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

[macsd]

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

[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 )

[jick.cejoco]

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[EQAddict]

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

[Syuryuken]

nakasanayan na

[chua_riwap]

It's like asking the chinese, why noodles?

Pag tinapay kasi, parang meryenda lang, daling magutom.

[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

[NightRock]

naka sanayan na lang talaga so kung ano ang demand yon din ang kailangan supply sa market.. Personally mga 3 times a month lang ako kumain ng rice, mostly veg salad, bread and steak tamad ako mag saing ng bigas hahahaha

[eprnv]

Our south east asian neighbors ganyan. Most asian countries ganyan din. Probably dahil rice has been a staple since unang panahon pa. Probably brought by the Chinese

[kagalingan]

Oh ito nakabili ako. Magaling talaga si kirkland sa packaging. May kasama pa cloth na pwede ko ireuse para taguan ng bigas.





Next ko itry yung binebenta ni assad by the kilo sila.

[dr. d]

Oh ito nakabili ako. Magaling talaga si kirkland sa packaging. May kasama pa cloth na pwede ko ireuse para taguan ng bigas.





Next ko itry yung binebenta ni assad by the kilo sila.

i buy locally grown rice.
i support the filipino farmer.

[monty_GTV]

i buy locally grown rice.
i support the filipino farmer.

salamat sa suporta sa aming magsasaka doc[emoji106]

tasted other rice sa ilang mga pinagtrabahuan kong lugar. acquired taste siguro pero mas gusto ko pa rin yung mabango, sticky variety ng rice natin. basmati at mga parboiled rice matabang sa akin. vietnam fragrant rice ok kapag bagong luto, jasmine ng thai ok, japon at korean sticky rice ok din for me.

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