1.   Rex scooped up a bucket of water and carefully poured some of it into a small white rice bowl.

2.   But for those who hang on to their corporate rice bowls, the rules are not so radically different.

3.   Do not leave chopsticks upright in a rice bowl.

4.   He used the rice bowl to scratch a circle on the wall.

5.   No rice bowl for him.

6.   Print and television ads feature a beautiful and seemingly well-nourished Asian child eating from a rice bowl as a beaming mother looks on.

7.   The grain farmers of northern China accrue less from reform than farmers in this south-central rice bowl, where tiny plots of land give lucrative yields.

8.   The iron rice bowl is cracking and may soon shatter.

9.   The Old China Hand in his element, I lectured about chopsticks and rice bowls, but my audience was interested only in Coca-Cola.

10.   Ban Heng Bee managing director Low Kok Kean said it will be installed in May next year in Kedah state, the rice bowl of Malaysia.