School crab/fish stick rice salad recipe

[MyShinyWhiteTeeth]

I'm trying to find a recipe for a crab/fish stick rice salad that a person with a very limited diet enjoyed whilst at school. We tried at the school and no current staff remember or were working there at the time it was on the menu.

It seemed to be plain white rice, finely shredded crab sticks and a very light, mild seafood sauce. Finely chopped tomatoes and cucumber were also added with possibly very finely chopped olives.

We've tried to make our own version but it's not right. Anyone?

Just a guess, but if all the main ingredients are acceptable perhaps it's the sauce that's wrong?

We've struggled on the type of rice and how it's cooked, how shredded the crab sticks are, how small the salad is chopped.

We've tried mixing different sauces together.

Seafood sauce on it's own is too strongly flavoured. Mayonnaise is too creamy, salad cream is too vinegary.

It could be that if he had the exact same meal now then he'd refuse it as his diet has become more restricted.

What decade was this?