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Koreans receive long-grain rice imported last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Koreans have recently received the long-grain rice the country imported in large quantities late last year, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, some North Koreans have sold their long-grain rice in local markets to buy other kinds of rice, complaining that they dislike how the long-grain variety tastes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hwanghae Province said Thursday that to mark the Lunar New Year, grain shops in Sariwon sold mixed grains and white rice on a eight-to-two ration for half the price of markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFamilies of three received 10 kilograms, but they received rice that looked like long-grain rice,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voice of America <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voakorea.com\/a\/6931245.html\">reported <\/a>in late January that North Korea imported large quantities of long-grain rice from China from October to December of last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities appear to have provided the rice to people at the start of the year to soothe public discontent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, public reaction to the long-grain rice has been less-than-enthusiastic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said Vietnamese rice flies off when you blow on it and needs to be eaten hot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt crumbles if it cools just a little, so it feels like your chewing sand, and it doesn\u2019t stick together in either soup or mixed grains,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen you make porridge, it\u2019s better to use unglutinous rice, corn flour or corn mixed with rice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the first rice he ate during the Arduous March era was Vietnamese rice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany people complained how they received that sort of rice after helping the agricultural villages like it was a national uprising, and asked why they were being made to eat rice they ate during the Arduous March of the 1990s when [the authorities] said agriculture turned out fine [this year],\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>SELLING UNWANTED RICE INTO THE MARKETS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some people have responded by selling the rice they received on the market to buy glutinous rice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said while well-off people are trying to buy good rice, people unable to purchase the good rice are keeping their long-grain rice, making due on two meals a day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSome people say even if it\u2019s unglutinous rice, if they give you a lot and it fills you up, they can\u2019t ask for anything more,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other regions, cadres reportedly received the long-grain rice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hamgyong Province said cadres, legal officers and military families received Vietnamese rice on Lunar New Year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey received between seven to 10 kilograms, depending on the agency,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ordinary people received nothing, while food-poor households struggling the most received three kilograms of \u201clong white rice,\u201d with elderly households getting priority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLong white rice\u201d appears to mean a long, thin kind of long-grain rice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means that while everyone is struggling with economic problems, the really vulnerable \u2014 the elderly \u2014 received long-grain rice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople who got the rice are happy, saying it\u2019s better than nothing, given that people aren\u2019t doing well enough to be picky,\u201d said the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSome people are dumping their long-grain rice on the market to buy unglutinous rice, perhaps because they think it\u2019s much better to eat rice mixed with corn, while others are keeping it and mixing it with unglutinous rice,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20230202-2\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Koreans have recently received the long-grain rice the country imported in large quantities late last year, Daily NK has learned. However, some North Koreans have sold their long-grain rice in local markets to buy other kinds of rice, complaining that they dislike how the long-grain variety tastes. 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