the dish is great, the recipe is just a mnemoic. watch the video.
ingredients: (just use the correct quantities for however many people you have, there is no magic going on here, i didn't measure, watch the video to get a feel for it if you're unsure)
- a bunch of rice
- minced pork
- little red chillies, chopped
- garlic, chopped
- red onion, chopped
- garlic sprouts or spring onion, the green bit is the important bit, don't throw that away, it's the best bit
- thick oyster sauce
- rice vinegar
- soy sauce
- thai fish sauce
- oil
- salt
- sugar
- msg
- thai sweet basil
- egg
- thin cucumber
- nori or sth
things to do, in order
- hot pan
- hot oil
- mince
- chopy + fry it up
- add mixed chopped garlic and red onion
- add chopped red chillis LITTLE THAI ONES
- mix & fry
- chop in some veg, garlic sprouts ideally, maybe spring onion i guess
- then goes in MYSTERIOUS SAUCE oyster sauce, thick one not the insipid thin one
- then a dash of fish sauce, a dash of soy sauce
- bit more oil; then some rice vinegar
- tip in a scoop of salt, sugar, msg (the last is important if you're not going to do it then why are you cooking this? it'll be a sad sad dish)
- slap on the rice
- then go in a bunch of thai sweet basil leaves (not stalks, wrong texture, and don't chop them neither)
- fold it over a bunch of times so it's combined
- paddle it out in a bowl in a nice dome, don't squidge it, obviously, just build it like that
- ok good? now new pan or whatever
- best w curve edges, and you gotta get that oil deep, so it should be a little pan. or you know maybe A WOK
- get it hot hot hot
- put in an egg. don't let it get attached to the bottom, move it around gently after liek 15 seconds or whatever
- scoop hot oil onto the egg while cooking, a lot, all the time
- keep it mobile
- then serve it on top of the rice!
- also go back in time and chop up some seaweed nori as a side
- slice up a cool little cucumber/gherkin to serve
