Nanjing Soong Mei-ling porridge is a creamy, nutritious rice and yam porridge with soy milk, reportedly created for Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
Meiling Zhou is named after Soong Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek), who reportedly enjoyed this nourishing porridge regularly for its beauty and health benefits. The dish was created by the chefs at the Guomindang headquarters in Nanjing. The combination of rice, yam, and soy milk creates a creamy, sweet porridge that is both comforting and nutritious. Yam is valued in traditional Chinese medicine for nourishing the stomach and spleen. The porridge is now a beloved Nanjing specialty found in restaurants throughout the city.