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01-31-2011, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by AlfieA View Post
Well soya sauce and rice is quite common in Chinese food. Hardly something that's correlated with poverty. So common that it's commonly served with the soya sauce already in it, not something you put in yourself afterwards. Although it certainly helps, if one cannot afford meat or even vegetables.
Another user expressed that that's a Japanese mentality. That "it's something the Chinese would do," meaning (from the Japanese standpoint), it's something the poor would do.


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