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Default Rice for fried rice?

On 6/4/2018 2:49 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> "dsi1" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 12:18:35 AM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
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>>> Ah... Thanks! My friend cooks Japanese so that would explain why she
>>> only
>>> buys the short grain. I did learn that you do need a lot of oil to do it
>>> right. I had not been using enough oil prior.

>>
>> If your friend is Japanese, she probably doesn't care much for long
>> grain rice. It's kind of a strange thing. I don't know what the
>> Chinese think of short grain rice. They don't seem to eat much of the
>> stuff.

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> She's actually Swedish but her ex was Japanese. She doesn't like long
> grain rice at all. I tried to give her some because due to a screw up at
> Jet.com, I wound up with 4 jugs of free Texmati white rice. I had
> ordered brown. She refused to take it.


If it was free and you won't use it, donate it to the food bank.

Jill