[1] It is made of rice flour and coloured green with pandan leaves, filled with palm sugar, steamed in bamboo tubes (hence the name), and served with desiccated coconut.

This traditional bite-sized snack is commonly found in maritime Southeast Asia, particularly in Java, Indonesia, where it is called putu bumbung.

[2] It consists of rice flour with green pandan leaf colouring, filled with ground palm sugar.

The cooked tubular cakes then pushed out from the bamboo tube container, and served with grated coconut.

Kue putu of different shapes with almost identical ingredients, fillings and recipes exist in Southeast Asia.