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Sheldon > wrote:

> > Eggs are most certainly not just a garnish, but one of the main
> > ingredients after rice. Eggs is an *assumed* ingredient with chinese
> > fried rice -- upon telling my fiancee I was planning to make fried
> > rice tonight, she asked me what I was planning to eat for dinner.
>
> The main ingredient in fried rice is not rice, it's fat.... there are
> more fat calories than from all the other ingredients combined.

Not at MY house!!!

>
> The majority of Chinese restaurants in North American China Towns do
> not typically include eggs in their fried rice. They prepare a huge
> wokful of meatless fried rice base from the *leftover* plain rice from
> the previous day, and add various meats (pork, shrimp, chicken) as
> ordered. Some may include small bits of fried egg but most do not,
> especially not these days with all the clamor over allergies.
> Restaurants are in the business to make money by increasing sales,
> they are not going to purposely prepare foods that folks will balk
> at. Chinese restaurants don't automatically include nuts in their
> dishes anymore either, and most all have omitted or cut way back on
> msg, and virtually all prominently indicate which dishes are hot
> (spicey).

You must eat at different Chinese places than I do...
But, we do live in different States (in more ways than one).

> Sheldon
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