Re:A man who has eaten at more than 7,300 Chinese restaurants
by stevenwoo on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:36PM
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I am second generation Chinese from the same region as Chan, and I, too, did not enjoy most of the regional dishes my parents gave me and actually chose to eat soy sauce on plain rice when the dishes were unpalatable to me. I mean actual poverty meals but my bias/ignorance is showing because it's actually not clear from the article if that's what he meant or if he meant what you are describing.
Re:A man who has eaten at more than 7,300 Chinese restaurants
by irrational on Monday October 22, 2018 @05:55PM
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This is fascinating to me. When my kids don't want to eat what we are serving they will often have carrots or broccoli with ranch dressing instead. I never stopped to wonder what kids in other cultures eat in similar circumstances.
Re:A man who has eaten at more than 7,300 Chinese restaurants
by wenc on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:42PM
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Side note: soy sauce and butter on rice [1] can be really good. It doesn't sound that good, and I didn't believe it could be good until I tried it.
[1] https://norioonwine.blogspot.com/2010/11/rice-with-butter-an...
If it's literally just plain soy sauce on plain rice though, it's probably just nostalgia over childhood poverty meals. It's not bad but you don't do it by choice!