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A rice store owner explains why he sells rice by the catty instead of packaged rice. Lee Kwong-lam (President, Hong Kong Kowloon Vermicelli and Noodles Manufacturing Industry Merchants General Association) explains from where Hong Kong imports its rice and how much reserve the government keeps in its warehouse. He says people eat less rice nowadays and selling rice is a sunset business. Old folks say there was famine during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the worse hit were the fishermen. Another rice merchant explains why people like eating old rice with new rice and how it is cooked.
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