Buying Indian Rice

mahwish · Post by **mahwish** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:12 pm

Hi
I live in Turku. Where can I buy Indian or Pakistani Rice online or locally. Does anyone know?Can buy larger bags like 10 KG or 20 KG to save money if possible!

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AldenG · Post by **AldenG** » Thu Jan 09, 2014 1:21 am

Certainly there are differences you can see, feel, taste, and smell between different rices that look rather similar in dry bulk. There can be maybe a 5-10x difference, perhaps less, in how well different individuals can perceive such differences. (Just think about a guy from Texas who thinks all French cooking lacks flavor because he has incinerated all his taste buds trying to perfect the world's hottest chili. Or maybe he just never learned much discernment in the first place.)

Then of course on top of all that, there can be political and religious reasons to buy one or another. Plus you might trust in a more contaminant-free supply chain from one country or another.

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Thu Jan 09, 2014 11:01 am

No, theres a difference. I had a Chinese flatmate that bought rice in the co-op and was looking like he ate raw lemons. So we went to the "Chinatown" in Cambridge and found a room full of rices. I felt like those abandoned husbands when women go shopping... He spent an hour negotiating and contemplating over the 15 or so different brands in sacks...

As to the OP - walk around eyes open, theres "funky stores" you can find what you want.

tuulen · Post by **tuulen** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 7:46 am

Be careful! In USA about 70% of rice is grown in the southern states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Yet what are now rice fields were once cotton fields and those cotton fields were sprayed or treated with an insecticide to control a bole-weevil insect population, but that insecticide included a form of arsenic. And today the US government warns people to limit their consumption of such rice, due to the arsenic contaminant, and brown rice grown there is the worst of all.

California rice is OK, PROVIDED that it is grown in California.

Otherwise, I get my brown rice from Thailand.

Honest · Post by **Honest** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 12:01 pm

Some years back I was introduced to Basmati rice by one of my flatmates and after that I only use them. It's possible to buy them even from lidl.

But the best rice I have bought are from Alan Shop in Turku. They were not the cheapest ones (28e/10kg) but the best I have ever used. The pack looked like http://imgur.com/UC97HLU

http://www.fonecta.fi/yritykset/Turku/4 ... +Alan+Shop.

The shop is not right on the road. It's in the building behind the shops on the roadside.

Alan-shop is visible here, through the opening between K-extra and the other shop. (I think this is an old street view. K-Extra doesn't exist anymore, there is a second hand cloth shop now)

https://maps.google.fi/maps?q=aninkaist ... -3.29&z=16

There is also another big oriental shop somewhere around Eerikinkatu 5-7.

Karhunkoski · Post by **Karhunkoski** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 6:35 pm

Just buy from amazon UK. Cheap basmati, free delivery over 25£. A sack from there lasts us 18 months.

onkko · Post by **onkko** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 10:41 pm

tuulen wrote:Be careful! In USA about 70% of rice is grown in the southern states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Yet what are now rice fields were once cotton fields and those cotton fields were sprayed or treated with an insecticide to control a bole-weevil insect population, but that insecticide included a form of arsenic. And today the US government warns people to limit their consumption of such rice, due to the arsenic contaminant, and brown rice grown there is the worst of all.

California rice is OK, PROVIDED that it is grown in California.

Otherwise, I get my brown rice from Thailand.

What that has to do with finland? I dont think finns buy rice from USA.

Upphew · Post by **Upphew** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 11:02 pm

roger_roger wrote:
Karhunkoski wrote:Just buy from amazon UK. Cheap basmati, free delivery over 25£. A sack from there lasts us 18 months.
R u sure about free shipping??? I just checked amazon and the cheapest basmati rice was £14, that means if I buy 20 kilos then it'd be £28, but how can they deliver 20 kilos of good from UK to Finland for free?

If it is super saver then it is free. I got pants couriered to my door in a bit over 48 hours. 130€ pants, I paid 30€, the delivery was free.

Upphew · Post by **Upphew** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:15 am

roger_roger wrote:
Upphew wrote:If it is super saver then it is free. I got pants couriered to my door in a bit over 48 hours. 130€ pants, I paid 30€, the delivery was free.
pants are hardly 1 kg, which can fit under small package thing. BUT shipping cost for of 20 kgs of rice is free?

Pants are hardly 1kg but try to get even mail delivered in 48 hours.

Upphew · Post by **Upphew** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:22 am

roger_roger wrote:but I still have doubt if it'd be delivered to my Finnish address.

Probably you have to haul it from post, but you'll get your rice.

mahwish · Post by **mahwish** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:13 pm

Hi. Ordered two 10 KG rice bags from Amazon.co.uk. Received them today. Free delivery at a nice price.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shahzada-Basmat ... rice+10+kg

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Badshah-Royale- ... F0E3B876DQ

The only thing that I did not like is that they charged me some extra VAT saying that Finland's VAT is higher than the UK.

Selling something from a website and then overcharging is certainly against the sales and services law. Isn't it call misleading?or some other name.

Overall, the service is good, the price of the rice is certainly cheaper than Finland even after charging this "Amazon Tax".

Liam1 · Post by **Liam1** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:40 pm

Hi Mahwish

No unfortunately Amazon are obeying their obligations to charge the local tax rate.

On normal goods it is very minor, but the UK still has lower tax rates on a few goods that make it quite a shock. e.g. food and Children's clothing.

Some smaller companies do not have such an infrastructure for cross border sales, so do not change the VAT rates.

Upphew · Post by **Upphew** » Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:30 pm

mahwish wrote:Overall, the service is good, the price of the rice is certainly cheaper than Finland even after charging this "Amazon Tax".

also known as value added tax.

onkko · Post by **onkko** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:36 pm

mahwish wrote:Hi. Ordered two 10 KG rice bags from Amazon.co.uk. Received them today. Free delivery at a nice price.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shahzada-Basmat ... rice+10+kg

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Badshah-Royale- ... F0E3B876DQ

The only thing that I did not like is that they charged me some extra VAT saying that Finland's VAT is higher than the UK.

Selling something from a website and then overcharging is certainly against the sales and services law. Isn't it call misleading?or some other name.

Overall, the service is good, the price of the rice is certainly cheaper than Finland even after charging this "Amazon Tax".

They sell "too much" to finland so they have to collect finnish VAT instead of UK VAT and pay it to finland.
Thats part of EU free trade agreement.

mahwish · Post by **mahwish** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:47 pm

Hi
I received an email from Amazon a few days ago that they have removed the free super savers delivery option for Finland customers and that now we must pay the delivery/shipment costs. Anyone else got this message?
Any other amazon posting to Finland free of charge like the amazon UK?
Regards
Mahwish

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