Dubai: Rice is part of traditional UAE food and features on the daily menu of the country’s biggest expat communities from South Asia.Before foreigners started arriving in droves to UAE shores, and years before international cuisine was readily available in the country, rice – with fish or meat – was a staple Emirati meal.Boats laden with rice bags, commonly the long-grain basmati variety from India and Pakistan, used to be a regular sight at creeks in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.