It’s hard to make clay pot rice better than the shops that specialise ... such as when you need to add more water. Lap cheong is Chinese wind-dried sausage, while yuen cheong is liver sausage.

“This Chinese claypot rice with ... it’s made in one pot and cooks in under 30 mins. There’s an alchemy that occurs with clay and fire, and rice cooked this way has a particular fragrance ...

I cook the ingredients in a stove-to-table Chinese clay pot (also called a sand pot) or another earthenware pot, which makes for a rustic presentation. Enamelled cast-iron pots, such as those by ...