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Sticky Rice In Bamboo, Khao Lham
Thai Food Sweet Dish, Sticky Rice Cooked In A
Bamboo
This is a very interesting and tasty Thai
food dish. Sticky rice which is a very famous Thai preparation is
mixed with sugar and coconut milk. This mixture is filled into
bamboo sticks, the sticks are then baked for many
hours. The name given to this Thai sweet dish is
'Khao Lham'. To eat the sticky rice that is cooked in the
bamboo, you will need to split open the bamboo vertically. The
vendor who sells Khao Laam will normally do it for you. It will not
be easy to split the bamboo at home, so make sure that you get this
task done by the vendor.
In most cases you can expect the
sticky rice in bamboo Thai dish to be vegetarian. But we have come
across some variations by small quantities of non vegetarian
ingredients have been added to the Khao Lham. It might therefore be
good to let the vendor confirm this for you. Soaked black beans
are sometimes added to the rice, you can then see the cooked beans
in the rice when the bamboo is split. The bamboo
stick is generally around a foot to 14 inches long. The portion
that actually holds the sticky rice can be around 8 to 9 inches
long.
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| A clear image of the Khao Laarm Thai food dish. The bamboo
sticks are filled with a mixture of sticky rice, black beans,
sugar and ofcourse coconut milk. Banana leaves are stuffed in
at the top to keep the mixture from dropping out. The bamboo
along with the sticky rice mixture is baked for several hours.
The whole bamboo takes a darkish burnt color, the top layer of
the burnt bamboo is generally stripped off to give it a clean
and neat appearance. |
You could call this dish as a
dessert but there is something that you should know. A dessert is
normally a small serving of a sweet food dish that is taken after
meals. If you plan to eat an entire section of the bamboo with
sticky rice dish, it will be quite heavy and can almost form an
entire meal on it's own. You might therefore want to go easy on the
main meal and take a generous helping of the Khao Laam dish. Sticky
rice and coconut milk can make a hefty dish and remember that there
is also added sugar as an ingredient in the Thai sticky rice in
bamboo dish.
A short explanation about how the bamboo
sticks appear after the cooking process is completed. If you travel
upcountry, you might see the bamboos with a dark burnt out
appearance. On the other hand, the same Khao Lharm bamboo sticks
appear quite white and clean. Some visitors to Thailand have noticed
these two colors of the bamboo sticks and wonder whether they are
the same dish. The truth is that they are both Khao Laam but, the
white clean bamboos are stripped off the outer burnt layer. The
clean white bamboo portion is therefore exposed. You might also
noticed that one end of the bamboo stick is stuffed with a folded
leaf. This is generally a banana leaf that is used to close the hold
in the bamboo from one side. This ensures that the mixture of sticky
rice, coconut milk and sugar does not come out of the bamboo during
the cooking process.
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| When you buy your Khao Laam bamboo stick, it is best to
ask the vendor to crack open the bamboo for you. The above
picture shows the sticky rice pudding inside the bamboo. The
black pieces that you see in this Khao Lhaam bamboo are black
beans. The contents of this dish are almost always vegetarian
but, you might want to confirm this with the vendor.
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Very few people would try to make the
Khao Lhaam sticky rice in bamboo dish at home. Procuring and cutting
the bamboos to size is not easy. The idea of including this
interesting Thai food dish on our website is to introduce you to a
delicious Thai dish. While the larger metros in Thailand do not
often offer such traditional Thai food dishes, you can find them at
some food festivals. Provinces outside the main cities still have
eating spots that offer the Khao Laam and similar traditional Thai
food dishes.
If you are wondering about how long you
can store the Khao Laam bamboo, we would suggest that you consume it
within a few hours of splitting open the bamboo stick. Since this
dish like many other Thai food dishes includes coconut milk, it is
necessary to quickly consume the dish. Keeping the dish for long
might spoil the coconut milk and give a rancid flavor to the dish.
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