Etymology

rice queen

Today it means: A non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men. Full definition →

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The story

From rice with the (somewhat derogatory) sense of "Asian man," combined with queen to imply "homosexual attraction to...". Compare bean queen for derivation; one was probably formed by analogy with the other.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.