Unique sticky rice with bamboo shoots

Just a familiar dish cooked from glutinous rice, skillfully combined with bamboo shoots, but has become a familiar breakfast dish.
Kon Tum is considered as the culinary land of the Central Highlands. The people here have created many of their own dishes, bearing the direction of the mountains and forests of the Central Highlands. Among them can be mentioned sticky rice with bamboo shoots – a very strange dish. Just a familiar dish cooked from glutinous rice, skillfully combined with bamboo shoots, but has become a familiar breakfast dish.

For many people who live and work in Kon Tum, as familiar as sticky rice is with bamboo shoots, for those who come from far away for the first time, sticky rice with bamboo shoots becomes a strange dish. Perhaps partly because they are familiar with traditional sticky rice such as corn sticky rice, xeo sticky rice, green bean sticky rice, etc., everyone is curious when they hear about sticky rice with bamboo shoots. Sticky bamboo shoots look quite simple, only consisting of cooked sticky rice and fried bamboo shoots above. Kon Tum people like to eat spicy, so each bowl also has a red chili. The way to make sticky rice with bamboo shoots is also simple and not very fussy. Fresh bamboo shoots, after being dug in the forest, are peeled off, washed and cut into bite-sized pieces. Through preliminary processing to remove the smell, bamboo shoots are stir-fried with spices to become rich. Selected glutinous rice is soaked in dilute salt water mixed with turmeric powder to color for about 8 hours, then bring out the cooked food. That’s the “traditional” style of sticky rice with bamboo shoots. But people are also creative to make sticky rice more delicious and attractive. In the early morning, next to the pot of sticky rice and fried bamboo shoots, there are also braised fish for customers to choose from. Sometimes, braised fish is replaced with salty braised beans. So the customer has a new item in the “menu” that changes. In the early morning, the seller puts a large batch of hot sticky rice with a pot of fried bamboo shoots and a few sets of fresh banana leaves to pack for customers who want to take away. People who come to buy only need to spend 7,000 VND, those who eat a lot, buy about 10,000 VND to have a cheap and delicious breakfast. However, if only that is the case, the sticky rice dish in Kon Tum is still not enough to be attractive. Besides fried bamboo shoots, the seller also skillfully processed braised fish and bamboo shoot porridge for more variety. So the sticky rice restaurant has more menus for customers to choose from. Those who like to be vegetarian can choose sticky rice with bamboo shoots, if they like mixed, order more braised fish with bamboo shoots or young children can have a breakfast with bamboo shoot porridge with their parents. In addition to bamboo shoots, guests can choose bamboo shoot porridge which is equally attractive, with its own characteristics in the charm of color with a little bright yellow of bamboo shoots. Placed on a bowl of turmeric-colored sticky rice, bamboo shoots attract passersby with a special aroma, making many people linger just to buy a pack of sticky rice in time for work. Unknowingly that delicious dish became something to hold people back once through the mountainous town of the Central Highlands.