連豊順米行 - Section 3

Rice shops are also a traditional industry. Now you can buy packaged rice of different brands, prices and different quantities in supermarket chains. Under this trend, rice shops are slowly disappearing like grocery stores. When I was a child, the rice shop was often assigned by my mother to buy rice. The impression at the time was that the rice shop had a large rice milling machine. Since the rice delivered was packaged in the rice drying yard, the white rice must be cleaned after being hulled. Mixed with small stones, the rice industry will first use a rice sieving machine to manually pick out the small stones. However, it is inevitable that there will be fish that slip through the net. Even if they are washed before cooking, they will occasionally bite the stones when they are eaten. This kind of nausea, immediately made the action of "spit out quickly", but with the advancement of rice sieving technology, it has now been completely avoided. I think that if the rice industry simply sells ordinary supermarket packaged rice, it will definitely not survive. Its market should be in large wholesale demand in the catering industry. The average family should not buy a 30 kg bag of rice. If you think from this direction, it is not retail. The mid-market may be its sales area, which is not difficult to understand why it survived. J