Mint Chicken

Ingredients

 * garlic oil or flavored to taste
 * fish sauce
 * 1 tsp sugar
 * ½ can of bamboo shoots
 * 1 large-sized stalk of green onion, diced
 * ¼ cup of chicken or shrimp (cut into marble-sized pieces)
 * fresh mint, about 3 leaves
 * crushed red chile peppers (optional)
 * white rice
 * deep sauté pan or wok

Directions

 * 1) Pre-cook rice.
 * 2) Heat oil and sauté onions over med flame until soft.
 * 3) Add a dash of fish sauce.
 * 4) Keep the ingredients moving - stir fry! :) so the onions don't burn.
 * 5) Mix in the sugar.
 * 6) Turn up the heat and add chicken or shrimp and cook until almost done, stir frying all the time.
 * 7) Toss in the bamboos shoots ans some chile, if you dare, and finally the mint leaves so that they don't cook longer than 30 seconds.
 * 8) Serve over rice.