Congee is a rice porridge with many forms and names — but it's always comforting TODAY 3/12/2021 Maura Hohman For Asian Americans, congee is often comfort food when you're sick. As the child of a Filipino immigrant, I ate congee that my mother prepared when I couldn't keep down anything else. It was a plain meal, for better or worse, that warmed the whole body and left you craving more. When I asked my aunt in Manila to share her method of cooking rice porridge for this story, she responded, "Why congee?" There's been a heightened interest in the dish online recently, perh...