B-herbs Herbal Coated Rice
I bought a pack of B-herbs Herbal Coated Rice a few months ago, but I didn’t have time to try out the colored rice. I stumbled upon the rice at a Thai food fair which was held at Impact Muang Thong Thani. I love checking out the fairs at Impact because there are a lot of things to see, and not to mention, you might even find a few surprises!
Hubby and I will check the events held at Impact from time to time, and we will surely make a visit there if we are interested. We brought the kids to the National Science and Technology Fair yesterday, while I checked out the booths at Bangkok International Fashion Fair & Bangkok International Leather Fair 2009. I spent a lot at the fairs yesterday, and that explains why I stay at home on Sunday! LOL! *pokkai liao* Even if you are not interested in shopping, you can also watch the shows during some events, such as dog shows (go grab the pet supplements during the dog shows as they are a great bargain!), fashion shows, or just window shopping. I hope that I can make a trip to the annual gems and jewelry fair. I will be drooling over the items displayed at the booths! LOL!
Oops, I got too carried away! Let’s get back to my rice. 
I was immediately attracted to the colored rice, especially since it’s dyed with natural herbs such as roselle, turmeric, pandanus (pandan in Malay) and butterfly pea. I bought a pack that comes with all 4 naturally colored rice.
I cooked all 4 colors of rice and thought of fixing some colorful rice balls with various rice molds. However, my boy wanted sushi so I fixed a sushi roll for their lunch. I didn’t have the right size of nori, and it’s a struggle to me to form the sushi roll! LOL!
My kids’ lunch with sushi rolls, salmon teriyaki, a piece of baked chicken wing and mixed veggies (hidden)
The dye faded off for roselle rice when I washed the rice, that’s why it turned out white. I wanted to do more with blue and green but my kids were anxious to have their lunch already. So, maybe I will “play” with the dyed rice again, if I don’t have any plan during the weekends.
Cantik lor itu nasi warna! nice nice!
These colourful rice looks so pretty.. make more bentos with these rice, ok? ^_^
Nice! So cool.. I wonder if they sell it here?
wow… this is neat. i do wish we have it here too. excited ady waiting for the bentos you’ll experiment the rice on.
Arlene, sorry ya? Keep you waiting for so long only post about the dyed rice.
Rachel and Spunkz, oh I hope I have time to do something in the weekends too, but normally, we are out or I am just too lazy. LOL! Will try my best.
Ultracoolmama, I’m not sure, but you can try to dye the white rice with the ingredients I mentioned in my post. I colored white rice with hard boil egg yolk before, and it’s pretty easy. Just do it when the rice is hot.
Wow, I love that!
look nice
oh yeah! this rice IS cool. I tried it too here:
http://frenchbento.canalblog.com/archives/2009/01/03/11923252.html
with a comparative of colors raw/ cooked.
The yellow rice is easy to home-make with turmeric, though.
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