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10.30am to 10.30pm |
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Water used to rinse rice (initial rinse), is an effective remedy for soothing mouth ulcers, by gargling it. |
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Chinese New Year began purely as an agricultural event. Farmers celebrated ‘Spring Festival’ or ‘The Beginning of Spring’ for 15 consecutive days to herald the end of winter and the coming of spring |
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The Largest Rice Cake – The largest oo-kagami-mochi-rice cake – meaning ‘large round rice cake offered to the Gods at New Year’ weighed 2,097 kilograms and was made by Kamura Co. Ltd, and displayed in Niigata prefecture, Japan, on March 1, 2002. The diameter of the cake at its widest point measured 1.78 metres. |
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Rice is the staple food for more than half of the world’s population. In Asia alone, more than 2 billion people obtain 60 – 70 percent of their calories from rice and its products. |
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Popular Japanese carmakers Toyota and Honda derived their names from rice fields: Toyota means ‘bountiful rice field’ and Honda means ‘main rice field’. |
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Rice is high in complex carbohydrates, contains almost no fat, is cholesterol free, and is low in sodium. Rice is gluten free and easily digestible, making it a good choice for infants and people with wheat allergies or digestive problems. |
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Rice throwing rituals held during ancient Chinese and Indian weddings symbolize fertility and the blessing of many children. Today, it symbolizes prosperity and abundance. |
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In the Chinese culture, rice represents advancement, abundance, long life and prosperity. |
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In Japan, it is believed |
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that soaking the rice before it is being cooked releases life energy and gives the person eating it, a more peaceful soul. |
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The United Nations formally declared the year 2004 as the ‘International Year of Rice’. This is done in concurrence with the need to focus world attention on the role that rice can play in providing food security and eradicating poverty. |
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Throughout China today, tradition holds that "the precious things are not pearls and jade but the five grains", of which rice is first, followed by millet, wheat, barley and soy. |
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People used to put green fruits into rice jars to make them ripen. |
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In China, at the beginning of the New Year, people do not say, ‘Happy New Year’ but ‘May your rice never burn!’ |
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China is the world’s largest rice producer with a paddy production rate of 166,000,000 metric tonnes of rice per year. |
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Rice-based production systems and their associated post-harvest operations employ nearly 1 billion people in the rural areas of developing countries such as Thailand, India and Africa. |
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In the intense summer heat of the Nile-Delta, people seek refuge from the heat in the cool air of the rice fields. |
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Rice fields cover 11% of Earth's entire arable land, or more than 500 million hectares. |
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Rice is still sometimes used to pay debts, wages and rent in some Asian rural areas. |
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‘Golden rice’, a genetically modified rice engineered to produce pro-vitamin A, is being offered to the Third World as a cure for widespread vitamin A deficiency. |
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There are literally thousands, perhaps as many as 40,000 or more, varieties of rice grown on every continent except Antarctica. |
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