bamboo basket
Reed-woven carrying vessel
A bamboo basket is a container woven from strips of bamboo, used for carrying, storing, or steaming food.
Bamboo baskets appear throughout Asian cuisines—dim sum arrives in stacked bamboo steamers, and rice is traditionally stored in lidded bamboo containers.
The material is lightweight, durable, and allows air circulation: She arranged the vegetables in a bamboo basket.
- wovenInterlaced on loom
- weavingInterlacing strands into fabric
- rattanTropical palm for weaving
- wickerPliant twig for weaving
- natural fiberMaterial from living sources
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