On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:30:58 -1000, dsi1
> wrote:

> On 9/13/2012 3:05 AM, sf wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:14:51 -1000, dsi1
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Congee is a comfort food over here but we call it jook or chook, never
> >> congee. We'll typically make it with leftover thanksgiving turkey. We'll
> >> make it when someone in the house is ill. I used to make it for my
> >> mother-in-law when she was having a bad day. For a sick person, adding
> >> finely chopped ginger is a good idea. Mostly you just boil some leftover
> >> rice with some chicken or turkey stock. I like to add shitake mushrooms
> >> and celery, if I got it but the sky's the limit. It should look like
> >> rice porridge - not bean soup though.
> >
> > Exactly. It's amazing the cr*p they stick a random word on and then
> > stupid white people think that's what it is in real life. I used to
> > do the chicken broth and ginger with rice for my kids when they were
> > sick and DD says she still craves it when she doesn't feel well.
> >
>
> It is a word that I'd like to stay away from.

I think ginger-chicken soup with rice is the one my SIL calls Arroz
Caldo.

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On 9/13/2012 8:20 AM, sf wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:30:58 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> On 9/13/2012 3:05 AM, sf wrote:
>>> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:14:51 -1000, dsi1
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Congee is a comfort food over here but we call it jook or chook, never
>>>> congee. We'll typically make it with leftover thanksgiving turkey. We'll
>>>> make it when someone in the house is ill. I used to make it for my
>>>> mother-in-law when she was having a bad day. For a sick person, adding
>>>> finely chopped ginger is a good idea. Mostly you just boil some leftover
>>>> rice with some chicken or turkey stock. I like to add shitake mushrooms
>>>> and celery, if I got it but the sky's the limit. It should look like
>>>> rice porridge - not bean soup though.
>>>
>>> Exactly. It's amazing the cr*p they stick a random word on and then
>>> stupid white people think that's what it is in real life. I used to
>>> do the chicken broth and ginger with rice for my kids when they were
>>> sick and DD says she still craves it when she doesn't feel well.
>>>
>>
>> It is a word that I'd like to stay away from.
>
> I think ginger-chicken soup with rice is the one my SIL calls Arroz
> Caldo.
>

I certainly could eat that for breakfast. The usual breakfast fare makes
me feel a little ill.