Muong Thanh tam rice Gạo tám Điện Biên

Gạo tám Điện Biên is the small, plump, opaque rice of the Mường Thanh fields. The cooked rice is lightly fragrant and sticky, with a deep taste as you chew.

Muong Thanh tam rice, Gạo tám Điện Biên
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Texture

Vietnamnet says the raw grains smell before they are cooked, and that the cooked rice is lightly fragrant, sticky like sticky rice, with a deep taste when chewed.

How to enjoy it

Cook it as rice. Vietnamnet says people also use it for cơm lam and for khẩu cắm, khẩu háng, and khẩu papa.

Where to try it

Mường Thanh, as the rice’s home on Vietnamnet.