Even novices asking how to boil rice find a patient teacher.

There are guys whose job is to just boil rice all day or washout eating bowls or clean the crapper.

Boil rice in remaining water until it gets soft.

That night, her boyfriend's mother, a third-generation Mexican-American, served the young couple plain boiled white rice.

The water emerging from the ground is hot enough to boil rice and it has to be cooled with river water for bathing.

"Well, they really didn't know how to cook - they'd boil rice for two hours," she said.

They set up a pot to boil rice, then a wok big enough to bathe in.

The monks rigged an awning before the entrance and kindled a fire to boil rice and vegetables and heat water for tea.

The men will boil rice for us.

After boiling and serving rice, a thin crust of scorched rice will usually be left in the bottom of the cooking pot.