Red Rice

This distinctive deep red rice is used primarily as a coloring agent rather than eaten as a grain, usually in a fermented preparation called red rice that is favored by the people of Fujian and by the Chiu Chow and Hakka people of southern China and Southeast Asia. It is sold in packages labeled “red yeast rice, ” “yeast, ” or, inexplicably, “dried pearl barley.” Ask for red rice.