409. The Best Rice in the World_1

What does delicious rice look like?

Originally, Lao Song's family grew rice varieties more common in the south, which were harder in texture. Furthermore, their seed selection was just average, so the taste was really subpar, on the same level as the rice sold in supermarkets for one or two yuan per jin.

But this year, when Song Tan came to cultivate rice, considering that the family members were getting on in years, he chose a variety found more commonly in the north — Japonica rice.

Japonica rice is shorter and plumper, with a soft, delicate, and sweet flavor. Except for being slightly inferior to Indica rice when making fried rice with eggs, it's pretty good for everything else.

Most importantly, this year they cultivated two rice crops, so timing for breeding and transplanting seedlings started earlier than usual.

And Japonica rice is more cold-resistant; its amylopectin structure becomes even sweeter with the big temperature differences...