Sheldon wrote:
> On Aug 21, 3:58?pm, Omelet <omp_ome...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In article <1187726161.238993.281...@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
>>
>> Sheldon <PENMAR...@aol.com> 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!!!
>
> Talkin' restaurants here... whoever told you Chinese restaurant food
> ain't fattening lied.. it's about the highest caloric content food on
> the planet, most of those calories from fat.
>
>>> 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).
>
>
> Odds are you don't have Chinese restaurants anywhere nearby... there
> are none within a hundred miles of where I live now either. And those
> take outs and buffets don't serve anything resembling North American
> China Town restaurant food.... every one I've ever been to serves
> fried rice more akin to Puerto Rican rice. Those take outs and
> buffets scattered about most every neighborhood serve Chinese food
> like Taco Bell serves Mexican food.
>
> Sheldon
>
I frequent the two in NYC and they definitely serve eggs in fried rice
and they don't omit nuts from those dishes that typically have them.