Wh do so many Asian recipes explicitly call for leftover rice?

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I’ve recently been trying to put some new meals in my repertoire and when browsing for new ideas I’ve noticed that many recipes call for day old leftover rice instead of fresh one. Egg fried rice for example. Some people even seem to insist that it doesn’t work with fresh rice. Why is that?

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Rice is the staple food in most of Asia and it’s easy to cook in large quantities. With this in mind, it’s not particularly surprising that they have come up with lots of ways to use leftover rice in the same way that it’s not surprising that Europe has many recipes for using old bread. If you’ve got lots of it and can’t afford to waste food then you’ll figure something out

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