tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811556140606524073.post7458523340859406658..comments2024-03-24T01:57:23.238+08:00Comments on 漁人碼頭的戰爭 - The Battle of Fisherman's Wharf: Rice Part 2: Penglai Rice 蓬萊米Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811556140606524073.post-64443294094437302492015-03-26T19:27:54.082+08:002015-03-26T19:27:54.082+08:00Preparing sushi rice is indeed a big deal, from ri...Preparing sushi rice is indeed a big deal, from rice selection, blending, cooking, stirring, vinegar adding, fan-airing, etc. In contrast, rice-bowl rice just needs one click of the electric rice cooker. This does result in a rice is rice perception. <br />蓬萊仙島 corresponds to several locations in Japan, none credible. It was 徐福 who brought the children to 蓬萊仙島 wherever it was. Most if not all of the stories on their settling in Japan originated in China, all hearsay stuff. There was one past Japanese PM 羽田 孜 who claimed to be a descendant of this group - according to Chinese news reports, nothing in Japanese press. So the mystery goes on. EyeDochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00406602265159523372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811556140606524073.post-46639116595307550442015-03-26T09:40:16.130+08:002015-03-26T09:40:16.130+08:00Finally I have some idea where the names penglai a...Finally I have some idea where the names penglai and zhailai rice came from. Rice is rice to me. Here in Califoria's Chinese grocery store Calrose rice is much cheaper than Nishiki rice, but I like it either way. And Thai jasmine rice is equally good to me. I can only look in wonder how the Japanese are such connoisseurs of their sushi rice. I saw this one show where they kind of pressure-cook (putting weighty rocks on top of the wooden lid of a giant rice cooker when cooking) a special grade rice for their sushi restaurant. Maybe the apprentice needed to spend 3 years before s/he was allowed to cook that rice.<br />Any likelihood that 蓬萊仙島 was a reference to some place in Japan? I just have this vague impression that the first emperor Chin sent a bunch of boys and girls and a leader out to the eastern sea to look for herbs of immortality. Wikipedia has a couple of articles on this. But deemed it a weak argument.Hermanhttp://mindful-ly.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com