The Dai ethnic group.

The Dai original pineapple rice is a special dessert of the Dai ethnic group. Its appearance is an ordinary pineapple, and the sticky rice inside the pineapple cup is sweet and sour, smooth and soft, with the flavorful and sticky rice and the sweet and sour of the fruit, which is very delicious.

The Dai (Roman: Dai), also known as the Thai (Thai:, Roman: Thai), Shan (Roman: Shan), etc., the national language for the Dai (Thai), belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family of Zhuang-Dong language Zhuang Dai language branch.

The Dai people regard peacocks and elephants as mascots, and their folk tales are colorful and colorful. The Dai people like to live by the water, love cleanliness, often bathe, and women love to shampoo their hair, so they are known as "the people of the water", and they used to believe in the Southern Theravada Buddhism and primitive religion.

The staple food of the Dai people is mainly rice. The Dehong area eats round-grained rice, and Xishuangbanna and other places love to eat glutinous rice, which is usually pounded and eaten now. The Dai's famous fragrant bamboo rice, also known as bamboo tube rice, that is, the glutinous rice in a fragrant bamboo tube, soaked in water for 15 minutes, and then baked by fire. Eat, beat the bamboo tube to make it soft, bamboo tube wall of the bamboo film will be attached to the rice, a knife cut in half, fragrant bamboo rice will be out of the bamboo and out of the rich aroma, rice soft and delicate.

There is also a unique pineapple purple rice, its flavor is sweet and delicious, and has the effect of tonifying the blood and lungs. Outdoor laborers often eat in the field, with banana leaves to hold a ball of glutinous rice, accompanied by salt, chili, sour meat, roast chicken, mumble, moss pine can be eaten. Meat has pigs, cows, chickens, ducks, do not eat or eat less mutton, good roast chicken, roast chicken, like to eat fish, shrimp, crabs, snails, moss and other aquatic products. Frequently eaten vegetables are cabbage, radish, bamboo shoots and beans.