Pineapple Rice

I guess my blog has become a foodie blog. Pineapples are expensive in the U.S. but not in Bangladesh, so I tried cooking pineapple rice Dai-style. As a study abroad student in Beijing in 2004, there was a Dai ethnic minority restaurant in the lane behind our university, Beijing Foreign Language Studies University. We had the opportunity to visit Yunnan (yun- "cloud" nan- "south") later that year where the Dai people live. Basically the recipe calls for cooking the rice, stuffing it into the pineapple, and then steaming it. I’ll never forget my 6-ft Caucasian, Californian classmate who went to the Dai restaurant to learn how to cook the dish himself. Perhaps I can try to learn how to cook a Bangladeshi dish from a restaurant owner if I become daring enough!