Breakfast congee?

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Breakfast congee?
Oct 25, 2010 17:01
SHENTI Points: Join Date: Oct 25, 2010 Status: offline	Anyone have some good tips for what to serve with the rice congee for breakfast? I "know" you can mix it with "whatever you want", but I'm looking for some more spesific suggestions. Thanks! :)

Oct 25, 2010 22:46	#1
CHERRY07 Points: Join Date: Mar 23, 2008 Status: Offline	Basically, you can mix with green beans.

Oct 25, 2010 22:47	#2
CHERRY07 Points: Join Date: Mar 23, 2008 Status: Offline	Pumpkin congee

Oct 25, 2010 22:58	#3
CHERRY07 Points: Join Date: Mar 23, 2008 Status: Offline	Eight treasures congee (八宝粥). You need to prepare dried longan, lotus seed, red date, raisin, walnut, peanut, matrimony vine etc.

Oct 25, 2010 23:05	#4
CHERRY07 Points: Join Date: Mar 23, 2008 Status: Offline	porridge with sliced thin pork and preserved duck egg (皮蛋瘦肉粥). materials: preserved duck egg, thin pork, sesame oil, salt, ginger and caraway.

Oct 27, 2010 01:34	#5
SHENTI Points: Join Date: Oct 25, 2010 Status: Offline	Thank you! Do you know how they "traditionally" etas it? And whats the difference between porridge and congee? (If there is any)

Oct 27, 2010 22:29

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Originally Posted by SHENTI

Thank you! Do you know how they "traditionally" etas it? And whats the difference between porridge and congee? (If there is any)

Tough question. I usually use a spoon to eat it. I was born in the countryside. My mom usually cook congee and prepare some cold dishes and steamed buns. My families eat congee at breakfast and supper. And I love congee.

Honestly, I don't know about the difference between porridge and congee. The following is found on the internet:

1.porridge: a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick.
2. congee: a soft food cooked from rice and water，or "porridge" made from rice.

I just think that congee is thicker than porridge.

Hope that a native speaker can answer your question.

Oct 30, 2010 06:29	#7
DAVEC Points: Join Date: Apr 14, 2007 Status: Offline	I think for Chinese food porridge and congee are the same. In the west porridge is very different but we still call the Chinese rice/water porridge

Oct 30, 2010 21:52

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In my hometown, we usually say "稀饭 (Xi Fan)", which is made of rice. Sometimes, we boil peanut or green/red bean together with rice.

"粥 (Zhou)" seems to be very popular in Canton. Different from "稀饭", people there add meat or something else. It tastes salt.

Except "稀饭" and "粥", there is "泡饭 (Pao Fan)". The southern people in China prefer to eat rice. They usually steam the rice, cook some dishes and then eat them together. Next morning, they will boil the left steamed rice to make "泡饭".

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