Chap Ba Rang Fried Rice

Chap Ba Rang Fried Rice

Few days ago, Mdm Chong called me with an impatient voice complaining that she had not been seeing me and brother came home for family dinners over the past two weeks ( Mdm Chong, we wanted to tell you is not we do not want to spend quality time with you all but we just can’t afford to do that -- time kills us, not we kill time). Perhaps, the neglect of sitting down and having family dinner together seems to be a norm nowadays for teens and working adults who pretty much engage in solo or one-to-one activities like us. Even we manage to squeeze out certain times for a family dinner, it would be just another quick and no conversation so called “family’s time”.

Thus, this blog serves another important meaning to me is I promise to Mdm Chong no matter how busy I am now or in the future, I will make myself at least 3 to 4 days sit down and spend quality dinner time with you all.

Okay, enough for today’s short talk and back to blog title - Chap Ba Rang fried rice. This is one of Mdm Chong always made dishes whenever there is leftover cooked rice. We all named it “Chap Ba Rang”, also known as “All-in-One” fried rice because she can simply add anything in stock and turn it into a main meal to feed us.

Serving: up to 8 persons for a family of 4 (see, just too much leftover cooked rice we had)

Cooking Time: less than 10 minutes

Ingredients

- Leftover cooked rice


- Unfrozen mixed sausages and cut into small chunks, amount as desired


- 1-2 medium yellow onions, thinly sliced

- 6-8 cloves Garlic, chopped finely

- Pre-soaked dried shrimps, approximately ½ small bowl

- 1 teaspoon of salt

Mdm Chong’s Cooking Methods

1. Heat the cooking oil over high heat.

2. Add the pre-soaked dried shrimps and quick fry until they turn into golden colour. Scoop them out and keep aside for cooking later. This is to keep the crispiness of deep fried dried shrimps.

3. Reduce the heat to medium and add the mixed sausages, yellow onions and garlic into the wok and stir constantly until they all well cooked.

4. Pour cooked rice into the mixture in Step 3. Stir constantly until the rice is heated and the grain of rice are separated and mixed evenly with the mixture. Add in the deep fried dried shrimps and mix well.

5. Season with salt.

Chap Ba Rang fried rice is now ready to serve!