Steamed Rice

What is one food you couldn’t live without? For me, hands down, it’s rice, a staple in Chinese cuisine. It is the base of lunchbox favorites and the best accompaniment to any dish, especially saucy ones. My high school cafeteria offered rice and curry sauce as a lunch option, which I ate often!

To make that perfect bowl of rice, for most of my life I had always relied on a rice cooker. However, in recent years, I’ve been cooking it on the stovetop, which is how my father has always