🌱 Eco-friendly: 100% natural bamboo and is also 100% food safe. 🌱 Freshly Crafted: Bring out crisp new flavors in your old recipe, with our beautiful fashioned serving basket. As these sticky rice baskets are hewn by a fire to dry the reed stock, a faint hint of the charred scent is innate to the fabricated cane sedge and that fragrance enriches the rice grain contents. 🌱 Hand Woven: Individually handcrafted and designed to endure daily use, these functional food preparation implements will make any asian cuisine taste authentic. 🌱 Size: Container diameter is ~5.5 inches and the height is ~6 inches in height when closed. 🌱 Simple to clean: Rinse and air dry in the sunlight. These “authentic natural products” are individually made, and may have slight variations in color shade, due to the organic vegetable concentration variants that occur with each rendition of the drying process. Please note: These are "serving baskets" and not meant for steaming/cooking sweet rice; steaming will cause the plant dye on the exterior reeds to bleed through and tint the rice. Lots of love goes into the making of this traditional Thai handicraft, interlaced woven, bamboo serving basket and the meticulous craftsmanship of this typically common-use kitchen implement, is admired by all travelers that visit the Kingdom of Thailand. These sticky rice serving baskets, called a “Kratip” in the Thai language, are made of various materials such as sugar palm leaves, but most often made from bamboo. Only after the lengthy process of splitting and shaving these materials by hand, can the basket-maker start the weaving process. Sticky rice, called “Kow neow” in the Thai language, is especially popular among the people from the north and northeastern areas of Thailand. Besides being a household appliance, these serving baskets also function as kitchen decorations and are prized as a keepsake of the beautiful Thai countryside. As the staple food for all people in South East Asia, and especially Thailand, rice is eaten with most meals, from breakfast to dessert. Consequently, there is no shortage in demand production for these essential containers to serve this cuisine. From the trendy, elaborate, upscale Bangkok restaurants to the most basic street food feed shack, handmade bamboo rice baskets adorn every Thai food establishment. With so many styles to choose from, our collection of various colors and designs are sure to appeal to your sense of appreciation of fine workmanship in the construction of these exceptional and practical rice serving baskets.