Mine is pretty similar but I add green onions to it as well.

Ditto bifenton

Texas_Gem - is your husband willing to share his recipe for orange chicken? TIA!

Sounds yummy!

I love the way the chinese restaurants here do the veggie stir frys.

Always loads of veggies done just right and a more than delicious "sauce" of sorts...anyone have any idea how they get it this way?

When I make fried rice I always add and egg, peas, carrots, onions, and either teriyaki or soy sauce. If I am in the mood to have fried rice for breakfast I will just add some sausage

It takes more than just soy sauce to make that sauce ont_gal. It needs more like: loads of five spice, oyster sauce, ginger, mustard, a bit of molasses or honey, corn starch, sake, a bit of sesame oil...

We love orange chicken. Recipe please?

Umm yes recipe for that sauce, and orange chicken please. Texas Gem, the fried rice sounds delicious! My daughter taught me to add dice potato to fried rice. Seems odd to add another starch when the dish is based on rice, but it's good.

Love fried rice. Glad you posted the recipe, Texas Gem, because it reminded me I have some rice in the refrigerator that needs to be fried.

Thank you, Texas_Gem! I don't usually have rice chilled and ready to go so I just cook it and let it cool. I use the same ingredients but somehow I know yours tastes better. :) Maybe I'll give it a go, properly.

As to taste, I'm thinking a lot of restaurant still use msg.

Just a guess, but wouldn't fresh rice stick to the pan pretty easily when frying since it's full of moisture? I imagine it needs to be dried overnight to actually fry.

I make fried rice similar, except I leave out the egg. I know a scrambled type egg is traditional, but I don't eat eggs usually. I put bean sprouts in mine. I like baby corn too. Does anyone know if you can buy frozen baby corn? I know you can get it in a can.

After the rice is cooked and cooled, I use a coated teflon-type pan so I don't have to use too much oil. The rice doesn't stick. However, I think it would taste better if I made it like Texas's dh.

thanks Rob-and yes Marilyn,at least up here you can get baby corn frozen.

I do my fried rice pretty much the same. I use Jasmine Rice, cooked and chilled. like green onion, peas and either crab, shrimp, pork or chicken, depending on what I'm serving it with.

Growing up in an authentically Cantonese family, we had fried rice every weekend for lunch (mostly as a budget stretcher to use up any mid-week leftover meats -- usually char siu pork strips -- and as a quick, hot meal). My mom's tried-and-true recipe is very different from the ones referenced above, but everyone craves her scrambled-egg fried rice (shrimp, if we have fresh on hand).

Scramble eggs in a bowl, and add salt and lite soy. Cook in pan w/ splash of olive oil; set aside. Heat more olive oil in a pan, and saute 3 cloves smashed garlic until just starting to color (yes, this is a garlic-y recipe!). Add cooked rice (overnight, reheated in a microwave; or freshly cooked & cooled); saute. Season with salt and soy. Turn off heat. Add cooked eggs and fresh, chopped green onions. The residual heat of the cooked rice will just remove enough of the rawness of the green onions, while still allowing the flavor to come through. That's it. Amazing. I'm sure the keys to this recipe are the soy sauce eggs (it sounds weird, but don't judge until you've tried it!) and garlic flavored oil.

Growing up, we never knew anyone who added peas or carrots to their fried rice. We noticed the addition only in restaurants. Funny thing is, my mom thought all this time, she'd been doing it wrong, and she started adding the peas/carrots in later years. I'll add peas once in a while if I'm feeling guilty about not getting enough veggies in my diet.

javiwa, It's not weird at all. My basic stir fry sauce is 1 part soy, 1 part molasses, grate in a lot of ginger, small amount of ground mustard, and... an egg. At least. Maybe more. At least, I don't find it weird at all. And, fried rice, is my "veggie vehicle". No faster way to get me to eat them than to put them with a tasty sauce, rice, and a protein of some sort.

I forgot about the garlic I put in as well. To me, it totally makes the rice delish!