This is another free & easy recipe to share. Japanese fried rice or “CyaHan” is the dish that I love very much. Every time, when there is leftover rice available, I won’t miss the chance to cook a plate of CyaHan. From the very beginning experience to cook a simple fried rice, I really had hard time to satisfy myself. I used the freshly steamed rise to stir in the pan and started to create my own version of fried rice. The rice was too wet & sticky, even though I stirred it quickly. But, it won’t stop me to keep trying. Soon, I realised that leftover rice is more suitable. Another point is to use high heat and the movement to stir the rice needs to be fast to avoid overheating or turn black. Eventually, my cooking skill improved from failures.

Ingredients: (2 servings)

• 2 cups of cooked Japanese rice (* left-over rice preferred)
• 2 eggs
• 50g diced pork
• 2 tsp salad oil
• 1 tsp chicken bouillon
• 10cm onion, 10cm carrot, coarsely chopped
• 1/2 tsp garlic salt
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tsp oyster sauce
• 1 tsp sesame oil

Preparation:

Personally, I love Sushi very much. Every time, I go to kaiten-zushi [ 回転寿司 ] (conveyor belt sushi/sushi train) restaurants, I will consume more than 10 plates. [By the way, my record is 21 plates]. Most of the people will refuse to take sushi in the very 1^st time because not used to take the fish in raw. But, when you try for times, you will fall into love with it just like me. My first experience was in a kaiten-zushi restaurant that promoting their newly open branch in Japan many years ago. The promotion was too attractive that I cannot refuse it which I can eat all I like within 30 minutes for only 500 YEN. It is really impressed me when the first Cyutoro-Maguro (Tuna with fat) delivered right into my mouth. Wow, It was too delicious!! That’s how I fall into love with sushi!

What is Sushi?

In Japanese cuisine, sushi (寿司、鮨) is vinegared rice, usually topped with other ingredients including fish, various meats, and vegetables. Outside of Japan, sushi is sometimes misunderstood to mean the raw fish itself, or even any fresh raw-seafood dishes. In Japan, sliced raw fish alone is called sashimi and is distinct from sushi, as sashimi is the raw fish component, not the rice component. The word sushi itself comes from an archaic grammatical form of a word that is no longer used in other contexts; literally, “sushi” means “it’s sour”.

There are many types of sushi in Japan, the most popular that we eat in kaiten-sushi restaurant is called Nigiri-zushi (握り寿司、hand-formed sushi). This consist of an oblong mound of sushi rice that is pressed between the palms of the hands, sometimes with a speck of wasabi and a slice of fish called neta draped over it. Nigiri is generally served in pairs.

* (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi )

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