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Cooking the Perfect Pot of Asian Porridge

"When life gives you bad rice, make porridge." [Photographs: Chichi Wang] Quiet dinners at home usually begin with my rice cooker. Using the plastic measuring cup that comes with the cooker, I scoop out exactly one cup, fill the basin to the requisite water level, and the all-important matter of having perfectly cooked rice to accompany my meal is done. Except this time around, I couldn't locate the measuring cup. I rifled through my cabinets and found, among other choice items, ten different types of flours (when was the last time I used that bag of fava bean flour?), five separate bags of glutinous rice, and several cans of coconut milk strewn about, each purchased absentmindedly for fear of running...

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26 Comments | Posted by Chichi Wang, February 19, 2010 at 6:15 PM
Tagged: Asian, congee, leftovers, porridge, rice, Seriously Asian

Snapshots from Asia: Jook

Photographs by Shimin Wong Most of us think of comfort food as fat food: creamy risottos and pastas, hearty stews, buttery mashed potatoes, mayo sandwiches, hot chocolate, cheesecake, hot fudge sundaes. In Asia, there are a host of dishes people make a beeline for when they get off a plane, return from grueling military training, or when they've had a rotten day—dishes I affectionately call "a highway to a heart attack." (A straw poll will likely turn up "lard" and wok hei or "wok's breath—the essence imparted by a hot wok to food"—as determining factors in succor-level.) One would imagine the ultimate comfort food to be riddled with saturated fat and swimming in carcinogens then. Interestingly, this granddaddy of...

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10 Comments | Posted by Wan Yan Ling, August 21, 2007 at 1:00 PM
Tagged: congee, jook, porridge, rice, Singapore, Snapshots from Asia