rice bowl

British  

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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Example Sentences

“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

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 • Jul. 25, 2023

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

From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2023

Oyakodon — a chicken, egg and rice bowl — is pure bliss.

From New York Times • May 8, 2023

Minli stared down at her rice bowl; the few white grains left sat like precious pearls at the bottom of her bowl.

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