[erimir]

I was at a Laotian restaurant once and the guy at the table one over asked the waitress (on behalf of his date) how they got the rice that color. She went and got someone from the kitchen. The woman from the kitchen, who didn't have great English, just said "We boil it."

(It was just a mixture of white and purple sticky rice.)

To be fair to the white people, I am white and I knew that, and the woman who wanted to know was Indian/South Asian looking.