Nam Khao for breakfast...

Our very first breakfast and still a firm favourite! It is called Nam Khao which I think is actually the name of the mixture that goes inside.  

First a liquid of rice is poured on a cotton cloth that is tightly bound on a drum over coals. The mixture is spread around. Then a lid is put on and it steams into a kind of glutinous pancake.

Admittedly that doesn't sound great so far! 

Here you can see the liquid being spread and the silver lid behind.

The liquid is as runny and thin as water and it seems impossible that it will set but it does!

The cook then loosens the pancake of sorts from the cloth with a piece of bamboo and cuts it into pieces as it is quite fragile. 

She uses a fat piece of bambo to drape the pieces over so she can lift them to her preparation area. Then she adds the filling which you can see in the silver bowl and folds them up to make small soggy packages a bit like cold spring rolls but much thicker skins and more glutinous.

You can have them with an egg cooked on as well. 

You eat them with toppings sprinkled like lime juice, chopped peanuts, special sauce that I don't know how to describe, chilli...

I'll try and take some more photos to show them being made and then eaten!

Super yum!