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Maybe soy sauce on rice can be done really well? A lot of my favorite rice dishes are equally plain sounding (saffron with rice, coconut oil rice, and even japa
by zawerf 8y ago
Maybe soy sauce on rice can be done really well? A lot of my favorite rice dishes are equally plain sounding (saffron with rice, coconut oil rice, and even japanese donburi are mostly "just" soy sauce and rice).
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!
- stevenwoo 8y agoI 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.
- irrational 8y agoThis 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.
- wenc 8y agoSide 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-and-soy-sauce.html https://norioonwine.blogspot.com/2010/11/rice-with-butter-an...
- stevenwoo 8y agoI was hesitant to mention the butter part in my post (I realize it would sound weird to most Americans), that is what I ate as a child, too.