Cuisine

Xoi (streamed sticky rice) is a familiar Vietnamese food, but xoi com is only available in the fall in Hanoi. The most distinctive feature of xoi com is the softness of the grains and the buttery coconut strips and lotus seeds. Xoi com is a great combination of the colors of nature – the green grains of com, the yellow mung beans, the milky lotus seeds and the white coconut strips. The sweet scent of young rice mixed with the aroma of lotus flower is like an invitation to the paddy fields in the north of Vietnam someday in fall.