Dish-Type Recipe Index

Rice, congee, and rice plates

These recipes are grouped as rice, congee, and rice plates because their ingredients, cooking method, or restaurant-menu role fit this dish family.

About rice, congee, and rice plates

Fried rice, steamed rice, congee, clay pot rice, rice plates, and glutinous-rice formats.

Recipes in this section: 42.

Rice, congee, and rice plates

Amoy Rice Noodles

Fujian / Cantonese Diaspora · Rice noodle dish · Serves 3–4 · 35 minutes

Amoy Rice Noodles recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Beef Chow Fun

Cantonese · Cantonese · Serves 2–3 · 30 minutes

A beef chow fun recipe with flat rice noodles, beef, scallions, bean sprouts, and wok hei notes.

Cantonese Congee

Cantonese · Cantonese · Serves 4 · 1.5 hours

A Cantonese congee recipe with rice porridge, ginger, scallion, optional chicken, fish, pork, or century egg.

Cantonese Turnip Cake

Dim Sum · Cantonese dim sum · Makes 1 loaf · 1.5 hours plus cooling

A Cantonese turnip cake recipe with daikon, rice flour, Chinese sausage or mushrooms, steaming, pan-frying, and dim sum notes.

Char Kway Teow

Malaysian Chinese · Malaysian Chinese · Serves 2 · 30 minutes

A Malaysian Chinese char kway teow recipe with flat rice noodles, shrimp, egg, bean sprouts, Chinese sausage, and wok technique.

Chinese New Year Rice Cake Soup

Jiangnan / Home-style · Rice cake soup · Serves 3–4 · 30 minutes

Chinese New Year Rice Cake Soup recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Chow Mei Fun

Chinese American / Cantonese Diaspora · Rice vermicelli dish · Serves 3–4 · 30 minutes

Chow Mei Fun recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Clay Pot Rice

Cantonese · Cantonese · Serves 2–3 · 45 minutes

A Cantonese clay pot rice recipe with rice, Chinese sausage, chicken or mushrooms, soy sauce, and a crisp bottom.

Crossing-the-Bridge Rice Noodles

Yunnan · Yunnan · Serves 2 · 45 minutes

A practical home version of Yunnan crossing-the-bridge rice noodles with hot broth, rice noodles, chicken, herbs, mushrooms, and menu-literacy notes.

Egg Fried Rice

Technique · Technique · Serves 2 · 20 minutes

An egg fried rice recipe focused on rice texture, egg, scallion, soy sauce, and menu-literacy notes.

Foo Chow Rice Ball Soup

Fuzhou / Fujian · Soup · Serves 3–4 · 45 minutes

Foo Chow Rice Ball Soup recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Fujian Red Wine Chicken

Fujian · Fujian-inspired · Serves 3–4 · 50 minutes

A Fujian-inspired red wine chicken recipe using red yeast rice, ginger, rice wine, chicken, and noodles or rice.

Fuzhou Fish Ball Soup

Fujian · Fuzhou / Fujian · Serves 2–3 · 25 minutes with prepared fish balls

A practical Fuzhou fish ball soup recipe using fish balls, broth, greens, rice wine, ginger, and menu-literacy notes.

Guizhou Sour Fish Soup

Guizhou · Guizhou-inspired · Serves 3–4 · 45 minutes

A Guizhou-inspired sour fish soup recipe with tomato, pickled vegetables, ginger, chiles, and rice noodles.

Guizhou Sour-Spicy Rice Noodles

Guizhou · Guizhou-inspired · Serves 2 · 30 minutes

A Guizhou sour-spicy rice noodles recipe with pickled vegetables, vinegar, chile, herbs, and broth.

Hainanese Chicken Rice

Malaysian Chinese · Diaspora Chinese · Serves 4 · 1 hour 30 minutes

Hainanese Chicken Rice recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Hakka Lei Cha Rice

Hakka · Hakka · Serves 3–4 · 50 minutes

A Hakka lei cha rice recipe with tea-herb broth, rice, greens, tofu, peanuts, and menu-literacy notes.

Home-Style Stir-Fried Rice Noodles

Cantonese / Diaspora Chinese · Rice noodle dish · Serves 3–4 · 30 minutes

Home-Style Stir-Fried Rice Noodles recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Hong Kong Baked Pork Chop Rice

Hong Kong Cafe · Hong Kong cafe · Serves 2–3 · 1 hour

A Hong Kong baked pork chop rice recipe with fried rice, pork chop, tomato sauce, cheese, and cha chaan teng menu-literacy notes.

