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 a humble dish, a way to cope when rice stores were low. Stretch the grain by adding too much water, cook it into a hearty porridge, and throw in bits and pieces of whatever leftovers are on ...

The Top Chef winner shows us how to make a cozy, creamy, and deeply flavorful Chinese rice porridge by using the right type ...

This article appears in print in the July 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Comfort food has a way of tasting like home, even if it’s not the home you grew up in. Such is the case at Congeez, a ...

When the congee has been cooking for 30 minutes and starts to thicken, add shredded scallops. Keep cooking with the pot half-covered until congee reaches desired thickness, 15-20 minutes. Stir ...

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A company is facing accusations of cultural appropriation after it claimed to have improved and modernized congee, an Asian rice porridge, and its owner, who is white, called herself “the Queen of ...

Congee isn’t so much a recipe as it is a state of mind. The simple rice porridge, popular by one name or another over most of Asia, is both comfort food and blank canvas, a delivery mechanism for ...

Coffeehouses come along and settle in to neighborhoods without much notice or fanfare, doing more or less the same thing from place to place: a few breakfast items, some pastries and sandwiches, some ...

Congee is a humble dish, a way to cope when rice stores were low. Stretch the grain by adding too much water, cook it into a hearty porridge, and throw in bits and pieces of whatever leftovers are on ...

A company is facing accusations of cultural appropriation after it claimed to have improved and modernized congee, an Asian rice porridge, and its owner, who is white, called herself “the Queen of ...

Congee is the stuff of home. And like the best recipes for home cooks, it rewards improvisation. Think of congee as a blank slate: Start with a ratio of 8 cups of water to 1 cup of short-grain rice.