Rice: Make rice the heart of your table with recipes from Malaysia and beyond

For so many people, rice is uniquely comforting. Its position at the heart of so many South East Asian meals makes it unique in people's associations with home and heritage.

Chef Ping Coombes describes rice as the sun around which all other dishes orbit in Malaysian cuisine. For hordes of us around the world, it's synonymous with bowl food of the most comforting kind and is therefore a staple at the dinner table. It can be its own hero dish, or it can accompany myriad others. It absorbs flav...