Grilled banana wrapped in sticky rice (grilled sticky rice banana) is a type of cake originating from the Mekong Delta, where there are many bananas and coconuts. The cake was made by the people here from simple and easy-to-find ingredients. Traveling to Can Tho, visitors will enjoy the sweet taste of this rustic dish.

By Thomas Vietnam at vemekong.com | All Best Foods & Restaurants in Can Tho

1. Better to Know as a Food Lover

Find them: Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho city.

Best time: Dusk-Dawn

Don’t miss: Coconut milk handmade

Local’s pick: Folk Cake Festival

Tourist’s pick:

– Next to the southern bookstore (right at the red light of Ngo Quyen Street), Peace Avenue, Ninh Kieu District.

– Banana Sticky Rice at the intersection of Xo Viet Nghe Tinh with Truong Dinh at the corner of Can Tho Tourism Intermediate School.

– Banana Sticky Rice at the end of Deer Street, opposite EMI Cafe, bordering the round lake on Huynh Cuong Street

– Banana Sticky Rice at Mau Than Street next to Tham Tuong canal embankment, Ninh Kieu District.

– Banana Sticky Rice Pham Ngu Lao at 35/78 Pham Ngu Lao, Ninh Kieu District.

– De Tham street food area, Ninh Kieu District.

– Baked Potatoes & Grilled Sticky Bananas on Ngo Quyen Street, Ninh Kieu District.

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Facts: It is called grilled sticky rice banana because the main ingredient is banana and sticky rice mixed together

2. Better to Know Grilled banana wrapped in sticky rice

The popularity of grilled sticky rice banana

This Vietnamese dish was voted the most popular street food at the world street food festival in Singapore last year.

World Street Food Congress (WSFC), takes place for 10 days in Singapore, ending on June 9. Representatives of 10 countries brought their national dishes to the festival, including Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Mexico, the US, Indonesia, China, India, Denmark, and Malaysia.

Representative of Vietnam, chef Vo Quoc presented 4 dishes of shrimp rice paper, sunbathing shrimp, grilled banana cake with coconut milk, and Banh Can Phan Rang, introduced to the world.

Grilled sticky rice banana – a rustic gift on the streets of Saigon became the most popular dish at the 2013 World Street Food Festival.

Of the 4 dishes of Vietnam, few people expect that the grilled sticky rice dish served with coconut milk will be highly appreciated by diners and become the most popular dish at the street food festival. During the 10 days of the festival, there are always long lines of customers waiting in line at this stall selling grilled glutinous bananas originating from the South.

3. Grilled banana wrapped in sticky rice in Can Tho

This simple dish in Can Tho is popular with foreign diners, first of all thanks to its attractive taste. Each banana is wrapped in glutinous rice, wrapped in banana leaves, then grilled and cooked over charcoal until it is ripe and crispy. To create a thin, crispy and fragrant coat, sticky rice is soaked and cooked with coconut water instead of regular water.

Baked yellow bananas can be left whole or cut into slices, sprinkled with coconut milk, a little onion fat, and roasted sesame seeds on top and enjoy. The combination of the soft sweetness of bananas, the fleshy but not greasy taste of coconut water, and the highlights from roasted sesame, onion fat… create a special appeal for the dish.

4. How to Make Grilled banana wrapped in sticky rice

Ingredients for grilled sticky rice banana

5 Western bananas

200ml coconut milk

200g glutinous rice

100g peanuts

50g tapioca flour (also known as small pearls)

100g banana leaves for wrapping

Tapioca starch, salt, sugar

How to make grilled sticky rice

Step 1. Cook sticky rice with coconut milk

First, you wash the glutinous rice and then add a small amount of water with a little salt and then put it in the rice cooker to cook. As soon as you see the sticky rice has just cooked, you continue to add about 50ml of coconut milk and 2 tablespoons of sugar and stir until smooth. Cook until the rice is soft, then let it cool and set aside.

The remaining 150ml of coconut milk is brought to a boil with the tapioca starch, you add a little salt, 4 tablespoons of sugar and a little tapioca. While boiling the pot of coconut milk, remember to stir well. Stir until the milk mixture thickens and blends, when the seeds float on the surface of the water, the pot of coconut milk is cooked.

Step 2. Prepare ingredients

Roast the peanuts until fragrant, then pound them until smooth.

Peel the bananas and remove the tendons.

Take the boiled starchy part and let it soak for about 15 minutes in a bowl of water, after 15 minutes are up, take it out, drain the water, then put it in the pot to boil.

Step 3. Baked Banana Pack

After preparing the ingredients, we continue to the step of wrapping bananas for baking.

First, take some sticky rice and spread it on a clean and dry nylon layer. Continue to put a banana on the center position of the surface of the sticky rice.

Roll the sticky rice wrapped with bananas by hand. When you see that the sticky rice and bananas have been firmly wrapped together, you remove the plastic layer and then leave.

Banana leaves after being washed and dried, you spread each piece of banana leaf on a cutting board, then put each banana wrapped in sticky rice on top, then wrap it securely.

Step 4. Bake the Sticky Rice Banana

Put all the bananas that have been wrapped in sticky rice and wrapped firmly in the oven for 30-40 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius.

Hot tip: You can also make this dish without an oven, just follow the same steps as above, at the stage of baking bananas, put them on the charcoal stove and bake until the outer layer of sticky rice is cooked, golden, Crispy, while bananas are soft.

Step 5. Finished Product

With only 4 very simple steps, an extremely delicious and attractive grilled banana dish has been completed. Sticky rice wrapped bananas have a sweet aroma, you cut the sticky bananas into small pieces and then put them on a plate, eat with freshly cooked hot coconut milk and a little soft, chewy tapioca, sprinkle a little peanut crush. It’s really awesome, isn’t it?

5. Pro tips:

Here are our tips for easing your mind (and stomach) around food-handling environments that you may not be used to.

Make sure the food is freshly cooked. If you’re eating hot street food, it’s always safest (not to mention more delicious) to eat food you can see being cooked to order.

Look for lines and busy stalls. Busy street food stalls are an indicator of popularity, and their high turnover rate means the food is never sitting out for hours and developing dreaded bacteria. Yes, long lines can be discouraging when you’re hungry after a full day of exploring, but it’s not worth the risk of grabbing precooked food from the empty spot next door.

Eat when the locals are eating. The last and most important element here is when to eat. You’re likely already on a weird eating schedule while you’re traveling, but it’s important to try and adjust to the eating times of where you are. A bowl of pho might be lunch for Americans, but it’s breakfast for the Vietnamese. This ensures that you’re eating freshly cooked food and that you can find the best and most popular places to eat.

If you can’t drink the water, then you can’t eat the salad. Most people get so hung up on not drinking the water or skipping ice in drinks that they don’t think about all of the other ways in which water is used in food service. Fruits and vegetables tend to be washed with tap water in most places, rather than the filtered water that locals drink—or sometimes it’s not washed at all. If you’re really craving some produce, try fruits you can peel or cooked veggies.

Trust your gut. If you’re unsure about the food or the way that it’s being prepared, then keep moving. Eating street food all over the world doesn’t make you an expert. Every stall and every country are different, and sometimes the rules can be harder to follow. When something doesn’t look, smell, or feel right, don’t eat it! Trust your judgment. Chances are that there’s another spot close by that’s making something more delicious.

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Hopefully, the above tips will help you to come up with a great plan for your adventure in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam. Have a safe trip!

“Sleep less, travel more, respect more” – Thomas Vietnam – Local travel expert.

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