When the order of pad Thai landed at our table, McDang stuck his fork in, twirled some rice noodles around and then took a bite.
"They dare not sell Hunan rice, " the executive said, adding that the market is now selling rice produced in the provinces of Hubei, Jiangxi, Henan and in northeastern areas, together with some imported rice from Vietnam and Pakistan.
Sometime, when sitting with my second brother around some good rice whiskey, we say that our youngest brother is the brightest of all.
China has been a net rice importer for several years, but sends some amounts of rice elsewhere, including to the U.S. and Hong Kong.
Vietnam, Cambodia and India have all promised to reopen some of their rice exports.
The request for expressions of support for Pernetti came after some defenses of Rice's treatment of players on social media.
Some smashed porcelain rice bowls to symbolize the threats to their livelihood.
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In the U.S., the rice-futures contract has been moving in a narrow range for the past year, largely because China doesn't buy rice from the U.S. Some U.S. rice farmers have noticed and are pushing the USDA and Chinese authorities to allow U.S. rice to be sold in China.
"They've received two 20-kilogram bags of rice from some local charities, and that's it, " he says.
Chinese cooks add red yeast rice to some dishes, such as Peking Duck and spareribs, to achieve a red color.
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Republican co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, James Baker, defended Secretary Rice on some points, saying she did just go to the Middle East and is working to revive the Arab-Israeli peace process, another recommendation by the Iraq Study Group.
The latest revelation is likely to stoke fears among consumers already on edge about the safety of the nation's food supply since the March 11 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, following reports over the summer of beef contamination and, more recently, some instances of tainted rice.
You can switch to other, less expensive starches like rice, which some nutritionists would argue is better for you.
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The sanctions have been described by Washington's UN ambassador Susan Rice as "some of the toughest sanctions" the UN had ever imposed.
While in some cases (like the rice mill owners) might be true, but it is far from the truth in general terms.
The following infographic visualizes how arsenic gets in rice and outlines some suggestions for what you can do to limit your intake.
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If Beijing trusted the market, some farmers would switch from rice to more profitable fruits and vegetables and whole areas would specialize in particular crops.
Some time around 1830, Rice learned a popular African-American song-and-dance routine, based on the myth of the trickster figure, an escaped slave named Jim Crow.
She and her daughters now eat twice a day when others can spare food or money: tea, bread, rice, maybe some fish if they are lucky.
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After a "busy" morning, the fighters were relaxing - some gathered on a blanket eating rice and stew.
Moore and Rice got their jackets some 40 years after Title IX, the federal law that bars gender discrimination in education.
In some countries, most importantly India, rice and wheat are substitutes for each other.
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Pick up some gorgeously packaged petits fours, crunchy rice crackers or dried shredded squid for the folks at home, and pick up a couple of onigiri (rice balls) for an in-flight snack.
Rice growing, in particular, is a heavy consumer of water: it takes some 5, 000 liters of water to produce 1 kg of rice.
Stephen Klineberg, who led the Rice study, argues that in some 30 years all of America will look like Houston today.
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