Fried Rice with Egg and Salted Fish

The good news is, rice is still cheap; the bad news, salted fish is now expensive. When I was a child, rice was the mainstay of my diet. My mother would imaginatively enliven the rice dishes and stretch our food budget by adding small portions of other foods to the rice. Sometimes she would add a little chopped salted fish to a little minced pork and, after steaming the blend, would serve it with the rice. Or she would serve the salted fish alone, gently steamed. In either case, it was a ch