Wiktionary
n. 1 A small bowl from which rice is eaten. 2 A region that produces abundant rice. 3 A person's livelihood or source of income. 4 A jealously defended institutional resource such as a programme, project, or budget.
Wikipedia
The Rice Bowl is an annual American football national championship game held in Japan every January 3 that pits the champion of college football and the champion of the corporate X-League. The game can draw over 40,000 spectators.
Usage examples of "rice bowl".
Their party had meandered northward along the busy, bustling Tokaido, across the greatest rice bowl in the Empire.
I tried to hide my rice bowl in my shirt, and in a fabulous display of sleight of hand, ended up spilling the grains down my front.
At that point they shaved my head, taking generous nicks out of my scalp as they did so, rinsed away the hair that stuck to my body, and handed me a fresh orange robe, a blanket, and a wooden rice bowl.
He picked up his rice bowl and his map, put them both in his bag, and looked around the floor for any other traces that they'd been there.
Li Kao began a slow rhythmic beat upon the rim of his rice bowl with his chopsticks.