Most Cantonese will have fond memories of enjoying a claypot filled with steaming hot rice to fend off the cold winter breeze. Claypot rice, known as bao zai faan in Cantonese, is a dish where the rice (faan) is cooked in a clay pot (bao zai) with preserved Chinese sausage or other preferred toppings, and allures diner with the smoky aroma coming from the scorched — but never burnt — rice.