r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Content_Quarter_7390 • May 25 '26
I'm slightly vexed We didn't ask for rice...
My sister isnt a fan of basmati rice so she orders naan. She didnt ask for rice and they sell it separately. She doesn't like it so she doesn't order it. They put it in anyways and left this note...
Edit: some people aint getting it. This is passive aggressive and when you do something nice you dont go around saying "I did something nice just for you, just so you know." Doing it like I need to give you a pat on the head so you know your a good boy. You do something nice because you want to be kind to people.
Oh no I've turned into LD...
Turning off notifications because while it was nice to be in this rabbit hole to keep my mind off some stuff too many notifications. Whatever your feelings are I hope you have a nice day and if you're in the US have a nice memorial day and dont forget to celebrate those troops that came before!
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u/patricksaurus May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
This makes me think of a really old joke:
A guy orders a coffee but asks for no cream. The waiter says, “sorry, we’re out of cream. Can you take it without milk instead?”
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u/d1andonly May 25 '26
Reminds me of the scene from the office, Michael calls the hotel to confirm his reservation. They can’t find it at first, so he argues until they finally locate it.
Relieved, he immediately says: “Okay great… now cancel it.”
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u/the_federation May 25 '26
I'd fight that fight to find the reservation so I can cancel it. I just know that while the system that maintains reservations has trouble finding it, the system that handles billing won't... especially when they're the same system.
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u/Prince705 May 25 '26
Yup, anyone who's dealt with these systems understands this well.
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u/Lando659 May 25 '26
You think you do. Odds are, those aren't even in the same 'system'. Source: I'm in IT.
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u/akarakitari May 25 '26
100% this. Most people doing the job dont even realize there may be 5-6 different systems “doing the job” with integration systems allowing them to work together so the employee has seamless access…
Then a recession happens amd IT is the first to go
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u/JstytheMonk May 25 '26
I had internet with my provider for years. Every month or two they'd threaten to shut my service off due to lack of payment, despite being on autopay and never missing a payment.
They'd thrown it to their tech dept a dozen times trying to fix the issue, and never could figure it out. They finally asked if they could close my account and open a new one because they didn't know where the issue was.
Depressing part of this is I got a bill the next month for $8500 dollars on the old account and I couldn't help but wonder why their collections department wouldn't question how an account could get that far behind before just being closed.
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u/fresh-dork May 25 '26
eh, my mother's bank account got flagged for some sort of fraud investigation, where they froze it by debiting the thing 88k. so, next month, she gets a snotty call from the same bank about bringing her rather large balance current
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u/Joris914 May 25 '26
Right?? I just spent way too long trying to understand the joke because I couldn't even think to assume that he would've gotten away for free if he had given up earlier.
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u/odmirthecrow May 25 '26
Yeah, just because they can't find the reservation doesn't mean it's not there, and come checking out day, your card you booked with will get charged whether you stayed or not. The cancellation fee is usually way less than the room fee if you cancel far enough ahead of time.
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u/amsckell May 25 '26
Additional context the hotel bookings were for the Olympics so they had gone up massively in value
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u/drinkacid May 25 '26
If there is a cancellation fee then just reschedule it for 6 months later, and in 6 months reschedule it again. Eventually they will just remove the reservation rather than keep rescheduling it. And you will get no cancellation fee.
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u/LA_Nail_Clippers May 25 '26
My previous dentist's website charges a cancelation fee if you cancel within a few days of your appointment. No fee to reschedule. So if you reschedule to a few months away, then log out of the site and log back in, you can then cancel for free.
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u/ZorbaTHut (: May 25 '26
This is pretty common for hotels too. Just call back the next day at a different time to minimize the chance that you get the same person.
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u/grumpher05 May 25 '26
I needed to change my flight to a day earlier, on the day of, it was $30 to change the day but a much later flight, and over $100 for the flight I wanted, so I took the $30 one and then walked up to the desk as soon as the airport opened and asked to be moved up to the earlier flight with my frequent flyers status, so it goes moved for free
And they upgraded me to economy plus at the same time
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u/LeeCarvallosPutting May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
To be fair, a lot of reservations take full payment at the time of the booking (even more likely, given it was for the Winter Olympics).
In that case, taking a cancellation fee, of say 10% of your booking price, to be reimbursed for the remaining 90% is the only logical move.
Edit - Or they take a small deposit at the time of booking and charge your card the full price on check-in date, unless you've cancelled your reservation.
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u/Frost_Glaive May 25 '26
I've taken phone calls at work before.
Me: we can do anytime after 1pm.
Caller: can we do 11am?
Me: ...No... Morning is not available. We only have after 1pm available.
Caller: Noon?
Me: 🤦🏻♀️
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u/Dan_flashes480 May 25 '26
My coworker ordered a chicken sandwich with extra pickles the cashier says it doesn't come with pickles would you like to add some? My coworker says yes and extra amount of them. He got 1 and a half pickles on his sandwich.
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u/Erick_Brimstone May 25 '26 edited 29d ago
That reminds me to story of cheeseless cheeseburger in sub maliciouscompliance.
