Growing up I always though the reason why we ate rice everyday was because my family was Chinese. I mean, when I was in India, we didn’t eat rice at every meal, infact my Grandmother often didn’t serve us rice, because she said the Rice she bought in India was not as nice as the ones we had in Malaysia, and served us other things like Chapatti and such. I always thought its because my Dad’s side is Chinese, hence we eat rice with every other meal.

Imagine my supprise when I come to China and order my dishes and the locals don’t eat then with rice. Seriously! They order like a few dishes and just eat the dishes without rice!!! Where is the rice?? I want my rice!! Often you actually have to wait a very long time for the rice, because most Chinese restaurants don’t serve rice with thier dishes and actually have to cook it when asked for by customers. My co-workers who worked in Shanghai for a few months strech told me what as soon as they enter the restaurtant, the first thing they do is ask the Owners to cook some rice.

Weird. I guess the weather is different in some parts of China, and Rice is more a tropical country thing, cos rice burns very quickly while meat and patatoes take a while to be processed by the body. Anyways, what I learned is Order rice first. You don’t know if they will serve it with your dishes or not…

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