/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Asians don't know much about cooking rice. They haven't been using it for long enough. Globalization is less than 100 years old, and they (especially China) remained isolated from the world market for some of that. They haven't had access to exotic foods until very recently.

>>12745045
not all bread in the west is flavored. i think most of the time they eat something with a sauce that will be used to flavor the rice too.

At least put some msg on it

>>12745058
This.
Asians hardly ever cook with rice.

>>12745045
I was unaware that they didn't.
One of the first things you realize about rice is that it will absorb whatever the fuck you dump into it. So, that's not a unique discovery, probably was obvious to a lot of people right from the get-go.
When it's cooked in stock or broth that's pretty much seasoning it. Remember that especially with old recipes the more spice you use the more cost-ineffective eating is because spices can be real damned expensive. If you cook the fucker in sea water you've basically salted it.

>>12745045
Rice has its own flavor.

It depends what you use your rice for. If I eat spicy or flavorful food I like my rice unseasoned. The rice balances the food out. But you need good quality rice and cook it properly

>>12745045
because the rice is a palate-cleanser and dishes are often highly seasoned to complement the plain rice.

>>12745045
Because rice is never the main dish in Asia.
Fried rice is merely leftover food. Rice is eaten to complement other dishes.

>>12745045
Japan makes all kinds of seasoned rice dishes. Mushroom rice is a classic.
Tossing furikake on still-steaming rice is also a given.

>>12745045
korean side dishes are salty, so the rice must be bland.

>>12745058
rice has been an Asian staple for centuries, you idiot.

>>12746169
Hmm, no I don't think so.

Note: seasoning rice, using stock instead of water, etc... these tricks that work just fine with white rice can sometimes fuck up brown rice and cause it to not cook properly.

>>12745058
o_o
china domesticated rice 4000 years ago

>>12746169
Rice was not even.
Red spagetti and pizza type sauces did not exist until invented in america in the1930s

>>12745058
rice farming was literally invented in china you doofus

>>12745058
>>12746181

>>12745045
>>12745058
What is Takikomi gohan
What is Matsutake gohan (or like this anon said >>12746164)
What is rice cooked in chicken broth that was used to boil fresh chicken
What is Sheng Chao nuomi fan

Can you at least google the topic before killing a thread for your insignificant finding in your first few days of watching cooking videos on youtube?

>>12746214
>>12746252
Looks more like communist propaganda. Got anything else genius?

>>12745045
There's no need when rice is usually eaten with a dish, if eaten alone, there's "furikake" for the Japs which is sprinkled bits of nori, dried fish and other bits that makes the rice tasty

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>>12746263
well, you played me. Congratulations.