cshenk wrote:
>
> "Mark Thorson" wrote
> > cshenk wrote:
>
> >> Get a 20lb bag of calrose medium grain. Tuck it in the freezer for 2
> >> weeks
> >> then a plastic bug-proof keeper (size it if you do not have one and get
> >> one
> >> for her). When I lived in Japan for almost 7 years, this was regarded as
> >> highly as 'Premium Japanese Rice' by the Japanese who had access to the
> >> USA
> >> military commisary. It's apparently cheaper and a little better.
> >> Another
> >> brand is 'Koko' in a white bag with a red label. Almost as good as
> >> Calrose
> >> brand and quite close. If she wants some long grain and the India
> >> basmati
> >> is too strong tasting for her recipes, try Texas version of it.
> >
> > I think you mean "Kokuho Rose" rice. Would it really
>
> 2 brands, the other is Kokuho Rose.
>
> > be necessary to freeze it to kill the bugs? It was
>
> Yes, depends on climate but advised always.
>
> >> Although she may like brown rices also, ask her first. They have a nutty
> >> taste many orient-raised folks outside India find objectionable.
> >
> > I've been told that among Japanese eating brown rice
> > is associated with poverty. It's a poor people's food.
> > Everybody else eats polished rice.
>
> It's not just Japan and it is also a taste issue.
>
> I dont recall seeing brown rice in Korea or the Philippenes. I may have
> seen it in Thailand bit not sure. I did see it in Indonesia and Timur.
> It's generally just not liked and i think for taste more than 'poor food'.


None of my Filipino/Filipina colleagues ever prepared brown rice. They
hated the taste more than they regarded it as poverty food.