Chinese pay attention to "the people take food as the sky", and it is not a day or two to love food. This people seems to have known since ancient times to use nature to find some delicacies for themselves, whether it is birds and animals or vegetation, they have been tried.
As a result, the widely distributed bamboo was inevitably tried, and surprisingly, the use of bamboo's fragrance really made the rice more delicious, and this way of eating it has been passed down to this day.
Bamboo tube rice is this delicacy.
Xishuangbanna in Yunnan is a remote and beautiful place in everyone's heart, where the Dai people who have lived there have been bamboo for generations, and they use bamboo to make daily necessities, not only stools, tables, and even houses are made of bamboo. In this environment, they unsurprisingly created a delicious combination of bamboo and rice – Dai bamboo tube rice.
The bamboo tube rice of the Yunnan Dai ethnic group is a very representative specialty of Yunnan national cuisine, mainly popular in Xishuangbanna, Pu'er, Dana and other regions. The Dai people cut down the fresh bamboo, separated it section by section, put the high-quality glutinous rice into the bamboo knot, soaked it in water for a few hours, and then stuffed the mouth of the bamboo tube with washed banana leaves, grilled it over a low flame, and boiled the water. Finally, take out the bamboo tube and gently knock it on the wooden board, peel off the outer layer of the bamboo tube, and get the delicious and attractive sticky rice inside.
Yunnan Dai ethnic bamboo tube rice fusion rice, green bamboo fragrance in one, verdant bamboo knots, hidden with yellow rice sauce, the aroma wafting out is very tempting, eat in the mouth of the soft taste, eat not only has the unique fragrance of bamboo, but also has the aroma of food baking, the perfect fusion of the two aromas, making the bamboo rice taste more charming, is Yunnan color and aroma, the most ethnic characteristics of a flavor food.
In addition to the bamboo tube rice of the Dai people in Yunnan, the zou bamboo tube rice in Taiwan and the Li family bamboo tube rice in Hainan are also unmissable delicacies.
In the Ali Mountains of Taiwan, where bamboo forests are everywhere, bamboo tube rice is also their special snack, the same is bamboo tube rice, their traditional practice is to fill the bamboo tube with raw glutinous rice in the bamboo tube of Guizhu, and then stuff the cabbage or mountain puff pastry into the mouth of the bamboo tube for charcoal roasting, dehydration and then accompanied by Alishan specialty Wa shami with soy sauce dipping sauce, a full of flavor Zou cuisine stands out. In addition, there is also a new method of adding condiments directly to the bamboo tube, which is very delicious. This kind of rice is a light meal brought by the Bunun compatriots in the Alishan area when they go to the field to work, and is often eaten by ordinary families in Taiwan, and it is also sold openly in rice shops.
In Hainan, bamboo tube rice, as a traditional food of the Li people, is a meal made of fresh bamboo tubes filled with rice and flavor ingredients. In the life of the Li people, it is generally made in the wild in the mountains or baked with charcoal at home. When eating, take a sip of the Li family's "Mountain Orchid Wine", take a small bite of bamboo rice, slowly chew and chew, full of fun. Now, after the improvement of the chef, the production process has improved a lot, and it has become a very famous delicacy in Hainan. If you are traveling through, it is a pity not to eat a meal.