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East Asian Rice and Grain Dishes

Gathers the rice- and grain-based dishes of East Asian culinary traditions, including Japanese sushi rice and donburi rice bowls, Chinese fried rice and congee, and Korean bibimbap, reflecting rice's role as the everyday staple grain across the region's cuisines. The grouping reflects how the cuisine itself treats its staple starch, whether eaten plain as an accompaniment or built into a fuller one-pot dish, rather than sorting dishes by the protein or vegetable served alongside them.

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cooked as a staple grain, typically boiled or steamed 1
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1. Rice (staple grain, Wikipedia)
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Rice is a cereal grain and, in its domesticated form, is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Africa and Asia.
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Cup-bap (Wikipedia)
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bap (rice) in a paper or plastic cup
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Sorrowful Rice (Wikipedia)
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is a Hong Kong rice dish popularised by Stephen Chow's 1996 comedy film The God of Cookery
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Yaksik (Wikipedia)
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is a sweet Korean dish made by steaming glutinous rice, and mixing with chestnuts, jujubes, and pine nuts
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Injo-gogi-bap (Wikipedia)
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is a North Korean dish, made of rice, kimchi, soy bean paste and soy bean oil
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Ba Bao Fan (Chinese Food Wiki)
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sweet glutinous rice steamed in a bowl or mold
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Moffle (Wikipedia)
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A moffle is a Japanese dish consisting of mochi rice cake cooked in a waffle iron
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