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Fried rice is a popular component of Chinese cuisine
Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine originated from the various regions of China and has become widespread in many other parts of the world ? from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa....
 and other forms of Asian cuisine
Asian cuisine

Asian cuisine styles can be broken down into several regional styles that have roots in the peoples and cultures of those regions. The major types can be roughly defined as East Asian with its origins in Imperial era of Chinese history and now encompassing modern Japan and the Korean peninsula; Southeast Asian which encompasses th...
. It is made from rice fried in a wok
Wok

A wok is a versatile round-bottomed cookware and bakeware originating in China. It is used especially in East Asia and Southeast Asia. South Asia also uses a similarly-shaped vessel known as a karahi....
, typically with additional ingredients left over from other dishes. It is sometimes served as the penultimate dish in Chinese banquet
Banquet

Image:State Banquet Serving the Peacock Fac simile of a Woodcut in an edition of Virgil folio.A BANQUET is a large public meal or feast, complete with main courses and desserts....
s (just before dessert
Dessert

Dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a meal, usually consisting of sweet food but sometimes of a strongly-flavored one, such as some cheeses....
).

There are dozens of varieties of fried rice, each with its own specific list of ingredients. In Asia, the more famous varieties include Yangzhou
Yeung Chow Fried Rice

"Yeung Chow Fried Rice" or "Yang Zhou Chao Fan" is a popular Guangdong style wok fried dish in most Chinese cuisine restaurants in North America and Hong Kong....
 and Fujian
Fujian

is one of the Province of China on the southeast coast of People's Republic of China. Fujian borders Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south....
 fried rice.






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Fried rice is a popular component of Chinese cuisine
Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine originated from the various regions of China and has become widespread in many other parts of the world ? from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa....
 and other forms of Asian cuisine
Asian cuisine

Asian cuisine styles can be broken down into several regional styles that have roots in the peoples and cultures of those regions. The major types can be roughly defined as East Asian with its origins in Imperial era of Chinese history and now encompassing modern Japan and the Korean peninsula; Southeast Asian which encompasses th...
. It is made from rice fried in a wok
Wok

A wok is a versatile round-bottomed cookware and bakeware originating in China. It is used especially in East Asia and Southeast Asia. South Asia also uses a similarly-shaped vessel known as a karahi....
, typically with additional ingredients left over from other dishes. It is sometimes served as the penultimate dish in Chinese banquet
Banquet

Image:State Banquet Serving the Peacock Fac simile of a Woodcut in an edition of Virgil folio.A BANQUET is a large public meal or feast, complete with main courses and desserts....
s (just before dessert
Dessert

Dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a meal, usually consisting of sweet food but sometimes of a strongly-flavored one, such as some cheeses....
).

There are dozens of varieties of fried rice, each with its own specific list of ingredients. In Asia, the more famous varieties include Yangzhou
Yeung Chow Fried Rice

"Yeung Chow Fried Rice" or "Yang Zhou Chao Fan" is a popular Guangdong style wok fried dish in most Chinese cuisine restaurants in North America and Hong Kong....
 and Fujian
Fujian

is one of the Province of China on the southeast coast of People's Republic of China. Fujian borders Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south....
 fried rice. In the West, Chinese restaurants catering to non-Chinese clientele have invented their own varieties of fried rice including egg fried rice, Singaporean (spicy) fried rice and the ubiquitous 'special fried rice'.

Fried rice is a common staple in American Chinese cuisine
American Chinese cuisine

American Chinese cuisine refers to the style of food served by certain Chinese culture restaurants in the United States. This type of cooking typically caters to Western World tastes, and differs significantly from the Chinese cuisine....
, especially in the westernized form sold at fast-food stands. The most common form of fried rice consists of some mixture of eggs, scallions, and vegetables, with chopped meat
Meat

In modern English usage, meat most often refers to animal biological tissue used as food, mostly skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to offal, including livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, in some countries lungs, and a variety of other internal organs as well as blood....
 (usually pork or chicken, sometimes beef or shrimp) added at the customer's discretion. Fried rice is also seen in other Asian American restaurants, even in cuisines where there is no native tradition of the dish such as the Caribbean. The dish is also a staple of Chinese restaurants in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 (both "sit-in" and "takeaway"), and fried rice is very popular in the West Africa
West Africa

West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:...
n nations of Ghana
Ghana

The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa. It borders C?te d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south....
 and Togo
Togo

Togo is a narrow country in West Africa bordering Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lom? is located....
, both as a restaurant food and as street food
Street food

Street food is food obtainable from a Hawker , often from a makeshift or portable market stall. While some street foods are regional, many are not, having spread beyond their region of origin....
.

