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How I Became A Sex Addict

2018-05-01 · 10 min

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  1. In 2010, I had cereal for the first time

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  2. ever in Japan. Before then, I had never

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  3. had cereal before. I never even had a

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  4. girlfriend before then, and I didn't

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  5. really have much of an interest in women

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  6. or girls. I had no interest in trying to

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  7. find a girlfriend. I was completely

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  8. obsessed with anime and video games, and I

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  9. was perfectly happy satisfying myself just

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  10. using my hands. And then I went to Japan

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  11. for the first time, and I discovered this

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  12. wonderful thing. My first time was with

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  13. this Korean lady, and it was amazing. I

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  14. had never experienced pleasure like that

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  15. ever before in my life, and I was

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  16. instantly hooked. It didn't just feel good

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  17. physically, it also felt good mentally

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  18. because another person is letting you

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  19. inside of them. It means that they really

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  20. like you, and it feels good when people

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  21. like you. I was 21 when I first

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  22. experienced this, and I thought to myself,

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  23. I've been wasting my life playing video

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  24. games and watching anime when I could have

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  25. been having cereal. Now you might be

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  26. wondering, why didn't you just have cereal

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  27. when you went home back to England? Why

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  28. didn't you just find a girlfriend in

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  29. England? Why did you keep going to Japan

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  30. and other countries to have cereal? Well,

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  31. the thing is, girls back home in England

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  32. never really showed any interest in me.

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  33. They never saw me as a man or a guy. They

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  34. just saw me as this little boy who they

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  35. didn't take seriously, and to be honest,

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  36. I didn't really feel very attracted to the

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  37. women back in my country or around my

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  38. area. I'm not saying that they were all

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  39. fat and ugly, it's just that they aren't

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  40. really my type. For some reason, I just

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  41. couldn't picture myself being in a

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  42. relationship with anyone but an Asian

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  43. woman. I decided to focus on Japan and

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  44. Japanese girls because of my exposure to

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  45. anime. I felt like I was more used to

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  46. Japan. I felt like I was more at home in

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  47. Japan. Also, I had been studying Japanese,

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  48. so I could already speak to Japanese

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  49. people in Japanese fairly well. And I just

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  50. felt like Japanese women were the most

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  51. attractive women in, in all of Asia. I

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  52. ended up coming back to Japan every single

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  53. year for one reason, really: to find a

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  54. girlfriend. Not for anything else. I

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  55. didn't really care about the food or

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  56. traveling around or experiencing Japan.

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  57. All of that was just like bonus things on

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  58. the side. The main objective was to find a

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  59. girlfriend. I started off by staying in

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  60. guesthouses, which were these big houses

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  61. where almost 100 people would live, and

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  62. they would share the living room, the

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  63. kitchen, the showers. And it was a great

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  64. place to meet friends, to make friends,

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  65. and to meet people, and also make

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  66. girlfriends. The first few times I stayed

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  67. at guesthouses in Japan, I found it

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  68. relatively easy to find girlfriends, and I

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  69. found about 3 or 4. Girlfriends in these

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  70. guest houses. But after the 3rd or 4th

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  71. time staying in a guest house, I started

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  72. to find it very difficult to find a

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  73. girlfriend at the guest house. A few years

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  74. ago, I stayed in this guest house in Japan

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  75. and I couldn't find a girlfriend. I stayed

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  76. there for 3 months and I couldn't find

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  77. anyone who, who would show an interest in

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  78. me. So I had to resort to homo cereal. I

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  79. was just so depressed and desperate to

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  80. have cereal. I even let a guy spoon-feed

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  81. me Cheerios. I have nothing against homo

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  82. seriality. But honestly speaking, that was

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  83. a low point in my life, and I'm not really

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  84. proud of it. After coming to Japan

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  85. multiple times and failing to find a nice

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  86. girlfriend, I started to give up on the

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  87. idea of ever finding the perfect

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  88. girlfriend. You know, that perfect girl

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  89. who ticks off all the boxes on my perfect

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  90. girlfriend list. And I resorted to having

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  91. cereal with anyone who would let me. I

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  92. didn't care if she was fat and ugly. Or if

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  93. she had a big mole on her back. As long as

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  94. I was getting cereal, that was good

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  95. enough. It was all I could think about.

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  96. When, when would be the next time I could

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  97. have cereal again? It was never enough.

