Java rice

Java rice, also called yellow fried rice, is a Filipino fried rice dish recognised by its yellow-orange colour, which comes from turmeric or annatto. Cooks vary it by adding bell peppers, pimiento, paprika or tomato ketchup as seasoning. Despite the name it does not come from the island of Java or from Indonesia in general, and the link to that name is not explained by the source. Its true origin is uncertain, but the dish is associated with Aristocrat, the Manila restaurant founded in 1936 by Engracia Cruz-Reyes, in part because the restaurant helped popularise serving its chicken barbecue, known as inihaw, with this style of rice. The dish sits among a family of yellow rice dishes in Southeast Asia that use turmeric, such as the Filipino kuning and sinigapuna and the Indonesian nasi kuning.