You may buy Asian rice and rice products from Roxy Trading and Vasinee.

Bhutanese Red Rice

Grown in the Himalayas, Bhutanese red rice has a nutty, earthy taste. When cooked, the rice is pale pink, soft and slightly sticky. It is semi-milled, and has the same high nutritional qualities as brown rice. Unlike brown rice, however, red rice can be cooked as quickly as white rice, in half the time as brown.


Chinese Forbidden Rice

Chinese forbidden rice is short-grained, heirloom rice that is black when raw and turns dark purple when cooked. The deep color of black forbidden rice suggests the presence of phytonutrients. It has a relatively high fiber and mineral content and supplies several important amino acids.The name, forbidden rice, comes from the legend that it was reserved for emperors in ancient China because of its nutritiousness and rarity. It has a sweet taste and a sticky texture.


Indian Basmati Rice

Basmati rice is long grain aromatic rice with a nutlike fragrance, delicate flavor and light texture rice. Its name means "Queen of Fragrance" in Hindi. The grains of basmati rice are much longer than they are wide, and they grow even longer as they cook. They stay firm and separate, not sticky, after cooking. It is available both as a white rice and a brown rice. Due to the high amount of starch clinging to the rice grains, it should be washed properly before cooking. Soaking it for half an hour to two hours before cooking makes the grains less likely to break in cooking.


Indonesian Black Rice

Indonesian black glutinous or sweet rice is a nutty whole grain widely consumed in many of the Indonesian islands. It is used for rice pudding for breakfast or dessert. It is also nibbled on as sweet snacks.


Japanese Sweet Rice

Japanese rice is short grain rice that becomes sticky when cooked. Most rice is sold with the outer portion of the grains polished away. Unpolished rice is considered less delicious by most people but is more nutritious and healthier than the polished one. A second major rice variety used in Japan is mochi rice. It is almost translucent and is more sticky when cooked than conventional Japanese rice, It is commonly used for sekihan (cooked mochi rice with red beans), sushi or rice cakes.


Korean Rice

Korean rice is different from most other rice in the world. Korean rice is moist and sticks together rather than falling apart. It makes it rather easy to eat with chopsticks.


Thai Jasmine Rice

Jasmine rice is a soft-textured long-grain variety of rice that has a nutty aroma and subtle flavor. This rice should be rinsed before cooking to wash off extra starch. The grains will cling when cooked, but is less sticky than other rices . It is available as both brown and white rice.