Hand-scrambled rice belongs to the Uyghur, Kazakh, Dai, Turkmen, Uzbek, and Russian Federation ethnic groups.

The Dai Hand-Grabbed Rice is a specialty of the Dai ethnic group in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province:

It starts with a layer of cleaned bajiao leaves on the table, and then the dishes are served, which are placed symmetrically, with rice in the middle of the table; there is rice and purple rice, garnished with eggs on top, and spicy chicken in the middle.

The Dai hand-held rice is eaten without chopsticks or bowls. Traditionally, a cluster of rice is taken from a small dish containing spices and then kneaded between the fingers to form a tight, soft ball and then eaten.

Nowadays, there is no need to pay attention to this, as each person wears a pair of disposable gloves to grab and eat whatever he or she wants to eat.

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Types of Hand-Grabbed Rice:

There are many types of hand-grabbed rice in the Uyghur population. There are many types and very rich varieties of colors. In addition to choosing vegetable oil, butter (cream) is also used to make grab rice. Of course, the nutritional value of the rice made with butter is the highest. In terms of meat, in addition to beef and mutton, snow chickens, pheasants, domestic chickens, ducks and geese are also used. Snow chicken meat has the best flavor.

However, some of the grabbing rice also do not put meat, and choose raisins, dried apricots, peach skin and other dried fruits to do, called sweet grabbing rice or vegetarian grabbing rice, equally delicious. In summer, the Uyghurs eat a lot of different kinds of rice. Uyghurs in southern Xinjiang like to put a kind of "BiYi" (papaya) in the rice, and some also put eggs and vegetables.

The most interesting thing is to put some yogurt on the good rice, called "Ke Bei Ke Bo Nuo", which is not only the best hunger, but also heat relief food. However, now the Uyghur people are most concerned about the "Axi Man Tu", which is also known as the bun rice.

Five or six thin-skinned buns are placed in each bowl of rice. Both rice and buns are Uyghur's finest meals, and combining the two is a great addition to a great meal. The host will only make this kind of rice to entertain guests if they come with VIPs and friends and relatives.

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