Yunnan Pineapple Rice (菠萝饭) — Dai Cuisine Fragrant Rice

Pineapple rice (菠萝饭, bo luo fan) is a preparation associated with the Dai minority people of Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan — an ethnic Thai-adjacent group whose food culture shares more with northern Thailand and Laos than with Han Chinese cooking. Glutinous rice is cooked inside a hollowed pineapple — the rice absorbs the pineapple's juice, sugar, and fragrance during steaming, producing a rice that is fragrant, slightly sweet, and tropical in character. The technique is also used in Yunnan for stir-fried rice served inside the pineapple half.

• Thai pineapple fried rice (khao op sapparot) is the direct Dai cuisine cousin — the same pineapple-fragrant rice tradition shared across the Yunnan-Thailand border
• Indonesian nasi goreng buah nanas uses the same pineapple rice combination