Toyama Koshihikari Rice 1kg | Premium Japanese Short Grain Rice

The worst rice ever it does not cook properly it mushes up

Sent me expired rice. Package says best before March 2025.....

Recieved the rice just 7 days before the expired date. Very dissapointed, no return or refund option available too.

At the bottom of the bag, there was brown moldy rice.

Koshihikari is the most well known Japanese cultivar of short-grain rice, so it commands premium prices. It is normally used in sushi restaurants and more established places. Depending on the harvest time, region etc some koshihikari could be quite expensive, and small amounts are sometimes given as a gift. This one is probably the best readily available in the UK and is good value of money, although the price seems to be going up... Unless your staple food has been rice, you likely won't know the difference immediately. But after going through a few kgs of koshihikari, it's hard to go back to "normal" rice. The texture and flavour are so much better. But to get the best out of this rice, you need to know how to cook this properly, and it's not quite straightforward. This is best cooked in a claypot (also known as "donabe" in Japanese) made specifically for rice, with an inner lid. Unlike electric rice cookers and steel pans, the double-lid rice claypots cook significantly better, by retaining the heat and radiating it gently to cook the grains, and steaming them in the end. This is how proper Japanese restaurants cook their rice and why it tastes so good. Search for "Kamado-san" by Nagatani-en online, which is fantastic and cooks restaurant-quality rice with little effort. Wash the rice, soak for 30 min, then cook in claypot with 1:1 ratio rice to water. Put the gas hob on low to medium. Once you see steam coming out (10-15 mins), turn off the heat and wait for another 30 minutes before eating. The claypot should be seasoned before first use, and always completely dry prior cooking. There are also cast-iron rice cookers but they are significantly heavier. I never tried cooking it with a single-lid cast iron pot like a Le Creuset, but maybe it's worth a short. Of course, an electric rice cooker or even a pan would do the job, but sadly the result is not the same.

Good Japanese rice. I bought the 1kg bag however when weighed it with packaging, it has around 950 to 960gm each bag. It is ok if you only bought one off but I had bought 21 bags this year so it means I am short chained around a kilo of rice! I don’t think it is because of rice shrinkage esp it says it is new rice.

We really like this rice and have been buying it religiously for a few months since investing in a good rice cooker but the latest delivery we had came with some unexpected visitors inside the bag. Amazon dealt with it really well when we contacted them and im sure its just an unfortunate one-off occurance so id still rate the product quite highly overall but make sure to do some quality checks

The rice is generally excellent, but it’s a bit ridiculous to arrive with a 2 month use by date. Essentially it’s must be 10 months old already