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 ...

Among au-courant gifts for expectant parents—especially those who use the term “self-care” unironically—is Heng Ou’s book “The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother.” It’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Simple? Check. Comforting? Check. Affordable? Mostly, yes. Ranging across different cultures (think jook, mui or kiam buay), this versatile dish is highly underrated and regarded as bland and even, ...