Best fried rice I've ever had

[Cheryl J]

+2. I love fried rice and especially love that it's so forgiving as far as ingredients.

Looks and sounds great med, and I'm with you on the shrimp as a protein. I think I'll grab a little jar of baby corn too, while I'm at it.

 

[dragnlaw]

Guess what I had for supper last night!

 

[buckytom]

Toasted villagers, dragn?

 

[dragnlaw]

Villagers are soo yesterday, bucky. Aside from being tough and stringy...

I'm upper crust all the way - straight for the yummy plump ones!

 

[buckytom]

Oh, ok. Royal fried rice.

Hey, that's a great name for med's special fried rice.

Or, Fried Rice Royale.

 

[medtran49]

good name BT

 

[Kaneohegirlinaz]

I like it BT!!

 

[taxlady]

Sounds good. Copied and pasted.

 

[Kathleen]

I just said, "Now I want fried rice!" Like Kayelle, I toss a few peas and carrots in for color. Fried rice was one of those "cool" college meals back when. "Want to go for fried rice" was a great way to get a crowd to follow under the guise of dinner. Cheap and delicious.....

I don't have it nearly as often as I would like these days. :/

 

[dragnlaw]

LOL - good threads never die - they just take a nap every once-in-a-while. Started in early (1016 just saw this! LOL) 2016 and now it's going Autumn 2024.
I have since spoken to one of the Indonesian girls I know, and according to her Fried Rice is generally used for leftovers. It is consider a side dish of rice. So although there maybe lots of different ingredients, they are small amounts using up very small amounts of leftovers.

I love fried rice and will cook pork, chicken and especially shrimp, my favourite, just for that! A LOT of them! Mine may not be along the traditional lines - ask me if I care.

 

[Kaneohegirlinaz]

Uuuuhhhhh! I don't think I've ever had Shrimp Fried Rice before ... mahalo, thanks @dragnlaw that's now on my lunch menu.

 

[rodentraiser]

I've seen Chinese restaurants where you can get chicken, pork, or shrimp fried rice or just get the house special, which is chicken, pork, AND shrimp fried rice.

I have a friend who makes great fried rice, but I've never been good at making it. Lately, I get some BBQ pork and just chop that up and put it in the Innovasion BBQ pork fried rice I get from the freezer section at the store. I pick out the peas and scrambled eggs and add the BBQ pork (because the box only comes with maybe two pieces of pork) and soy sauce and I'm good. But I wish I could make good fried rice.

 

[Badjak]

To me nasi goreng is the way to go to use left over rice with all kind of other left overs (as mentioned above)

 

[dragnlaw]

ooohh, thank you Badjak! The name sounded familiar, but when I looked it up am pretty sure I've never had nor made this.

Have just copied a recipe from recipetineats one of my favourite sites. I don't have kecap manis but easy to sub with honey and soy s. I also have some shrimp paste but it is years old, never opened. Guess I'll find out when I get around to opeining it.