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For the hungry Filipino, a meal is not a meal without rice. Not the Uncle Ben’s-separated-grain-sometimes-with-margarine-who-eats-this-crap kind of rice white people like, but the Milagrosa-sticky-enough-for-school-projects kind of rice.
From generation to generation, the elusive art of cooking rice with just the right amount of stickiness was passed on with the one-knuckle rule, although this never works because knuckle length varies in the human population. A better way is the one-to-one-cup plus one-and-a-half-cup rule; for example, three cups of rice to three plus one-and-a-half cups of water.
Rice by itself is bland, but it’s healthy and serves as the perfect blank canvas for all the greasy, salty, and generally artery-clogging foods that Filipinos like to pile on their plates at family gatherings. For abjectly poor Filipinos, salt or soy sauce substitute for such foods.
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