On the eve of GE 14 today, it’s school off for Alycia and Drama Queen. Alycia gets 3 days off and Drama Queen gets 2 days off as their schools are used as polling station. Cass gets only one day on 9 May. Poor her and me. I was anticipating for an off day for Cass too so that I could sleep in for 2 days. But no such luck. I still have to wake up early tomorrow to prepare for voting, my first ever. I’m so excited! 😁 Hopefully Thursday and Friday or Monday and Tuesday next week will be declared a public holiday, as promised by the respective Parties should they win. So, who do you think will win? 😉 I can’t wait to find out!
Since I have all morning to myself today without having to do school and tuition runs, I did what I love best ~ retail therapy, all by myself. Bliss! My most favorite past time to destress is to go shopping alone with no one breathing down my neck for this and that and no one rushing me to quickly finish up and go home.
At Uniqlo, I saw this SPRZ NY top that is SUPER light and feels like I’m not wearing anything. Was tempted to get it for myself for traveling as the material drys up super fast. I thought I could share this with Alycia but after Whatsapping her the picture, to which she said “NO, I DON’T WANT IT, DON’T BUY IT!!”, I put the top back. This is not something that I would wear often. My wardrobe only has sleeveless tops and dresses 🤭 and jackets. And I added another sleeveless bra dress to my collection 👗
Back home, Drama Queen made two batches of pancakes. The first batch was a flop. She tried to be creative and made blue pancakes using blue pea flower tea and wholemeal flour but the batter churned out starchy pancakes. The second batch was cooked to a tee ~ fluffy, pillowy and soft.
For dinner, I cooked Chinese Egg Fried Rice / Golden Fried Rice. This is by far the most perfect Chinese fried rice that I’ve dished up! In future, I’ll stick with this recipe for the ultimate Chinese egg fried rice.
And what’s the secret?
The secret is by coating the cooked rice with egg yolk and separately frying all the ingredients.
Method:
First, separate the yolks from the whites. There are several methods of doing it. You can separate it with a spatula with drainer, by scooping the yolks up with half the cracked egg shell, sucking the yolks up with a water bottle, separating the yolks upon cracking the shell and by using your bare hands. Check out this video to see which method suits you best. Drama Queen and I prefer scooping the yolks up with the cracked egg shell.
Beat up the egg yolks and in a large bowl, mix the egg yolk with the rice evenly. Make sure that every grain of rice is coated with egg yolk. If the egg yolks are not enough, prep more. I used Basmati rice and brown rice.
Heat up wok with sesame seed oil and olive oil. Fry the rice coated with egg yolk until the rice is dried up. You will hear ‘popping’ sounds when the rice is dried up. I added a little Chinese sausage into the fried rice as it’s leftover from the previous night dinner. Season with salt and pepper and a little soy sauce if you wish but do not add too much as the soy sauce will cause the rice to be wet and the wok to turn brown/burnt. Remove the fried rice from the wok.
Next, brown the garlic and onions. Then remove from the wok.
Brown the minced pork until you hear ‘crackling’ sounds from the wok or when the minced pork is golden brown. Add in the chopped long beans and carrots and fry till cooked. Season with salt and pepper. Remove from wok.
Then fry the egg whites. As egg white tends to stick to the wok very easily, be sure to keep scraping the egg whites off the base of the wok to prevent them from getting burnt / stuck to the wok.
Finally, add in the fried rice, meat and vegetables and the chopped spring onions and stir well.
Ingredients:
1. Cooked rice. I didn’t really measure as I had some overnight cooked rice and I cooked another 1 cup of rice.
2. 6 eggs ~ yolks separated from whites (use more if necessary)
3. 1 bulb garlic
4. 2 bulbs red onion
5. Protein of your choice ~ I used organic minced pork
6. Vegetables of your choice ~ I used 1 packet organic long beans and 1 carrot
7. Chopped scallions / spring onions
8. Salt and pepper to taste. Soy sauce is optional
Instructions:
1. First, separate the yolks from the whites. There are several methods of doing it. You can separate it with a spatula with drainer, by scooping the yolks up with half the cracked egg shell, sucking the yolks up with a water bottle, separating the yolks upon cracking the shell and by using your bare hands. Check out this video to see which method suits you best. Drama Queen and I prefer scooping the yolks up with the cracked egg shell.
2. Beat up the egg yolks and in a large bowl, mix the egg yolk with the rice evenly. Make sure that every grain of rice is coated with egg yolk. If the egg yolks are not enough, prep more. I used Basmati rice and brown rice.
3. Heat up wok with sesame seed oil and olive oil. Fry the rice coated with egg yolk until the rice is dried up. You will hear ‘popping’ sounds when the rice is dried up. I added a little Chinese sausage into the fried rice as it’s leftover from the previous night dinner. Season with salt and pepper and a little soy sauce if you wish but not too much as the soy sauce will cause the rice to be wet. Remove the fried rice from the wok.
4. Next, brown the garlic and onions. Then remove from the wok.
5. Brown the minced pork until you hear ‘crackling’ sounds from the wok or when the minced pork is golden brown. Add in the chopped long beans and carrots and fry till cooked. Season with salt and pepper. Remove from wok.
6. Then fry the egg whites. As egg white tends to stick to the wok very easily, be sure to keep scraping the egg whites off the base of the wok to prevent them from getting burnt / stuck to the wok.
7. Finally, add in the fried rice, meat and vegetables and the chopped spring onions and stir well.
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