Local foods in Mai Chau
1. Steamed sticky rice in bamboo tubes - Mai Chau is the hometown of various types of fragment rice, it has also the place of “Com lam” or so called the steamed sticky rice in bamboo tubes. This special rice is made from glutinous rice which is grown right on Mai Chau highland.
Steamed sticky rice in bamboo tubes
2. Grilled pork- which is made from an unique type of pig raising in this land. After being burn in fire, the grilled meat is carefully sliced into the small pieces and mixed with various types of spices such as salt, chili, powder, lemon grass, ginger and vinegar.
Grilled Pork
3. Five color sticky rice – it is well known as a daily food of Thai people, is famous for its wonderful texture and taste. Grown and harvested right on the paddy fields on the mountain side in Mai Chau, the rice is cooked in a wooden cylindrical steamer, bringing along the very unique flavor.
Five color sticky rice
4. Mai Ha wine – the traditional art of skillful white Thai people shall never forget that special taste. When you open the bottle, you can smell the flavor vanish through the air. It takes much skill and experience throughout a sophisticated process. It is a really specialty of this highland.
Mai Ha wine