Plain Rice

This is a recipe for plain white Chinese rice, rice bowl rice, ordinary everyday nonaromatic, reliable rice. The rice we buy in our Chinatown neighborhood and labeled in Chinese for Chinese consumers is usually a plain nonaromatic long-grain or medium-grain rice grown in the United States, often sold without any further identification or special brand or variety marked. This is what you should look for to stock your Chinese pantry. It should have semitransparent grains, not the opaque white