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 | | For Indian, Sri Lankan and Malaysian meals rice is usually cooked with salt added and, because the desired result is fluffy, separate grains, long grain rice is preferred. |
 | | The Thais mostly eat jasmine rice, except in the north and north-east of the country where sticky (glutinous) rice is favoured. |
 | | In India and Sri Lanka forgetting to add salt to the rice would be an unpardonable oversight for which the cook would surely be rebuked, but in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, China, Japan and Korea salt is considered to mask the flavour of a good rice. |
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