After all, you couldn't expect a restaurant to prepare huge quantities of overnight rice every day just to make fried rice. Although overnight rice was the king of fried rice, even that depended on the circumstances. If you were running a restaurant, for instance, overnight rice wasn't quite so suitable. Instead, it left you scratching your head over how much to prepare, whether it would go sour if you made too much, and whether the next day's customer traffic would be enough to use it all up as fried rice. That was another question worth discussing. Most restaurants therefore had their own methods, though some did insist on using overnight rice. If you were cooking alone at home, however, sometimes you came home after a day at work and didn't feel like making any dishes. A bowl of egg fried rice with some Lao Gan Ma was a pretty good choice, too.
Of course, if you really were too lazy, you could also consider making a simple bowl of rice with soy sauce and chili oil. It tasted pretty good, though eating too much of it wasn't particularly kind to your stomach and intestines.
The same applied to Heath's fried rice. He had struggled with this question at first, too, but after discovering special rice-cooking methods and advances in cookware, he realized that clever manufacturers had already noticed the problem. They had released cookware that could cook rice to be especially suitable for fried rice, so Heath no longer needed to worry about overnight rice. The overnight rice he had brought out for Ash this time was actually just some left over from his cooking yesterday. He had originally planned to eat it himself today, but unexpectedly, Ash wanted fried rice with a braised chicken drumstick, so it was the