Andy said this is the Chinese fried rice his mom would always make, and the star of the show is Chinese sausage and we also ...

Think of this fried rice recipe as a template, not a dictum. If you don’t have beef jerky on hand, use leftover short ribs or spareribs, try some Chinese sausage, or skip the meat altogether.

For a quick meal, you can skip the pan-frying step - serve the rice after ... mixture is pan-fried, to give it a brown, crunchy crust. This dish uses lap cheung (wind-dried sausage), yuen cheung ...

You don’t want to pause in the middle of cooking to cut Chinese sausage or defrost peas. If you do, you will lose heat and end up with a sticky fried rice rather than a nice fluffy one.