Bamboo rice is a kind of flavor food often cooked by Dai, Lahu, Bulang, Jinuo, Jingpo and many other ethnic groups. There are two kinds of ordinary bamboo rice and fragrant bamboo glutinous rice. Dai people like to eat fragrant bamboo glutinous rice, while other ethnic groups like to eat ordinary bamboo rice. At the same time, bamboo rice is also a traditional food of Li nationality in Hainan. This is a kind of cooked food, filled with rice and spices in fresh bamboo tubes. The same is true for Li people, who are more likely to make them in the wild in mountainous areas or bake them with charcoal at home.

Bamboo tube rice is made by mixing Shan Lan rice (a kind of upland rice) and fragrant rice with meat as raw materials, putting it into a bamboo tube sawn by fresh pink bamboo or mangosteen, adding appropriate amount of water, then tightly blocking the mouth of the bamboo tube with banana leaves, and burning green bamboo in charcoal fire.

The cooking method of bamboo tube rice is quite characteristic of picnic, that is, cut off a bamboo tube, add a proper amount of Shan Lan rice and water, and then bake it on the fire. When the surface of the bamboo tube is burnt, the rice is cooked. Split the bamboo tube, the rice is wrapped in bamboo film, soft and delicious, with the fragrance of bamboo and rice. When eating, break the bamboo tube and take out the rice, which is the famous "bamboo tube fragrant rice". If pork lean meat is mixed with fragrant glutinous rice and proper amount of salt and baked into fragrant glutinous rice in a bamboo tube, it is a precious and beautiful food for entertaining VIPs.