Chahan (dish) Chahan (dish) "Chahan" may have originated from Chinese immigrants who arrived at the port of Kobe, Japan in the 1860s. In Chinese, fried rice is called "chǎofàn" (); these same Chinese characters have a Japanese reading of "Chāhan". "Chahan" is a Japanese fried rice dish that is typically fried, and can be cooked by stir frying it in a wok. Rice is used as a primary ingredient, and myriad additional ingredients can be used, such as vegetables, onion, garlic, edible mushrooms such as shiitake, tofu, pork, pork belly, seafoods such as crab meat, roe, salmon, shrimp and octopus, scrambled egg,
The Third Ingredient The Third Ingredient "The Third Ingredient" is a short story by O. Henry, notable for its ironic take on the "Stone Soup" theme. The story was originally published in 1908 in "Everybody's Magazine" with illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. The next year it was included in O. Henry's collection "Options". As reported by O. Henry's good friend and biographer C. Alphonso Smith, "The Third Ingredient" was inspired by a real experience: ... in one of his first months in New York he was living in very humble lodgings and one evening found him without funds. He became so hungry that