7 best rice dishes in Southeast Asia

Vietnam's banh chung and Thailand's mango sticky rice are both selected to be on this list.

Rice is an indispensable part of Southeast Asian cuisine. This is also the reason why you should not miss the most delicious and beautiful rice dishes introduced by the ASEAN travel website Goasean below.

1. Nasi Lemak - Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore

The heart of Nasi Lemak is the rice cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaves to create a fragrant rice dish, served with fried fish, peanuts, boiled vegetables or sliced ​​cucumber, boiled egg and sambal (a traditional chili sauce). This dish is also often served with chicken or squid.

2. Khao Niao Mamuang (mango sticky rice) - Thailand

This dish is very popular with tourists, and is considered a snack or "national" dessert in Thailand. The dish has the fragrant taste of sticky rice, the rich and fatty taste of coconut milk combined very harmoniously with sweet Thai mango.

3. Hainanese Chicken Rice - Singapore, Malaysia

The rice used in Hainanese chicken rice has a distinctive shine and aroma thanks to the chicken stock used to make it. The dish is served with grilled or steamed chicken, sliced ​​cucumbers, and a chili garlic dipping sauce. Some people also like to add blanched bean sprouts.

4. Banh Chung - Vietnam

Banh chung is a cake made from sticky rice, mung beans and pork. Usually, people will wrap the cake in dong leaves, and the string to tie the cake is taken from giang tree - a type of bamboo. A pair of banh chung is a popular gift during every Lunar New Year in Vietnam.

5. Nasi Goreng - Indonesia and Malaysia

Nasi Goreng literally means “fried rice,” which refers to the many ways a dish is prepared, with the main ingredient being fried rice and a variety of other ingredients, such as vegetables and seafood. The dish is popular because of its versatility, with the most common being fried rice with garlic, chili, and sweet soy sauce.

6. Suman - Philippines

This is a dish of sticky rice cooked in coconut milk, wrapped in palm leaves and steamed. It is usually served with sugar, coconut threads or a mixture of both. Some people also like to eat it with latik, a syrup made from diluted coconut milk.

7. Lemang - Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia

Lemang is a combination of sticky rice, coconut water, a little salt, and a hollow bamboo tube. People use banana leaves to wrap the sticky rice, then put everything into the bamboo tube to prevent the sticky rice from sticking to the tube but still have the characteristic aroma. Lemang is often eaten with chicken, beef, especially loved during the Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha festivals.

According to Ngoisao.net