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| | Toasting Vietnamese rice wine |
 | | The local liquor, traditional tonic or medicinal wine can be a concoction of awk rice, corn, herbs, cassava or fruit, and even animals like snakes, geckos, sea-horses, goats or crows. |
 | | Trac explains the distinction between glutinous rice liquor, ordinary rice liquor, and cassava liquor: "It is very difficult to make a distinction between glutinous rice liquor and ordinary rice liquor. |
 | | Ordinary rice liquor is not so tasty or aromatic, though some distillers add some leaves of glutinous rice to add scent or flavour. |
| vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn /2004-09/18/Stories/30.htm (1051 words) |
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