Dai special food

Dai specialty food: Dai bamboo rice, pineapple and purple rice.

1, Dai bamboo rice

The Dai people's staple food is rice. Dehong area eats japonica rice, Xishuangbanna and other places like to eat glutinous rice, which is usually eaten immediately. Dai people believe that glutinous rice can only lose its original color and fragrance if it is eaten immediately.

They learned how to float rice in ancient times. Dai's famous fragrant bamboo tube rice, also called bamboo tube rice, is made by putting glutinous rice in a fragrant bamboo tube, soaking it in water for 15 minutes and baking it with fire. Beat the bamboo tube to soften it when eating, 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, with rich aroma and soft and delicate rice.

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 moistening the lungs. Migrant workers often eat outdoors. They can eat a glutinous rice balls made of bananas and Ye Sheng, as well as salt, peppers, sour meat, roast chicken, glutinous rice and moss pine.

Meat includes pigs, cows, chickens and ducks. I don't eat or eat less mutton. I am good at roast chicken and roast chicken, and I like to eat fish, shrimp, crab, snails, moss and other aquatic products. The vegetables we often eat are cabbage, radish, bamboo shoots and beans.

3. Fried bamboo worms

Bamboo worm is a unique ingredient in tropical rain forest, fried with salt and pepper. Oily but not greasy, full of fragrance.

4. Ant eggs

It tastes delicious and has high nutritional value and medicinal value. But it is extremely difficult to get it, not only by climbing trees, but also by being bitten by ants. There is a folk saying that "you can only eat ant eggs if you are strong."