Chapter 13 Egg Fried Rice

Not long ago, the Vientiane version of men talked about housekeeping, and someone talked about fried rice with eggs.From ancient times to the present, Chinese people have been eating fried rice with eggs from south to north. Everyone knows how to fry rice. Take the rice used for fried rice as an example. Everyone eats it on a daily basis. Some people like to eat Penglai rice, saying it is soft and waxy, light and palatable. Do not offend each other.But when it comes to eating fried rice with eggs, the problem comes. Everyone knows that egg fried rice must be cooked in a hot pot and cold. The fried rice is delicious, but the rice cooked with Penglai rice, whether it is cooked in an electric pot or steamed in a large pot, will always stick together after cooling. , extremely difficult to break apart.Please think about the rice in lumps, can it be delicious after being fried?The rice used for fried rice must be broken up before frying. For those who are impatient, they can’t break it up in the pot and cut it with a shovel. All of this will chop the rice into pieces.Therefore, if the rice sticks together, wait until the rice is hot, and then use a shovel to slowly press it twice, and it will naturally loosen.

Fried rice does not require a lot of oil, but the rice must be fried thoroughly, and the rice grains must be fried until it is considered done.The chopped green onion in fried rice must be burnt, and the eggs must be fried separately, and then mixed together and fried.In addition, some people like to beat the egg yolk and white evenly, pour it on the hot rice before frying, the name is quite nice, it is called "gold wrapped with silver".Regardless of whether it is delicious or not, please think about it. Fried rice with oil is already difficult to digest. If the rice grains are coated with a layer of egg, it will be even more difficult for people with weak stomachs to digest.

The author has always had a special interest in egg fried rice, so wherever I go, I always have to try the egg fried rice cooked by the chef.In the early years when the family hired a cook, when they were trying to test the cook's skills, they must first let him simmer a chicken soup. If the fire is high, the soup will be cloudy, plump and not tasty, which means that the cook's cooking is not good.Let’s also fry shredded pork with green peppers. The shredded pork must be tender and tasty, and the green peppers must be crispy and not overcooked. This master chef Wu Huocai is considered a pass.Finally, there is a bowl of fried rice with eggs. The generous chef should first look at the bones of the cold rice, and then fry it. After frying, it should be moist but not greasy, not oily. Smell, is all pass.Although it's as small as one soup, one dish and one fried rice, it can really make the chef of the three-legged cat mess up.

When the author was young, I once went to watch a sports meeting at Huiwen Middle School in Chuanban Hutong, Beiping. There was a small cafeteria at the southwest corner of the track and field.The result of the tasting, the red prawn slices, green pea rice, lined with a bowl of hot egg fried rice with light yellow and fluffy, it is smooth and mellow in the mouth, which can be called worthy of the name.Maybe when I was young, my taste was not high, and I thought this bowl of rice was the best of all fried rice.After wandering around, this bowl of golden soup and jade rice still lingers in my mind from time to time.After crossing the sea to Taiwan, he has been working in Taipei. Later, he was transferred to Chiayi, so three meals were a big problem. Fortunately, there was an entourage who was a retired military catering soldier. He only knew how to cook fried rice with eggs and tofu soup. Set a record of eating more than 70 fried rice with eggs.Brother Song Qing, the director of the deceased friend Xu, had a plate of egg fried rice for breakfast every day. For more than ten years, his friends called him "Fried Rice King" and me "Fried Rice Expert".

I lived in Taipei for several months this spring, and I had to go to Tingzhou Street to do errands every day. I had to have lunch at a nearby small restaurant, so I resumed my life of eating fried rice.Some meals are rotten, and others are sticky.The best thing is that there is a small restaurant, the decoration is still elegant, but the egg fried rice is served, which is surprising.The bowl of noodles is covered with a layer of dark green chopped green onion. Under the chopped green onion is... a layer of neatly cut parallelogram-shaped eggs. On the top and bottom is a cup of oily fried rice.The waiter could speak Cantonese mandarin. He said this kind of fried rice was called "Jin Yu Man Tang".Although the name matches the reality, there is a smell of raw onion and heavy oil, which hits the nose. Even I, who usually likes fried rice with eggs, can only look forward to the bowl and sigh.Egg fried rice is a very common way to eat it, but there are a lot of strange tricks, think about it carefully, in the vast expanse, everything is the same, not only egg fried rice!