Hunan Pickled Long Beans with Pork

Hunan · Hunan · Serves 3–4 · 25 minutes

A Hunan pickled long beans with pork recipe using sour beans, minced pork, chiles, garlic, and rice-friendly seasoning.

Lemongrass Pork Chop on Rice

Vietnamese Chinese / Vietnamese · Rice plate · Serves 3–4 · 45 minutes plus marinating

Lemongrass Pork Chop on Rice recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Liangpi Cold Skin Noodles

Shaanxi · Shaanxi · Serves 2 · 25 minutes with prepared noodles

A practical liangpi recipe using store-bought wheat starch or rice noodles with chile oil, vinegar, cucumber, and gluten or tofu.

Malaysian Laksa

Malaysian Chinese · Malaysian / Peranakan-inspired · Serves 3–4 · 45 minutes

A Malaysian laksa recipe with coconut curry broth, rice noodles, shrimp or chicken, herbs, and menu-literacy notes.

Marinated Cuttlefish on Rice

Cantonese / Hong Kong Rice Plate · Rice plate · Serves 2–3 · 35 minutes

Marinated Cuttlefish on Rice recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Salted Fish and Chicken Fried Rice

Cantonese / Hong Kong · Fried rice · Serves 3–4 · 25 minutes

Salted Fish and Chicken Fried Rice recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Shanghai Stir-Fried Rice Cakes

Jiangnan · Jiangnan · Serves 3–4 · 35 minutes

A Shanghai stir-fried rice cakes recipe with napa cabbage, pork or mushrooms, soy sauce, and chewy niangao.

Shrimp Cheung Fun

Dim Sum · Cantonese dim sum · Serves 2–3 · 1 hour

A simplified shrimp cheung fun recipe with rice flour batter, shrimp, soy sauce, and Cantonese dim sum notes.

Singapore Rice Noodles

Cantonese / Diaspora Chinese · Noodle dish · Serves 3–4 · 35 minutes

Singapore Rice Noodles recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Sizzling Rice with Seafood

Cantonese / American Chinese · Sizzling dish · Serves 3–4 · 45 minutes

Sizzling Rice with Seafood recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Small-Pot Rice Noodles

Yunnan · Yunnan · Serves 2 · 35 minutes

A Yunnan small-pot rice noodles recipe with rice noodles, pork, pickled vegetables, broth, herbs, and chiles.

Steamed White Rice

Basic Staple · Rice · Serves 3–4 · 25 minutes

Steamed White Rice recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Taiwanese Fan Tuan

Taiwanese · Taiwanese · Makes 4 · 45 minutes

Taiwanese Fan Tuan recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Taiwanese Lu Rou Fan

Taiwanese · Taiwanese · Serves 4 · 1 hour

A Taiwanese lu rou fan recipe with braised pork, soy sauce, five-spice, shallots, rice, and menu-literacy notes.

Taiwanese Three-Cup Chicken

Taiwanese · Taiwanese · Serves 3–4 · 40 minutes

A Taiwanese three-cup chicken recipe with sesame oil, soy sauce, rice wine, ginger, garlic, basil, and menu-literacy notes.

Takeout Fried Rice

American Chinese · Rice dish · Serves 3–4 · 25 minutes

Takeout Fried Rice recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Taro Duck Rice Vermicelli Soup

Cantonese / Fujian-influenced Noodle Soup · Noodle soup · Serves 3–4 · 1 hour

Taro Duck Rice Vermicelli Soup recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Teochew Rice Porridge

Teochew · Teochew · Serves 3–4 · 40 minutes

A Teochew rice porridge recipe with separate grains, water, and side dishes such as pickles, eggs, tofu, and braised items.

Tomato Egg

Home-Style · Home-style · Serves 2–3 · 20 minutes

A Chinese tomato egg recipe for a simple home-style dish with eggs, tomatoes, scallions, and rice.

Wet Chow Fun with Gravy

Cantonese / Hong Kong · Rice noodle dish · Serves 3–4 · 35 minutes

Wet Chow Fun with Gravy recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Xinjiang Polo Rice

Xinjiang · Xinjiang · Serves 4 · 1 hour

A Xinjiang polo rice recipe with lamb, carrots, onion, cumin, rice, and menu-literacy notes.

Yangzhou Fried Rice

Jiangsu · Jiangsu · Serves 3–4 · 30 minutes

A Yangzhou fried rice recipe with shrimp, egg, peas, ham or char siu, scallions, and Jiangsu menu-literacy notes.