rice queen

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Also seen as: rice-queen

Meaning · English

A non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.

Register: derogatory, slang

Where it’s used: Used American English

Examples

These were nostalgic gray wolves in this place, or maybe they were the ones who spent the money and brought in the chickens. A rice queen with a Japanese boy (maybe Chinese).

Quoted attestation: 1984, Herbert Gold, Mister White Eyes: A Novel, Arbor House, →ISBN, page 204,

Sources & notes

Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).

Common questions

What does “rice queen” mean?

A non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.

Is “rice queen” formal or informal?

rice queen is generally derogatory, slang.