Use bottled chick peas used for desserts. Can substitute fried chicken, or oven bake chicken, or grilled breast chicken for fried chicken chunks. Can add green onions for color. Many convenience stores, grocery stores, or fast food restaurants sell fried chicken and fried chicken chunks. You can buy already cooked chicken along with fried or white rice from a Chinese restaurant and make your own sauce for a more homey meal than the usual carry out or take out.
Boiled rice can be a sticky mess to cook.
It would be faster than cooking all of it from scratch. You can impress your date or love ones with a home cooked meal. A can of cream of mushroom soup. A bottle of jackfruit in heavy syrup found in oriental stores. Already boiled pork chunks.