Lam Rice (Rice in bamboo tube)

Lam Rice bears strongly the taste and scent of Northwestern Mountains and forests. The only ingredient of this food is nothing more than sticky rice; however, it is cooked by a very special tool: bamboo cylinder. People put rice into the cylinder together with water in a standard recipe, then cover the cylinder by banana leaf and bake the whole cylinder over slow fire. When eating, gourmets only have to break the bamboo cover and enjoy much more sweet-smelling rice than usual ones. This food has its excellent taste when eat with sesame salt.