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Catchword for “sticky rice”
Catchword: sticky rice
Part of Speechn.
The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.
Quotation: There are some who are “international buffet,” most of the rest are “sticky-rice,” i.e. East Asians who go for East Asians. They too can be quite specific about their tastes, and even if they think hard about it, they can rarely explain why they find fellow Asians a lot more attractive
Article or Document Title:
“Rice and Potatoes” (URL)
Author:
Au Waipang
Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Yawning Bread
Publishing Location:
Singapore
Date of Publication:
Dec., 1996
(This date is uncertain. It is either not given, unclear, or unreliable in the original source.)
This cite belongs to a full entry for sticky rice.
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