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Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2001. Paperback. As New/no dj. 0.42. This study presents, on a multi-disciplinary basis, the fabulous role of glutinous rice in day-to-day life and in ceremonial festivities and religious manifestations. The author sums up his four decades of research and cross-checks with documents and eyewitnesses both past and present, and with polls, surveys and interviews performed recently. All these are supported by sayings, proverbs, lullabies, folksongs and folktales from North to South Vietnam and, to some extent, in various neighboring countries where local people share with the Vietnamese their traditional ways of preparing multiple specialties, types of gruel, soups, porridges, cakes in endless kinds of shapes and colors but the key ingredient remains glutinous rice. The Vietnamese bánh giây is closely linked to the Japanese mochi, the Chinese nian gao; the budbud in Mindanao (the Philippines) and makes us remember the Indonesian lemper, the Vietnamese bánh tét, the Thai khao…
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- Title Glutinous
- Author Nguyen Xuan Hien
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- Edition First Edition
- Language ENG
- Publisher White Lotus Co Ltd, Bangkok
- Date December 31, 2003
- ISBN 9789747534238
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Glutinous-Rice-Eating Tradition in Vietnam
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