See also Amasake. Rice Oil See Rice Bran Oil. A thin, dry, nearly translucent sheet made from a dough of rice flour and water and used as wrappers in Vietnamese and Thai spring rolls. A major component of milled rice. It is present only in the endosperm of the grain making up 90-93 percent of the milled rice dry weight.
Rice starch is used as a thickener in making sauces and desserts.
It can be hydrolyzed to make a sweet syrup. Rice Vinegar Vinegar made from fermented rice. Chinese rice vinegars are sharp and sour. Japanese vinegars are mellow. Rice Wine Sweet, golden wine made from fermenting freshly steamed glutinous rice.