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Romance Language

A few nights ago Sour Dough mentioned that he had a craving for Chinese food.   Since Sour Dough doesn’t usually make requests or mention cravings I figured that he must really want it.   I decided to make Chinese food last night to appease him. Now I know that when my kids say they want Chinese food, what they really mean is they want ribs and wonton soup.   While I make a pretty mean rib, if I do say so myself, I don’t make them the way the Chinese restaurant does.  So, I decided to make fried rice and beef stir fry and then go to the Chinese restaurant to pick up ribs and soup. The fried rice was easy to make because I basically just copied what I had seen the chef at the local Hibachi restaurant (which is technically a teppanyaki restaurant) do a dozen times.   I simply cooked rice in my rice cooker, then on the stove in my wok I heated olive oil, scrambled two eggs, added corn, peas and diced carrots, rice and soy sauce.  Super easy and quick to make and it was just like