Bamboo-tube rice Cơm lam
Sticky rice packed into a bamboo or nứa tube with stream water and roasted in the coals until the shell chars and splits away from a white center. Some M'Nong cooks mix in beans, wrap the rice in banana leaf instead, and grill it until it smells fragrant.
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The handbook says the rice is at festivals and gatherings. The Dak Nong tourism portal’s account of Hội Xuân Liêng Nung, dated 11 Jan 2023, serves it with grilled snakehead, unsalted grilled pork, and canh thụt. The same article also writes the festival name Liên Nung.
Texture
The handbook says the charred shell is split away and the center is white.
Taste
Bao Lam Dong says the banana-leaf rice smells fragrant when it comes off the grill.
How to enjoy it
The 2024 visitor handbook on the Dak Nong provincial portal and VnExpress’s handbook of 10 Sep 2023 say to soak glutinous rice, pack it into bamboo or nứa with stream water, and burn the tube on the fire or bury it in coals. Split off the charred shell.
Bao Lam Dong says M'Nong cooks may mix beans into the rice, wrap it in banana leaf, and grill it. The leaf stays green when the rice is cooked.
Eat it with the grilled meat.
Where to try it
Festivals and gatherings, including Hội Xuân Liêng Nung around Gia Nghia.