Origins
The word ""congee"" or ""conjee"" comes from Tamil கஞ்சி (kanji); a prominent food of ancient Tamil people, the English form may have arrived in the language via Portuguese. The derivation of the original word is from the Sanskrit root kaañjika (काञ्जिक) (meaning the same, but component roots together meaning 'formed in water'). In other Asian cultures, it is also called kanji (Tamil/Tulu), kaṇhji /Malayalam), pakhal bhat (Oriya), ganji (Kannada/Telugu), juk (Cantonese, Korean), moe (Hokkien and Teochew), zhou (Mandarin), cháo (Vietnamese), deythuk (Tibetan), chok (Thai), kayu (Japanese), lúgaw (Tagalog), Bubur or kanji (Indonesian and Malay) or jaou (Bengali) which is derived directly from the Chinese character 粥 ( which means gruel), canja (Portuguese). It is also called xifan in some Chinese provinces.
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