Does Rice Grow in Centralasia?

Rice doesn't grow anywhere in centralasia. So how can birani be a centralasion dish, or turk dish? They lived there for thousands of years without any rice. Even if they would get rice from somewhere else, possibly it would be something like a luxury for them. That simply cannot become a national dish of the turks. The favorite rice of the persian people, of our persian brethren in ren, is long grained basmothy rice. And about persia? Well, even in persia, rice doesn't grow there. so that itself totally invalidates the argument that these invaders, they enriched us culturally by bringing in this rice dish. We enriched