How can I make chicken fried rice that tastes like it came from a chinese restaurant?

Question

How can I make chicken fried rice that tastes like it came from a chinese restaurant?

Answer 1

Pal, go straight to the following site :

http://chinese-recipes.chef2chef.net/

...You'll find over 453 recipes for fried rice only, plus thousands more for other Chinese dishes - including desserts.

Have fun cooking, dude !

Answer 2

Find a nice stray cat that looks like it isn't too diseased. What you thought they put chicken in chicken fried rice ? lol !

Answer 3

Just last week I felt the same until I happened to find this copykat recipe and it is wonderful. My family loved it...this will be my choice of fried rice from now on.



A Clone of Benihana's Fried Rice

Yield: 4



Ingredients:



4 cup cooked converted or parboiled rice (1 cup uncooked)

1 cup frozen peas, thawed

2 tbl finely grated carrot

2 x eggs, beaten

1/2 cup diced onion (1/2 small onion)

1 1/2 tbl butter

2 tbl soy sauce

salt

pepper





Method:

Cook rice following instructions on package (Bring 2 cups water to a boil, add rice and a dash of salt, reduce heat and simmer in covered saucepan for 20 minutes). Pour rice into a large bowl to let it cool in the refrigerator. Scramble the eggs in a small pan over medium heat. Separate the

scrambled chunks of egg into small pea-size bits while cooking.



When rice has cooled to near room temperature, add peas, grated carrot, scrambled egg and diced onion to the bowl. Carefully toss all of the ingredients together. Melt 1 1/2 tablespoons of butter in a large frying pan over medium/high heat.



When butter has completely melted, dump the bowl of rice and other ingredients into the pan and add soy sauce plus a dash of salt and pepper. Cook rice for 6-8 minutes over heat, stirring often.



Serves 4.



This fried rice can be prepared ahead of time by cooking the rice, then adding the peas, carrots and egg plus half of the soy sauce. Keep this refrigerated until you are ready to fry it in the butter. That's when you add the salt, pepper and remaining soy sauce.



When 20-year-old Rocky Aoki came to the New York City from Japan with his wrestling team in 1959 he was convinced it was the land of opportunity. Just five years later he took $10,000 he had saved plus another $20,000 that he borrowed to open a Benihana steakhouse on the West side of Manhattan. His concept of bringing the chefs out from the back kitchen to prepare the food in front of customers on a specially designed hibachi grill was ground breaking. The restaurant was such a smashing success that it paid for itself within six months.

Answer 4

if you want it to taste 'chinese' add ANY of the following as you prefer it:



soy sauce

sesame oil

ginger

anise

oyster sauce



...sweeten it a bit and make it savory. that's the key. :)



enjoy!!

Answer 5

hmm. we had fried rice today.

rice

soysauce

scambled eggs,

onions,

carrots,

canola oil



cook rice then put it all in a frying pan on a low-med temp.

Answer 6

Scrambled eggs actually. Authentic chicken fried rice contains scrambled eggs which are somewhat shredded and added to the rest. Ask a local Chinese restaraunt how they combine correctly. Good luck.

Answer 7

You need oyster sauce. It is what makes fried rice have that brown color, not the soy sauce. Find a book by an asian chef and just follow from there.



P.S. Oyster sauce is not like what it sounds, similar to how fish sauce sounds. Oyster sauce is thick and brownish black. Weird taste but it is what all asians but in their rice.



=] I'm asian, and i know people that work in restaurants. They use oyster sauce. Use it and go as fancy as you want.

Answer 8

The first step is to buy one of those rice cookers. After that, experiment. Put in chopped bits of chicken, onions, and whatever else comes with fried rice. To get the color and flavor, you have to add soy sauce and this thing called "egg yellow shade." I'm not sure where you can get it or if it's a needed ingredient but my parents were in the restaurant business and they used that.



Stop hating with that MSG jargon, it's not in all chinese food. You can always request that it's not added. My god.

Answer 9

MSG (mono sodium glutamate) is the secret ingredient in most Chinese food

Answer 10

Go to Benihana and watch closely when they make it. There's no real trick. If I remember right, the main ingredients are egg, rice, oil, onion, chicken, soy sauce. I like to add some green onion at the end - don't cook the green onion though - it will lose its flavor. You also have to fry the scrambled egg and cut it up before you add in the rice.



Seriously though, just go to Benihana and take notes. Ask them to do the volcano. Good luck!

Answer 11

Don't laugh when Chinese people say, "Today's steamed rice is tomorrow's fried rice." The secret is in the rice..cook it the day before you want to make fried rice.

Answer 12

I don't know if you can make it exactly the same. You don't have the restaurants equipment or recipes. Try to ask the restaurant for the recipe, or try to get as close as you can.

Answer 13

look for the Dummie books

Answer 14

Use MSG.