Cooking: Lo Mai Fan

This is another one of the classic comfort food dishes I grew up on. It’s glutinous (aka sticky rice), stir fried with aromatic ingredients like dried shitake mushrooms, dried shrimp, chinese sausage, and scallions. It makes for a satisfying savory rice dish.

ingredients

  • 2-3 rehydrated shitake mushrooms, diced fine
  • 1/4 c rehydrated dried shrimp
  • 1/2 c diced white/yellow onions
  • 1/4 c scallions diced
  • 1/4 c chinese sausage diced
  • 1tsp dark soy
  • 1 tsp light soy
  • 1 c (uncooked) glutinous rice
  • cilantro garnish
  • dash white pepper

cook glutinous rice in a rice cooker (or stove top if you don’t have a rice cooker), using the conventional method (I’m going to assume you know how to cook rice).

stir fry the diced onions and the dried shrimp

add the chinese sausage, the diced shitake mushrooms

mince the scallions and cilantro finely and prepare the sauce by combining the light soy, dark soy, and white pepper

turn the wok heat to medium-low, and add the rice to the wok, and combine with the previously stir fried ingredients

add the sauce, stir to combine, then add the chopped scallions and cilantro, and stir to combine

and serve.

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