On Jul 3, 3:41 pm, Mitch <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.

I'll post before reading the replies you've got. I don't think the
brown fried rice you can get in most Chinese restaurants is home-style
Chinese fried rice; it's American-Chinese. The brown color and the
taste -- which I used to naively assume derive from soy sauce -- come,
I today understand, from a kind of gravy.