Chinese fried rice is a beloved dish born from the tradition of minimizing waste by using leftover rice and ingredients.

As with every recipe for fried rice, start with cold (or at least room temperature) cooked rice. It doesn’t work with rice hot out of the cooker, which becomes heavy and stodgy when stir-fried.

It’s essential that the rice is chilled, because if it’s freshly cooked and hot, it will clump up in the pan, rather than separating into individual grains. This recipe can be varied in so ...

Egg-fried rice is a classic Chinese dish. Fast, easy and this one is also vegetarian. It’s a tasty way to use up leftovers, especially cold rice. Heat a wok until smoking and add half the ...

Jollof rice ... as house fried rice. It's made of rice tossed with roast pork, shrimp, scallions, eggs, and peas inside of a wok. The best type of rice to use is leftover cooked rice. Chinese ...

The only food ever eaten outside our house was the occasional ... they brought me to a Chinese restaurant. I knew nothing about Chinese food, and let them order for me — Moo Goo Gai Pan, fried rice ...