Description
A traditional dish representing the Dai ethnic minority in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. A fresh green bamboo tube is stuffed with soaked glutinous rice, salted pork, and peanuts, plugged with banana leaves, and roasted directly over a charcoal fire. The fresh bamboo aroma permeates the rice.
Restaurants serving Zhu Tong Fan (Yunnan Bamboo Tube Rice)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Glutinous rice
- Fresh green bamboo tube
- Salted pork(La Rou)
- Peanuts
- Corn
- Banana leaf
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- Soak glutinous rice overnight.
- Cut fresh aromatic bamboo into 30cm tubes, leaving one node intact as the base.
- Mix the rice with salted pork belly (La Rou), peanuts, and corn kernels; season with salt and soy sauce.
- Stuff the mixture into the bamboo tube up to 80% full (*rice expands).
- Pour a small amount of water into the tube.
- Plug the mouth tightly with a banana leaf.
- Lean the tube diagonally over an open charcoal fire, rotating occasionally.
- When the bamboo is charred black and fragrant steam hisses from the top, it is done.
- Cleave the bamboo in half lengthwise with a machete to serve.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Sweet、refreshing aroma of fresh green bamboo and aged umami of salted pork
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
(Impossible at home. Try it at a campsite using fresh cut bamboo)
Pairing
Pu'er Tea / Lemongrass Grilled Fish(Dai Style)
Trivia
Originally the ultimate survival food for ethnic minorities farming or hunting in the mountains, allowing them to cook rice without pots by cutting bamboo on-site. Today, it is a famous tourist attraction in Yunnan.
Eating tips & etiquette
Extract the sticky rice log, which is wrapped in the bamboo's inner membrane, by hand and bite into it. Eating the membrane along with the rice maximizes the bamboo aroma experience.
Allergen
Pork, Peanuts, Soybeans