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Rice

(n) /raɪs/
Rice

Meaning

A swamp grass which is widely cultivated as a source of food, especially in asia.

Pronunciation

UK raɪs

US raɪs

Example Sentences

  • Glutinous rice played an important role when building the wall.
  • Their agricultural products are rice, beans, coffee, fruit, and tomatoes.
  • The basic ingredients to make spring rolls are thin noodles or vermicelli, rice flour, soy sauce, mint, lettuce, tofu, carrots and capsicum.
  • Rice grows very well in China and in Southeast Asia.
  • So, many people who live in China and Southeast Asia grow rice, which they then sell to people around the world.
  • If you live in the African desert and you want to eat rice, you are dependent on other people to grow that rice and sell it to you.
  • They also have popular desserts such as "[Khao] [Niao] [Mamuang]" or mango sticky rice made with a bed of sticky rice at the bottom with a fresh mango cut into slices on top and finished off with a drizzle of sweet coconut milk;
  • One popular noodle soup, "[Guay] [Teow]," is made from rice noodles or egg noodles with beef, pork, and chicken stock.
  • [It's] a noodle dish made from wide and thick rice noodles that is stir fried in dark soy sauce with either pork, chicken, or beef and Chinese broccoli or cabbage.
  • "[Khao] Lam" which is Bamboo sticky rice, is served inside a bamboo stick roasted in charcoal.

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