Cai Lan talks with you about all kinds of rice in the world

Traveling in the south of France, every meal is a delicacy, but after eating for three days, I miss Chinese food, in fact, it is not necessarily gollum meat or fish, shrimp and crab, the main thing is to eat white rice.

When an Italian friend came to Hong Kong, I took him to the best restaurants, tasted Guangdong, Chaozhou, Shanghai cuisine, and after a few meals, he asked, "Is there any bread?"

"Where is the bread from the Chinese restaurant?" I yelled.

He quipped, "Actually, you can do it with butter."

Just a Singapore restaurant, there is butter fried crab, just take some from the kitchen, this jun put the butter on the rice, to a cup of very hot boiling water to wash down, until the butter melted, fish to eat, this is the Italian way to cook, only let him come!

A hundred kinds of rice, raising a hundred kinds of people, this sentence is not wrong at all, and there are no less than a hundred kinds of rice in the world.

We most often eat silk seedlings, from Thailand or Australia, it seems, thin and long, indeed have the feeling of eating no meat, afraid of fat people are the most assured. Japanese rice is different, it is fat and fat, sticky and heavy, so the Japanese eat not from the bowl, but with chopsticks to clip the import, women love and hate, love is that it is very fragrant and delicious, hate is to eat fat people.

Hong Kong's diet is deeply influenced by Japanese cuisine, even rice, but also to eat Japanese, our tour group to the Japanese rural supermarket, first rushed to the rice sales department, turned back to me and asked: "So many, which is the best?" 」

The price is not their consideration, anyway, it will be cheaper than buying it at Sogo Department Store in Causeway Bay, and I always replied: "Niigata Prefecture's Yueguang, and it is produced in the Uonuma area, there is credit."

But Uonuma rice is not the best, the best can not buy, that is in Kobe eatIng Mita beef, friends Fern himself planted rice, he knows how to waste, the rice is planted very sparsely, the wind blows, the moth rice worms will float into the paddy field, if greedy, planted very densely, then the moths will pass one by one, the rice planted, the surface must be ground deeply, it will look good. This time, the rice is not fragrant, and his rice is only slightly ground, so it is particularly delicious.

Asked him for a little, took it home, how to cook is not fragrant, and later found that the housekeeping assistant bought a new rice cooker, domestic, cooking is not good Japanese rice.

But all this is too luxurious, once in Japan to live an ascetic life, even Japanese rice is not willing to eat, a group of poor students bought the so-called "outer rice gaimai", that is the rice imported from Myanmar, some broken only half a grain, so rough rice, the Japanese only used as feed, we all became animals, but it was half-work, there was nothing to complain about.

After studying, I went to Taiwan to work, and I ate this kind of rough rice, which they called "rice in Lailai", I don't know what kind of classic, then what Penglai rice can be eaten?

Penglai rice was an improved breed in the Japanese occupation era, and it became popular when Taiwan's economy took off and became the Four Little Tigers. Taste like Japanese rice, if you are Taiwanese of course think better than Japanese rice, I have tried Penglai rice, the best taste is from a region called Kirisha, where the pine forest tribe indigenous species of rice, is really superb, but how to compare with Japanese rice? It can be said that it is different, and each has its own delicious taste.

I have always had a special love for Thai fragrant rice, and I love the delicate orchid aroma that no other rice has. This kind of rice can also be found in Vietnam, generally only once a year harvest, Vietnam has planted as many as four times, but once the war, in turn, from Thailand to import, human tragedy also.

In Europe, the British do not know how to appreciate rice, only add milk and sugar as dessert, the French also only as a side dish, the most eaten Spaniard and Italians, the former's large pot paella paella is famous in the world; the latter risotto mixed with a lot of cheese, cooked by raw rice, but only half-raw, said that this has a taste al dente, which adds wild mushrooms the most delicious.

Italians also eat rice, from the "grains are hard bitter rice" film, but at that time, the audience, only interested in the heroine Svena Marjano silvana mangano's big breasts, I have been to the rice production area to play, found that the locals have a kind of rice, is stuffed rice into the carp belly to make, and the Shunde people's carp steamed rice is the same, very delicious. Italians also have a little-known dish of honeydew melon rice, which is also very special.

Asians eat rice, Indians eat the most, their lamb baked rice is the best, using wild rice, very long, twice as long as the silk seedlings, fried half-cooked, mixed with spices soaked lamb pieces, put into a silver cup, on top of the dough skin into the oven baking, the aroma will not disperse. In authentic Indian restaurants, you have to try this dish, if you are suspicious of lamb, there are also chickens, but it is not so delicious.

The Malay nasi rice is also unique and is a superb breakfast. Another kind of rice is wrapped in coconut leaves, compressed rice, and when eating satay, it will be served at the same time, which is also a traditional food culture. Singaporean's Hainanese chicken rice, cooked in chicken fat, is fragrant, but it also relies on thick and thick Hainan soy sauce.

As for China, a simple bowl of egg fried rice is delicious in the world.

However, to eat, you always have to spend time to cook, not enough flour dough to paste on the oven wall to make a cake immediately to facilitate.

But have you noticed that as soon as people eat, they become short? As soon as the children of Chinese went abroad, drank milk and ate bread, people became tall. Japanese people used to be short, and they grew taller after they changed to eating bread. Indonesian maids are very small, and if they eat bread, they will definitely grow up a lot.

The people who eat should be people of the leisure class, more elegant than westerners. Tall or short, it doesn't matter anymore.