue" is using bamboo tube to replace the pot to cook, but to create pieces to eat pieces of drink than cooking in the pot and in particular, it's the way of cooking is the "artist", rustic unusual but also unusual swell of mountain people.
How to make rice, is quite simple. For rice was washed into the small bamboo tube, water used in cooking cork is the most juicy, tightly rolled leaves line a first node and the quality of firewood. Fire to them so that when the fire more shells into charcoal layer thin coating around the bamboo tube that is when rice is cooked. If you eat right, only the cutting of tubes, if want to be long, just put all grades cork burnt out, leaving only a thin shell clean white will be used all week without fear of rice was stale. Though not with any other food or dish of rice, salt is also very tasty and easy to eat.

You can eat rice, with other dishes, but this dish served with rice, salt is the most amazing galangal. Salt made from salt galangal galangal root crushed roasted with roasted sesame like style, very simple but delicious to my barn. Galangal spicy taste of salt mingled with the cool sweetness of the rice make created a frugal taste incredible. More creative, one fried rice, ripe for fresh coconut then served with delicious small security.

Today, rice, famous throughout the four directions, you can find people selling a lot of rice at markets in the mountains, where many tourists visit. And to serve additional needs of travelers, dishes of rice, specialty mountains of North Vietnam made a little different, they can add a little coconut milk with copra small cell mixed with glutinous rice and then to on the lam. Rice will moderate sweetness of the mountains just tastes of coconut fatty date will also be very tasty. Also skilful, people here also glutinous rice mixed with water color is made entirely from the mountains for rice, the color very attractive and tasty than the eye.

In addition to the northern mountainous area, you also may know a delicious rice dish wonder immense. Also similar to rice, but rice dishes to be cooked in this fresh coconut. Sticky rice, green beans soaked up mixed spices and stuffed into a coconut and also so as rice, firewood to fire the shell.

Lam's rice is sweet glutinous rice fields closely intertwined with sweetness is released from scented bamboo tube and very characteristic of the mountains. This rice, has become a commodity and also become food "specialties" in the restaurant, the hotel is well known and loved.