Because the two rice flours have different properties and uses. Japonica rice flour has no stickiness and glutinous rice flour has stickiness. Glutinous rice flour can be used to make some annual sticky food. For example, it can be used to make some chee gao, sticky cake, dumplings and other foods. There are also some porridge-type food can also be used to add glutinous rice flour. Japonica rice flour can be used to combine with flour to make some pasta steamed bread type of food. Japonica rice flour and glutinous rice flour is a certain difference, in the use is also different, Japonica rice flour can not replace glutinous rice flour.

Japonica rice is a kind of rice, a common staple food. Cultivated throughout China, the history of cultivation has been more than 6900 years, is one of the specialties of Chinese food culture. It is mainly produced in northeast China.