Comments on: Daing Fried Rice / Stir-Fried Rice With Dried Grouper

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:09:08 +0000

My partner, He’s British, he hates the smell of tuyo being cooked, so we only do it when he’s out of the house, but I mean even the maids doesn’t like the smell of Kippers, it’s too fishy…..

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:17:42 +0000

denise: that is why the raw burger mounds are called patties… from patis.

By: denise

denise — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:41:32 +0000

bettyq…my dad is from malabon so we put patis on everything! and yes it is good with burger patties!

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:59:06 +0000

@BettyQ, i will try that patis on burger patties. I soooooo soooo loved Tropical Hut hamburgers back then. I remember saving my school allowance just to get a taste of their hamburgers once a week. I still miss it, since i haven’t had it in ages.

By: Cristina Gray

Cristina Gray — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:25:40 +0000

Yum! Uncommon subject. Not too many food articles/shows that I know of focus on fried rice as the subject. Much less fried rice with daing. Good one!

By: sha

sha — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:12:33 +0000

yummy… dont have my own kitchen again, darn. Anyway on my transit at Heathrow Termina 5 I took the comfort of having kedgeree for breakfast. That was the closest I could have to Fried Rice.

By: Hershey

Hershey — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:57:02 +0000

Looks like your wok is starting to have its nice patina MM :D

By: senn

senn — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:29:21 +0000

Hmmm. I’m lucky in this respect. My Caucasian husband and 16 year old daughter love buwad. True, they don’t like the smell when I’m cooking buwad, but when it’s done…boy, how they could eat them dunked in Data Puti vinegar paired with garlic fried rice, but then my husband is an adventurous eater.

By: linda

linda — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:47:23 +0000

I always order this dish everytime I go to this Malaysian/Chinese resto and it’s exactly like yours with the inclusion of shredded iceberg lettuce and beansprouts.Yummy!

By: betty q.

betty q. — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:16:55 +0000

MM and Mila: you know what else is REALlY, REALLY GOOD?? …flame broiled hamburgers made with PATIS! (which I think is one of the secret ingredients to Vera’s or In N Out Burgers). Eons ago, we lived close to Tropical Hut. So, that is the hamburger I grew up with and replicated here at home for several decades and also became household hamburgers that I fed my boys and their friends for several years. Vera’s burger went into town and the boys then turned their noses to Tropical Hut haMBURGERS. I have eaten quite a bit of Vera’s burgers now that I think there is Patis or something closely related to Patis.

My Vietnamese friend who owns a restaurant shared this ingredient with me. She told me to use Maggi seasoning in the Vietnamese sandwiches and Patis in hamburgers. Once in a while, the boys will have a hankering for Tropical Hut hamburgers but Patis Hamburgers is the hamburger of choice now! Little do they know, that what I did was just omit the salt in the Tropical Hut ones and replace it with PATIS!