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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

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“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

Instead of a basic rice bowl with ground beef, why not make congee with soy-braised beef and lots of fresh herbs?

From Salon

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

So I would love to hit up Grand Central Market and get a Filipino rice bowl and then go to the Broad, the Biltmore hotel and the cool, old theaters down there, like the Orpheum.

From Los Angeles Times

No one had a spare urn, but Laura Clinton kindly offered a lovely rice bowl with a lid.

From Seattle Times