Miami Rice
Fried rice with a welcome addition
Piyarat Potha Arreeratn, otherwise known as Chef Bee, brings a taste of Thailand’s street food stateside with the newly opened Khong River House in Miami. Chef Bee’s khaao pad bpu (crab fried rice) revives day-old rice by studding it with shards of jumbo lump crabmeat and serving it alongside the traditional Thai accompaniment of cucumber and tomato slices. Chef Bee serves this as a side, but we think this dish, especially when paired with the cucumber-tomato salad, is substantial enough to stand on its own.
Crab Fried Rice (Khaao Pad Bpu)
Yield: 6 servings
Cook Time: 20 minutes
- INGREDIENTS
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 large eggs
¼ small white onion, finely chopped
2 cups day-old cooked jasmine rice
1 pound jumbo lump crabmeat, picked over for shells
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
Pinch ground white pepper
Pinch granulated sugar
1½ tablespoons seasoned soy sauce or regular soy sauce
5 scallions, white and light green parts, thinly sliced and divided
½ medium cucumber, thinly sliced into rounds
1 medium tomato--cored, halved and thinly sliced
About The Chef
Piyarat Potha Arreeratn, also known as Chef Bee, is the executive chef at Khong River House in Miami. He worked as a sous-chef at Nobu in Miami under Nobuyuki Matsuhisa. He has also worked at Siam River with chef Kevin Cory. In 2005, Chef Bee opened his own restaurant, Oishi Thai.
Khong River House, 1661 Meridian Ave., Miami Beach, FL; 305-763-8147 or khongriver.com



