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Nho Quan ant egg sticky rice - Ninh Binh | Famous specialty of Ninh Binh province

Ninh Binh is famous as a tourist land with many attractive local specialties. If Kim Son has Lai Thanh wine, Hoa Lu is famous for mountain goats or Yen Mac is associated with unique Yen Mac spring rolls, then coming to Nho Quan, visitors can enjoy the local specialty, sticky rice with rare  Nho Quan ant eggs  , a unique feature. beautiful culinary culture in Ninh Binh.

When you hear the word “ant eggs”, you will be curious to know what this dish is like?. To make sticky rice with ant eggs, the most important ingredient is brown ant eggs. Brown ant eggs live a lot in the Nho Quan limestone mountains, every year in the second lunar month, people here start their journey to beat ant eggs. After the ant eggs are brought back, they will be cleaned with warm water, drained, marinated with spices, and then processed into this unique and strange sticky rice dish. Because ant eggs are quite difficult to find, the price of this sticky rice dish is quite high from 50,000-100,000 VND/plate.

Strange with ant egg sticky rice
Strange with ant egg sticky rice

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