1.   Add the rice and stir until all the grains are coated with oil.

2.   Add the rice and stir-fry until the grains are coated with the spice mixture.

3.   Pour the rice into the pot and stir to coat the grains with oil.

4.   Reduce heat to medium, pour in beaten eggs and stir constantly so eggs coat rice grains as they set.

5.   Stir quickly and thoroughly until the grains are coated well.

6.   Edwin Bergin of the Harvard-Smithsonian center suggests that the water is there, but in the form of ice that is coating dust grains.