The following liquids are good with rice:

Tea-Japanese green tea or twig tea both harmonize well with the flavour of rice

Stock- Boil a sliced onion, a dash of Soya sauce, a bay leaf, a few cloves of garlic and a dried red pepper. Strain before using with the rice.

For rice puddings or when rice is being used in a curry or other spice dish, then a few cloves, cinnamon sticks or mace, soaked in boiling water for a few hours, will lend a spicy bouquet to rice.

For colour, dice and boil a beet in the water you are using for your rice and the rice will come out a pinkish colour. Saffron or turmeric will both give a yellow colour.