Yep! I love Bostons Chinatown, went there with my coworker who grew up in Hong Kong, he always ordered, and meat was atypical, and it was for flavor, not volume.
My dad spent a lot of time in Southeast Asia, and loved to learn how to cook new stuff there. Unless he just signed a new contract and bought a roast beef, we had asian food about half the time or better. Very little meat. very little sauce. Veggies and rice. Man, could that goofy old fart cook! I miss his cooking.
My mom made a killer Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. :)
ROFL!!!!!!!!!
From scratch Mac n Cheese was one of the few things my mom did well when I was growing up. Unfortunately my kid prefers mac n cheese out of a box and doesn't like my homemade :(
Until I took over the cooking in our house, Dad was the one who did the cooking. What he cooked was great, but he had a limited repertoire so we knew it was sausage and peppers on Wednesday, Roast beef on Sunday, shepherds pie on Tuesday, etc.......