#oooooooo.

it always used to sort of sadly amuse me when i saw ~asian~ restaurants in australia (and i assume america) selling fried rice as like. a whole dish all on its own. rather than as a side that nobody mentions or would ever even put in a restaurant because fried rice is what you make when you're too busy to make an actual meal.

then i went to a huge fancy upscale carpet-on-floors private-rooms-with-karaoke-machines-installed don't-even-ask-how-much-this-all-costs style restaurant in China where their central dish, their head chef's specialty. was a plate of mashed potatoes.