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unusual facts about glutinous rice



Ryuhoku, Kumamoto

The town's output is mainly agricultural, with the major crops being nashi pears, strawberries, glutinous rice, and igusa straw for making tatami mats.

Wuliangye

It specializes in manufacturing baijiu, and is best known for Wuliangye, made from five organic grains: Proso millet, corn, glutinous rice, long grain rice and wheat.


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Clitoria ternatea

In Malay cooking, an aqueous extract is used to colour glutinous rice for kuih ketan (also known as pulut tai tai in Peranakan/Nyonya cooking) and in nyonya chang.

Maxim's Catering

With regards to its wide range of catering services, Maxim's also offers a series of products tailor-made for specific festivals, most notably mooncakes during the lead-up to the Mid-Autumn Festival, Nian gao or glutinous rice cakes at Chinese New Year, and roast turkeys at Christmas.

Mochi, a Japanese rice cake made of glutinous rice pounded into paste and molded into shape