Dirty Rice

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  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Chinese-American Barbecue: Big-Flavor Asian BBQ from the Smoke Queen

By Winnie Yee

Published 2026

  • About

As a barbecue business, we are always thinking of how we can upcycle our leftovers besides eating them ourselves! Jared Ruiz of our team came up with the genius idea to just dump everything in the rice cooker and call it Dirty Rice. He says it’s a play on Southern dirty rice; however, when my grandmother made something similar in my many summer visits to Malaysia as a kid, she called it chaap faan, ”chaap” meaning “junk” in Cantonese, and “faan” meaning “ri

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