A steaming bowl of congee is like a hug: warm, comforting, and it makes you feel good inside. Ryan Mah, chef at Wild Rice (117 West Pender Street, 604-642-2882), scoffs at wimpy congees and prefers ...

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 one of my favorite comfort foods. Whenever I would fly home, my mother would have a pot of congee waiting for me. I've loved it since I was a child. The rice grains are cooked so long, they ...

Personal take: I’ve always thought of congee as sick people’s food; please don’t flame me internet. To me, it’s just not something I crave except when I’m feeling extremely under the weather. I was ...

Chef Melissa King has a particularly soft spot for congee (or jook, the Cantonese name for the iconic rice porridge). “It’s like your Chinese chicken noodle soup — it was always cozy and comforting, ...

Congee, or jook, is my comfort food. It’s simple, warm and cozy, and absolutely delicious. This version is also incredibly nostalgic for me, since it became a tradition in my family to make it with ...

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 ...

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 ...

The congee at Mei Lin’s downtown restaurant Nightshade is not the plain congee I ate growing up in the San Gabriel Valley. That congee often required more than a couple shakes of whatever vinegar, hot ...