Yunnan Style Bamboo Baked Rice (雲南竹筒飯/云南竹筒饭)
Lunch at an open air market in Cingjing [清境]. A lot of the stalls here sell Yunnan styled food. Later, we learnt that a big number of Nationalist soldiers chose to stay in this area, after retreating from the mainland when the Nationalist government lost the Civil War.
This is very Yunnan. In fact, rice cooked inside bamboo is prevalent in Southeast Asia too. In this case, glutinous rice was used. Flavoured with some soysauce, it is baked with some peanuts and roasted garlic inside the bamboo and only opened to serve when required.
The rice had absorbed the fragrance of the bamboo and took on mild woody, earthy and floral nuances, almost as if you are taking a walk through a bamboo grove. The rice was moist and glistened was both oil and moisture. I was not expecting much but the taste turned out wonderful.
Yunnan Style Bamboo Baked Rice (雲南竹筒飯/云南竹筒饭)
Lunch at an open air market in Cingjing [清境]. A lot of the stalls here sell Yunnan styled food. Later, we learnt that a big number of Nationalist soldiers chose to stay in this area, after retreating from the mainland when the Nationalist government lost the Civil War.
This is very Yunnan. In fact, rice cooked inside bamboo is prevalent in Southeast Asia too. In this case, glutinous rice was used. Flavoured with some soysauce, it is baked with some peanuts and roasted garlic inside the bamboo and only opened to serve when required.
The rice had absorbed the fragrance of the bamboo and took on mild woody, earthy and floral nuances, almost as if you are taking a walk through a bamboo grove. The rice was moist and glistened was both oil and moisture. I was not expecting much but the taste turned out wonderful.