South East Asia Adventure | Rice 12-ways

This is a short list of the ways we have eaten rice over the weeks, but definitely not complete!

1. steamed
2. fried
3. noodles, in soup for breakfast or lunch (sometimes pho and sometimes just noodle soup)
4. sticky, wrapped in a banana leaf
5. pancakes, with fried bananas and honey
6. fried spring rolls, with translucent rice paper, filled with meat and vegetables
7. fresh spring rolls, with translucent paper, rolled with noodles, meat or fish and greens
8. sweet porridge, sometimes with pistachios on top
9. Red Yao rice bread (not bread at all)
10. mixed with coconut cream, fried in a cast iron pan, served in a banana leaf
11. wine, distilled, sweet, tart and with sugar cane (wiski)
12. medicine, with snakes, scorpions, bears' paws and other things to provide health benefits

Okay, we didn't try the medicine, but it's tempting! You just bring a glass to the local dispensary and they tap it out of a big jug, or you can buy a small bottle to take away. No thanks.