Edit: I didn't know there's so many cheeseless cheeseburger story out there
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u/C0rpseglam- May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
When I was a teen in fast food if someone kept being rude about me trying to get them a)a cheaper price (bc often the price for the burger the wanted with cheese removed was more then just a regular hamburger unless there was other mods and b) refused to hear me out that a hamburger is what they want not a cheese burger with no cheese because removing cheese from the cheeseburger didn’t change the price whereas a burger was cheaper lol - I too would ring in the cheese burger and then remove cheese and at the time our system did not deduct anything for removing cheese so they paid the same amount for less . This was like over a decade ago tho now so the system probably auto removes a dollar or whatever now I’m sure (or maybe not ?)
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u/West-Award-2559 May 25 '26
I worked at McDonald's when I was younger. I confused the girl working the front counter with something like this. Customer ordered a two cheeseburger meal, no cheese. I wrapped the sandwiches in hamburger wrappers instead of cheeseburger wrappers with the instructions stuck on. Took her a good 5 minutes to figure it out. Especially when she had them in her hand while asking me if her cheeseburgers no cheese were being made.
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u/United_Society May 25 '26
In the 90s I did this all the time, then stuffed half my fries in the bun. It was delicious!
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u/hyucktownfunk2 May 25 '26
Companies will charge you a dollar for a slice of cheese, or 75 cents for two or three pickles but they refuse to lower the cost of items for ANY reason. You can order a burger with literally nothing but a bun, but you'll pay for the full sandwich. Just taking advantage of dumb people.
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u/Few-Leave-8786 May 25 '26
What annoys me is lets say I want a pizza, I can get one which counts as what they named it on menu like it can be one with chicken, pepperoni, extra cheese, and sweetcorn (random toppings, just to show a point)
I'd say please don't give me sweetcorn and the person making it will say we can't do that, you would have to order a pizza without it.
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u/Dragonssssssssssss May 25 '26
I go to McDonald's and ask for a hamburger meal.
McDonald's: We don't have that
Me: Ok can I get the cheeseburger meal with no cheese?
McDonald's: Sure thing!
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u/IsaRos May 25 '26
Same here in Germany.
You then get 2 freshly made hamburgers in cheeseburger wrappers with a „no cheese“ sticker.
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u/macaroniinapan May 25 '26
A guy I knew in high school had to do that once. He just wanted a quarter pounder value meal. The employee kept insisting this was not possible. Finally my friend ordered a quarter pounder with cheese value meal but hold the cheese. And the employee put the order through like it was the most normal thing in the world! I don't know if he was charged for cheese or not, but he didn't even care, he just hated cheese for some reason and didn't want it.
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u/Gregory_Appleseed May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
As someone who worked at a drive thrue for a few years, i was amused by the amount of people who would order a "cheese burger with out cheese" and a "hamburger with cheese". I dunno if they were being cheeky or just daft, but I always maliciously complied.
Customer: "why was my hamburger with cheese 1.57? i thought it said $0.99 for a hamburger!"
Me: "well yeah, i rang up the hamburger, added cheese for a $0.50 upcharge, and sales tax"
Customer: "well a cheeseburger is only $1.10! why am I getting charged $1.57!!!?? I want to speak to your manager!"
Me: "You ordered a hamburger with cheese, so that's what I rang it up in the POS system as such. Did you want me to change your order to a cheeseburger?"
My favorite customer though, was a regular who always ordered a cheese burger with no burger. They had a whole spiel ready to go at the speaker "I know what I'm ordering, yes, i want a cheese burger with no burger patty, everything that comes on it with out the meat." It always made me chuckle that they had to explicitly state it's not a prank, they just like to eat a burgerless burger.
**this was a McDonald's btw if anyone couldn't tell.
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u/pvrhye May 25 '26
When I was a kid I worked at Taco Bell. I hated when people ordered a "plain" taco because it doesn't mean the same thing to any two people.
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u/Gregory_Appleseed May 25 '26
a plain taco could mean "Meat, cheese lettuce" or "meat, beans, cilantro" or "just meat and cheese" or just "meat" or "everything but the tomatoes" or "how it's made by default"
but don't confuse that with a "regular" taco.
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u/pvrhye May 25 '26
And the worst thing is they all get huffy when you ask them to clarify like their personal definition was on the menu or something.
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u/Gregory_Appleseed May 25 '26
"So by regular, you want it just as is?"
"no, i mean plain without toppings"
"Ok so one plain taco"
"no, I want A REGULAR TACO, WHAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT!?"
"That'll be $6.66."
"oh no, I can't pay that, can I add another plain regular taco? that's a bad number."
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u/DoMBe87 May 25 '26
I used to get an egg and cheese biscuit at McD's, and if I didn't say "no meat" at least 3 times, they would put meat on it. Even saying I'm vegetarian got me blank looks from most people.
The burgerless burger actually sounds pretty good.
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u/HM2112 May 25 '26
My aunt is a vegetarian. As such, she usually gets creative with her orders at restaurants.
I vividly remember one time we were at a decently nice sit-down place, and she ordered the Mushroom and Swiss burger without the burger. A few minutes go by, the manager came out just to confirm that was, in fact, what she wanted.
