Rice, also known as "rice", it is divided into round-grained rice, indica rice and glutinous rice three kinds. So, Japonica is a rice oh, it is one of the varieties of rice miles. Japonica rice is thicker and shorter, more viscous, bloated small, Cantonese people call it "fat boy rice", cooking congee rice is relatively soft, common Japonica rice: Northeast rice, pearl rice, Jiangsu round rice, and so on.

Japonica rice and rice difference

Japonica rice is a kind of rice, it and rice difference and indica rice, glutinous rice difference.

Indica rice our country produces the most of a kind of rice, to guangdong, hunan, sichuan and other provinces as the main producing areas. Indica rice grain elongated or long oval, the length of the longest in more than 7 millimeters, high rate of rice after cooking, sticky smaller, rice brittle, oily. Common indica rice are: silk seedling rice, cat's tooth rice, Thai fragrant rice.

Glutinous rice in the north more known as river rice, is the manufacture of sticky snacks (such as rice dumplings, congee, all kinds of desserts), the main raw material for brewing rice wine. Glutinous rice has two kinds of glutinous rice, long glutinous rice (indica glutinous rice) and round glutinous rice (belongs to Japonica glutinous rice), long glutinous rice grains are long and thin, the color is pinkish-white, opaque, sticky. Round glutinous rice is short and round in shape, white and opaque, sweet and creamy in taste, and slightly less sticky than long glutinous rice.

Japonica rice is mainly produced in northeastern China, the grain is generally oval or round, the grain is plump and fat, cross-section nearly round, the ratio of length to width is less than two, the color is wax-white, transparent or translucent, the texture is hard and resilient, after cooking viscous oily are large, soft and tasty, but the rate of rice is low. Northeast rice, pearl rice, Jiangsu round rice belongs to round-grained rice.