Nom Ansom which is also known as Khmer sticky rice cake, is a traditional dessert used and made to celebrate Pchum Ben. Pchum Ben, also known as Ancestor’s Day, is a Cambodian religious Buddhist festival that happens for 15 days every year and it usually takes place in late September. Almost every year my parents and their friends would make or buy Nom Ansom and bring it to a Buddhist temple to celebrate Pchum Ben. They would all gather and pray together in the temple and then offer the dessert to the monks, relatives, and their ancestors. Nom Ansom is made out of glutinous rice, pork, mung beans, and then it is wrapped with banana leaves. You also tie the dessert with strong plastic strings around it. Once you filled in the pork and mung beans within the rice and wrap it with banana leaves and have it ted, you steam the dessert in the steamer. For some people, it takes about a few hours to make them, but it's worth the time in making Nom Ansom because it’s delicious and many people enjoy eating it.
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