A few weeks ago I made a joke with some hivians. Not quite a joke actually, it was more like a possibility that should not be exist. I told them, if somehow I reached 200.000 HP, I might create my own community and I will name it FRIED RICE CULT.
I like fried rice and I often have them with various toppings. It is not limited to egg fried rice, I love pork fried rice, seafood, and even for vegan fried rice. Any can come with their creativity on their fried rice, as long it fits my budget I will try it.
However it doesn't mean I love any fried rice. Some are terrible, although it is rarely happen that I have it. Some are bad, usually I still could tolerate them and eat them.
It's been years since I got my self a very bad fried rice... and the time has come for another one.
I had this fried rice near my bank office. It was last week, right after that bank seized my late father land and sent a letter to me that I still had some debt to settle. Well the bank could do that here, if you could not pay the loan, they would sell the collateral and if it did not cover the loan, they did not give any fuck of it just cashed in and sent some debt collectors to their clients because they had debt to paid which could not be covered by the collateral.
However this post was not about that bank, it was about fried rice. I had a long meeting with them and that made me hungry. So I came to a cafeteria and had this fried rice. It came with a plain presentation, and tasted... very bad.
I needed to spend 30 minutes to finish this fried rice, and It was a tough efforts. Part of me did not want to swallow them, but another part of me had a belief that we, at any cost, should avoid throwing off our food. We should finish them all.
During those minutes, I had some thought that maybe this all was about my mind, I had a bad mood, tired so the taste became bad... but it did not! I made some gesture to other people there, they nod and laughed... they had the same issue lol.
So these were things I could describe why it was so bad:
- The rice was hard and oily. I felt like I was eating a rice with cooking oil as their condiments.
- They put in many things there, including veggies. But all of them were plain. I believed they forget to put in some seasonings, and they were too stingy to pour in proper amount of salt and pepper.
- For me, It was not a fried rice without garlic and shallot. Sadly both were not in there.
- You can see the picture, the rice color is not similar, some are in white. They were so weak that mixing rice on their wok was too much for them lol.
Well... What a Sad Fried Rice there... after years, maybe 4 years, I finally stumbled on the very bad one again
