This work made it clear that the color, the texture, and the retrogradation properties were significantly improved by the vacuum soaking and the HHP soaking. The high quality of cooked rice was mainly attributed to the better water diffusion inside rice grains during high pressure soaking and the smaller network channels formed between starch granules and other connection sections. These findings suggest that the HHP soaking is one of advantageous techniques for cooked rice with better palatability. Future research should be performed to check if these results could be extrapolated to industrial scale to produce fresh cooked rice with a high quality.