For Asian Americans, congee is often comfort food when you're sick. As the child of a Filipino immigrant, I ate congee that my mother prepared when I couldn't keep down anything else. It was a plain ...
Congee is an ultra-comforting, classic Chinese white rice porridge that can be dressed up with a range of fantastic savory toppings. Here, we add spicy bacon, creamy egg yolks, and crunchy sesame to ...
Just the other day, some friends and I were discussing which country has the best comfort food. We couldn’t decide on a dish or a country, but we all agreed that each culture offers its own version to ...
At the buzziest new restaurant in Los Angeles, one of the early standouts is a pink bowl filled with rice porridge and a painter’s palette of earth-tone toppings. Ruptured by the side of my spoon, the ...
Pierced by winding rivers and dotted with ponds and lakes, the Jiangnan region in China’s lower Yangtze area is famously the home of Shanghai, the country’s biggest city. But Jiangnan is just as ...
Last week, we visited Porridge + Puffs, chef Minh Phan’s monument to the warm, oozy bowls of happiness that obsess so many of us this time of year, when temperatures plunge into the 50s at night, ...
When I was in college and for years after, whenever I went into San Francisco to catch a late set of jazz, the evening always ended in Chinatown with a bowl of congee. I can’t think of anything more ...
Prepare the Chinese white rice porridge with seasonal vegetables, meat, or egg. Here are a handful of recipes for what to eat with congee. This is collaborative content from Food & Wine's team of ...