Rice & congee 米饭米食

Rice meals, sticky-rice preparations and congee, grouped by serving style.

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AI illustration: A ceramic bowl of thick pale rice porridge with clearly softened grains.
Shanxi

Xiangfen Sour Mung Bean Porridge 襄汾油粉饭

Xiangfen Sour Mung Bean Porridge (襄汾油粉饭) cooks grains, beans, pork and vegetables in fermented mung-bean liquid. In Xiangfen (襄汾), this produces a pale, thick-looking broth with a sour, fragrant flavour.

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Inner Mongolia

Sour Fermented Grain Porridge 酸粥

Sour Fermented Grain Porridge (酸粥) is a fermented staple of broomcorn millet (糜米) eaten in Ordos (鄂尔多斯), Inner Mongolia; Inner Mongolia Daily (内蒙古日报) names millet sour porridge among the Ordos local specialities.

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AI illustration: A split bamboo tube containing steamed rice.
Jilin

Wild Greens Rice Wraps 山野菜包饭

Wild Greens Rice Wraps (山野菜包饭) is listed among the local specialties of Tonghua, Jilin. It is grouped here with rice & congee; retain the complete Chinese name when comparing local menus.

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Jilin

Rice Wraps 包饭

Rice Wraps (包饭) are the leaf-wrapped rice of the Korean community of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture (延边朝鲜族自治州) in Jilin: rice and meat rolled by hand in a lettuce or perilla leaf, a boiled cabbage leaf or a strip of kelp, and eaten in one bite.

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AI illustration: A shallow rice bowl with a small portion of cooked meat slices and green vegetables over visible rice.
Jilin

Beef Soup with Rice 牛肉汤饭

Beef Soup with Rice (牛肉汤饭) is a Yanbian (延边) meal built around hot beef broth and local rice. Yanbian Daily describes beef soup as the principal offering of many tangfan, or soup-and-rice, restaurants across the prefecture.

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