home-cooked vegetable rice

i have been having vegetable rice for breakfast for the past two days. i cooked the vegetable rice on friday but did not have it for dinner. your mother, who was famished by the time she got home from work, had it for dinner instead. her complaint: it was too soggy.

must admit it was soggy. i had added more than the regulated amount of water. i had intended to drain off the excess water when the rice became tender. but, by the time the rice reached that stage, all the water had been absorbed by it.

i first cooked the rice in a pot. when it became fluffy, i stopped the cooking. i fried the ingredients to go into the rice. started with the ginger bits, then added in the bits of meat and the dried shrimps. after that, threw in the shredded carrot and vegetables (peh chye). of course, i used oyster sauce to add flavour to the ingredients.

when all the ingredients in the kwaili had been cooked, i threw in the fluffy rice and mixed everything up.