In article >, Betty Lee
> wrote:

> I'm not sure which restaurant taste is the goal here, but the chef at
> Benihana folded a huge slab of garlic butter and a ton of salt into
> the fried rice. That might be why it tastes different. The people who
> said that eating out is bad for you weren't on crack. I don't really
> understand why people would want to make food the way restaurants do.
> It seems to defeat the point of actually cooking it yourself.

Mmm...well... but... Benihana is just awful (read "a cruel joke" in my
experience.) Last time I ate at one, the "Japanese" meal included
"fried rice" with frozen diced carrots and peas.

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Jack