Abstract:
The food cultural heritage in Southeast Asia countries related to rice culture including bamboo rice
cooking. The objectives of this research are to find out the rudimentary knowledge of bamboo rice in
these countries and how it was developed in each country. This is documentary research in the
qualitative analysis. The data were collected from research articles, books, websites, and social media.
The finding was shown that in the past time, people attempted cooking the rice inside the bamboo tube
for a few reasons; travelling, long day work, and celebration. In the present, it was developed to be
commercially food. In the mainland countries, Vietnam and Thailand have mixed new ingredients
while Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia have maintained the traditional process. Malaysia, Singapore,
Indonesia have adapted the bamboo to be Halaj food as they have Muslim and develop it to be food
business and street food. Therefore, it is not only being the traditional food this region but it also shows
how the people remain their culture food in the modern society among coming of international food
culture. |
