In Australia the simple and humble rice appears in many of the cultural dishes available here. It is a staple food and is grown locally as well as imported. For the student earning their way it may be their only food for the day or it may be something accompanying your meal as a side dish.
What does rice mean in your culture?
Superb close-ups of the various rice dishes @PaulPavlinovich
The Rice Kheer is the most popular dessert across India and I believe also in Pakistan and Bangladesh which form a cultural and dietary continuum.
I don’t have a photo of my own to share but you can look it up via the link.
The Rice Kheer is prepared with thickened milk and sugar is added for sweetening though jaggery is also used sometimes.
In Indonesia, rice is a must, @PaulPavlinovich . We cannot say we’ve had our meals when we’re not eaten rice, yet. We even eat rice noodle with rice, or deep fried potato cakes (in Indonesian we called it “Perkedel Kentang”) with rice.
Btw I’m surprised that in Australia you eat rice like that. My friend, Indonesian, he’s graduated from Melbourne. He told me that when he studied in Melbourne he never eat rice. Either it’s expensive or hard to find. Hahaa…
Rice really gets along well and also a complete meal on it’s own.
I love to eat different rice dishes and plain rice as well.
Rice idli is a very widely consumed breakfast and snack here.
Flatted rice, puffed rice also are great snack option.
Just adding a few ingredients makes it delicious and filling.
Really mouth watering @PaulPavlinovich my weight is increasing so rapidly that’s why usually I avoid to see pics of that kind of meal
All good food and correct facts @PaulPavlinovich from rice eating country, we can even make dessert and sweet from both white rice and sticky rice/gluten rice. I have posted few articles about rice, sweet and cake made from rice too and many more.
Hey @PaulPavlinovich speaking about rice let me tell you my habit and that’s very common in my community in West java or Indonesian for general .
Breakfast - a bowl of rice mixed with fried noodles
Lunch: a bowl of rice with satay
Dinner : a bowl of rice with bakso meatball
Yeah the answer is rice everything
Thanks @TusharSuradkar Rice Kheer sounds very interesting, my family make a Greek version of this called Rizogalo. Ours has cinnamon and sometimes nutmeg on top, but Kheer sounds quite exotic with some of the varieties, I looked at some of the recipes and saw cardamom and nuts and even rose water.
@iorikun301 I love Indonesian food, well the Melbourne variety anyway, there are some places which claim to be authentic. I am surprised for your friend, rice is cheap and available in every supermarket. Maybe your friend only went to burger shops :).
@FalguniP We call puffed rice “Rice Bubbles” and its a brand of cereal pretty well known in Australia and America and I’m sure other countries. I’ve been known to take the rice left over from the previous nights dinner, coat it in brown sugar, add milk and microwave to make it hot. Great breakfast :).
@Muhammad_Usman I I get that! I’m on a seefood diet. I see food and I eat it. That is my diet.
@Sophia_Cambodia We do that too, rice is a popular desert - whether it be the Greek version I mentioned above, or the english baked rice pudding both are common. You occasionally see sweet cakes and the like from food sellers.
@Nyainurjanah rice is life 
Paul
Hello @PaulPavlinovich
Nice topic indeed, Rice we locally called it bhat (in Bengali ভাত). It is our main food in Bangladesh. We cook the rice with water and have with fish, vegetables and lentil.
Looks mouth watering @AbdullahAM so many ways we can enjoy this simple food.
Paul
Hey @PaulPavlinovich ,
Interesting subject and I loved reading everybody’s comments, as well as your post! I don’t have great photos but I’d like to jump in. On the contrary of Indonesia, in Bulgaria rice isn’t really a must, as @iorikun301 mentioned in his comment. However, I can think of some dishes that are traditional and include rice:
We have the stuffed peppers and as I don’t have pictures, I’ll refere to this great post by Local Guide @OlgaKlimchik .
“Chicken with rice” is a very well-known dish here and you can have it at any restaurant. Here’s my photo:
And of course in my country the rice is frequently used as a garnish with meat or just as an addition to some kind of a meal.
Thinking of this post, @Giu_DiB maybe you want to share something on the topic as well?
Thanks for tagging me, @Bobiisha !
Despite not being native from Italy, alongside many other things Italian cuisine is famous for, rice has become a key element of our tradition. I wrote about risotto in the post you recalled, indeed: #TastyChallenge: Making champagne risotto.
Being risotto a recipe originally developed in the North of the country, also in Sicily, in the very South, where I come from, we have our specialty: arancini (litterally “little oranges”). Here you can see some arancini I pictured in Catania last year, different shape means different filling:
தமிழ் மற்ற தெலுங்கு, கர்நாடகம், கேரளா உணவு வகைகளின் சிறந்த படங்களை இங்கே இடுகை செய்துள்ளீர்கள்.
பாராட்டுகள். அன்பு
நன்றி. 
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" சோழ நாடு சோறுடைத்து "
என்பது பழமொழி.
பண்டைய சோழ நாடு
தஞ்சாவூர் என்ற தமிழ் பிரதேசம்.
" மாடு கட்டி போரடித்தால்
மாளாது என்று யானை கட்டி போரடித்த தஞ்சை வளவன் "
என்பது தஞ்சாவூர் பற்றிய
பழமொழி.
நெல்லரிசி தமிழ்நாட்டு முதல் கலாசார பெருமை.
அரிசி
பொரி
அவல்
சாதம்
கஞ்சி
கூழ்
பழைய அமுது
சாம்பார் சாதம்
உப்புமா
இடியாப்பம்
புட்டு
இன்னும் பல வகை உணவு பண்டங்கள் அரிசியில் செய்யும் உணவுகள்.
என் சமையல்
சாம்பார் சாதம்
என்னுடைய இடுகையில்
காணலாம்.
தஞ்சாவூர் தஞ்சாவூர்
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Thank you dear @Theenan they are from Cambodian cuisine but I believe we have similar or the same things. We had been influenced by Indian culture anyway
** @AbdullahAM .**Great photos
@PaulPavlinovich. Hola. En Puerto Rico, se consume arroz, todos los dias, al menos 1 vez al dia.
Frito, guisado, solo, acompañado. Es El Plato básico. Y cada uno de nosotros me demos nuestro toque de sabor. Recordando que ese sazon, lo heredamos de España, modificando las recetas por todas las culturas Caribeña, Africanas, Asiaticas. Al menos he escrito 2 post sobre recetas de arroz. Luego he escribo el link. Gracias por presentar Este tema.
Thanks.
. @Sophia_Cambodia .
Too our south east Asian’s knowledge.
Thanking you. 
Thanking you to @PaulPavlinovich . . For the good chance.
Wow what does rice mean, a lot i will say I am originally from Southern India and rice is a staple food for us. We just love rice. We make variety rice (lemon rice yogurt rice, fried rice) or just mix a gravy with the white rice or make the people’s choice " Biriyani " with it. In India we also make a dessert called Kheer made of rice, milk, sugar and saffron. Hmmmmmit’s the best dessert you can have. The humble rice is part of the diet of all people irrespective of their social status. Rice Rocks !!!
