Today’s Simple Lunch & Dinner – Yam Rice
A Note to Myself: Cook the yam rice ingredients and brown rice in another pot before pouring them into the rice cooker!
My rice was uncooked just now because I stirred the brown rice and ingredients in the rice cooker. As I opened the rice cooker a few times to see and stir, the rice cooker went into ‘Keep Warm’ status. The ‘Cooking’ button just kept popping to ‘Keep Warm’?!
So how? Since all the ingredients had already been cooked and the rice was the only problem, I scooped the yam rice including the ingredients out of the rice cooker and heat it in the steamer for 20 minutes.
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Thank God. My yam rice rice was totally cooked and it tasted yummy. The big pot of yam rice is for today’s lunch and dinner!
This is my first time cooking yam rice, so follow at your own risk. 
So long as it’s delicious, it doesn’t matter how you cook it, right? Here is my Yam Rice recipe that uses the rice cooker only.
It’s a long story if you want to know why I only use rice cooker, steamer or/and slow cooker for cooking. Stove, gas burner, microwave, multi-purpose cooker??
Ingredients:
2 palm-sized yams, cut into big chunks
1 chicken breast, skinned and cut into chunks, marinated with oyster sauce and soy sauce
1 bunch of Gai Choi aka Chinese mustards, remove stems from core, wash well and cut into 1.5 lengths
50g dried shrimps, soaked in water for 5 minutes
50g dried oysters, soaked in water for 5 minutes
Water for boiling
3 2 measure cups of brown rice (3 measure cups of rice was too much for two of us for two meals. We were not able to finish the yam rice.)
Instructions:
1. Place the water, yams, dried shrimps and dried oysters into a cooking pot. Bring to boil.
2. Add the marinated chicken, brown rice and Gai Choi into the cooking pot and stir well whilst adding oyster sauce and soy sauce.
3. Once everything is evenly coated with seasoning, pour the whole pot into the rice cooker.
4. Add more water to cover rice mixture completely with about 1 cm above the surface of the rice. Switch on the rice cooker and let the yam rice fully cooked. Do Not Open the Rice Cooker Cover and Stir the Yam Rice!!!
If you open the rice cooker to see and stir, the rice cooker will go into ‘Keep Warm’ status like it happened to me today.
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well chopsticks are used all across east asia yes everyone still uses them with all meals but people do sometimes use spoons etc for desserts and such.. unless you’re in a resteraunt no you don’t just throw them out
I don’t know but I don’t think they would use chopsticks to eat soup.
Yeah they use chopsticks everywhere but spoons, forks, and knives can be requested.
Yeah, most meals they use chop sticks, with exception to soup obviously.
It depends, metal, plastic, or nice wood ones are washed and reused. Crappy wooden chopsticks that can split are thrown out after each use.
as for the dessert thing, most chinese deserts are either some form of dessert congee or porridge, or more solid desserts like brownies that you eat with your hands.
They use it with the Asian food! Like rice, noodles, sushi, dim sum, ramen, and meat !! But not with their soup
The only thing I have not seen them used for is soup, I have seen them sip from the bowl instead of using a spoon. Going to chinese resturants I have noticed that if employees are eating, they do not eat the same thing that is on the buffet, and the dishes that they use are much smaller then the ones we would use. It’s kids of scary that they don’t eat what they put out for others to eat
NO! They also have plasticware, silverware & sporks, too!!!
wooden or bamboo chopsticks should be used once and thrown out!
There are also plastic, porcelain, or even expensive gold plated, ivory or jade chopsticks!
No, they don’t use chopsticks with every meal; usually only to eat rice dishes. They wouldn’t use chopsticks to eat dessert or mantou (a popular breakfast bread). They use forks and spoons as well. For example, depending on where in China, some use porcelain spoons to drink soup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup_spoon
No. They eat soup with spoons.
It depends on what they are eating. The wooden chopsticks from takeouts are like the plastic spoons and forks. They are thrown out after used. Bamboo ones are re-used after meals like metal forks. We even sometimes use them for cooking.