Chinese Restaruants

[SelArom]

hey when I go to a chinese restarant and order a lunch plate, with the entree I always get fried rice, and it's decent rice, you know whatever. but when I order say chicken fried rice, they bring me a whole plate of rice and it tastes better than sex. I've tried to duplicate the flavor but I can't do it. it always ends up tasting like the lunch plate rice. anybody know what they add to make it taste so damn good?

-SelArom

 

[rh71]

fried rice is yesterday's white rice. They likely add MSG. :evil:

 

[helloedchen]

Yup, fried rice taste best when it's older rice

 

[dethman]

Originally posted by: rh71
They likely add MSG. :evil:

yummy

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: rh71
They likely add MSG. :evil:

yummy

:thumbsdown:

 

[SelArom]

it's not MSG because we've tried adding that. I can recognize the flavor but I don't know what it is. but it's not msg, or "umami"

-SelArom

 

[AreaCode707]

Five spice.

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[Gibson486]

yes, i can confirm that fried rice is left over white rice starting from the day before.

 

[OulOat]

Yup, my mom deliberately leave out cooked rice to dry in order to make fried rice.

 

[0roo0roo]

yesterdays rice from fridge yes. alton brown explained it once, i forget now though it makes the texture right. lose water? bah

anyways, u gotta have HOT HOT HOT wok many home stoves can't pull it off.

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
yesterdays rice from fridge yes. alton brown explained it once, i forget now though it makes the texture right. lose water? bah

anyways, u gotta have HOT HOT HOT wok many home stoves can't pull it off.

yep when the wok is extra hot the rice gets a bit charred.. which is cool

 

[ghostman]

Even though it's been confirmed already, yes, fried rice is leftover white rice for the most part. Also, I was told not to order fried rice at chinese restaurants because the rice isn't washed first (I guess, when the rice isn't from leftovers). I only order white rice.

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: ghostman
Even though it's been confirmed already, yes, fried rice is leftover white rice for the most part. Also, I was told not to order fried rice at chinese restaurants because the rice isn't washed first (I guess, when the rice isn't from leftovers). I only order white rice.

if there are germs, they will be dead when they cook the leftover rice

 

[Toastedlightly]

Where I used to work, yes it was old rice, most likely from an hour or 2 before. And yes, we did wash it. Fried rice has some other things in it... can't remember though.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: ghostman
Even though it's been confirmed already, yes, fried rice is leftover white rice for the most part. Also, I was told not to order fried rice at chinese restaurants because the rice isn't washed first (I guess, when the rice isn't from leftovers). I only order white rice.

huh? they don't use rice thats been served silly. just thats been cooked. rice is cheap, its not going to be reused.

as for washing, some rice isn't washed and shouldn't be. it was washed at the processing factory and vitamins were added to make up for the processing. washing it would get rid of all the vitamins again.

 

[richardycc]

its their mega (50000+)BTU gas range they use to fry the rice, you can't do that with a home range.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

Depending on the restaurant, leftover white rice that's been served does get recycled.

 

[sMiLeYz]

My parents have ran a Chinese restaurant for 20+ years. Theres two kinds of fried rice, the one that you order as meal or the one that comes as a supplement to a meal replacing white rice. Fried rice is just old rice cooked and left there.
The fried frice meal are old rice cooked on the spot using, soy sauce, msg, salt and im not positive what else. Reinforcing what everyone else just said, yeah you can't hook the same fried rice at home.