白粥 (báizhōu) · plain rice congee, white porridge

Measure Word

一碗白粥 wǎn

Meanings

1 plain rice congee
2 white porridge

Made with

About the dish

Plain rice porridge: rice cooked soft in plenty of water, with no salt or other flavour. Eaten at breakfast or when unwell, with pickles, salted egg, a fried dough stick or other side dishes.

Characters

Examples

HSK 5

白粥配咸菜是最简单的早餐。

Báizhōu pèi xiáncài shì zuì jiǎndān de zǎocān.

Plain congee with pickles is the simplest breakfast.

HSK 6

肠胃不好就喝点白粥吧。

Chángwèi bùhǎo jiù hē diǎn báizhōu ba.

If your stomach is upset, just have some plain congee.

Tips

culture

Just rice and water - the default 'sick food' across Chinese culture, the way chicken soup functions in the West. The bland, easy-to-digest baseline that everything else (咸菜, 皮蛋, 肉松) gets paired with.