Well, of course. Duck Soup is made with Harpo, Zeppo, Chico, and Groucho. You wouldn't want to be picking Harpo's wig and Groucho's moustache out of your teeth.
As I understand it, in at least several Asian cultures the word for "(cooked) rice" is commonly also used to mean "food" or "a meal" -- rice is Really Important, and would take priority over other ingredients in describing any form of juk/congee. (Mind you, I'm such a Barbarian as to eat the toppings first, which obviously distresses the lady at my favorite Pho place in nearby Baldwin Park -- she's strongly of the opinion that the contents of the bowl should be thoroughly mixed before beginning to eat.)
The Viet Namese usually are not fussy about what you do to pho. That's why there's hot peppers and hot sauce served on the side. What you want to do with it is your business. A friend likes so much hot sauce in it that it would get comments, but only because there was so much hot sauce.
Yeah, I suspect that the person I'm dealing with, here, is one of those nice little old Asian ladies with Firm Opinions and a Whim of Steel. Much like Mrs. Arita, my issei landlady for a year when I was a student at U. C. Berkeley -- we were never able to persuade her that switching to half-strength tea in the evening (and drinking two cups of it, rather than one cup of full-strength) was going to help her sleep any better, or that if she needed to take in boarders to make ends meet, she really shouldn't serve sukiyaki in the traditional "start with a course of as much meat as anyone wants" style at least once per week. *sigh*, I guess.
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Date: 2010-01-24 05:39 am (UTC)I think...
Date: 2010-01-24 04:59 pm (UTC)That's odd...
Date: 2010-01-24 05:01 pm (UTC)Re: That's odd...
Date: 2010-01-24 09:17 pm (UTC)