This is such an interesting article, and I feel like a very important one to add to the conversation of what 'brothy rice' is and where it comes from. From what I can gather, Courtney posted her version of brothy rice sept 2025 - to my knowledge, the 'social concept' of brothy rice was popularised at least over a year before that - the recipe platform I work for, MOB, posted their first brothy rice video in the first couple of months of 2024. It went insanely viral as soon as it hit the social platforms and from there, there was a massive uptick in people recreating and spinning the dish in different flavours, using the same editing and plating techniques as we did in our video - I also want to be clear that I don't believe we 'created' this form of eating, or even the dishes, but, it's very clear that we've played a big role in brothy rice becoming so popular on socials.
I think the formulaic element of the dish is what resonated with a lot of people, as well as the fact that many cultures all around the world can relate to that type of dish. The recipe I developed that really kicked things off was inspired by Molokhia- a dish eaten around the Levant, Egypt, Sudan... The first time I had it, it reminded me of a dish I grew up eating from Seychelles called bouyon (broth). It's not a congee/ arroz caldo/ porridge kind of texture, but more a broth+rice combination - that's where the inspo really originated from.
I think the best thing that has come out from brothy rice being so viral is just the sheer amount of people that have been able to relate to that kind of dish - the broth and rice (+protein) combination has really touched so many people, but at the same time I've heard a lot of people claiming it to be something that comes from their specific culture, and speaking about it in quite a exclusionary way. I do think that in this very specific case, if we talk about brothy rice as only 'Chinese' or 'Filipino'... it plays a bit into the erasure of other peoples cultural foods.
this is a great write up and explanation of the dish. It was actually my first time hearing the term “brothy rice” because I guess I don’t follow…. Any influencers? And my main thing is “why are we making up the word brothy rice when it’s just soup with rice or rice soup”
I guess it’s TikTok reasons, they definitely sold chicken and rice soup in campbells cans when I was a kid and still do but these influencers think they invented soup
This sounds delicious. I am tempted to make the broth and pour it over lu ro fan. But then I might be a tik tokker
This is such an interesting article, and I feel like a very important one to add to the conversation of what 'brothy rice' is and where it comes from. From what I can gather, Courtney posted her version of brothy rice sept 2025 - to my knowledge, the 'social concept' of brothy rice was popularised at least over a year before that - the recipe platform I work for, MOB, posted their first brothy rice video in the first couple of months of 2024. It went insanely viral as soon as it hit the social platforms and from there, there was a massive uptick in people recreating and spinning the dish in different flavours, using the same editing and plating techniques as we did in our video - I also want to be clear that I don't believe we 'created' this form of eating, or even the dishes, but, it's very clear that we've played a big role in brothy rice becoming so popular on socials.
I think the formulaic element of the dish is what resonated with a lot of people, as well as the fact that many cultures all around the world can relate to that type of dish. The recipe I developed that really kicked things off was inspired by Molokhia- a dish eaten around the Levant, Egypt, Sudan... The first time I had it, it reminded me of a dish I grew up eating from Seychelles called bouyon (broth). It's not a congee/ arroz caldo/ porridge kind of texture, but more a broth+rice combination - that's where the inspo really originated from.
I think the best thing that has come out from brothy rice being so viral is just the sheer amount of people that have been able to relate to that kind of dish - the broth and rice (+protein) combination has really touched so many people, but at the same time I've heard a lot of people claiming it to be something that comes from their specific culture, and speaking about it in quite a exclusionary way. I do think that in this very specific case, if we talk about brothy rice as only 'Chinese' or 'Filipino'... it plays a bit into the erasure of other peoples cultural foods.
this is a great write up and explanation of the dish. It was actually my first time hearing the term “brothy rice” because I guess I don’t follow…. Any influencers? And my main thing is “why are we making up the word brothy rice when it’s just soup with rice or rice soup”
I guess it’s TikTok reasons, they definitely sold chicken and rice soup in campbells cans when I was a kid and still do but these influencers think they invented soup
I would enjoy reading recipes in pure black lettering.
Is “profane” in the image descriptions a typo or a coincidentally shared word?
Ugh, autocorrect always, *always* wants to correct “paofan” into “profane”. So annoying
😂