There are three ways to make the Wa staple food: porridge, rotten rice and dry rice. Two or three meals a day are different. Cooking is a temporary meal, so you can eat as much as you want. Wa people generally like to eat rotten rice (between dry rice and porridge, semi-dry rice and semi-porridge). The cooking method is to put rice, vegetables, salt, peppers and meat (such as pork and beef) into a pot and cook them together until the rice is rotten, which is extremely delicious and attractive. In some areas, the staple food is dry rice, and the non-staple food is mainly vegetables, melons, sour bamboo shoots, salt, peppers, garlic or fresh meat, which is the most exquisite meal of the Wa people at ordinary times.
Wa language is called "Manibulao", which is a delicious food for Wa people to welcome guests. It can be eaten as both a meal and a dish. It is much softer than ordinary rice and drier than porridge. There are two ways to do it, one is called hand-torn chicken rice, and the other is called knife-cut chicken rice. The production method is unique, the color is bright, the taste is waxy, smooth and fresh, and it has a unique style. Wa rotten rice is a "dish" for Wa people to entertain VIPs, which is actually thick porridge. There is a saying that because the Wa people have the custom of eating "big pot rice", like whoever kills a pig, the whole village will go out and clean up the pork. Then how can the whole village share a chicken, so everyone who comes can share a bowl of porridge.
This kind of food is delicious, easy to digest and rich in nutrition. In the past, when the living standard was not high, the Wa people "lived for survival, worked hard for survival, and took turns drinking", that is, all kinds of plants were given priority to, with a small amount of food, and porridge was cooked to drink in turn. With the continuous improvement of living standards and the accumulation of practical experience, all kinds of rotten rice with local characteristics are becoming more and more fashionable and varied. Chicken rotten rice is very common among Wa people.
The specific production method of rotten chicken rice is: roast the killed chicken on the fire until the skin is yellow, then put the chicken in a pot with rice, sour bamboo shoots, salt, pepper and pepper. When the rice is cooked, take the chicken out and tear off the meat by hand, and add onion, fennel, garlic, pepper, mint and coriander. It should be noted that Wa people generally only use hairless local chicken to cook rotten chicken rice, and avoid using white feather chicken because they think it is impolite to their guests.