Ingredients
Requirements
- Wok
Abroad, Yangzhou fried rice has become a leftovers dish with whatever happened to be in the refrigerator. In Yangzhou itself, a hundred kilometers from Shanghai and part of the same Jiangnan culinary tradition, it is described precisely: cold rice from the day before, small shrimp, sliced Chinese sausage or char siu, peas, egg, and scallions. Nothing else, and especially no soy sauce.
Use rice from the refrigerator that was cooked the day before. Fresh rice still contains too much moisture and sticks together, causing it to steam instead of frying and preventing the grains from separating.
Fry the egg first, remove it, and add it back at the end. This keeps it tender and prevents the rice from turning yellow.
Ingredients