The Origin Of Fried Rice
Fried rice is a Chinese dish of steamed rice that has been stir-fried and, usually, mixed with other ingredients, such as eggs, vegetables, and meat, and as such, often served as a complete dish.
It is sometimes served as the penultimate dish in Chinese banquets,just before dessert. As a homemade dish, fried rice is typically made with leftover ingredients (including vegetables and/or meat) from other dishes, leading to countless variations.
Many popular varieties of fried rice have their own specific list of ingredients. In Asia, the more famous varieties include Yangzhou and Fujian fried rice where rap Meat of fisherman is used to season. Elsewhere, most restaurants catering to vegetarian or Muslim clientele have invented their own varieties of fried rice including egg fried rice and the Indonesian spicy (fried rice).
Fried rice is a common staple in American Chinese cuisine, especially in the form sold as fast food. The most common form of American Chinese fried rice consists of some mixture of eggs, beans, and vegetables, with chopped meat added at the customer’s discretion, and usually flavored with soy sauce instead of table salt (more typical for Chinese-style fried rice).
In fact this mean became very popular in the West African nations of Nigeria,Ghana and Togo in the mid 80’s, both as restaurant and as street food.