Discussion Dear Asians, can you live without rice?

I can probably, if i live off burgers, pastas , noodles, dumplings and other stuff with wheat. But I can't imagine eating a dish straight up without rice. Like just eating meat stew or even just eating fried chicken alone unless they lessen the flavoring.

 

I read that as if you were asking a former drug addict how long they have been clean for

 

If I feel like it?

maybe some of them just haven't considered the perspective of the character. Their familiarity of rice might be so low that they couldn't even imagine how life without rice is after eating it for so long.

 

I can live without it but I still eat it regularly because it’s cheep , filling and easy . But I can substitute it out for other things .

 

Nope, i tried eating bread and to me, it's not a staple, just a pastry

 

After eating rice majority of my life, I would say rice or any other carb is just padding. I can live with any form of carb like potatoes, noodles, bread and of course rice. The true good stuff is the meat and well the thing that is also most likely to kill you is that too. Vegetables I have a mixed opinion, I know they are foundation blocks of diet and health but they do not really bring any really great in the taste department. To be honest, I could deal with anything with seasoning. Even soy sauce egg rice is applicable on my table if I am lazy enough. Sign me up for the chicken club ( though I prefer broiled).

 

Chinese here, and no, I cannot live without rice, I can go without eating it for a awhile and I do get sick of it sometimes, but never eating it again? Probably not.

 

Wait, are u in pangasinan right now stormy?

 

Rice is the main dish. the rest is the side dish. When I was a broke student, I add on extra rice and just bought chicken wing (cheapest part of chicken). I can stay full with only 1 meal

 

No. I even eat lasagna with rice. So.

 

While I do like pasta, I easily get tired of it. Unlike rice. I don't know if it's because of the mouthfeel or whatnot but they just aren't the same to me.
I remember whenever I'm waiting for everyone else to get their portions of the dishes, I go to the rice and chew some haha. It has a slight sweet taste to it. Not like sugar sweet, something more mellow.

I like fried chicken even without rice. I only picked this habit during college when my friends like to dine in chicken wing resto for lunch

Eating rice is addiction... you get withdrawal symptoms too when you stop xD

Nope, but I am in the PH. Whysu?

 

Ohhh, i remembered that you eaten before in pangasinan so i thought ur there

 

I was eating spaghetti sauce with rice a few days ago hahahha

 

**) and if you cook rice correctly it tastes amazing by itself~

xx) I'm trying to cut rice out of my life since it's unhealthy for me

 

I could prolly live without rice but yeah it's just the norm here eh it's just fine.

 

... Rice for me is soooooo tasteless... >.>

 

too much carbs?

 

Honestly, there is some exaggeration, rice is cheap and shelf stable. If push comes to shove, rice isn’t a die-for food. I have rice on the table on average like 1.5-2 meals of all three meals a day every week, but that doesn’t mean I’ll die if I don’t eat rice.

 

Yah same. I like bread in the mornings. But main meals usually consist of rice and that's just how it is.

 

What are the foods that u really like stormy in PH?