Sticky Rice With Ant Eggs (Xôi Trứng Kiến)
Dinner @ "Highway4 Restaurant", famed for their innovative dishes using local ingredients.
External Review:
"Food was daring and avant-garde.....there is an insect menu as a hint....but the levels of service was immensely atrocious! Mate and myself has arrived early for dinner and placed our orders. Not only was my order served backwards from mains to starters to cold salad, they didn’t inform me that my original salad had run out for the day. As such tables around me that had arrived later ended up finishing their meals ahead of my table! Then I had to chase them repeatedly for my new orders but they refused to be rushed. It was a 2.5 hours ordeal of a simple dinner I didn’t bargain for.
I was not at all impressed!!!"
Third dish to arrive. I had anticipated trying this out as ant eggs are viewed as delicacies in this part of the world ever since I read Natacha Du Pont De Bie's "Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos". And there were fried ants in the rice as well, as my mate curiously sieved through the ingredients dusted onto the sticky rice.
In all fairness, I wouldn't know that the dish contained fried ants and ant eggs if no one told me so - the taste was dominated by the generous amounts of fried shallots, fried small shrimps and chopped herbs. It was rather impossible to really sample the taste of the ant eggs amidst its ardently flavourful neighbours.
Sticky Rice With Ant Eggs (Xôi Trứng Kiến)
Dinner @ "Highway4 Restaurant", famed for their innovative dishes using local ingredients.
External Review:
"Food was daring and avant-garde.....there is an insect menu as a hint....but the levels of service was immensely atrocious! Mate and myself has arrived early for dinner and placed our orders. Not only was my order served backwards from mains to starters to cold salad, they didn’t inform me that my original salad had run out for the day. As such tables around me that had arrived later ended up finishing their meals ahead of my table! Then I had to chase them repeatedly for my new orders but they refused to be rushed. It was a 2.5 hours ordeal of a simple dinner I didn’t bargain for.
I was not at all impressed!!!"
Third dish to arrive. I had anticipated trying this out as ant eggs are viewed as delicacies in this part of the world ever since I read Natacha Du Pont De Bie's "Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos". And there were fried ants in the rice as well, as my mate curiously sieved through the ingredients dusted onto the sticky rice.
In all fairness, I wouldn't know that the dish contained fried ants and ant eggs if no one told me so - the taste was dominated by the generous amounts of fried shallots, fried small shrimps and chopped herbs. It was rather impossible to really sample the taste of the ant eggs amidst its ardently flavourful neighbours.