Thx, so much for all this info. I guess it'll be not too expensive ie..$20-$25 After all, it's just another gift add-on to several other things..

Gives me lots to make notes and ponder

For now, on assessing rice quality, each person is different. Due to need to cut down my rice consumption, I eat less rice but want quality. I was truly pissed off that I bought the wrong type for myself in a 10 kg. bag..it was short grain a touch more on the sticky/glutinous side. Which I dislike. Something that tastes sticky rice to me, tastes poor quality (except for sushi and for glutinous rice packets of goodies steamed in bamboo/lotus leaves) but that's just probably my Cantonese cooking style snobbishness. Big mistake to buy bag that is not transparent and a brand that I wasn't totally familiar with.

My fav is long grain white rice, even length, not broken grains and not sticky/glutinous. Basmati rice is nice but it doesn't suit for my taste for everyday or frequent eating. I view basmati rice more for certain occasions. It wasn't part of my cuisine upbringing via parents which probably influences my preference.

I only use sushi rice for sushi.

Have a bag of red rice which I haven't opened yet. Heard from a Sri Lankan colleague about how he prepared it. Need to ask for instruction again.

We will buy more arborio rice..we are thinking of maybe paella during Christmas holidays. Next day after our spaetzle stuff on CHristmas Eve.