Three More “Over Rice“ Recipes (下饭菜)

Xia fan cai, or “over rice“ dishes! These don’t necessarily have to be smothered over rice, per se - you can also eat them mixed in with the rice, or eaten alongside of rice. TEOCHEW FERMENTED OLIVE GREENS (橄榄菜) These are available on Amazon, but as is the case with this sort of thing... it’s *way* overpriced. Support your local Chinese/Asian supermarket, they’ll be much cheaper: 香港蓬盛橄欖菜/dp/B0088LLRI2 Now, the way to eat this is to sort of mix it into the rice as you go. Having a big ol spoonful of them would be a bit too salty. If you’re using this as your ’over rice’ component, definitely steam an egg alongside your rice and *definitely* make yourself some greens. STEAMED EGG WITH PORK TOPPING (臊子蒸蛋) NOTE: We use pork belly, and mince it by hand. For this dish, you can also use ground pork or ground beef - same 100g quantity - something like 80/20 pack of it. When frying, it’s not going to release