There are lots of different kinds of congee Cantonese people love to eat. Some prefer fish congee while others go for the pig lung congee. As varied as these different kinds of congees are, they all have one thing in common, each one requires a one to spend a very long time in the kitchen to make. So the phrase 煲電話粥, while it literally means to “make telephone congee”, isn’t referring to a dish you might order at a Hong Kong eatery. To make telephone congee is to spend a long time speaking with someone on the phone.