Ingredients

Ingredients used in fried rice are greatly varied. They can include egg
Egg (food)

An egg is a round or oval body laid by the female of many animals, consisting of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing, which acts to nourish and protect a developing embryo and its nutrient reserves....
s, poultry
Poultry

Poultry is the category of domesticated birds which some people keep for the purpose of collecting their egg , or kill for their meat and/or feathers....
 and meat
Meat

In modern English usage, meat most often refers to animal biological tissue used as food, mostly skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to offal, including livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, in some countries lungs, and a variety of other internal organs as well as blood....
 (chicken
Chicken

The chicken is a Domestication fowl. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago....
, pork
Pork

Pork is the culinary name for meat from the domestic pig . The word, pork, is often meant to denote specifically the fresh meat of the pig, but it can be used as an all-inclusive term, to include cured, smoked, or processed meats It is one of the most-commonly consumed meats worldwide, with evidence of pig animal husbandry dating back...
), vegetable
Vegetable

The term "vegetable" generally means the Eating parts of plants. The definition of the word is traditional rather than scientific, however, and therefore the usage of the word is somewhat arbitrary and subjective, as it is determined by individual cultural customs of food selection and food preparation....
s (carrot
Carrot

The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange or white, or red-white blend in colour, with a crisp texture when fresh. The edible part of a carrot is a taproot....
s, bean sprouts
Mung bean

||-||}Mung bean, also known as green bean, mung, moong, mash bean, munggo or monggo, green gram, golden gram, and green soy, is the seed of Vigna radiata which is native to India and Pakistan....
, celery
Celery

Apium graveolens is a plant species in the family Apiaceae commonly known as celery or celeriac depending on whether the petioles or roots are eaten....
, peas
PEAS

P.E.A.S. is an acronym in artificial intelligence that stands for Performance, Environment, Actuators, Sensors....
, corn
Maize

Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
), spice
Spice

A spice is a dried seed, fruit, root, bark, leaf, or vegetable used in nutritionally insignificant quantities as a food additive for the purpose of flavor, color, or as a preservative that kills harmful bacteria or prevents their growth....
s and pepper
Capsicum

Capsicum is a genus of plants from the nightshade family native to the Americas, where it was cultivated for thousands of years by the people of the tropical Americas, and is now cultivated worldwide....
s, and soy sauce
Soy sauce

Soy sauce , soya sauce , or shoyu is a fermentation sauce made from soybeans , roasted cereal, water and Sodium chloride. Soy sauce was invented in China, where it has been used as a condiment for close to 2,500 years....
. It is often stir-fried in a wok
Wok

A wok is a versatile round-bottomed cookware and bakeware originating in China. It is used especially in East Asia and Southeast Asia. South Asia also uses a similarly-shaped vessel known as a karahi....
 with vegetable oil or animal fat
Animal fat

Animal fats are Rendering tissue fat that can be obtained from a variety of animals....
 to prevent sticking, as well as for flavour. Onion
Onion

Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium. They are known by the common name "onion" but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa....
s and garlic
Garlic

Allium sativum L., commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion family Alliaceae. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, and chive....
 add zest and extra flavour. It is popularly eaten either as an accompaniment to another dish, or as a course by itself.

Popular garnishes include fried shallot
Shallot

The term shallot is used to describe two different Allium species of plant. The French grey challot or griselle, which has been considered to be the ?true shallot? by many, is Allium oschaninii, a species that grows wild from Central Asia to Southwest Asia....
s, sprigs of parsley
Parsley

Parsley is a bright green, biennial plant herb, also used as spice. It is very common in Middle Eastern cuisine, European cuisine, and American cuisine cooking....
, carrots carved into intricate shapes or sliced chili sprinkled on top of the heaped rice. Many food stands found on the streets across Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India and north of Australia....
 will serve fried rice on the spot expecting the customer to choose which garnishes to add.

Basic method


Fried rice is made from cold rice which has already been cooked by boiling. The wok is heated with some oil, until it starts smoking. Rice is stirred quickly and uniformly to prevent burning, and to coat the rice grains with oil to prevent sticking. After 1-2 minutes the rice is flavored to taste and stirred thoroughly, then the other ingredients are added.

