This is a very simple and healthy traditional Vietnamese dish. Place whole chook in saucepan of water and bring to the boil and cook for half an hour. Every five or so minutes scoop out any contents ...

Lighter in consistency compared to its Chinese and Greek counterparts (jook/zhou and avgolemono, respectively), chao ga is made from rice that's cooked in a fragrant chicken broth until it reaches a ...

"This Vietnamese version of congee uses uncooked rice so it retains a firm rice texture, but you can use leftover rice in the recipe... The flavour is familiar, warming and comforting. You can boost ...

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 ...

A hard cocktail of rain, wind and snowflakes assaulted the farmers market last week. It was the kind of prolonged spring squall that has to make a farmer question his or her career choices. The only ...

“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 ...

My editor likes Little Sister Downtown an awful lot, you should probably know, and she has managed to eat there at least 15 times since it opened in late fall. Midday interview? Little Sister.

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, ...

International food magazine TasteAtlas has selected Vietnamese duck porridge among 10 must-try duck dishes in Asia, calling it a popular choice on colder days of the year. The hot porridge is also a ...

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 ...

On a recent post about pho ga, the Vietnamese chicken soup, I made mention of a Chow.com graph that has predicted 2011 to be the year of congee (with regard to Asian ...