The common factor among Asian is that they all take rice as their staple food. It has been cultivated for thousand of year and eaten daily by billion of people all over Asia and yet we Asian have never got fed up of eating rice. A Godsend food that have made Asia what it is today....Just take a pause... Today.... and Think... what would happen to Asian if there are no rice around, could we imaging a day without rice......Well think....would we be satisfied by just eating other foods and continue of being Asian....no way....the reason we are Asian is because we all eat rice and we should be thankful that this crop call Rice that has fed us for generation and makes Asia such a wonderful place to live....Rice is a simple crop, this golden grain when ripen could be convert to rice is just one processing step...the golden rice is separated from it husk and then steamed, it could be eaten without much fuss..... unlike the wheat, in wheat after it is harvested it has to go to many process before it could be eaten as food, first the grain had to be separated from the husk,then it has to be grounded into powder and even at this state it could still not be eaten, it has first to be made into a dough and only after this could it be cook, either by baking, frying, or steaming and only then it could be eaten..... as we all know too well with rice it is just steam it and you can already eat it.....the process from planting to eating for rice is only three step, whereas for wheat it take at least four step....so to Asian and the rest of the world be thankful that we have this miracle plant 'RICE" in our culture and because of it, that we have survived all throughout the century.....a simple Godsend plant that is a staple food for all Asian......