Geechee Girl Rice Café (pronounced with a hard ‘g’) pays homage to the Geechee people — enslaved West Africans who lived along the American southeastern coastal areas. As experts in rice cultivation, the Geechee are credited with designing tools to simplify the harvesting process along the rice lands that stretched from South Carolina's Sea Islands to beyond Georgia's Ogeechee River.
The menu combines traditional southern rice delicacies with Chinese, Thai and other international influences, emphasizing a fusion of cultures, including the Charleston (S.C.) red rice, the fragrant grains of Jasmine rice and the honey-red color of Wehani.
Two favorites include the classic southern gumbo with chicken, shrimp and sausage, and the Carolina pulled pork with black-eyed peas and cornbread, both of which come with your choice of rice.