When the weather turns or when something needs to be simple. Rice and water and ginger, cooked until the grains break down into silk.
The ginger is sliced thin, not grated. It sits in the pot the whole time. Spring onion and white pepper on top. Sesame oil.
Comfort food that belongs to no place in particular.
Congee
1 cup jasmine rice8 cups water or stocka thumb-sized piece ginger, sliced thin2 spring onionwhite peppersesame oilsalt
Rice, water, ginger in a pot. Boil, then low heat, lid on, about an hour. Stir occasionally. The rice dissolves into a thick porridge. Salt. Spring onion, white pepper, sesame oil on top.