Thai Sticky Rice In Bamboo / Rice Pudding Cooked In Bamboo
Sticky rice is an ingredient in many Thai food dishes. From the spicy papaya salad which
is eaten with sticky rice to various sweet dishes that include sticky rice, this ingredient has remained
popular until today.
The above picture shows the famous Khao Lam sticky rice pudding dish. To put it simply,
the sticky rice in bamboo Thai food dish consists of a mixture that is put into the bamboo stick.
The bamboo is then cooked for several hours. The ingredients in the mixture used to make this
Thai rice pudding are sticky rice, coconut milk and sugar. Many people are under the impression
that the sticky rice and other ingredients are cooked and then fed into the bamboo, the fact is that
the bamboo is cooked after filling the mixture in the stick. The stuffed material that you see at the
tip of the bamboo stick in the image are folded banana plant leaves. This helps keep the contents
within the bamboo stick as the rice pudding is cooked in the bamboo. If you are wondering why the
bamboo appears so clean and neat even after being cooked for several hours, the reason is simple.
The vendor strips the bamboo stick of the top burnt layer, this leaves the white portion exposed
and gives the bamboo a clean look.