It's good for us to eat unpolished brown rice, so I went to a local rice shop to choose. The rice bran contains an agricultural chemical, so I told the shop owner I wanted agricultural chemical free rice. He told me that Koshihikari brand from Ishikawa prefecture has a good flavour, so I chose it. It costs ¥750/kg, almost double the price of Koshihikari brand from Ibaragi prefecture, which we used to eat. It sounded like I wouldn't be able to cook tasty sticky brown rice without a pressure pan, so I asked the owner to polish 70% of the bran away in the end. It seemed like too much polishing...

The owner told me to soak the rice in the right amount of water for a long time (it could be overnight), but I needed rice for our curry dinner so I just soaked it in warm water for two hours and cooked it in a le creuset pot. It turned out to be quite sticky and tasty. The more I chew the more I taste. But I have to say that I thought the half price polished rice was tastier than the expensive, untreated brown rice...