My Fried Rice - The Fraud Rice for a reason !!
The Chinese keep entering our lands,the main reason being that we just jumble the ingredients in their cuisine and Indianize it. They claim our lands,we claim their food.
Walking down the road on a typical Sunday I was searching for a suitable restaurant to have lunch. A typical Hyderabad street consists of a lot of vendors to choose from.Well known delicacies range from south Indian meals to Chinese (supposedly) menus. After eliminating a few restaurants with bog banners, I settled for the one with no name at all.The clinking of the vessels and the smell of oil, kind of pulled me in. As a matter of fact, I had already decided on what dish I'll try my hands on. It was the fried rice. Noodles are the preferred choice but this time I decided to have rice. Now, fried rice is a Chinese dish in which steamed rice is stir-fried with a lot of ingredients. Eggs, vegetables, and meat are the usual ones. The Indianised version may look a bit different. A lot of leafy vegetables are used while making fried rice in India.
I have tasted fried rice a few times before and they were all in some manner, very similar. As a usual customer I ordered one and the waiter being a usual one too took the order quickly only to return to his kitchen. That's when I realized he wasn't a usual waiter, he was a chef too. Watching the road outside, I waited for a while for my dish to arrive. A few minutes later the fraud-rice arrived in a plate made of plastic which had a plastic over it, few onions(cut unevenly) and green chillies to garnish the dish.
A regular Indo-chinese fried rice has 4-5 vegetables in it. This one had only three. Two of them, onions and chillies were put for garnishing as I had mentioned before and the one with which the rice was cooked was Curry Tree leaves. Now this was the most isolated fried rice I had ever seen before. Whitish colored rice and three vegetables. Done. Quite astonished by the way the dish looked I asked the waiter, "What is this?", to which he bluntly replied, "Whatever you ordered".
One thing was for sure. I did not order this weird looking rice. For a moment I looked around to find somebody who might have actually ordered this thing. An old guy was sitting and going by his looks I guessed he might have ordered the rice. So I picked my plate and showing it towards him, asked whether it belonged to him. He gave me a very strange look and was surprised by my behavior. He replied, "I have money to buy my own food." I turned around quickly and sat down.
That was all. I couldn't even give another look to the dish. I stood up, paid the bill and walked out hungry, as I had entered the hotel. On the way back home, I decided, I would never order a fraud rice again.
The Chinese keep entering our lands,the main reason being that we just jumble the ingredients in their cuisine and Indianize it. They claim our lands,we claim their food.
Walking down the road on a typical Sunday I was searching for a suitable restaurant to have lunch. A typical Hyderabad street consists of a lot of vendors to choose from.Well known delicacies range from south Indian meals to Chinese (supposedly) menus. After eliminating a few restaurants with bog banners, I settled for the one with no name at all.The clinking of the vessels and the smell of oil, kind of pulled me in. As a matter of fact, I had already decided on what dish I'll try my hands on. It was the fried rice. Noodles are the preferred choice but this time I decided to have rice. Now, fried rice is a Chinese dish in which steamed rice is stir-fried with a lot of ingredients. Eggs, vegetables, and meat are the usual ones. The Indianised version may look a bit different. A lot of leafy vegetables are used while making fried rice in India.
A regular Indo-chinese fried rice has 4-5 vegetables in it. This one had only three. Two of them, onions and chillies were put for garnishing as I had mentioned before and the one with which the rice was cooked was Curry Tree leaves. Now this was the most isolated fried rice I had ever seen before. Whitish colored rice and three vegetables. Done. Quite astonished by the way the dish looked I asked the waiter, "What is this?", to which he bluntly replied, "Whatever you ordered".
One thing was for sure. I did not order this weird looking rice. For a moment I looked around to find somebody who might have actually ordered this thing. An old guy was sitting and going by his looks I guessed he might have ordered the rice. So I picked my plate and showing it towards him, asked whether it belonged to him. He gave me a very strange look and was surprised by my behavior. He replied, "I have money to buy my own food." I turned around quickly and sat down.
That was all. I couldn't even give another look to the dish. I stood up, paid the bill and walked out hungry, as I had entered the hotel. On the way back home, I decided, I would never order a fraud rice again.
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