The Dai people's hand-grabbed rice is a special food of the Dai people in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. It is to spread a layer of clean banana leaves on the table first, and then serve it. The dishes are placed symmetrically, and the rice is placed in the middle of the table. There are rice and purple rice, decorated with eggs and spicy chicken in the middle.

You don't need chopsticks and bowls to eat Dai finger food, so you grab it with your hands. Traditionally, a string is first picked from a small dish containing seasoning, then kneaded into a tight and soft ball with your fingers and eaten in your hand.

Nowadays, there is no need to pay attention to hand-grabbed rice. Everyone wears a pair of disposable gloves to grab whatever they want to eat.

Hand-grabbed rice type

Uygur people have a wide variety of pilaf, with very rich varieties of colors. Besides vegetable oil, butter (cream) is also used to make pilaf. Of course, pilaf made with butter has the highest nutritional value. In terms of meat, in addition to beef and mutton, snow chickens, pheasants and domestic chickens, ducks and geese are also used. Snow chicken pilaf tastes best.

But some pilaf is made of dried fruits such as raisins, dried apricots and peach peels instead of meat, which is called sweet pilaf or vegetarian pilaf, and it is equally delicious. In summer, Uighurs eat more kinds of pilaf. Uighurs in southern Xinjiang like to put a kind of "Bi Ye" (papaya) in their pilaf, and some people also put eggs and vegetables.

The most interesting thing is to put some yogurt on the prepared pilaf, which is called "Kebei Bokno". It is not only the first-class food to satisfy hunger, but also the food to relieve summer heat. But now Uighurs are most particular about "Assimantu", that is, steamed stuffed bun pilaf.

Put five or six thin wallets in each bowl of pilaf. Pilaf and pancakes are both good Uygur food. The combination of the two is really the best and icing on the cake. Only when VIPs, relatives and friends come will the host cook this kind of meal to entertain the guests.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Hand-grabbed Rice.