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How to make Authentic Chinese FRIED RICE

2020-07-22 · 11 min

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  1. Hello! Today we're going to be making

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  2. authentic Chinese fried rice,

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  3. and these are the ingredients. We have

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  4. frozen peas, we have long grain

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  5. rice, Spitzel Langkorn.

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  6. I don't know what that means, but it

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  7. sounds funny. I guess this means rice.

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  8. Oh wait, it's Langkorn Long corn,

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  9. long grain. I bet it means long grain

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  10. rice. Oh, I'm a genius. So we also have

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  11. an egg, and then we have bacon.

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  12. Keiton shinken.

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  13. Oh look, it's that word again. Spitsen

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  14. quality. There's spitsen there, and then

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  15. this one also has spitsen. I wonder what

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  16. spitsen means. Hmm. Oh look,

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  17. it's there as well. I'm seeing it

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  18. everywhere. So the first step

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  19. is we have to cook the rice, but we don't

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  20. have a rice cooker, so we're gonna have to

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  21. do it the old-fashioned way using a good

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  22. old pot. I haven't used the pot to cook

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  23. rice since 2014, I think. I don't

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  24. know, I just randomly made up that number.

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  25. In Japan, we always had a rice cooker, so

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  26. it was always easy, but I guess Have to go

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  27. back to the good old pot. Now for long

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  28. grain rice, there's a ratio of 1 cup of

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  29. rice to 2 cups of water, and then we boil

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  30. it for about 20 minutes. No, we boil

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  31. the water and then turn down the heat so

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  32. it simmers for about 20 minutes. I think

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  33. that's how you do it.

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  34. Oh, we're spilling,

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  35. spilling rice everywhere.

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  36. Oh, okay, so that

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  37. is 1 cup of rice.

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  38. And get your pot.

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  39. Now I guess some of you might be wanting

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  40. to wash the rice, but if you've been

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  41. watching my videos since 2 years ago,

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  42. you'll know that I hate washing rice. I

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  43. don't feel like— I don't know, maybe I

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  44. should. Look what I just found in it.

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  45. Like a— it's not focusing. Look, like a

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  46. little thing that

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  47. was in the rice. Maybe I should wash it.

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  48. Well, as long as there's no insects in it,

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  49. I guess it should be fine. But I've

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  50. never died before from eating unwashed

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  51. rice, so I guess it's not that Dangerous.

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  52. Uh, maybe I will wash it actually.

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  53. So we're gonna wash the rice like this.

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  54. It's also very powdery, so maybe we should

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  55. get rid of the powder, the starchiness.

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  56. Okay, and then just drain it.

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  57. I wonder if you could drink that. Maybe

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  58. it's ricey, like a rice beverage.

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  59. Okay, that should be fine. And now we

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  60. need— oh, there's rice in my cup.

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  61. We need 2 cups of water.

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  62. So that's one,

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  63. and then two.

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  64. And I set it to maximum heat, and we're

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  65. gonna wait until it boils. I feel like

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  66. this water looks very cloudy.

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  67. Oh, it should be fine. Oh look, it's like

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  68. a heart shape. Oh no, it's kind

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  69. of changing into a peanut

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  70. shape now. Okay, so now

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  71. it's boiling. We're going to turn the heat

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  72. down to the lowest setting and then put

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  73. the lid on,

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  74. and we're going to let that simmer for

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  75. about 20 minutes. Set your timer to

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  76. 20 minutes. We'll come back later.

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  77. Um, I think something's going wrong. I

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  78. don't know why it's bubbling.

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  79. That doesn't look good. Now we're going

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  80. to cook the ingredients. First, we have

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  81. sesame oil. Just put some of that to

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  82. add some flavor. And then we have bacon.

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  83. Fry some bacon. You don't want too much

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  84. because it's quite salty.

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  85. Add your egg into the middle.

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  86. And now we want to add some rice. Into the

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  87. egg and then mix it all around.

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  88. Add your green peas and just stir it

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  89. all around so it's evenly mixed. Pretty

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  90. simple.

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  91. And that is how I make my perfect fried

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  92. rice. I think it looks very good.

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  93. Okay, let's see what it tastes like.

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  94. Okay.

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  95. It's a bit bland, to be honest. Could use

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  96. with some, some salt or

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  97. maybe more bacon.

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  98. I guess it's okay.

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  99. Just a little bit bland.

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  100. Look, I found some soy sauce in the

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  101. cupboard. Maybe this will help.

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  102. I think that's enough. Okay, let's try it

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  103. again now with the soya sauce added.

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  104. Hmm,

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  105. I don't know, I think it's made it worse

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  106. now. It tastes kind of sweet.

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  107. I think I'll give it 4.1 out of

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  108. 10. Not my best fried rice.

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  109. So I want to talk a bit about life in

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  110. Germany. What have I been doing since I

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  111. got to this new Airbnb? Well, I haven't

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  112. even left the Airbnb once. Okay, that's

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  113. not true. I left it one time to go to the

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  114. supermarket, but apart from the

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  115. supermarket, I didn't go anywhere.

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  116. And that's mainly because— well, that's

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  117. secret. I can't tell you. Sorry about

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  118. that. It's mainly because Um,

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  119. the Airbnb is so nice, I don't really want

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  120. to leave it. It's just perfect.

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  121. I've got a huge TV, huge sofa, lots of

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  122. and it's so quiet. I feel like there's no

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  123. one here. I feel like this neighborhood is

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  124. deserted. I just don't see any people. I

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  125. can't hear any people. In the last Airbnb,

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  126. it was annoying because I kept hearing

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  127. footsteps going up and down the steps, up

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  128. and down the stairs, and then I kept

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  129. hearing someone stomping upstairs. Here

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  130. there's no upstairs because it's a house,

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  131. so no one's above me, no one's below me.

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  132. There's houses either side, but I don't

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  133. hear any noise coming from them.

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  134. Either they're really quiet or the

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  135. soundproofing is really good here.

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  136. It's so peaceful and quiet. I love it.

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  137. It's great. I feel like I'm all alone,

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  138. isolated. Maybe you think that's

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  139. lonely, but I think it's nice.

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  140. Well, I'm gonna finish my rice and then do

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  141. some other stuff, I guess YouTube stuff,

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  142. and then play Mortal Kombat.

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  143. Life in Germany.

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