glass_icarus: (saving face: wil bowl)
just another fork-tongued dragon lady ([personal profile] glass_icarus) wrote2011-06-07 12:42 pm

love drowns out hate

Talk to me about rice- the magic of it, the wholeness of it, the surprising sweetness that blooms on your tongue in a slow, lingering mouthful, the flavors that vary between different grains. Talk to me about congee and biryani and onigiri and fan tuan and zhong zi and the crisped scrapings from the bottom of the pot that you can eat with peanut sugar or pour tea over to loosen the grains. Talk to me about mochi and guo ba and the addictive nature of rice crackers. Talk to me about rice.
littlebutfierce: (kimi ni todoke ayane chizu lol)

[personal profile] littlebutfierce 2011-06-07 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahahaha, I saw a recipe on a South Asian writer's blog a long time ago that listed rice amounts for white people & for brown people. SO TRUE.
trinker: I own an almanac. (Default)

[personal profile] trinker 2011-06-07 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
o.O

I can substitute labels for those categories and join in the laughter...

I don't know that I get to count myself as "brown". Hmm.`
littlebutfierce: (atla iroh noodles)

[personal profile] littlebutfierce 2011-06-07 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
At the time I got the impression they were using "brown" to mean "anyone who wasn't white" but... it was years & years ago, so I could be misremembering. But yeah, nevertheless could be widely applicable!!