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American fried rice

American fried rice
Alternative names	ข้าวผัดอเมริกัน
Type	Thai fried rice
Course	Rice dish
Place of origin	Thailand
Associatedcuisine	Thailand,Vietnam,Cambodia,Malaysia
Serving temperature	Hot
Main ingredients	Ketchup-fried rice,processed meat, sunny egg, raisins

American fried rice (Thai:ข้าวผัดอเมริกัน,RTGS: khao phat amerikan,pronounced[kʰâ(ː)wpʰàtʔāmēːrīkān]) is a Thaifried rice dish with "American" side ingredients likefried chicken,ham,sausages,raisins, andketchup.^[1] Other ingredients likepineapples andcroutons are optional.

The origin of American fried rice has a number of tales, anecdotes, urban legend, and related stories. Most of those stories are related to either American troops or their culture. Currently, there are three major tales and hypotheses about the origins of American fried rice:

Khun Ying Sureepan Maneewat, the wife ofChao Krung newspaper's pioneer editorVilas Maneewat [th], claimed to the Sakul Thai magazine that she created American fried rice circa 1950. She was a manager of Ratchathani Restaurant, the restaurant ofDon Mueang Airport which cooked meals for several airlines. One day, an airline cancelled a flight, leaving her loads of prepared American breakfast; sunny eggs, sausages and hams. Sureepan decided to cook the American breakfast ingredients with the leftover fried rice, hence the name "American fried rice". The proteins varied day-to-day, depending on which "American breakfast" was left on the day, from sausages and hams to baked chicken.^[2]

Some believe that the American fried rice was created by a Thai-Chinese chef, "Go Jek", during theVietnam War era^[1] to serve toUnited States Marine Corps andUnited States Air Force personnel stationed inKorat andUdon Thani, Thailand, it was not generally found in Thai restaurants outside Thailand, but with the proliferation of Thai restaurants in the United States, American fried rice is now appearing on Thai restaurant menus there.^{[citation needed]}

This hypothesis is based on deconstructing the composition of the dish, combined with tracing the cooking techniques used in the American fried rice in order to trace the cooking lineage of this dish in the United States (Chuenwattana 2020).

All of the cooking techniques and ingredients using in the American Fried Rice are similar to the dish called "Mexican rice" in Southern United States or Cajun'sdirty rice in Louisiana, Mexican rice cooked or fried rice grains with tomatoes or ketchup. Mexican rice often served with variety of dishes (e.g. fried eggs, fried chicken, crispy bacon).

Mexican rice recipe for the first time appeared on a daily menu recipe in the Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser on June 2nd, 1910. According to this recipe, Mexican rice is accompanied with frankfurter. However, Mexican rice was paired with several other dishes after that. Mexican rice or Cajun rice is presumed to be in Thailand via the American soldiers who stationed here during the Cold War. Both Mexican rice or Cajun rice would eventually become the ancestor of the American fried rice in Thailand.

American fried rice inMalaysia andSouthern Thailand have different versions that have been modified from the original version. Usually it replaces the side dish of "bacon" or "ham" with Thai red meat (Malay:daging masak merah ala Thai). This change was made because theThai Malays andMalaysian Malays communities areMuslim. This dish is sometimes confused with the Malaysian dish callednasi goreng USA [ms], in which the initialism “USA” stands for shrimp (udang), squid (sotong) and chicken (ayam).

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