Got a cold? You will be served Rice Gruel in Japan

When you get a cold or do not feel well, chicken soup is the best food. In Japan, we eat rice gruel when you are suffered by illness.
It helps you take carbohydrate and helps your stomach digest which leads your body free from over work.

There are some steps of rice gruel, first step is that rice is cooked soften very well then it gets gradually harder and harder everyday and finally you can eat regular rice when you recover from illness.