Chuka don (Chinese rice bowl)

Ingredients:

1 small carrot

4 pieces of green beans

5 leaves or more of lettuce

1/4 cup of dried fungi ($0.95 at TSM mart)

1 onion

7-8 oz shredded turkey

2 tbsp of oyster sauce

1 tsp of soy sauce

1 tbsp of sesame oil for frying, 1 tsp of sesame oil to sprinkle

1 1/2 cups of water

2 tbsp of corn starch and 2 tbsp of water (mix)

black pepper

2 cups of rice

Preparation:

- Hydrate the dried fungi in a bowl of luke warm water for 30 min. then wring them.

- Cut all the vegetables in the similar sizes so that they'll be cooked evenly.

Direction:

1. Stirfry all the vegetables and meat with 2 tbsp of sesame oil.

2. Add oyster sauce, soy sauce, and pepper, to a little stronger taste than you think good enough, then add 1 1/2 cups of water.

3. Let it boil, then add the mixture of corn starch and water while stirring the stirfried food. Make sure corn starch is well dissolved.

4. Stop the heat, and sprinkle 1 tsp of sesame oil for the aroma.

5. Serve it on the bed of rice, and enjoy!

*Serves 3 people

Note:

- "Chuka" means Chinese and "don" means rice bowl in Japanese. We normally serve this food in a big bowl with rice on the bottom and stirfried thing on top of that rice. Don't ask me why it's called Chinese rice bowl in Japan!

- For the lettuce, I just used the leftover vegetable, so any leafy veggie is fine. Ideally, cabbage or Chinese cabbage since I want to save the lettuce for the fresh salad. Use it a lot since they lose the volume easily with the heat which means you can consume a lot of vegetables.

- For the meat, again, I used the leftover turkey meat, but I normally prefer using pork. Slices of chicken or beef are good alternatives too. Can be strips of bacon or lunch meat too. Baically, any meat is great, seafood is even better.

- You can add any other vegetables or eggs. I usually try to make it colorful.

- You'll add the water to make it thick with cornstarch, so you can put a little more spice/sauce than you think enough - the water and the corn starch dilute the whole thing eventually.