Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
Maybe this is not obvious to people who never grew up on predominantly rice-based/Asian diet, but common reason why at least some of the Asian countries tended to lean heavily on white rice....was more cultural and status thing.
It's the same thing with wheat in European cultures.

PS I love bao too, but I'm too lazy to make them... I only get them when I visit my mom and she's in the mood