Traditional Rice Dishes

Today, my mother prepared yet another two of her speciality dishes - Yam Rice and Ma You Fan. She woke up early in the morning to start preparing the rice dishes.

For the Ma You Fan, she first sauteed each of the ingredients separately - the dried shrimps, pork slices, sliced dried mushroom and uncooked rice (washed). She then stir-fried all the ingredients together before putting the Ma You Fan into the bamboo steamer to steam. While the Ma You Fan was steaming, she suateed a separate set of dried shrimps, pork slices and sliced dried mushroom together to be used as extra garnish for the Ma You Fan.


For the Yam Rice, she decided to make it vegetarian for a vegetarian family friend who was going to visit us. First, she cut up the yam into little tiny cubes and gently fried them so that they would not break up when in the rice cooker. She also sliced up mock ham and dried mushroom for the yam rice. With seasoning, she put the fried yam pieces, sliced dried mushroom, sliced mock ham and the rice into the cooker to be cooked. For garnish, she deep-fried the finely sliced tao pok which would be put on top of the yam rice.


A good friend got to try these rice dishes. When asked if I could cook them, hmmm.. Well, in theory, I know the procedures and such but in practical, I have not tried cooking them myself. Maybe one of these days, I will try, yar? Lol.