For folks going to Bangkok, Mae Varee on Soi Thonglor in Sukhumvit not only sells the best mango with sticky rice or khao niew mamuang (Thai: ข้าวเหนียวมะม่วง) in the capital, it also offers a wide range of mangoes of various sizes, and various stages of ripeness.
Steamed glutinous rice with mango, topped with crisp-fried yellow mung beans (or moong dhal) for an additional textural contrast to the soft-sticky rice.
@Saregama Have you ever tried a variant using durian? My Bangkokian maternal grandparents loved it more than the mango version itself. It’s called khao niew thoorien (Thai: ข้าวเหนียวทุเรียน).
Strangely, I’ve had sticky rice with durians from the time I was a toddler, but only first tasted the more common & better-known mango version in my young adulthood. Maybe it’s just my family.
Mae Varee is a classic (about a 10 min walk from where I stay in Bangkok) and not a bad choice but some time circa 2010 massive numbers of mostly HK toursts started showing up and the quality of the mangos has dropped a bit. Tourists from all over have now increased and no return to the quality of the “old days”. I still like the way they do the sticky rice, both sweetness and texture. Try the “sankaya” coconut egg custard topping instead of mangos one of these days.
If you are around on weekends, a moveable thai sweets stall that sets up sometimes at the end of Soi 57 or sometimes farther up the soi (one street down from Mae Varee on Sukhumvit) at the weekend market does a better version in season. Out of mango season the other toppings are also good the sticky rice better than Mae Varee.
Durian indoors? LOL!
I probably mentioned this before, but I was on a night bus in Malaysia years ago and a guy opened a durian after everyone fell asleep so he and his wife could have a mid-night snack. The bus driver stopped at the next village and threw them both off the bus.
People do not mess around when it comes to durian.
