I'm Awake : Let's Make Pineapple Fried Rice

I have been craving for a good plate of Pineapple Fried Rice for so long...  The best one can be found in Sungai Petani  (my hometown)  at De Sabai Restaurant,  somewhere in Taman Zamrud Industrial Park,  although I am not sure if it's still in business or not...  Last time I was there,  I was 20-ish and very desirable...  Hahaha...

Personally,  a good plate of Pineapple Fried Rice should taste of dried shrimp,  sweet from the pineapple,  the sourness of the raisins and Sambal belacan.  The sausage should be crispy.

I am salivating!

I have been putting off making this because I usually forgot to buy the ingredients...  

Normally I would go shopping and buy canned pineapple and forgot to buy cashew and I would eat the canned pineapple and go out and buy the cashew and forgot that I ate the pineapple and am out of dried shrimp and my sausages gone bad in the fridge...

Today I bought the most expensive cashew nut ever.  The price was rm12.70 and I gave the cashier girl rm23.00 and she gave me 30 sen... And I didn't notice until I was back at home...  Bloody brilliant! 

Anyway...  I won't be poor with the rm10 and she will not be rich from the rm10...

So let's make Pineapple Fried Rice.

Ingredients :

1 cup cooked rice (cooled,  preferably overnight,  kitchen tip #1 : for good dark fried rice, mix rice with 1 tbsp thick black soya sauce)

1 garlic (chopped)
1 tbsp dried shrimp
2-3 tbsp cashew nut
1 sausage
1 fishcake (kitchen tip #2: instead of slicing the cakes as we normally do,  try slanting your knife at 45° angle and thinly slice them)
4 fish ball
1 serving of white cabbage
1 tbsp raisin
3 tbsp canned pineapple cubes with syrup

1 tbsp fish sauce
1tbsp oyster sauce
Pepper

1 tbsp oil

Optional:
Chicken meat, squid,  shelled prawn, mushroom 

Method:

Heat oil.  Fry garlic,  dried shrimp &  cashew nut, remove.  Fry sausage,  fishcake,  fishball,  remove.

Add rice to wok.  Add fish sauce and oyster sauce.  Fry till done.  Add pineapple,  cook till pineapple turn transparent(ish).

Add cabbage and everything else.

Salt and pepper to taste.

Serve with lettuce,  tomato,  cucumber and Sambal belacan.

Kitchen tip #3: to keep from everything other than rice turning brown (example- prawn,  Chicken meat,  fishball, fishcake)  add thick soya sauce to rice and fry everything else separately. 

Kitchen tip #4: soak dried raisins in cold water to rehydrate them. 

Kitchen tip #5: frying everything else and using the same oil to fry rice will incorporate the flavor into rice. 

Kitchen tip #6: adding garlic and dried shrimp to oil before turning on the heat will bring out stronger aroma.