The Gangetic delta is famous for rice consumption since the Neolithic age. The Bangladeshis eat rice every day and at every meal. Most of the people start the day with a breakfast of 'Panta' (boiled rice soaked overnight in water and slightly fermented). Moori (puffed rice), Cheera (flattened rice), 'khoi' (popped rice), 'Chal vaja' (fried rice), 'Shirni' (rice boiled with crude sugar and coconut milk) `pitha' (rice cake), 'khichuri' (rice boiled with pulses), payesh (rice boiled in milk plus sweet)' are very common in our everyday meals.
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