Mom's Kitchen: Easy Lo Mai Fan (Chinese Sticky Rice)

As mentioned before, I'm trying to learn how to cook my favorite childhood meals from my amazing mother.  Today, I'll be sharing Mom's Lo Mai Fan (Chinese Sticky Rice).

Mom's Lo Mai Fan 

Per Mom, there are 2 main ways you can cook this.  1.) Toss raw rice into a wok and stir constantly until cooked or 2.) Soak rice overnight prior to cooking.  Mom, always looking for ways to simplify things, does it a 3rd (fast and easy) way - cooking the rice in a rice cooker before stir frying it with other ingredients.  This may sound obvious, but sticky rice is strangely temperamental.  Cooking it on its own usually results in either a goopy mess or partially raw rice.  The trick is to mix regular rice along with it to get the perfect level of "doneness."

Prep Time: 40 minutes 

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Due to the number of pictures, please see rest of the recipe after the jump.

Beautiful Sights from Big Island, Hawaii

We went to the Big Island last week for our family vacation and saw some amazing views - the most beautiful I've seen in real life.  If you'll indulge me, I'd like to share some snaps with you :)

The beach outside our hotel in Kona

Kahalu'u Beach - best snorkeling!  Shallow, clear waters with so many fish!  Will talk more about this in a future post.

Punalu'u Black Sand Beach

Looks so beautiful with the contrast of the blue sky and lush, green plant life

Scenic view along the Kona coast

Turquoise Waters of Kua Beach

Akaka Falls

Waipio Valley Lookout - the most breathtaking view of the trip

And the most important?  Happy babies :)

All photos unedited (I'm lazy) - everything was gorgeous.  Thanks for letting me share and hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!