Sentence:  We did, however, send them to a Chinese nursery school that fed them a daily lunch of <WSD>zhou</WSD>, a rice porridge with various seasonings: pickled turnips, flakes of dough sticks, green or red beans, sesame paste, or something called hot prickly mustard tubers. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (nodot=a): a thick rice porridge.