Koshihikari rice is a type of rice that is popular in Japan and has been gaining popularity in the United States. If you want more color or nutrition in your rice, you can mix these grains. You can add a couple of tablespoons when soaking the rice.

Yamaguchi T, Omoteno M, Maeda H, Morikawa M, Kidani Y, Ozaki H, Murata K, Iyama Y, Kojima Y, Takarada T et al (2015) Development of a new rice cultivar named ‘aka-Musubi’. Bull Toyama Agric Res Inst 6(in Japanese with English summary):9–26Masu"(square wooden cup) was used as a unit to measure rice for centuries until the '60s before following international measuring guidelines. 1 masu is 180ml, and this tradition remains even for now for some reason. 🔪Instructions Since we are using ‘old’ rice we soaked it for a bit because the older rice soaks up more moisture like shari su.

Gou is the second smallest unit. Instead of a plastic cup (as there was no such thing as plastic), people used a square wooden cup, which is almost equivalent to 180ml (180.39ml to be exact). The next level of unit is ‘ shou‘ (升), which is 10 times of gou. 10 times of shou is ‘ to‘ (斗, pronounce as /tɔ/ – the sound of toy without ‘i’), then 10 times of to is ‘ koku‘ (石). Furuta T, Uehara K, Shim R, Shim J, Nagai K, Ashikari M, Takashi T (2016) Development of chromosome segment substitution lines harboring Oryza nivara genomic segments in Koshihikari and evaluation of yield-related traits. Breed Sci 66:845–850 Tanabata T, Shibaya T, Hori K, Ebana K, Yano M (2012) SmartGrain: high-throughput phenotyping software for measuring seed shape through image analysis. Plant Physiol 160:1871–1880 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.Hori K, Kataoka T, Miura K, Yamaguchi M, Saka N, Nakahara T, Sunohara Y, Ebana K, Yano M (2012) Variation in heading date conceals quantitative trait loci for other traits of importance in breeding selection of rice. Breed Sci 62:223–234 Plain rice vinegar This is a rice vinegar for sushi rice, salads, and these 7 benefits by Natalie Falk