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  98. It was on my mind all of the time. Even if

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  99. I was having loads of cereal, I would

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  100. still just be thinking about the next

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  101. bowl. It was like an addiction. It was

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  102. like some kind of disease. There was never

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  103. enough. The more cereal I had, the more I

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  104. wanted. It wasn't just Japan. I tried out

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  105. other countries as well. I went to South

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  106. Korea multiple times for cereal. I went to

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  107. Taiwan as well because I knew this

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  108. Taiwanese girl who I thought was

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  109. interested in having cereal with me, but

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  110. it turns out she didn't like me at all,

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  111. and I wasted a whole month living in her

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  112. stupid house. Well, I had to suffer the

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  113. Taiwanese summer in her house because her

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  114. family couldn't afford to buy air

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  115. conditioning, and then she worked night

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  116. shift and slept during the day, and she

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  117. wouldn't even take me out to see places

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  118. and told me to hang out with her brother

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  119. or talk to her parents. I didn't come to

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  120. Taiwan to talk to your brother or your

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  121. parents. I came to have cereal. Lots of

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  122. people made fun of me. They said things

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  123. like, hahaha, Daniel has to go to another

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  124. country to find someone to have cereal

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  125. with him. He can't even get cereal in his

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  126. own country. Yeah, so what? That's true.

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  127. I'm not denying that. But the thing is,

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  128. the kind of cereal that I like doesn't

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  129. exist, or it's very, very hard to find

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  130. where I come from. So the most obvious

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  131. thing to do would be to go to the place

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  132. where they have the cereal that I enjoy.

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  133. Ever since the beginning of the human

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  134. race, people have been moving around the

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  135. planet. They've been moving to other

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  136. countries in search of suitable mates.

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  137. It's completely normal. It's completely

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  138. natural. Fish do it all the time. They

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  139. move to— they swim to another part of the

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  140. ocean just so they can fuck! I mean, have

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  141. cereal. What I'm trying to say is, okay,

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  142. maybe I have— maybe I do have a little bit

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  143. of an addiction to cereal. Maybe I enjoy

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  144. cereal a little bit more than the average

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  145. person does. But there's nothing wrong

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  146. with going to another country to find

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  147. cereal. People do it all of the time.

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  148. They've been doing it since the beginning

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  149. of humanity. And I don't see why there's

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  150. anything— I don't see what's wrong with

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  151. it. If you have a good reason why it's a

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  152. bad idea to go to another country to find

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  153. cereal, then great, let's hear it. Write

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  154. in the comments, send me an email. If you

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  155. don't like it, then fine, just stay in

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  156. your own country, date people from your

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  157. own country. It's just that some of us

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  158. have slightly more adventurous tastes when

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  159. it comes to cereal.

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  160. Hello and welcome back to Cooking with

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  161. Daniel. Today we're going to be making

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  162. Friedo rice. Our ingredients

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  163. for today are bacon, rice,

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  164. green onions, an egg,

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  165. and, um, celery, and lastly

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  166. frozen vegetables. For seasoning

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  167. we have black pepper, basil, chicken

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  168. stock, and sesame oil.

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  169. First things first, we're going to start

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  170. slicing the bacon into tiny cubes.

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  171. After the bacon has been sliced up, next

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  172. we cut the celery into tiny cubes.

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  173. It's time to start frying. We have some

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  174. sesame oil prepared in the frying pan.

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  175. Now it's time to add the rice. It's

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  176. actually a better idea to microwave the

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  177. rice before you add it so it's nice and

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  178. soft. If you forgot to microwave

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  179. your rice beforehand, then use a plastic

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  180. spatula to break down the lumps of rice

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  181. into smaller pieces.

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  182. We've added the egg, and the trick is to

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  183. let the egg cook a tiny bit before you

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  184. start mixing it into the rice. This just

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  185. gives the rice a nice yellowy color.

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  186. After the egg has cooked for a little bit,

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  187. we can start mixing the egg into the rice

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  188. like so.

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  189. Now that we've added all of the

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  190. ingredients to the fried rice, we can

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  191. start pressing it down into the pan. This

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  192. is a good idea because it starts to burn

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  193. the rice slightly, which gives it this

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  194. nice scorched flavor. Turn up the heat to

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  195. speed up this process.

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  196. And here's the finished product— fried

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  197. rice. It has a nice smoky flavor thanks to

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  198. the smoky bacon, and the green onions give

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  199. it a nice tangy flavor.

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