"You have to be adventurous," says Phuoc Nguyen, the young host and manager (as well as the guy who put in the new bar and blond wood wainscoting) at Champa Garden in Oakland's San Antonio district.

For the past six months, K Anbarasi has been trying to cut down on using white, polished rice at home, slowly introducing such indigenous varieties as Iluppai Poo Champa and Kichili Champa.

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Early rice growers unwittingly gave barnyard grass a big hand, helping to give root to a rice imitator that is now considered one of the world's worst agricultural weeds. Early rice growers ...