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[quote=Anonymous]Re: variety- I married into an Asian family and came from a boiled vegetable + meat + minute rice family. My family in Asia eats a ton of variety and pretty complex meals. However, this is accomplished by living in a country with high levels of wealth and very low cost imported domestic labor, plus readily available takeout and partly prepared foods and a culture of not cooking your entire meal at home.

So for my relatives in HK, they might have a noodle dish with a complex sauce, meat or tofu that goes with it, and 1-2 vegetables plus fruit. But the fruit is easy to get on their street as are the vegetables and the noodles are prepped around the corner and the meat is from the place downstairs. It’s more like living in NYC and having relatively cheap takeout everywhere but supplementing it with healthy food. Many people in HK of all incomes still have habits from when you didn’t cook much at home and might barely have a kitchen.

And my richer HK relatives (they would be UMC here) all have multiple “helpers” who are cooking all sorts of things depending on where they’re from and who they worked for last. Right now my cousin has 3 helpers, 2 who are from the Philippines but they cook a lot of Thai and SE Asian food.

On the other hand, my friends’ moms in Korea and Japan seem to just be cooking nonstop and there’s a lot of pressure to have variety not just day to day but within every meal.[/quote]

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