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 dishes that include sticky rice, this ingredient has remained popular until today. The above picture shows the famous Khao lam sticky rice pudding dish. If you are wondering how anyone can eat hard bamboo sticks, it will help to know that you are expected to eat the contents inside the bamboo and not the bamboo itself.