Sentence examples for On congee from inspiring English sources

Each country has its own take on congee.

Every year, in early spring, after the family pig had been killed and eaten, the family became too hungry to do anything but lie in bed for weeks at a time, subsisting on congee, waiting for the wheat harvest.

I find the word "porridge" a little Dickensian, but it hasn't put me off this very simple and appealing recipe, a sort of shortcut take on congee (or jook) that relies on kimchi, ginger and scallions for flavor.

Ms. Gao offered a three-page menu with several kinds of congee and broths, heavy on chicken and seafood, but also described how mothers and doulas contributed confinement recipes from different Chinese-speaking regions.

He was mainly fed on rice congee because he refused to eat soybean-based foods.

They still sell live turtles on Mott Street, still eat snail and pig's liver porridge at Congee on the Bowery.

Above the outhouses was a large sign for Congee Village, the restaurant next door on Allen Street.

To give them an edge, Australian hotels have introduced Chinese television channels and congee on the breakfast menu.

Their number is dwindling, they say, and the congee on sale in the stalls is not what it used to be.

Dishes include wonton dumplings or fishballs with noodles, the local vegetable choisum with oyster sauce, barbecued pork on rice, or congee -a breakfast and snack rice gruel with meat, fish or vegetables mixed in.

Half the chefs in Los Angeles are hooked on the thick congee Vuong serves in the morning.