Rice and Japan
This is a popular dish made from rice that can be found in any Japanese restaurant in the United States.
What is sushi?
Rice is the primary staple for more than ___ of the world's population.
What is half of the world's polulation?
Some people think you need to do this first before starting to cook the rice.
What is rinse the rice?
This location is where you would see rice growing.
What is a rice field?
This is the food group that rice falls into.
What is the grains food group?
This word in Japanese means cooked rice and a meal.
What is gohan?
An average Amercan consumes about ____ many pounds of rice per year.
What is 25 pounds of rice per year?
The amount of cups of water needed to cook 1 cup of rice.
What is 1 cup? (2cups accepted too)
Name one state that produces rice.
What is Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri or Mississippi?
_______ is National Rice Month to celebrate the harvest of rice.
What is the month of Septemeber?
This sweet treat is made from rice.
What is mochi or manju?
There are more than ____ rice farm operators in the United States.
What is 10,000 rice farm operators?
The amount of time needed to usually cook rice.
What is 20 to 25 minutes?
What is China?
Two Japanese car brands have rice in their company name.
What is Toyota (bountiful rice field) and Honda (main rice field)?
This popular Japanese snack is made from rice.
What is senbei?
____ percent of the rice consumed in the U.S. is grown here.
What is 85%?
What is fluff the rice with a spoon and let it sit for a few minutes?
This group of immigrants brought the production of rice duirng the California Gold Rush.
Who were the Chinese immigrant laborers?
What is mood?
Name two other food or drinks that are made from rice and can be found in Japan.
What is sake, rice milk, candy, onigiri, rice cakes, fried rice? ( many possible answers)
Rice is grown in Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri and Mississippi. These places produce about _____ billion pounds of rice a year?
What is 22 billion pounds of rice? (+/- 10)
Leftover rice should be cooled quickly, then __________ to prevent drying out and absorbing the smells /flavors from other foods.
What is covered?
One seed of rice yields more than ___,000 grains.
What is 3,000? (+/- 5)
There are over 40,000 varities of rice. Give names of two types if rice.
What is ___?(jasmnie, basmati, arborio, red aromatic, black japonica, brown short, long grain, medium grain)