There is rice for paella, fried rice and bryani (that don't stick). There's rice for risotto and sushi that do. Then there is jasmine rice that I've eaten almost as soon as I began to eat rice. Jasmine rice is the only rice I've known and eaten at home... and it wasn't something I hankered for. I thought I was genetically programmed to like bread instead of rice. It turns out that I had just not met the Right Rice for Me.
Today, I bought the Right Rice for me - a short-grained rice from Taiwan. It was chewy QQ ... very al dente. I ate and wanted more, which never happened with jasmine rice. Not my type of rice I suppose.
Round Short-Grained Rice (kinda sticky and very al dente)
Little Boy likes rice that doesn't stick together. He likes separate grains of rice like in the nasi bryani across the road... and he often complains that jasmine rice sticks together too much. So for Little Boy, I bought a packet of Indian basmati rice - a long-grained rice that sticks not at all. I'll make fried rice with that rice, and that'll make Little Boy happy.
Long-Grained Rice
Long-Grained Rice that tends to be slightly sticky.
After all these years, I now find out that there is rice and there is rice... and thus one must match the rice to the dish... and even the person.
5 comments:
My favourite is the short grain Japanese rice! I can eat that just with miso soup!
OKC - Isn't it THE most delish kind of rice?! In Vietnam, I just ate it with nuoc mam drizzled on.
Little Boy has good taste! I like Basmati rice too and to me, it smells faintly of coconut milk. My kids however, really dislike it.
Haha... Ting... they prolly like the sticky short-grained rice then.
I love the briyani rice or Basmati rice too!
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