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By Mr. Taste

Being the forward thinkers we are, we always cook four times the suggested amount of rice for two people. Enough for tonight’s dinner, tomorrow’s lunch, tomorrow’s fried rice dinner and tomorrow tomorrow’s fried rice lunch. And so, tonight is now tomorrow, and yesterday’s leftover rice is about to be transformed into a deliciously simple fried rice.

Ms. Taste's Fried Rice

Mr. Taste's Fried Rice

The problem is, Ms. Taste likes her fried rice in that boring, flavourless, ‘end of the wedding banquet when no-one cares about food anymore’ style; where I like my fried rice in flavourful, totally not boring, amazing and super tasty tomato sauce style. We discussed at length the pros and cons of each of our proposed fried rices through the ever-reliable medium of loud shouting. But still, there was no sign of a pending resolution.

So we set about finding the answer through the ancientest of ancient traditions which has made and destroyed civilisations: the little understood ritual performed by Amazonian witch doctors, reportedly said to bring eternal youth and a cookbook deal to all that endure it’s unrepenting cruelty – the battle for kitchen supremacy.

Ms. Taste’s Fried Rice

Ms. Taste's Fried Rice Ingredients

Ingredients:

• Leftover Rice
• Eggs
• Canola Oil
• Light Soy Sauce
• Fish Sauce
• Chinese Rice Wine
• Chicken Slices
• 2 Eggs, Scrambled
• Bowl of Shredded Lettuce

Method:

Heat pan until hot, drizzle oil in centre and swish around. Fry chicken slices until just cooked. Transfer to a bowl and let it rest.

Clean pan and reheat on high heat, drizzle a generous amount of oil and fry up the eggs. When they are almost done, pour in rice and stir quickly.

Stir the rice into the scrambled eggs

When the rice and eggs are evenly mixed, combine the chicken and lettuce.

Stir quickly to prevent rice from sticking to the pan

Stirring quickly, pour in the soy, fish sauce and rice wine.

Drizzle on that rice wine

Turn off the heat and serve!

Serving the rice

Ms. Taste's Fried Rice

Mr. Taste’s Fried Rice

Mr. Taste's Fried Rice Ingredients

Ingredients:

• Leftover Rice
• Canola Oil
• Sweet Soy Sauce
• Chinese Rice Wine
• Sriracha
• Tomato Sauce
• Chinese Sausage
• Chicken Bits
• 2 Eggs, Scrambed
• Assorted Frozen Vegetables

Method:

With a bit of oil, fry up your eggs like an omelette but rip the egg bits into shreds. Set it aside, and then fry up the chinese sausage and then also the chicken seperately.

Tossing the rice with the soy sauce

Heat up your wok nice and hot and get the oil to be also nice and hot. Throw in your rice and toss it around a bit so it all gets some of that oil. Then you can throw in some soy sauce and toss it around.

Throw in the meat

Then throw in your eggs and toss it around. Throw in the sausage and toss it around.

Throw in the vegies

Then you can do the same for the rest of it. In fact, the order of it all doesn’t really matter, the important thing is to toss everything around so there aren’t ethnic gangs of rice clumps, ready to cause uneven mouthfuls of trouble.

Make sure its all evenly tossed

Mr. Taste's Fried Rice

So, the question remains, who’s cuisine reigns supreme?

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