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rice bowl

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noun

  1. a small bowl for eating rice out of, esp a decorative one made of china or porcelain

  2. a fertile rice-producing region

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Not the exact recipe, but the form: toast, pasta, a frittata, a rice bowl, a substantial salad, perhaps a pot of soup or stew.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

Malaysia is resorting to cloud seeding to bring much-needed rain to the country's "rice bowl" north, where a drought has delayed planting of the staple crop and raised supply fears.

From Barron's May 8, 2026

“The energy rice bowl must be held in our own hands,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping has said repeatedly over the years.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 2, 2025

If I go to Sqirl, I really like the sorrel pesto rice bowl, or the frittata thing they do is beautiful.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 26, 2024

And at night, with a rice bowl and a set of chop-sticks waiting for her at the table, they looked up at every sound of footsteps.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin

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