Khao Lam makes a good snack in winter time in particularly when the rice is harvested. The rice is filled into a bamboo joint. Common folks make it plainly from rice mixed with water and salt. The more elaborate recipes use coconut milk and black beans or frutescenes seeds. Lanna people have a tradition of making Khao Lam to give to monks on the full moon day of January in the same time as presenting Khao Chi and Khao Lon Bat to the monks. (Manee Phayommyong, 1999, p. 828; Montri Athan, personal communication, July 10, 2007)