While it used to be Bangkok-the hotspot in the late 90's, Japan became a popular tourist destination. And now Taiwan is the new kid on the block of block holidays!
Taiwan, too, is a major stockbroker in specializing and promoting health foods. One of them here is the QQ Rice, a fun taiwanese-expounded lingo "Q", on the thrill your molars get on chewing bouncy foods.
After studying more than 300 types of rice; this gave way to brown, red, wheat germ brown and purple rice found in its menu. Making them sound less hard to swallow is cupping them into riceballs and selling in rolls! (Mama's way/coaxing a child).
Purple Rice Roll (SGD 3.90)
Eat your greens(as well as purples). They are rich in anthocyanin, nature's way of approaching black colour. Equivalent to eating blueberries, cranberries, purple-fleshed sweet potatoes.
On moment of truth.
What truth? That I'd always order this upon animation !Q.
Q(Q de), flavourful; to an oily, even. Like brown rice is to white rice, once the tongue is tamed of the 'wilder' flavour of purple rice; you will feel grouchy switching back to(white/brown rice)! (A bang for your bucks is the put-tsi, taiwainese-way of putting the squirting of juices, when the black husks break and split upon chewing the purple grains).
P.S. Is purple rice (also referred to as forbidden rice) better for you than brown rice? While the latter contains anthocyanin flavonoids, both rice; as well as other coloured rice, play a better important role than the usual white rice.
Japanese cucumber, sweet corn, cherry tomatoes, carrots and celery.
