Special delicacies of the Dai people: Dai bamboo tube rice, pineapple purple rice

1. Dai bamboo tube rice

The staple food of the Dai people is mainly rice. Dehong area eats japonica rice, while Xishuangbanna and other places like to eat glutinous rice, which is usually freshly pounded and eaten. The Dai people believe that glutinous rice retains its original color and fragrance only if it is eaten fresh and pounded.

They learned how to pound rice with water in ancient times. The famous fragrant bamboo rice of the Dai people, also known as bamboo tube rice, is made by putting glutinous rice in a fragrant bamboo tube, soaking it in water for 15 minutes, and then baking it over fire. When eating, beat the bamboo tube to make it soft, and the bamboo film on the inner wall of the bamboo tube will stick to the rice. Cut it in half with a knife, and the fragrant bamboo rice will come out of the bamboo. The aroma is rich, and the rice is soft and delicate.

2. Pineapple Purple Rice

There is also a unique pineapple purple rice, which is sweet and delicious, and has the effect of nourishing blood and moisturizing the lungs. Migrant workers often eat outdoors, using banana leaves to hold a ball of glutinous rice, along with salt, chili peppers, sour pork, roasted chicken, rice noodles, and moss pine.

Meats include pigs, beef, chickens, and ducks. They do not eat or eat less mutton. They are good at making roasted chickens and roasted chickens. They like to eat fish, shrimps, crabs, snails, moss and other aquatic products. Commonly eaten vegetables include cabbage, radish, bamboo shoots and beans.

3. Fried bamboo worms

Bamboo worms are a unique ingredient of the tropical rainforest. They are fried and served with salt and pepper. Oily but not greasy, full of fragrance.

4. Ant eggs

are delicious and have high nutritional and medicinal value. However, it is extremely difficult to obtain. Not only do you have to climb a tree to get it, but you also have to suffer from ant bites. There is a folk saying that "if you are not a strong person, you can never eat ant eggs."