Yes
When the new shoots of Golden Bamboo, Fragrant Bamboo, Thin Bamboo, and Sweet Bamboo have long joints and leaves, the ethnic minorities in Wenshan Prefecture will make bamboo tube rice.
Eating bamboo rice has been practiced since ancient times. At that time, when people went hunting in the mountains and worked far away, it was inconvenient to carry pots and bowls, so they had to use local materials to cook bamboo rice. Nowadays, people still like to eat bamboo tube rice during festivals because of its delicious color and aroma.
Bamboo tube rice uses fresh bamboo tubes of golden bamboo, fragrant bamboo, thin bamboo, and sweet bamboo as containers. Each bamboo section is filled with water and rice. It is usually sealed with wide banana leaves or zongba leaves. The rice can be glutinous rice or fragrant rice.
There are two ways to make bamboo tube rice: 1. Wash the rice, soak it for more than half an hour, then put it in a bamboo tube, seal the opening with leaves and palm leaves, put it in a pot and add water to cook Ripe. After the rice is cooked, some people just cut open the bamboo tube to eat. 2. Put the rice into a bamboo tube, add an appropriate amount of spring water, seal it with leaves and tie it tightly, put the bamboo tube downwards and the mouth upward, and stand it in a blazing fire. When you smell the aroma of rice, you can cut the bamboo to eat. The bamboo tube rice is fresh green in color and fragrant in taste.