To my recollection, many Asian dramas (and anime), even if the restaurant is supposed to serve cuisine that doesn’t really have fried rice as traditional repotaire (eg: western), ended up using fried Rice as a way to demonstrate the new guy’s skill (at least, being acceptable to the restaurant). Why is that?
In: 183
Western cooking emphasizes a lot of creativity, lots of showmanship (becomes more of an art piece than food), extravagant (or crazy) ingredients, and other things that hype it up.
Asian cooking looks at your typical fried rice (what seems to be the most basic type of dish) and cook it. You can say it’s also a test of psychology: what are the judges expecting, what is the best fried rice, what determines the best?
The underlying goal is to not be creative but test your basics and fundamentals in cooking. In this test, you are under pressure to make a well-known and simple thing the best it can be in a situation where anything and anywhere can go wrong.
Latest Answers