A Love Letter to Plain Rice Congee
This Asian staple is nostalgia in a bowl
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4 min readNov 26, 2019
When I traveled to my ancestral home of Jieyang, China, last year, I woke up every morning excited about the plain rice porridge buffets at my hotel. There would be a rice cooker brimming with warm congee and a table lined with accompaniments like pickled radishes and Chinese crullers.
