Garlic Butter Fried Rice

Plain rice is elemental, the backdrop to almost every dish. Garlic fried rice is the treat. It’s one of the building blocks of silog, our version of a full breakfast—although by breakfast I mean a meal that can be eaten all day. (The name silog is a mash-up of sinangag, Tagalog for garlic fried rice, and itlog, egg; see Breakfast and Silogs.) This recipe is straightforward: all the ingredients are in the title. In Philippine folklore, garlic gives you protecti