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  "name": "Fried rice and chow mein",
  "aliases": [
   "chow mein",
   "the hot case"
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  "said": "Kept in a warmer, sold by the scoop, priced under the sandwich."
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 "region": [
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  "chinese-american"
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  "course": "savory"
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 "text": {
  "what": "Cooked rice stir-fried with egg, vegetables and meat, held hot in a steam table beside the donut case — with chow mein next to it in many shops.",
  "story": "Fried rice is a staple of Chinese cooking and of American Chinese menus. In California donut shops it arrives for the same reason egg rolls do: the shop needs a second product at a second hour, and the kitchen can already do it.\n\nDorothy Chow's family business, B & H Bakery Distributors, supplies these shops; her father, a survivor of the Cambodian genocide, built it, she told KQED, \"to help our own people.\"",
  "today": "A donut shop with a steam table is doing lunch, which is a different business from the one it does at five in the morning."
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   "to": "egg-roll",
   "as": "The other thing in the warmer.",
   "rel": "dish"
  },
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   "to": "delta-grocery-counter",
   "as": "The same counter logic in Mississippi.",
   "rel": "style"
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 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "Cooked rice stir-fried with egg, vegetables and meat, held hot in a steam table beside the donut case — with chow mein next to it in many shops.",
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  {
   "key": "socal",
   "name": "Southern California",
   "state": "CA",
   "note": "Los Angeles, Orange County, the Inland Empire; the pink box and roughly a thousand independent shops"
  },
  {
   "key": "chinese-american",
   "name": "Chinese America",
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   "note": "the Delta grocery, the California counter, the fried rice in the warmer"
  }
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  {
   "to": "egg-roll",
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   "name": "Egg roll",
   "as": "The other thing in the warmer.",
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  },
  {
   "to": "delta-grocery-counter",
   "type": "style",
   "name": "The Delta grocery counter",
   "as": "The same counter logic in Mississippi.",
   "rel": "style"
  },
  {
   "to": "why-the-egg-rolls",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "Why the egg rolls",
   "as": "The argument.",
   "rel": "story"
  }
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  {
   "id": "s:wp-fried-rice",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Fried rice — Wikipedia",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_rice",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:kqed-donuts-chinese",
   "kind": "article",
   "title": "Why Donuts + Chinese Food = A Very Californian Combination",
   "author": "Asal Ehsanipour",
   "publisher": "KQED",
   "url": "https://www.kqed.org/news/11871915/why-donuts-chinese-food-a-very-californian-combination",
   "year": 2021,
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "note": "published 6 May 2021, updated 1 January 2025"
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   "from": "delta-grocery-counter",
   "type": "style",
   "name": "The Delta grocery counter",
   "as": "What else is hot at the same counter.",
   "rel": "dish"
  },
  {
   "from": "egg-roll",
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   "as": "What sits next to it in the warmer.",
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