Rice consumptions The other day, my italki teacher who has an Indonesian wife told me that his wife asks him whenever she prepares meals, "what do you want to eat with rice today?". This indicates that the Indonesians usually eat rice at each meal. On the other hand, it is true that most of the Japanese people consider that the staple food in Japan is rice. However, they actually don't eat rice as much as the Indonesians. In fact, the rice consumption per capita in Indonesia is more than double that in Japan according to an online article I found. I was surprised when reading the article because I didn't know that there is such a significant difference between them. In addition to that, the amount of the rice consumptions in African countries was also a revelation to me. I found that people in West African countries such as Siera Leone, Guinea and Liberia eat much more rice than the Japanese. I guess that there are only a few people in Japan who know those facts.