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[quote=Anonymous]It's rice cooked in oil, a bit of grease is normal- especially if it had meat in it. I wouldn't give up on restaurant versions over it. Still, it's a great and relatively easy thing to make yourself. I second woks of life. Great website with a lot of instruction and a variety of fried rice recipes. You could also try Uncle Roger on youtube...

Most fried rice recipes are gonna want you to get your pan/wok to a really high temperature. Sesame oil has a lower smoke point. At a high heat it's going to cook off in your pan and you'll risk your rice a d other ingredients sticking (you can add a little for flavor when it comes off the heat though). You'd do better with peanut, vegetable, canola or some other oil with a higher smoke point for the frying part.

Whichever recipe you go with, it helps to have everything you're using cut up, portioned out and ready to go in advance. If you're doing it right, and you can get your pan hot enough, it shouldn't take much longer than 5 minutes to cook. Some ingredients- particularly garlic and other aromatics in that first stage- have a tendency to burn if you can't go fast enough or you're chopping up/ measuring out ingredients as you go. You'd also want to make sure most of your ingredients are cut to about the same size (more or less). If you cut something like a meat too thick, smaller things can burn while it's cooking through. 
 
Good luck!

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