Her other lifelong question was “Why is it always 10 minutes for Chinese take out, no matter what you order?”
The timing is unnessarily 10 mins . Some shop might take 15 mins. Most of chinese shop’s fried rice are cooked on spot and provided that the number of customers are resonable it could take only 10mins to prepare a fried rice with all the ingredients ready. Other dishes like swt and sour prk/chicken, bean curd with pork, etc are usually cooked in bulk and probably also left overs from yesterday. All you need to do is to reheat it. If a person wants to cook a proper chinese dish, say 3 dishes ( vege, meat, soup_) it could easily take 2 hour plus to get the dishes done from preparation till serving. Moreover, the take away menus are easy to cook dishes and doesnt require much time provided the ingredients are prepared beforehand.