Congee doesn’t get much respect. Congee for me was an acquired taste. It’s not that it tasted weird but rather because I first came to know it as a breakfast food. In my many travels to Asia, I ...

“Everybody leaves here thinking and missing the oxtail congee,” Ly says. The sweet and savory rice porridge comes as the final course in the beef tasting. Typically, the traditional seven-course ...

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 ...

Porridge makes me think of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Peas Porridge and other children's stories, but there's a lot more to it than what was dished out in those nursery rhymes. I grew up with ...

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 ...

For the past three weeks, Kevin Tien has been trying to fill a bowl of rice porridge with all the jigsaw pieces that put together his life’s story, but a fine dining recipe for congee has been tough ...

Dress up this classic white rice porridge with your favorite savory toppings like bacon, Chinese sausage, or onions. This basic congee comes together in about an hour with just rice, stock, and ginger ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article should have said Tho Ly’s grandfather owned and operated Da Vàng beginning in 1985. I remember the first time they set the rice papers ...