If you go to Ethiopia, for instance, it's very common to have one dish that everyone eats from. Also common in the Middle East. You'll see it in some Chinese co

If you go to Ethiopia, for instance, it's very common to have one dish that everyone eats from. Also common in the Middle East. You'll see it in some Chinese communities, but it tends to be more rural - once a nation develops and they enter a more globalized market, this tendency seems to fall off. To be clear, I didn't mean that it was literally a single dish, I meant that instead of trying to compliment your meal properly with a matching veggie, because you're only making one thing. As long as it all makes sense together in the bowl/plate/hand, it works.