Type | Fried rice |
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Place of origin | China |
Region or state | Greater China |
Main ingredients | Cooked rice |
Variations | Hokkien fried rice, Yangzhou fried rice, yin yang fried rice |
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Traditional Chinese | 炒飯 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 炒饭 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | fried rice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chinese fried rice (simplified Chinese: 炒饭; traditional Chinese: 炒飯; pinyin: chǎofàn; Jyutping: caau2 faan6; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhá-pn̄g; Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄔㄠˇ ㄈㄢˋ) is a family of fried rice dishes popular in Greater China and around the world. It is sometimes served as the penultimate dish in Chinese banquets, [1] [2] just before dessert.