TotK Hylian Rice: Where to Buy It and Which Quests Need It

Hylian Rice is the grain behind every curry, risotto and rice ball in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The item text: “This grain is a favorite among residents of Kakariko Village. It’s grown in regions with a lot of water and is quite versatile. Used as an ingredient in things like risotto and rice balls.” There are no rice plants to pick, so for the most part you buy it.

Where do you get it?

From shops. Nine merchants sell it at 20 places, all at 12 rupees: Mubs at Lookout Landing, Pruce’s general store in Hateno Village, Cleff in Zora’s Domain, Spera in Gerudo Town, Beedle at Riverside Stable, and traveling merchants who set up along the roads and bridges of central Hyrule. Lookout Landing is the one you pass most often.

Two free sources are worth knowing. Cutting the tall grass around Hateno Village sometimes drops a bundle, though not reliably enough to farm 20. And Symin at the Hateno School pays 10 for Teach Me a Lesson I, a photo errand you can do early.

Which quests need it?

More than you might expect. If you are doing side content, keep 25 or so on hand.

Bolson’s request is the big one: he takes the rice from your pouch, so you need all 20 at once, and buying the last few is quicker than cutting grass for them. Lasli’s porridge is worth doing early, since curing her grandmother brings the Stealth armor in Kakariko Village back down to its normal price.

The Horse God’s meals also call for rice again and again, along with Tabantha Wheat, Goat Butter, Fresh Milk, Rock Salt and Cane Sugar. Stock up before you start raising a horse’s stars; see Horse God recipes.

How should you cook with it?

Never on its own. 39 recipes use Hylian Rice, and every one of them needs a second ingredient, so a pot of nothing but rice comes out as Dubious Food. Rice heals 1 heart raw and adds no effect, so in practice it is the base and the meat, fish or vegetables do the work. Rice balls are the simplest: one rice and any meat, fish, mushroom or vegetable.

• 64 Curry Rice
• 65 Vegetable Curry
• 66 Meat Curry
• 67 Prime Meat Curry
• 68 Gourmet Meat Curry
• 69 Poultry Curry
• 70 Prime Poultry Curry
• 71 Gourmet Poultry Curry
• 72 Seafood Curry
• 73 Cheesy Curry
• 80 Vegetable Risotto
• 81 Mushroom Risotto
• 82 Salmon Risotto
• 83 Crab Risotto
• 84 Cheesy Risotto
• 85 Poultry Pilaf
• 86 Prime Poultry Pilaf
• 87 Gourmet Poultry Pilaf
• 88 Seafood Paella
• 89 Curry Pilaf
• 90 Fried Egg and Rice
• 91 Crunchy Fried Rice
• 92 Seafood Fried Rice
• 93 Crab Omelet with Rice
• 94 Meat and Rice Bowl
• 95 Prime Meat and Rice Bowl
• 96 Gourmet Meat and Rice Bowl
• 97 Cheesy Meat Bowl
• 98 Prime Cheesy Meat Bowl
• 99 Gourmet Cheesy Meat Bowl
• 100 Veggie Rice Balls
• 101 Mushroom Rice Balls
• 102 Meaty Rice Balls
• 103 Seafood Rice Balls
• 104 Veggie Porridge
• 137 Monster Curry
• 138 Monster Rice Balls
• 142 Dark Curry
• 143 Dark Rice Ball

For selling, rice is almost worthless at 3 rupees, but it has one trick. A dish’s price is the sum of its ingredients times a multiplier that grows with the number of ingredients, ×1.6 for four and ×1.8 for five. Four Raw Gourmet Meat as a skewer sell for 224; add one rice and they become Meaty Rice Balls worth 257. A fifth Gourmet Meat does better still (315), but if you are one short, a 12-rupee rice adds 33. More on the formula: recipes to sell.

Dye and Fuse

At the Kochi Dye Shop rice is a white dye material, and one of the cheapest: Fresh Milk and White Chuchu Jelly are the other low-value whites, so there is no reason to spend a Star Fragment or a Diamond on white. Fused to a weapon it adds 1 attack and nothing else.

See also

• All materials
• Recipe finder
• How to cook
• Side quests