Because the ISAN, glutinous rice is popular because the main eating easy, doesn't require a lot of lunch containers. Using only hand in the original containers for consumption, but the villagers bring sticky rice a little tree, drill stem, hollow, and then cut into short phrases, the size is cylinder. There is a CAP, or sometimes use bamboo, cut into a short barrel as sticky rice container.
Later, seeing that there are many areas in the bamboo, but if taken all traditional bamboo trees are possible, and both the original form, it's portable, not travel far enough, there are good people bring bamboo cut small thin plates brought to whittle a woven basket sizes. Packing of rice, has developed the leading bamboo woven sticky rice container, which is lightweight and breathable. Make rice hot rice and not soggy. Is it easy to carry, because it has a shoulder strap? There are several patterns round, oval, small eating alone eating 2-3 large very large people, eat the whole family in northeastern Thailand are known as kratip rice.