In many restaurants in Thailand can be found a dish called “American fried rice,” which is rice fried with ketchup, raisins, peas, sides of ham and deep-fried hot dogs, or a combination thereoff, and topped with a fried egg. It was popularized during the Vietnam War era, when thousands of American troops were stationed in the Northeast. A local chef decided to mix the ubiquitous “American breakfast” together with rice. Today, no one remembers the origin, and many Thais think this is a standard American dish.
No, that’s not it at all. “American fried rice” is never an omelette, and there’s never ketchup on top of it, but rather stir fried into the rice when it is used. There’s usually a fried egg on top of it, but that’s it as far as eggs go. Usually, too, you have all of the components separate, surrounding the rice.
Ah, I just found it has a Wikipedia entry. Here it is: American fried rice. That’s exactly what it always looks like.
Does New England, or indeed anywhere else outside of Atlantic Canada, also have an equivalent of Fish & Brewis, a meal of salt fish (usually cod) and cooked hard bread?
Thanks for the correction. For some reason, none of the other ingredients, even the raisin, seem too weird, but I’m fixated by that piece of bacon/ham on the side. I’d love to try this sometime.
It’s actually not all that bad. But it can get annoying after a while when people start acting like you’re retarded or pulling their leg because you deny this is a common dish in the US.