More often than not, the rice is also tossed with an egg to smooth its texture and enhance its flavor, and hence the name ???, dan chao fan, meaning simply egg with fried rice. The most common method of preparing is to stir fry spices like chopped garlic
Garlic

Allium sativum L., commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion family Alliaceae. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, and chive....
 in a wok briefly to release its aroma (a process called "??"), and then to crack an egg into the wok; before the egg becomes completely cooked the rice is then added, and after some intense stir frying it is ready to be served.

Common varieties

  • Bai cha - A Khmer
    Khmer people

    The Khmer people; ; are the predominant ethnic group in Cambodia, accounting for approximately 90% of the 14.2 million people in the country. Part of the larger Mon-Khmer languages ethnolinguistic peoples found throughout Southeast Asia, they speak the Khmer language....
     variation of fried rice that includes diced Chinese sausage
    Chinese sausage

    Chinese sausage is a generic term referring to the many different types of sausages originating in China....
    , garlic
    Garlic

    Allium sativum L., commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion family Alliaceae. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, and chive....
    , shoyu, and herbs usually eaten with pork
    Pork

    Pork is the culinary name for meat from the domestic pig . The word, pork, is often meant to denote specifically the fresh meat of the pig, but it can be used as an all-inclusive term, to include cured, smoked, or processed meats It is one of the most-commonly consumed meats worldwide, with evidence of pig animal husbandry dating back...
    .
  • Canton (or Mui Fan) fried rice - a Cantonese dish of fried rice typically dry, Fukien fried rice is usually served "wet", with sauce or gravy on top.
  • Cha Han- is Chinese fried rice suited to Japanese tastes, sometimes adding katsuobushi
    Katsuobushi

    is the Japanese language name for a preparation of dried, Fermentation , and smoked skipjack tuna . Katsuobushi and kombu are the main ingredients of dashi, a broth that forms the basis of many soups and sauces in Japanese cuisine....
     for flavor.
  • Yangchow (or Yangzhou) fried rice
    Yeung Chow Fried Rice

    "Yeung Chow Fried Rice" or "Yang Zhou Chao Fan" is a popular Guangdong style wok fried dish in most Chinese cuisine restaurants in North America and Hong Kong....
     - A fried rice dish consisting of generous portions of shrimp, scrambled egg, along with barbecued pork. This is the most popular fried rice served in Chinese restaurants, commonly referred to simply as "special fried rice" or "house fried rice."
  • Yuan yang fried rice - Fried rice dish topped with two different types of sauce, typically a savory white sauce on one half, and a red tomato-based sauce on the other half. Elaborated versions use the sauce to make a taichi
    Taijitu

    File:Yin and Yang.svgTaijitu is one term which refers to a set of geometric patterns used throughout history by various cultures. The most recognized form is composed of two semi-circular teardrop-shaped curves of different colors, or a circle separated by an S-shaped line, where each half is marked with a dot in the opposite color....
     ("yin-yang") symbol.
  • Thai fried rice
    Thai fried rice

    Thai fried rice is a variety of Fried rice that is prepared in the style of central Thai cuisine. In Thai language khao is rice) + pad . One of the ways the dish differs from Chinese fried rice is that it is prepared with Thai Jasmine rice instead of regular long-grain rice....
     (???????, Khao Pad or Khao Phad) - The flavor of this version is radically different from that of common fried rice, and comes from various additions not found in Chinese fried rice.
  • American Fried Rice
    American fried rice

    American fried rice is a Thai fried rice dish with "American" side ingredients like fried chicken, ham, hot dogs, raisins, ketchup, and croutons....
     (???????????????, Khao pad Amerigan) - This style of fried rice is actually a Thai invention using hot dogs, fried chicken, eggs as side dishes or mixed into rice fried with ketchup. Apparently, this was served to G.I.s during the Vietnam war, but now has become very popular and commonplace all throughout Thailand. The Malaysian counterpart, substituting pork with chicken, is called Nasi Goreng USA.
  • Nasi goreng
    Nasi goreng

