Chapotraphouse

Lau comes from a professional cooking background, where they do fry fresh rice. Home cooks generally do not, and use day old leftover rice. My uncle owned and ran a restaurant and would fry fresh rice (his trick is to add less water than usual in the rice cooker, or steamed if it can be bothered to set up a steamer). My mother only ever fries leftover rice.

The minstrel showman, Uncle Roger, swears by leftover rice because he also does not come from a culinary background.