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It may not look like much, but mango sticky rice is a divine dessert.
The laudatory descriptions delivered prior to my departure by la belle Hoffmann-Ekstein put my palate in an anticipatory state. The reality here in Thailandia has been all too splendid. I’ve eaten banana sticky rice in Sydney and think of it fondly because it is the complementary dessert which accompanies home deliveries from Eat Thai, a stalwart of sedentary evenings in the inner-east. Banana sticky rice, as good as it is, isn’t a patch on mango sticky rice and it’s all in the texture. Sticky rice is steamed which makes it, at its best, chewy and sticky. The mango, should, ideally, be a firm and juicy counterpoint to the rice. One could make a case that a good banana should be firm but not too firm but a juicy banana is either overripe or squashed and hence the antithesis of firm. Ergo, mango is the superior accompaniment to sticky rice. A drizzle of fresh coconut cream seals the deal. And now, finally, I know how to make sticky rice. Hurrah!

PS: note P.G. Wodehouse casually placed in the background, what ho.