Bamboo rice is the Dai, Hani, Lahu, Brown, Jinuo, Jingpo and many other ethnic groups often do a flavorful meal.

Yunnan border is not only a wide variety of bamboo, national bamboo culture is also extremely rich, the use of bamboo and the production of various ethnic groups, habits are closely related to different ethnic groups have a different way of using bamboo, such as the Dai people use bamboo young culms burned bamboo rice, not only delicious, but also has a very high nutritional value.

Bamboo rice cooking method is quite a picnic characteristics, that is, cut down a section of bamboo tube, loaded with the right amount of mountain rice and water, placed in the fire roasted, when the bamboo tube surface burnt, the rice is cooked. Split the bamboo tube, the rice is wrapped by the bamboo film, soft and delicious, with the fragrance of the bamboo and the fragrance of the rice. When you break open the bamboo tube to take out the rice, this is the famous "bamboo tube fragrant rice". If the lean pork mixed with glutinous rice and the right amount of salt into the bamboo tube baked into glutinous rice, the aroma of the nose, is to entertain the guests of the precious beauty of the food.

The Origin of Bamboo Rice

The original name of the bamboo rice was "Robbers' Rice" and it was invented only about 20 years ago by robbers who robbed houses and fought with open fire. It is said that one year there is a group of robbers, was besieged by officials and soldiers in the Huayng Mountain, which is rich in bamboo, the most robbers headache is in the mountains can not find people to cook rice to eat.

Because of the urgent need, so a smart guy came up with a method: the mountain bamboo cut off a section, will carry the raw rice with the stream water, loaded into the bamboo tube, half water half rice, the tube on the bamboo leaves and grasses sealed, coated with diluted mud, put in the withered leaves, burning fire simmering. Wait until the withered leaves into ash, the tube of rice will be mature rice. The rice will be soft, hard and fragrant with fresh bamboo. Each tube can have a small two bowls of rice.

Later, this cooking method invented by robbers spread, people really tasted the fragrance of bamboo. The good people also mixed meat, poultry and vegetables with rice to make bamboo tube rice, which was served on the table for people to enjoy. As a result, there is this art on the tip of the tongue in Sichuan cuisine - bamboo rice.