Koda Farms Sho-Chiku-Bai Sweet Rice, 10 Pound

Received it today but as said by other reviewers the packaging is not good.I just got lucky that the rice didn’t spill out.But the product itself is very good! Couldn’t wait anymore and I cooked it immediately in my Instant pot and it turned out to be absolutely awesome🙂 For those willing to cook in Instant pot I cooked it in pot in pot method for 25 minutes under high pressure followed by Natural release! Rinse rice well at least 3 times. Then add water.For 1cup of rice I added 2/3cup+ 3tbsp of water and the rice was soft,sticky,chewy & perfectly glossy with a perfect bite which I love the most.Zoom in to see the texture! So authentic and it just was how it supposed to be..happy customer 😍 I just wish they had sealed the tip of the bag with some glue/tape as it was just folded and could have opened easily in the transportation:( Please look into this as the product is expensive and we cannot afford to loose all the grain!

This arrived in great shape. Paper rice bag was wrapped firmly in a plastic bag covering, which prevented the bag breakage many people seemed to experience in the past. I soaked the rice for probably close to 20 hours and used a Mochi machine to steam and pound the rice. It worked wonderfully, and made a delightfully stretchy and chewy Mochi. I'm looking forward to making it again and recommend it to people who are making Mochi from rice. Great product, and I love knowing it is grown in the US by a family who has been growing rice for several generations.

Sho-Chiku-Bai was a very pleasant surprise. This is great sticky/sweet rice. If you have never tried sweet rice this might be a fun adventure for you. Clear instructions on stove top steaming and rice cooker methods. Great for fun dipping sauces. Amazon offers a variety of rice products that are home grown and processed in the USA. All the USA homegrown rice products from Amazon have never had any bugs inside the bags. Very often rice purchased elsewhere does.

I love to buy products from small businesses...and this company is a small biz in California. This Sweet Rice is more expensive than others, but well worth it. Yes, the bag was not tightly sealed, but arrived intact. I made multiple BIG mistakes on my first attempt as I soaked this Sweet Rice for only 1 hour, then cooked it in my Zojirushi Induction heating rice cooker. A big failure as this rice needs to be soaked in an abundance of water for 24 hours (yes, 24 hours), then STEAMED, turning the rice over after 30-45 minutes. I used my bamboo steamer and it took about an hour and a half to fully soften. A lot of work using the makeshift bamboo steamer, lined with parchment paper, over a pot of boiling water. The rice came out deliciously sweet and sticky, but did stick to the parchment. So, on the hunt I went for a professional Rice Steamer. I just purchased a Zojirushi Rice STEAMER NHS-06/10/18 at the Zojirushi website and on sale for $47.99 in color BLACK. Free Shipping. It has received wonderful reviews! Amazon only has the color white available. Looking forward to making this rice on a weekly basis!

My family loves sweet rice with mung bean and coconut milk. I make large batches in one day in order to freeze and reheat as needed. The quality of the rice is very good but the bag it came in was no longer sealed and about 2 cups worth were spilled out into the shipping box and out the holes of the box. Dirt and bugs are able to enter unsealed food containers so I am very unhappy with the packaging. Please stitch the bags or use stronger glue or you will lose more customers.

Excellent sweet rice for porridge and an addition to sushi rice to make it more filling and sticky. BUT, the bags are so very poorly sealed that they will not handle shipping and spill into the carton, TWO shipments never received due to broken seals. This is NOT cost effective. Just increase the amount of glue on the bag end during sealing to fix the issue.

My favorite rice. This time one of the bag arrived ripped and rice spilled

We love using this rice as a congee type for morning porridge instead of oats. We have used this for years now and the product has always come perfectly. Recently they even upgraded the way it is packed. Many thanks to the family who makes this beautiful product .