Abstract
Sticky rice plays an important role in Vietnamese life and culture. Based mainly on popular oral tradition, this ethnocultural study first focuses on two most illustrious traditional sticky-rice cakes, the bánh giầy and bánh chưng, consumed during the Tết festival, possibly since the mythical times of the Hùng kings (2nd-1st millenia b.c.). Another famous delicacy, the cốm Vòng from Hà Nội, made of milky sticky rice, is eaten during the Mid-autumn festival. Many myths and legends refer toits preparation. While cốm is mostly popular among rural lowland Vietnamese, ethnic minorities, in the North as well as in the South, make similar cakes, and the Vietnamese diaspora has retained a craving for sticky rice.
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