    Nasi goreng, literally meaning "fried rice" in Indonesian language and Malay language, can refer simply to fried pre-cooked rice, to a meal including fried rice accompanied with other items, or to a more complicated fried rice, typically spiced with tamarind and chilli and including other ingredients, particularly egg and prawns....
     - a Malay and Indonesian version of fried rice. The main difference compared to fried rice is that it is cooked with sweet soy sauce (kecap manis). It is often accompanied by additional items such as a fried egg, fried chicken, satay, or keropok. Served in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the southern Philippines, and most of the neighboring countries. Also very popular in the Netherlands.
  • Chaufa
    Chifa

    Chifa is a term used in Peru to refer to a style of food produced by the fusion of creole Lima food with Chinese food brought by Chinese people immigrants mainly from the province of Guangdong in the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
     - A popular version of fried rice in Peru
    Peru

    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
     and Ecuador
    Ecuador

    Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
    . Brought by Asian immigrants, it combines the traditional Chinese recipe with a distinct touch of South American flavor.
  • Kimchi bokkeumbap
    Kimchi bokkeumbap

    Kimchi bokkeumbap is a variety of bokkeumbap , a popular dish in South Korea. Its name literally translates into " Kimchi mixed riced"....
     or kimchi fried rice - A popular variety of fried rice prepared with Korean pickled cabbage, kimchi
    Kimchi

    Kimchi, also spelled gimchi or kimchee, is a traditional Korean pickled dish made of vegetables with varied seasonings, most commonly referring to the spicy baechu variety....
    , and a variable list of other ingredients. Although a wide range of fried rice dishes are frequently prepared in Korean cuisine, often with whichever ingredients are handy, Kimchi Fried Rice is a popular variety.
  • Sinangag - or Garlic Fried Rice is a Filipino version, only containing garlic (bawang) and is often a breakfast fixture. Sinangag is often part of the Tapsilog dish.
  • Curry fried rice - standard fried rice mixed with curry powder for a spicier flavor.
  • Hawaiian fried rice – A common style of fried rice in Hawaii
    Hawaii

    File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
    . Usually contains egg, green onions, peas, cubed carrots, and one or both of Portuguese sausage
    Linguiça

    Lingui?a is a form of Portugal cured pork sausage seasoned with onions, garlic, and paprika.Outside of Portugal and Brazil, lingui?a is also popular in New England, California, Hawaii, and Okinawa, where it is often simply called Portuguese sausage....
     and Spam
    Spam (food)

    Spam is a canning precooked meat product made by the Hormel. The labeled ingredients in the classic variety of Spam are: chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite to help keep its color....
    . Also sometimes available with kimchi added. Normally cooked in sesame oil.
  • Arroz Frito (Cuban Fried Rice) - Very similar to "Special Fried Rice", this version of fried rice can be found along side typical criollo dishes in many Cuban restaurants. This dish features ham, bbq pork, shrimp, chicken, and eggs along with a variety of vegetables. Some restaurants add lechón (Cuban-style suckling pig), lobster tails, and/or crab. Chinese Cubans are responsible for the dish's popularity.


See also

  • Nasi goreng
    Nasi goreng

    Nasi goreng, literally meaning "fried rice" in Indonesian language and Malay language, can refer simply to fried pre-cooked rice, to a meal including fried rice accompanied with other items, or to a more complicated fried rice, typically spiced with tamarind and chilli and including other ingredients, particularly egg and prawns....
  • Biryani
    Biryani

    Biryani, biriani, or beriani is a set of primarily South Asian rice-based foods made with spices, rice and meat/vegetables....
  • Pilaf
    Pilaf

    Pilaf, also called polao, pilau, or pulao, is a dish in which a grain, such as rice or cracked wheat, is browned in oil, and then cooked in a seasoned broth....
  • Paella
    Paella

    Paella is a rice dish which originated in the Spanish Autonomous Communities of Valencian Community near lake Albufera, a coastal lagoon in eastern Spain....
  • Arroz a la valenciana
    Arroz a la valenciana

    Arroz a la valenciana or Arroz ? valenciana is a typical Nicaraguan cuisine, Portuguese cuisine, and Spanish cuisine. In Nicaragua it is referred to as a Latin American version of Valencian Community paella....
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  • Jambalaya
    Jambalaya

    Jambalaya is a Creole cuisine dish of Spanish and French influence. The dish is a New World version of the Old World dish paella. A Cajun version, loosely related to paella, was adopted after absorption of white Louisiana Creole people into the Cajun population following their fall from power in New Orleans, Louisiana after the Civil War....


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