Possible Clues:

• Oriental rice dish
• Rice dish somewhat unusual? I perked up
• Eastern dish with sauce poured over served by a university
• In France, he's in town, there to make a spicy dish
• Sauce turned up with gold rice dish
• Put sauce over a superior dish
• Type of rice
• Unfinished beer alongside valuable metal dish
• Indian dish of rice boiled with meat, vegetables, spices etc
• Spicy rice dish from the East