Why rice?

[badkuk]

Personal tastes aside, of all the grain types out there, why did we/almost all Asian countries choose to plant rice, and make it the staple food?

My uneducated POV is that rice isn't the easiest to grow; from seed babatubuin para maging binhi, then itatransfer sa flooded paddies, requiring a lot of water, manually, one by one.

On the other hand, wheat and barley doesn't seem that picky; it's practically like grass. Not sure about the water requirements but they definitely don't grow them in flooded paddies. Corn also seems easier to grow, as well as root crops.

Mas bagay ba yung bigas sa weather natin? While gov't does have its failures in supporting rice farmers, imho storms, floods, etc tend to ruin most rice crops faster than any government ineptness.

[170kphlang]

culture perhaps? brought by the early chinese and other neighboring countries who made barters with our ancestors

[EQAddict]

I love black rice. Dont like brown. Love white rice too

[jick.cejoco]

Planting Rice Is Never Fun - YouTube

[macsd]

Can you imagine how fried wheat or fried corn would taste? Mas masarap ang fried rice.

[EQAddict]

I love black rice. Dont like brown. Love white rice too

[Syuryuken]

nakasanayan na

[1D4LV]

Can you imagine how fried wheat or fried corn would taste? Mas masarap ang fried rice.

fried corn would be chichacorn.....
culture and upbringing siguro...
15 years ago, i was assigned in our office in Minneapolis.... Walang Filipino restaurant... I tried surviving on pasta, bread for a week... After a week, i was already looking for rice which i found in a japanese resto.

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Can you imagine how fried wheat or fried corn would taste? Mas masarap ang fried rice.

fried corn would be chichacorn.....
culture and upbringing siguro...
15 years ago, i was assigned in our office in Minneapolis.... Walang Filipino restaurant... I tried surviving on pasta, bread for a week... After a week, i was already looking for rice which i found in a japanese resto.

[_Cathy_]

I love black rice. Dont like brown. Love white rice too

We are opposite. I love brown and I hate black. We've been having brown rice at home for about a decade already and I really like how it tastes. I'm so so with red.

I wanna switch from brown to Quinoa but it is so expensive! I will just stick with brown since I only eat 1/4 cup rice a day. Sometimes none at all.

My family isn't much into rice. We like bread better (carbs pa din )

[chua_riwap]

It's like asking the chinese, why noodles?

Pag tinapay kasi, parang meryenda lang, daling magutom.

[holdencaulfield]

i was from NFA. and all i can tell you is...

just go to my office and my former office mates might answer your query.

[CVT]

Sabi ng pastor namin,- bawal kumain ng rice.....

Kaya tinapay lang at egg noodles at prutas kami...

Kundi,- kailangang mangumpisal....



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[badkuk]

Don't get me wrong, maka kanin din ako..i'm just wondering, our of all the other options bakit rice pa pininiling itanim, and it's not the easiest to cultivate. Food security wise, we may have been better off raising wheat, kamote, etc.

[baludoy]

because we're ricers :bwahaha:

[Yatta]

Labor intensive to cultivate but easier to store and keep (ilang linggo bago masira ang kamote?). Its also easier to cook (just boil), kung wheat/trigo, kailangan gawin munang harina at tinapay.

[benchman]

i heard there are people somewhere down south cook/eat corn as rice. corn with ulam? ano kaya lasa? though gusto ko rin sya matikman

[jick.cejoco]

i heard there are people somewhere down south cook/eat corn as rice. corn with ulam? ano kaya lasa? though gusto ko rin sya matikman

It's corn grits to the brothers. It comes in two sizes-14 and 12(goes thru 14 or 12 wire mesh). The fine powdery by-product is what you use to make maja blanca. The corn grits take longer to digest making you crave less on between meal snacks.

[funkeemunkee]

^Yan ata ang practice sa mga panahong tag-hirap. Noong war years daw ganyan din, halo ang mais sa rice kasi ginto ang rice noon.

[chua_riwap]

May styrofoam rice na kumakalat. Fake rice from china. Yung styrofoam grains inihalo sa tunay na rice.

[benchman]

It's corn grits to the brothers. It comes in two sizes-14 and 12(goes thru 14 or 12 wire mesh). The fine powdery by-product is what you use to make maja blanca. The corn grits take longer to digest making you crave less on between meal snacks.

hmm.. perhaps that's why those who do hard works preferred corn over rice.