The word "congee" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a type of rice porridge, typically served as a breakfast food in Chinese cuisine. You can use it when discussing East Asian food, or when referring to the dish specifically. For example: "I'm making some congee to serve for breakfast."
Mash up two cubes and add to a spinach stir-fry for gorgeous umami creaminess, or just eat – sparingly – from the jar with rice or congee.
Hotels increase their appeal by offering Chinese television channels, menus with pictures, and congee (Chinese porridge) for breakfast.
That means fewer bargain buckets of wings and more congee, a rice porridge with pork, pickles or mushrooms.Other Western firms can't cope.
Add kettles so that guests can boil the noodles they may have brought with them, congee (rice porridge) at breakfast and a Chinese-speaker on staff, and you have a reasonably Chinese-friendly operation.Some hotels are also rethinking their design priorities.
And cornflakes, once a cutting-edge food, will be rivalled by congee and dosas, sold in boxes by a global brand.
To give them an edge, Australian hotels have introduced Chinese television channels and congee on the breakfast menu.
Given its clever efforts to cater to local tastes (menus offer congee and egg tarts) and its successful recovery from the SARS crisis, it should rebound.Still, it will not be easy.
Their number is dwindling, they say, and the congee on sale in the stalls is not what it used to be.
For weeks leading up to the day itself, his mother tested a different lunchbox menu every Saturday, when the school's canteen closes (in the end he selected abalone congee, said to be good for stamina and easy to digest).
One discovery was that British universities which had been trying to impress Chinese students with a traditional rice porridge dish called congee had been using the wrong recipe - failing to use ingredients such as coriander and chillies.
Dishes like congee, a rice porridge commonly eaten for breakfast and served with a variety of fish or meat accompaniments, beef brisket broth with noodles, wonton noodle soup and barbecue roast pork with rice are all must-tries.
