the origin of fried rice with eggs

fried rice with eggs is a foreign way of eating, not invented by mainlanders. Its roots are in the western regions, that is, today's Xinjiang area. Ban Gu's Hanshu has been recorded indirectly. From the name, fried rice with eggs should also be eaten by ethnic minorities in the western regions.

This combination of meals was introduced into the mainland from Hexi Corridor, and was finally accepted by the majority of Han people. Its main contribution is that Angelica chisels through Ban Chao in the Western Regions and Zhang Qian, which manages the Western Regions. After Ban Chao returned to the mainland in his later years, he often ate alfalfa rice. Zhang Qian is also famous among courtiers for his love of this kind of Hu rice. It is said that Zhang Qian's wives and concubines are all experts in cooking alfalfa rice, and Zhang Qian is also rewarded by letting whoever cooks delicious alfalfa rice sleep with them.

There are generally two routes for fried rice with eggs to be introduced into the mainland. One route is from Hexi Corridor to the mainland, then from the north to the grassland, from the nomadic Mongols to the Manchus in the northeast, and then from the Manchus to the Han people. Therefore, fried rice with eggs is included in the standard Manchu-Chinese banquet. This way of fried rice with eggs has been changed. Eggs can be eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs or other birds' eggs. Rice can be rice, sorghum rice and corn rice, but small rice is not good because it is hard and tastes bad with eggs. Sticky rice is even worse.

The fried rice with eggs, which took the northeast route, was later loved by Manchu emperors, so the fried rice with eggs was recorded in the cookbook of the imperial kitchen. Today, we can still find written evidence in the Palace Museum in Beijing and the Palace Museum in Shenyang. When Li Yuqin, the last imperial concubine, was working in the library, she once brought fried rice with eggs to work as lunch. She also let me have a taste, and it was really delicious. She told me that the emperor Puyi loved fried rice with eggs very much, and her practice was the practice of imperial kitchens. She personally taught me how to cook fried rice with eggs. It can be said that I am now the only direct biography of the royal fried rice with eggs, which is absolutely authentic.

The other route goes south through the Hexi Corridor, stops in Nanjing, is transformed by local people, and is finally developed in Yangzhou. Therefore, Yangzhou people call their fried rice with eggs Yangzhou fried rice, and it is said that it has now become a signature diet in Yangzhou. I once deliberately ate Yangzhou fried rice in Yangzhou, but I didn't feel very ideal, lacking the unique charm and historical sense of egg fried rice.