What ingredients are in the basic fried rice from those US-based Japanese take-out restaurants?

Question

I love making Asian fried rice and chicken dishes, but my attempts at Japanese fried rice and teryaki/hibachi chicken/steak/shrimp are definitely missing at least one important ingredient I just can't figure out. I've tried combinations of salt, white pepper, plum wine, soy sauce, oyster sauce, but I never get it right. I know this isn't "true" Japanese cuisine, but I gotta know either: What are all the ingredients in this recipe (the one with rice, egg, corn, carrots and peas)?. Bonus points if you know of a recipe including any of those ingredients I'm missing.

Answer 1

My mom makes fried rice with rice, eggs, peas, a small amount of garlic, and soy sauce. Other vegetables can be added too. Fry the rice in a wok, mixing in the garlic and soy sauce until the rice is a light brown. At the same time, scramble some eggs and mix those and the vegetables in with the rice. Takes maybe 30 minutes to throw together.

Answer 2

You're pretty close. When I make fried rice - here's my recipe. I'm guessing at amounts because just eye-ball it. Boil and set aside 3 cups of white rice. Chop up 1 white onion and place in a micro-waveable bowl. Add 1 bag of frozen peas to onions and microwave until onions are see-through, it's about 3 minutes in mine. Chop up 1 cup of ham or cooked bacon - set aside. Scramble 6 eggs - set aside. In a wok or large frying pan, add 2 T vegetable oil and 1T sesame oil (adds a lot of flavor - maybe your missing ingredient!) and get the pan hot on med-hi heat. Add rice and stir until warm. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir fry for a few minutes. Add about 1/4 cup of soy sauce, adding more until it tastes right. I don't add any salt or pepper to my recipe, it doesn't seem to need it. You can also add carrots and corn of you like. Good luck!

Answer 3

Keep it simple- make sure rice is a day old for the perfect texture. saute veggies, meats and eggs then add rice. season with soy sauce and garlic salt. absolutely perfect outcome everytime

Answer 4

When I ate there recently, he used butter to sautee and added rice, onion, peas, carrots, egg, soy sauce, and teryaki sauce

Answer 5

wel mai da great fried rice it is usaully, mostly simple he put in tis asian sausage, egg, pork some vegatable... very important garlic make your rice has a nice aroma too....and well pepper and fish sauce OR soysauce.... that it usally but spices don't put anyhting else beside salt, and stuff like fish sauce adn soysauce pepper to ! good luck