Get us Egg rice dumplings please!!! Stop saying imbalance, and take away all of them from the game and then distribute 1 stack to everyone by mail. Then, when GM's popped in game, 3 times a year, you do not give more than one stack per toon. Problem solved and fixed.
I personnally know of 5 players who have more than 2000 egg rice. Bragging how last time the president cam in the game at 3AM EST and got like 10 stacks, come on. Make it fair to everyone and don't pop in game only at PST time and not tell anyone. Or just give them to endgamers or players that just go to AH and sell them, make them bound and stop the fuss.
Last time i got dumplings from a GM was 1 1/2 year ago. Sad ;-(
TYVM
PST is the timezone for most players on the US server, it's natural to assume GMs aren't going to stay up or wake up early to cater for other timezones and understandably so.
Limitation of stacks to be character bound isn't as ideal as you think, personally most of my stash came from the gasha sales and I certainly won't be impressed if they're removed (as per my unspent diamonds during that time). Yes, there's some players who weren't as fortunate to be playing when the sale was on and are unhappy they don't have what others have, but you're proposing to penalise some players based on the fact that they've been playing for longer and were online at the right time.
To be honest most DPS don't use Def food especially in the case of dungeons. A lot of players may pick up from GMs then forward on to tanks and healers in their guild. Egg Rice for SW is only a small amount of players.
Having said that I slept through the GMPresident visit since I'm GMT 0, however I was lucky enough to have friends who sent me stacks of the stuff (since they weren't bound).