I am a Chinese person and I have never heard of mixing rice, or even owning more than one kind of rice in your house. It seems so foreign to me. Chinese households will have a big tub filled with rice, and it Is just "rice". We buy it in 20-pound sacks.
It's really interesting that the notion of different types of rice is mainly heard of in the cultures where it is not part of every meal. Guess they just imported it from everywhere and then decided to give them names.
There once even was a racist German rice commercial that made fun of "Master Fong" (or some other Chinese name) because he couldn't eat the non-clumpy German rice with his chopstick. As a kid who loved Chinese food (or what passes as Chinese in Germany) I found that to be preposterous and instructed my mom to never buy that rice.
I always get confused in American supermarkets. Growing up, I only ever knew that the rice to buy was what came in those large sacks with a picture of an elephant on it, and it came from Thailand. It would take me five years to finish a 20-pound bag on my own though.
When I go to a regular American grocery store, I see "long grain rice", "jasmine rice", "basmati rice", and all that, and I have no idea what any of it is.
Mainly, yes, but with some exceptions. Mixing some wild rice in is popular-ish in Korea as a health food trend, although not really mainstream exactly.
That's interesting to me because the French use bread for basically every meal as well and in my mind it serves an equivalent cultural purpose, but they have so much variety it's mind-boggling. Dark, light, using different grains, flours, shapes, temperatures, yeasts, ... Pretty sure wars have been fought over disagreements on flour taste.
That a staple food like that wouldn't have 1000 traditional variations sounds crazy to me. I think it makes complete sense that Europeans would see rice and think "OK now how many possible combinations are there?" because it's just how we rationalize cooking.
Funny you say this because I didn't learn about the distinction between types of rice until I married a desi person. My father-in-law has said before "if I haven't eaten rice, I haven't eaten".
If a white person makes Bengali rice pudding with basmati rice, the ghost of a Bengali will possess their toaster and burn all their bread in retribution.
So my spouse is desi, and in south asia they've got loads of different kinds of rice. The most popular, everyday rice, is basmati - once I got a taste of it I was hooked. Other rices are used for specific purposes, like rice pudding, but basmati is the default. In the US (and most of Asia far as I can tell) the default rice is jasmine, the conflict here was between my parents and my wife, combining both rices is a mortal sin.
It was actually a bit surprising when we moved to China that there was only really one kind of rice ever used - buying basmati was just as much a specialty item here as it was in the states.
If three Chinese households combined their rice volumes and one held a birthday celebration on the new moon of the fifth month for the third daughter of their third daughter, how much does the tub weigh?
Imagine someone who'd never seen a meme trying to decipher this
That's what makes it dank
Rice is rice (na naah naah na na)
Ugh, reminds me of the time I grabbed the jasmine rice instead of basmati, what a gloopy mess
Omg I'm so sorry 🫂
Curious, if you have basmati rice available, what are you using the jasmine rice for?
Thats why you wash your jasmine rice
Nope.
I eat rice daily and basically always mix some brown rice into white rice.
I also want to know how you cook this
I have always mixed white rice and parboiled riced, but brown rice? That needs way longer to cook right?
INGL, when I’m feeling extra lazy, I cook my quinoa with the rice.
I do half jasmine half whatever often. I thought a lot of people did this.
