Chinese Sausage Fried Rice, made with lup cheong (腊肠), is a beloved comfort dish that’s especially popular around Chinese New Year. The sweet, aromatic flavor of Chinese sausage infuses every grain of rice, bringing both taste and symbolic meaning, abundance and satisfaction, to the festive table. Unlike more elaborate dishes, this fried rice comes together …
Yang Chow fried rice 扬州炒饭 is synonymous to Chinese fried rice to many people. The question is: How to prepare fried rice at home full of wok-hei (wok aroma) comparable to that generated with the high power stove by the Chinese restaurant? I spent the whole last week to modify how I cook in the restaurant, …
This post is about taking shrimp fried rice to the next level. I have written two fried rice-related posts before, How to cook the best Chinese fried rice with only six ingredients and How to prepare the best restaurant-style fried rice. So why the third? The idea to write this post was sparked during dinner …
Have you ever replicate the restaurant style Chinese fried rice, but still fall short of the result you want after trying all the methods on the internet, YouTube and recipe books? This article is aimed to provide the final piece of the missing puzzle that you are searching for. I am referring to the simple …
Cooking fried rice is easy, tasty, and with a wide margin of error. So, you may wonder why I write about how to fry rice in great detail in this post. Because there is a catch! Most Asian restaurants prepare it with a high-power stove that generates intense heat, which is essential to produce excellent …
The all-purpose Asian stir-fry sauce prepared with various ingredients in the right proportion is the key to the wonderful flavor of stir-frying dishes. In this article, I will discuss the various seasoning ingredients used to constitute different stir-fry sauces for most Chinese cuisine. Before I begin, I want to point out that some components of …