Chinese Black Rice

Chinese black rice A recent arrival in North America (Mail-Order Sources), this rice is grown in Zhezhiang in northern China. It is, like Thai black rice, an unmilled rice, what we would call a brown rice here. Local people in the black rice–growing area eat it primarily as juk (also known as rice porridge or congee). It has firm nonsticky grains and cooks relatively quickly for an unmilled rice. The cooked grains are tender..