On Aug 21, 3:34?pm, (Little Malice)
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> One time on Usenet, Peter A > said:
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> > > One time on Usenet, ebrian > said:
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> > > > Does anyone have a recipe for this? Seems like every recipe for fried
> > > > rice I can find asks for 2-3 whole eggs, which I am allergic to.
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> > > > I once went to a Chinese restaurant and asked for fried rice with no
> > > > egg, the waitress looked at me like I was from another planet. She
> > > > did write it down though, and 15 minutes later, sure enough it came.
> > > > Instead of scrambled eggs, they put roe, and it was surprisingly
> > > > delicious.
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> > > The eggs are not essential to the dish, just leave them out...
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> > You can also throw in some fried tofu (age, pronounced ah-***) which has
> > a consistency similar to eggs.
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> Good idea -- I should have thought of that...

Why?

I've eaten at every China Town in the US and Canada, never seen tofo
in fried rice... in fact tofu is not a common ingredient on their
menus, very few dishes contain tofu and in those few dishes it's added
in minute quantites. In case you've never noticed very very few
Chinese people eat at the places that cater to round eyes. Few round
eyes will eat tofu, it would get scraped to the edge of the dish and
left there... they are not going to waste ingredients that round eyes
typically won't eat. If you want authentic Chinese food then
patronize those Chinese eateries where the Chinese people eat...
hopefully you are fluent in the various dialects... and be prepared to
be disgusted by a lot of the viands that arrive. Btw, they don't eat
fly lice, won't be on their menu.