Lucky you! I wasn’t a tourist so it wasn’t really easy to get it. I can’t even recall if it was served at breakfasts which seemed to be also at restaurants. I would have preferred to have it at every meal. Even the meal with the live drunken shrimps didn’t have white rice. Ditto with the cooked snake dishes. Maybe it was the same meal - that was Shanghai March 1998. There were still a lot of people on bicycles during that trip. It changed / gentrified when I was back in fall 2001.
it is possible that I had white rice with lamb at the Xinjiang cuisine place in hangzhou in November 2005 before I caught the bus to go to PVG (Shanghai airport).
Anyway I’m just glad that I don’t have to return to China for now and if I travel internationally then I have other places I’ll want to first visit. I still really enjoy Chinese food in my own city where I live; there really are a lot of Chinese restaurants here and I still get white rice.