Ginger rice with egg

The man shouldn't be eating confinement food because it is way too heaty for us to handle. In fact, even a woman in confinement should not be eating heaty versions every meal. Else she will get sick due to imbalance of the qi in her body in no time. So it's good to space them out, filling them with simple food like porridge or soup in between.

I'll recommend any hapless confinement men to keep things simple so here is one dish we can do in a hurry. It will be handy if you have rice already cooked in the rice cooker or thermal pot. If so, this can be done within minutes for your hungry wife.

This makes one bowl of rice, because that's all you need.

1 egg
50g of ginger, minced
A bowl of cooked rice
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
2 tablespoon sesame oil

- Heat the wok on high heat with 2 tablespoon of sesame oil (more if you see fit)

- When wok is smoking very slightly, place ginger in gently. If you end up slamming your handful of ginger in, you may use the wok cover as a shield to combat boiling oil projectiles flying towards you.

- Stir around as if you know what you are doing until ginger is slightly browned or the wife exclaims, “Wow, 好香!”

- Crack the egg somewhere and add it into the wok. Chuck away the shell and return to the wok as soon as you can. You want the egg to be mixed with the rice, not end up with an out of shape omelette.

- So quickly chuck all your pre-cooked rice in there and start stirring. If you egg is unworkable by then, you need to do this more and level up.

- Sprinkle that tablespoon of light soy sauce and stir quickly but gently. You want to mix well and allow heat to evenly 'fry' the rice and not create a mashed up rice pudding.

- Do a quick taste. If it is not salty enough, add another tablespoon of light soy sauce and stir again.

- Do not spend too much time dwelling because you are on high heat right from the start. The whole process shouldn't be more than 10 minutes.

- Sorry for the blurred final picture. I was taking the pic holding the plate in my hand.

The wife gave me a 9/10 for this attempt. I knew I didn't do that well so it was kind of her. I hope your wife is as kind too.