Throughout the years, the recipe has been adopted by many people in Malaysia and improvised to suit their tastebuds. Certain cooks have found that including slices of ginger into the rice helps improve the taste of the rice. Realizing that the rice goes well with almost anything, many traders add simple things to the list of condiments and side dishes to go along with the rice. Chinese traders usually offer chicken curry, chicken sausages, luncheon meat and even stir-fried water convolvulus as side dishes, to be added on as pleased. As spicy dishes are not the norm for most Chinese folks, the zing in the chilli paste from Chinese traders is toned down, often with a tinge of sweetness in it. Other budding entrepreneurs, in an effort to make their product more noticeable, have chosen to add green artificial colouring to the rice.