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PeterLucas[_4_]

George > wrote in
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> PeterLucas wrote:
>> Roy Jose Lorr > wrote in news:3-
>> :
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>>> Mitch wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can't seem to get "that taste."
>>>> Don't even know how to describe it.
>>>>
>>>> My fried rice is good, but it's just not like takeout, which I
>>>> love.
>>>>
>>>> And it's not MSG. The places around here don't use it.
>>>> And I'd know if they lied because my friend would have an instant
>>>> migraine.
>>> Have you ever found two restaurants whose fried rice tasted
>>> the same?
>>>
>>
>>
>> I'm still trying to find a restaurant that makes the same flavour of
>> fried rice I had from a Makan Stall in Malaysia in 1975.........
>> Damn... that was fantastic rice!!
>>
>>
>>
> Stall food always tastes better. I always hit the stalls when
> traveling in Asian countries.
>

Yeah, I was told when there that some of the makan stalls had been using
the same wok for about 100 years. Lots of flavour there!!

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Peter Lucas
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