Bamboo rice

Bamboo rice	Bamboo rice

Bamboo rice, a traditional food of Li ethic people in Hainan province, is made of roasting a bamboo with two joint which is filled with rice, leant pig meat and some other ingredients.
Making such a food should pay lots of attention to the procedures. Firstly, the rice should be soaked in the water, then take it off water and mix it with monosodium glutamate and salt. Secondly, the meat should be cut into pieces with a thickness of 30 cm and be fried with relish like soy sauce, and hot fat. After that, the meat should be chopped into meat particles. Thirdly, the rice and the meat particles, as well as some water, should be filled in the bamboo, the joints being cut off, which is polished the inside with hog fat. At last, the filled-bamboo is put on amount of burning carbons.  When the green color of the bamboo turns to brown, it is the time to eat the food after cutting the bamboo into sections.
Some chefs later improve the technique of roasting the bamboo by the oven, and make it a famous food on the banquet dinner.