Comments on: Spicy seafood fried rice

By: Gay

Gay — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:05:18 +0000

Rice is life, as they say. I am more adventurous in the varieties of rice that we eat, those most of the time, it is usually the Dinorado variety we have. We do enjoy our rice harvest twice a year though our share comes to only a sack. Rice is a must at home,and I tend to give in to my cravings the whole day if I don’t have rice at least once. Better eat rice at least once na lang diba?

By: Connie Veneracion

Connie Veneracion — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:00:27 +0000

My older daughter Sam cannot live without rice. Even pasta does not satisfy her the way rice does. We’ve been Thai jasmine rice eaters too for years until the prices skyrocketed and my husband started buying cheaper varieties. But the girls complained that the cheaper rice was smelly. My husband went back to Thai jasmine rice and tries to cut costs from other things.

By: Nina

Nina — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:50:23 +0000

We’ve also felt the sting of the skyrocketing price of rice here in Australia. We used to buy a 10-kilo sack of rice for around A$14, it’s Thai jasmine. Within a month, the price jumped to A$22. Now, we just buy the cheap jasmine rice from Aldi (Germany-based grocery) which used to be $1.49 per kilo, now it’s A$1.69, but still cheaper than Thai jasmine.
We live here in Australia but we can’t afford to buy the best jasmine rice brand (at A$28-$34 per 10-kilo bag). It’s almost as bad as gasoline prices!
Meanwhile, I try to make my son eat cereal for breakfast to cut down on rice consumption. He refuses because cereal doesn’t satisfy him as well as rice does and he gets hungry even before recess. He also takes rice and ulam for lunch in a thermos bottle. I have flavoured oat porridge while my husband usually has noodles for breakfast.
It’s hard to change our attitude about rice, it will never be deposed as our meal staple.