Childhood memories......

Three weeks ago, a couple of friends of mine and I went grocery shopping at T & T at WEM. We were hungry and for lunch we went to this family owned restaurant called Mooshy Mooshy. The menu is Japanese and Filipino.

I was not in the mood for Filipino so I had a bento box with California maki roll. Sheryl had an assortment of Japanese dishes. Her hubby chose to have fried rice, native sausage, tapa and fried eggs.
When his plate came, I could smell the garlic in the fried rice which is how we do fried rice in our country.

This brought back a childhood memory. When I was young kid, I hated the smell of garlic being fried and I would go to extreme measures not to smell the garlic. I could not eat this fried rice, I would rather go hungry!  As I got older, it did not bother me as much and I can eat garlic peanuts or some other dishes we have that have fried garlic as condiment.

I could not believe but I could smell that fried rice and just amazed at how I liked the smell. So the next week end, I tried to make the garlid fried rice with different meat with it. So now once a month, maybe twice, I would make garlic fried rice and here are two different versions.

Garlic fried rice with chiken wings and pickled papaya.

Garlic fried rice with chinese sausage.