Chunga Pitha: Rice cooked in bamboo pipe. It's a typical assamese glutinouse rice dish named Chunga chaul
Chunga Pitha: Rice cooked in bamboo pipe. It's a typical assamese glutinouse rice dish named Chunga chaulChiring chandan (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Chiring_chandan) — Own work via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%99%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A7%A7.jpg)CC BY-SA 4.0
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Chunga Pitha

A rice cake of Assam and Sylhet in South Asia, made by stuffing sticky rice into young bamboo and smoking it slowly.

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Though its main ingredients are bamboo and glutinous (sticky) rice, it is also made with binni rice, milk, sugar, coconut, and rice powder. This unique delicacy is prepared when sticky rice is stuffed inside young bamboo and smoked slowly. It is popularly known as a distinct and traditional food in Assamese and Sylheti cuisines.

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