Comforting Rice with Chinese Sausage

My working mother was a whirlwind of efficiency and skill in her kitchen. She would arrive home around 5.45 and by 7 p.m. we would be enjoying a mini-feast of at least four dishes. My mother was extremely organized and she moved artfully, combining and cooking various foods with each other.

This is one of the dishes she made. When the rice began to cook, she would lay two or three Chinese sausages on the surface of the rice. The rich, sweet flavour and aroma of the sausages would sl