NEVER Pour Soy Sauce on Fried Rice Again! Try These Old Chinese Tricks

🥢 Everything my mother taught me about cooking for one, I wrote down for you. 📘 CHINESE COOKING FOR ONE - get it here: https://cookwithmeilin.com You pour soy sauce over your leftover rice the way the takeout does it, and it comes out wet in the middle, brown in patches, salty in one bite and bland in the next. It is not your stove and it is not your pan. It is where the soy sauce goes. My name is Mei Lin. I grew up in Guangzhou in the south of China, where my mother made fried rice with one thin circle of soy sauce poured around the hot edge of the wok, never on the rice. In this video I share twelve old Chinese tricks that turn one bowl of leftover rice and one egg into a restaurant dinner for one. In this video: Why soy sauce poured on the rice makes it soggy, and the hot pan trick that makes it taste stronger with less Light vs dark soy sauce, and why "light" does not mean low salt How to dry fresh rice in 30 minutes when you forgot to make it yesterday Why one portion in a home pan beats a restaurant burner The egg trick that keeps it soft, yellow and sweet, plus golden fried rice Stop stirring: the press and wait method for toasty grains Salt and white pepper first, soy sauce for perfume Chinese sausage and egg fried rice for about $1.50 Lettuce and beef fried rice from the Cantonese restaurant menu My mother's soy sauce rice with no frying at all The five ways fried rice goes wrong, and how to fix every one Soy sauce king fried rice, the most famous Cantonese fried rice of all No wok, no special stove and no recipe card. Just one bowl of yesterday's rice, one egg and a ten-inch frying pan. Put cooked rice in the refrigerator within one hour, use it by the next day, fry it until it is steaming hot all the way through, and only heat it once. Be honest: do you pour soy sauce right over your fried rice? And what did your mother or grandmother put in her fried rice? Tell me the dish and tell me who made it. I go through every single comment. Chapters: 0:00 The day I poured too much soy sauce 2:38 Number 12: Pour soy sauce on the pan, never on the rice 4:03 The book I put all of this in 4:19 Number 11: Yesterday's rice, or rice you dry on purpose 5:31 Number 10: Break the clumps first 6:02 Number 9: One portion at a time 7:43 Number 8: Heat the pan before the oil 8:31 Number 7: Cook the egg first 10:12 Number 6: Stop stirring 10:57 Number 5: Salt and white pepper first 12:28 Number 4: Chinese sausage and egg fried rice 13:26 Number 3: Lettuce and beef fried rice 15:37 Number 2: My mother's soy sauce rice 17:14 Five ways fried rice goes wrong, and how to fix them 18:13 Number 1: Soy sauce king fried rice 20:24 All twelve tricks in one breath Watch more: 10 Cheap Chinese 10-Minute Soups for Seniors Living Alone    • 10 Cheap Chinese 10-Minute Soups for Senio...   Most People Waste Their Rice Cooker! Try These Chinese One-Pot Dinners    • Most People Waste Their Rice Cooker! Try T...   10 Cheap Chinese 10-Minute Noodle Soups for Seniors Living Alone    • 10 Cheap Chinese 10-Minute Noodle Soups fo...