Traditional Fried Rice

Fried rice in China is a meal-in-a-bowl—typically a dish of cold cooked rice that is stir-fried with a mélange of colorful diced meats and vegetables. It can be as simple as last night’s leftover rice tossed together with last night’s chicken, or as glamorous as a Chinese banquet featuring pricey bits of minced cured ham, tiny shrimp, matchsticks of honeyed pork, and so on into colorful lushness. Real fried rice is always white! Unlike the Chinese-American version that is stained with soy s