At the end, the bottom gets a little crispy, and everyone eats from the same big pan.
Yes, it is! Paella comes from a coastal part of Spain called Valencia. People there have rice fields, farms with chickens and rabbits and the sea close by with fish and shrimp. So they mixed all those things in one big pan. That’s why paella is special: it’s made from the food that grows (and lives) right around the homes of the people who prepare this dish.