You should always indicate the refusal reason. I suspect "Technical issues".
The pictures are not correctly framed. Try to get the plate completely in sight (rice picture). Then make sure that the food is pleasantly presented. Look at the correct lightning of your main subject. Before submitting examine your picture at 100% and 200% magnification. Any artefacts you see disqualify the picture:
What you see is a processing induced artefact to hide excessive noise.
Your second image (fishplate) is more pleasantly presented, but still is exposing some massive flaws in composition and lightning. Every object in the picture is cut off.
The picture exposes excessive noise.
I'm sorry, but food photography is an art on its own. Food is especially cooked and photographed in specific set-ups with accessories, that are missing badly in your pictures. It's very difficult to get food photographed on the fly, even that I have done it on occasions and got also some of those pictures accepted.