If you ask an American or European about rice cakes, they’ll probably think of the hard, dry round discs made of puffed rice that are sold in health-food shops. The rice cakes eaten by many East ...

Tteokguk (pronounced sort of like DUK-gook) is a soup of chewy-soft rice cakes cooked in steaming translucent ... a feature writing award for "Mississippi Chinese Lady Goes Home to Korea" and ...

traditional chinese fried rice in a white bowl on a table cloth - Brent Hofacker/Shutterstock If you have ever wondered how to get your homemade Chinese fried rice as tasty as your favorite ...

As with every recipe for fried rice, start with cold (or at least room temperature) cooked rice. It doesn’t work with rice hot out of the cooker, which becomes heavy and stodgy when stir-fried.