Fest of rice promises to be twice as nice

By Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Sep 04, 2011

~~<p>At 5-feet-9-inches tall and 150 pounds, Ed Sugimoto is not a big guy, but he's a heavyweight when it comes to rice.</p>
<p>The wireless manager for Oceanic Time Warner Cable is crazy about the ubiquitous starch. He usually eats two bowls of it for breakfast, lunch and dinner — sometimes as a meal in itself, topped with nori (seaweed), a raw egg and shoyu, or chirimenjako (small dried flavored fish).</p>
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At 5-feet-9-inches tall and 150 pounds, Ed Sugimoto is not a big guy, but he's a heavyweight when it comes to rice.

The wireless manager for Oceanic Time Warner Cable is crazy about the ubiquitous starch. He usually eats two bowls of it for breakfast, lunch and dinner — sometimes as a meal in itself, topped with nori (seaweed), a raw egg and shoyu, or chirimenjako (small dried flavored fish). Login for more...