In Vietnam, rice congee is also called cháo. It is common to eat cháo during an illness, as it is believed the porridge is easy to digest while being fortifying. For such purposes, the cháo is ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 comfort food dishes). Later on, ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When I saw congee on the menu, my eyes lit up. Flipping through the plastic-slip-covered pages of Sunshine Cafe's offerings can be maddening. Do you want waffles or pho? Bagel sandwiches or Laotian ...