Fried Rice

[skiwee1]

I just have to ask if anyone else has noticed a decline in the fried rice lately? I like to get carryout chinese once in awhile and have noticed something about the fried rice. There are no carrots, peas, or fried egg in it anymore. Am I going nuts or isn't that stuff supposed to be in fried rice? LOL! Lately it seems no matter where I get it, there is nothing to it but rice, soy sauce, a scant bit of onion, and shrimp because I get the shrimp variety. So does anyone else notice this or is my area getting cheap about the fried rice. LOL! I do make it myself once in a great while but I love Sesame chicken and I cannot make that so I get the rice with it. I know this is not an important issue but we just had this tonight and thought I'd ask.

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

I was thinking the same thing yesterday! I want some real fried rice.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

even the "fast food" Chinese places around here make better fried rice than that!

 

[Blondie]

Carrots and peas in fried rice always seemed wrong to me, so if they are leaving them out, I'm happy!

 

[floridafam]

My DS's Kindergarten teacher is married to a man from China.

She makes fried rice in class every year. Last year, it was some of the best I have ever tasted.

She used rice, eggs, garlic, soy sauce and ham.

 

[mommytotwo]

Yum chinese food. I don't care for the fried rice though. I don't care for the carrots and peas-but have found that alot of the Chinese restaurants here use the frozen mixed veggies in them. I prefer to Thai spicy fried rice.

 

[PattnFmly]

If I get it at the mall in the food court, it has the peas and carrots and stuff in it. But if I get it in the regular restaurant (sit down or take out) it doesn't. I always assumed that the mall added it to stretch it! Guess I'll have to pay closer attention next time!

 

[skiwee1]

So I take it no one misses the carrots and peas. When I make it myself I do use frozen peas but fresh carrots and it really tastes good. Nobody is addressing the missing fried egg though. Does anyone even see that in fried rice anymore?

 

[Crankyshank]

Most places around here serve it with rice, eggs, garlic, soy sauce and whatever you want to add to it. I usually get egg and pork fried rice.
when I see peas and carrots in my fried rice, I always think of fast food Chinese icky places in the mall.

 

[mommytotwo]

Originally posted by skiwee1
Nobody is addressing the missing fried egg though. Does anyone even see that in fried rice anymore?

I do notice the egg in fried rice at times, but mostly only when you order it off a menu and sit down and eat. Usually when we get it from the take out line, there is no egg.

 

[browneyes]

It's not just in your area. I wonder why they're skimping?

 

[Beanie]

I work in a Chinese Restaurant and all our Rice Dishes have egg in them. The only rice that has peas and carrots is Veggie fried rice and House Fried Rice.

 

[Aimeedyan]

I hate the peas and carrots in it... seems, I dont know, Americanized to me... not authentic.... and I usually only find it that way at the chinese joint in the mall, not the nicer ones. I pick them out and it's a pain, plus, theres very little rice left when you take it all out =)

I have been pleased with my fried rice lately... no veggies to stretch it, and eggs to boot =)

hope you can find some that you like soon!

 

[Octoberbeauty]

(Said in my best Joey voice) Ummm, Fried Rice.....Good!

Lol I LOVE Fried Rice esp Pork Fried Rice!! Can eat a whole box myself. Ours still have the peas and carrots, but I pick around those anyway. Now, I'm in the mood for Chinese.....

Sherry

 

[Christine]

I lived in Japan for 4 years and the fried rice was out of this world delicious!!!! I can hardly eat it here but have tried on occasion.

When we order from one of the Chinese fast food places I find it to be barely edible--as you described. I mean, why bother.

There are no good sit-down Chinese restaurants here (only buffets now) so I don't even go--can't tell you how their fried rice is.

The mall shops and my Chinese *deli* in my building seem to do a fairly good job on fried rice. They've got everything in there that should be and it seems fresh.

A friend of mine has a theory about all the little pop-up Chinese fast food places. He thinks there is a big factory somewhere that makes all the Chinese food for these places, freezes it, and ships it out. He just wonders how a little place like those can whip up a somewhat obscure dish in less than 8 minutes when they have over 200 items on the menu?? Maybe his theory is right which is why you are noticing an across-the-board decline in the fried rice (which sounds very much like the fried rice I'm eating in Virginia!!).

 

[Dizzy-Disney4]

Peas and carrots in fried rice? I dont think I have ever had them in my rice...except maybe for the one time we ate it while we were in Mississippi. I have had chinese in many different areas of the country and they are ALL different. Here, almost of the fried rice I have eaten usually has onions, some type of meat (unless its veggie), bean sprouts(my favorite), and fried egg. Once or twice I have had water chestnuts in it...at least thats what I think they were...lol. Now I want Chinese. What is it with chinese food anyways, you get it in your head and cant stop wanting it until you get it????

 

[Saffron]

The restaurant we buy our Chinese from (it is soooo good! ) uses strips of carrots, whole mushrooms, baby corn, pea pods, onion, garlic, soy sauce and eggs in theirs (vegetable fried rice), but I never order fried rice anymore. While the vegies are good, the rice itself seems to be extra greasy/oily. Ewww. I just stick with the plain brown rice anymore. And crab wonton, gotta have that!

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

I haven't had fried rice with fried eggs and bamboo shoots in years. It was really good that way.

 

[mommytotwo]

Christine, I know what you mean about rice in Japan, even for the Chinese fried rice. I prefer stickier white rice instead of the type that you can pick out each grain.