Thai Railway Fried Rice 🇹🇭

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Today I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish which is the oldest Thai fried rice since King Rama IV era over a century ago and still eat until nowadays and its call Railway Fried Rice or Khao Phat Rod-Fai. 😍

🇹🇭 Khao means Rice while Phat is to Stirred and Rod-Fai refers to Train. 🚂

🇹🇭 Since The first railway line was built in Thailand and there are the passengers seeking for ready food to eat then vendors invented Fried rice with meat was wrapped with banana leaf and tied up with Water Hyacinth rope and offers the fried rice to hungry passengers via the window when the train was stop at the station.

Railway fried rice prepared with Thai jasmine rice and contained with pork or shrimp, egg, onions, garlic, tomatoes, Chinese broccoli and seasoning with dark soy sauce are stirred fried together over high heat. Then served with cucumber slices, lime, spring green onion and Thai chili fish sauce dip.

The characteristic of Railway Fried Rice is the dark soy sauce and some version using the ketchup or fermented bean curd as well which'll give the pink color to railway fried rice instead of dark color. 😄

Thai railway fried rice is incredibly easy and quick to make so let's see the ingredients!

1 Cup Steam Jasmin Rice
10 Shrimp
10 Thai garlic with skin
1 Cup Chinese Broccoli
1 Tomato
1/4 Onion
3 Spring Green Onion
1 Teaspoon Soy Sauce
1 Teaspoon Seasoning Soy Sauce
1 Tablespoon Dark Soy Sauce
1 Teaspoon Sugar
1 Tablespoon Vegetable Oil
1 Egg
Cucumber Slices and Lime slice
Chili, Garlic and Fish Sauce for Dip Sauce

Let’s get cooking!

Prepare the veggie first

Sliced the onion, spring green onion and tomato.

Here the veggie ready!

Slices the Chinses broccoli leaf into small pieces.
Peel the skin from the stem and sliced into small pieces.

The Chinses Broccoli Finished

Let's prepare the Chili Garlic Fish Sauce Dip

Sliced the garlic and chili.

Chili Garlic Fish Sauce Dip Done

Time to prepare the Shrimp.

Cut the edge of shrimp's head and peel skin away. Then cut through the back and pull the black vein away.

Here the Shrimp.

Let's stirred fried

Smash the garlic with skin because of the skin will give more fragrance smell.

Smash garlic ready!

Pour the oil into the wok over high heat and whisk it quick until cooked and set aside.

Fried Shrimp Done!

Bring out the steam jasmine rice!

Crack an egg

Pour the oil into the hot wok and drop the garlic and stirred it until golden yellow and drop the egg and fried it until cook for both sides.
Drop the rice and the stem of Chinese broccoli into the wok over high heat.