The Truth about being Asian

Stereotype #2: Asians eat rice with every meal.

Myth Factor: **** (four stars)
Truth:
FALSE. Ish. If we ate rice with every meal, we'd be fat. Like really fat. (grain product, remember.) Mostly the foods we eat are supposed to be super 'healthy' because we 'had to get creative with the simple things we have.' How growing rice is simple, don't ask me. Another thing I don't get is with my culture in general, just how they think ground up chile sauce that had to be fermented with countless other spices is simple. Seriously. A sauce takes that long to make. Plus, if my mom takes a day to prepare our nice, simple Korean dinner for us, with all this modern technology and grocery stores and whatnot, how long must have that taken back then? Those people must have been starving.

Reasoning:
To be completely honest, my family eats a LOT of rice. My mom's been working with more American recipes lately, but every Asian meal we eat is almost always accompanied by rice. I think the stereotype's up there because just our cultural food is intended to go with rice, but we don't eat it with everything. For your information, from first hand experience: rice with French fries are disgusting. Don't try it unless you're feeling particularly adventurous today. Actually, just don't.

Me, Myself, and I, and those other Asian people I know:
If you haven't figured out already, my family eats a lot of rice. We have an emotional attachment to rice. I can probably name lots of types of rice and their scientific names and whatnot, because that's just the type of rice obsessed family we have. This and because I grew up around rice-loving Asian families is why I can't deny this thing outright like the mathy thing.
Honestly? I like rice. I have nothing personal against it. My only problem with it is the fact that it doesn't really taste good on its own or with soy sauce/egg mixed into it (sorry Jasmine, but it's true), and that it has to go with some other sort of Asian food.

#1: Jasmine
Okay so Jasmine might not really count because she's a halfie (half Irish/Dutch/German/British/Other countries, half Chinese)
but she acts more stereotypically Asian than I do so we can put her up here. Her family's pretty cool, because her mom's European and her dad's Chinese. Whenever I go over, we have some sort of mix, like if her mom's home than we have fancy salads with jasmine rice and stuff and if her dad's home than we have instant noodle. (her dad's pretty amazing)
Fun fact: Jasmine's grandpa also made these amazing rice balls that tasted like my childhood. Shoutout to Jasmine's grandpa.

#2: Carl
I don't actually know why I put Carl in here. I've never seen his family eat rice unless my family brings some.
Which is weird, because they're Asian and should eat rice with the soup. I don't get what they'd eat with the soup. I mean, aren't you supposed to put the rice in the soup and eat it? Thats literally what every other Asian family I've seen does. Um.

#3: Julia (again)
Julia's family does have rice a lot but usually not as much as mine.