Five-coloured sticky rice is one of the specialties of Sapa that visitors should taste once when coming here. Sticky rice has a rustic taste, not only delicious and beautiful but also carries a lot of special and profound meanings.

Five-coloured sticky rice has 5 different colors including: red - yellow - blue - purple - white. According to the concept of the people of the Northwest, five-coloured sticky rice means expressing the desire for love. This sticky rice dish represents the love of the mother, the father, the love of the couple, and the loyalty of the couple, and also symbolizes good luck and good things.
  5 sticky colors, each color has a different meaning. Red symbolizes the desire to live, the dream of a bright future. Yellow represents prosperity and abundance. The green color will represent the Northwest mountains, trees, forests, and upland fields. Purple represents the color of the rich land. And finally, white represents pure and faithful love.

The ingredients to make five-color sticky rice include: sticky rice and are mixed with forest leaves to dye.
  To cook delicious five-coloured sticky rice is also quite sophisticated. Before bringing the rice to be dyed, the sticky rice must be washed and soaked in water for 6-8 hours. Then will bring rice divided into 5 different parts, each part corresponding to 1 color. The red color of sticky rice is dyed from gac or red rice leaves. Green uses ginger leaves or grapefruit peel to dye. The yellow color is obtained from the juice of crushed turmeric. Purple color is obtained from black rice leaves.
  Five-coloured sticky rice of the Tay ethnic nation is cooked according to folk experience, so it has a delicious, greasy, and attractive taste. In addition, the colors dyed with rice are all kinds of forest leaves, so they have the effect of curing intestinal diseases and are very good for human health. The Tay people also believe that if the sticky rice that someone's home makes has a beautiful, standard color, it is considered skillful and business will be very prosperous.
  The Tay ethnic people make five-coloured sticky rice in rituals of worshiping anniversaries or on New Year's Day such as the 5th of May and the full moon of July every year. But if you travel to Sapa, you can enjoy five-color sticky rice at the shops in the markets or on the food street of Sapa.
  If you want to enjoy five-coloured sticky rice and other attractive dishes in Sapa, do not hesitate any longer without a backpack and come here at the nearest time. If you need to add more travel experiences or book a room in Sapa to have a more complete trip, you can call Vua Ot resort at 02143-855-788 for the fastest support and most accurate.