Bamboo tube rice is usually made when the Li family goes on a long trip, goes hunting in the mountains or entertains guests. Bamboo tube rice is a traditional delicacy of the Li people in Hainan.

Ordinary bamboo tube rice is a meal filled with rice and seasonings baked in fresh bamboo tubes. It is often made outdoors in mountainous areas or grilled with charcoal at home. "Fragrant rice" made from shanlan rice (a kind of upland rice) and mixed with meat is used as raw material. It is put into a bamboo tube sawn from fresh pink bamboo or mangosteen, add an appropriate amount of water, and then seal the mouth of the bamboo tube tightly with banana leaves. , the green bamboo can be charred in the charcoal fire.

There are four types of bamboo tube rice: game rice, meat-flavored rice, black bean rice, and yellow meat rice. Fragrant rice is known as salt and pepper fragrant rice, black bean fragrant rice, etc. The most delicious is game fragrant rice. The game suitable for making fragrant rice is partridge meat, venison, pheasant meat, poor snake meat, wild boar meat, yellow pheasant meat, etc. Among them, yellow pheasant meat rice is the most fragrant. At present, you can taste Li people’s fragrant rice in hotels and Li tourist villages in Wuzhi Mountain. Nowadays, chefs have improved on the traditional basis and put it on the banquet table. It has a high reputation and has become a famous Hainan delicacy.

The preparation method is to wash the Shanlan rice, soak it for half an hour, pick it up, add refined salt and MSG and mix well. Cut the lean pork into slices, marinate with dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, and five-spice powder. Heat the pan with oil and stir-fry the meat slices until cooked. Remove from the pan and let cool, then cut into cubes for later use. Take fresh green bamboo (longer pitch is better), saw one end of each section, wash and dry, wipe the inner wall of the bamboo tube with refined lard, mix the seasoned Shanlan rice and lean meat grains evenly, divide into two equal parts Add portions into two bamboo tubes, add appropriate amount of water, then tie and seal the mouth of the bamboo tube with a clean cloth, put it in an electric oven and bake it for about half an hour until cooked, turn off the power and continue drying in the oven. Take out the mature bamboo tube rice, untie the cloth strips, saw it into several small sections, place it on the plate and serve it. As a result, the bamboo joints are green, the rice sauce is yellow, the aroma is elegant, and the taste is soft and transparent. When eating, drink a sip of Lijia's "Shanlan Wine", take a small bite of bamboo tube rice, and chew slowly and carefully, which is even more interesting.