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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To add to what others have said:

Fried rice is really a “leftovers” food. You take old rice, leftover meat, some veggie odds and ends and make a stir fry out of it. I actually just made a fried rice tonight, but it was rice fried with pork from an American style pork shoulder I’ve been eating for a few days. Fried rice is best for leftovers when you’re tired of em.

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