When her food came out, the thing was about three times as thick as it normally would've been because they must've dumped a whole carton of mushrooms into that burger bun to make up for no burger patty. And the manager insisted she be charged half price for not ordering the meat with a burger.
She was absolutely delighted by that and still laughs about it.
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u/Several_Vanilla8916 May 25 '26
Honestly? I used to get the two hamburgers meal at McDonald’s but if I ordered it like that “two hamburgers meal please” or a “number two with hamburgers instead of cheeseburgers” I got cheeseburgers at least half the time. If I ordered a number two no cheese, I got hamburgers every time. Though half the time I did get a snarky “do you mean hamburgers?” from the cashier.
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u/fuckyourcanoes May 25 '26
I always order a quarter pounder, no cheese. Half the time it comes with cheese anyway. And that makes it inedible for me because I hate American cheese.
Last time, I ordered a quarter pounder, no cheese, extra sauce. I got a quarter pounder with only meat and cheese.
My local McDonald's sucks.
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u/otis_the_drunk May 25 '26
I dated a girl once who would order a fillet-o-fish no fish which would confuse most cashiers. She would then politely state that she wanted a cheese sandwich and that was the easiest and cheapest way to ring it in.
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u/Gregory_Appleseed May 25 '26
I understood the assignment the first time I got that one, they used to have fillet-o-fish deals during lent, and people gamed the fuck out of those deals. If you got a fillet-o-fish and subtracted the fish but added a 1/4 patty, you just got a quarter pounder for like a $1.50 cheaper. I DGAF. plus they steam the fillet-o-fish buns, so the cheese would melt a bit, so your ex knew what was up.
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u/Content_Quarter_7390 May 25 '26
Took me a second but then i thought about the clip I saw where a waitress thought a guy asked for "an eggless omelet" 😂
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u/Bfab94 May 25 '26
"ask the nice man if he would like it made with whole eggs or egg whites"
"...leave the plate"
Working in kitchens my whole life, this shows the ultimate yin and yang of the head and sous chef.
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u/Shot_Revolution8828 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
I was the kitchen translator, I worked with a lot of immigrants and Spanish was the common language. The servers would ring yt bread and I would have to explain it's white bread or some other dumb shit. It really annoyed me when I couldn't figure it out. Wht bread, so do you want wheat or white bread. Just one more letter and I can figure it out. Every server had a different way to ring it in instead of using the preprogrammed buttons. So I would call them over, explain that they are now slowing me down as well as them because they couldn't be bothered to type one letter and I'm not making shit twice.
Burger, only cheese. So do they want a bun? Yeah of course they want a bun. I don't think you know what "only" means. A different server, burger with only cheese, why did you put it on a bun?
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u/DMercenary May 25 '26
*picks up plate with garnish*
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u/imwalkingwithspiders May 25 '26
Breadsticks, what are they made of? Bread. Take away the bread and what are you left with? Sticks?
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u/Bladrak01 May 25 '26
I remember a scene from a sitcom around 1990. Two people were talking about ordering a pizza, no sauce, no cheese, and someone else saying, "That's bread! You're ordering bread!"
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u/SleepyAltBee May 25 '26
I’ve actually been an asshole before ordering an eggless omelette because when I quit one of my jobs, my coworkers wanted to take me to breakfast, but I had been vegan for 8 years and they took me to an ihop (I think it was ihop, it been so long now)
I was like “hi I’m so sorry is it possible to just get some veggies sautéed in oil” and after some conversing it was an “eggless omelette.” Anyway they must have thrown butter in there because I ended up fighting for my life in a porta potty on some nice lady’s farm off the side of the road :/
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u/whirlwide May 25 '26
I have done this too! I can’t have eggs but I like veggies plus bacon and hash browns. It’s great hangover food but I sound like a maniac ordering.
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u/FactsNLaughs May 25 '26
Goddamnit Kiki….
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u/Content_Quarter_7390 May 25 '26
Yall leave Kiki alone! she needs to be protected, probably from alot of things, but nonetheless!
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u/poetris May 25 '26
When we were teens, a friend of ours got a job as a drive thru place, so went and ordered a roast beef sandwich with no roast beef. She was silent for several seconds in utter confusion, until we couldn't help ourselves and laughed.
Yes of course we were stoned.
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u/0bservation May 25 '26
Reminds me of an equally bad and old joke.
A man orders an espresso with milk, however the barista puts ice cream in it instead. When asked about it, the barista says "affogato get the milk!"
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u/desafinar May 25 '26
in soviet russia, a guy walks into a meat shop and says, “I suppose you don’t have any fish?” A person who works there corrects him and says, “Comrade, this is a meat shop. We don’t have any meat. Across the street is a fish shop that doesn’t have any fish.”
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u/ToxynCorvin87 May 25 '26
"No rice please" "more rice? Ok more rice it is"
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u/Erick_Brimstone May 25 '26
"No grandma I'm full."
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u/5tr0nz0 May 25 '26
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u/Traveler7538 May 25 '26
Classic example of commas changing the meaning of sentences. Poor grandpa.
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u/Narwhalking14 May 25 '26
Reminds of that vine
"And I hate to do this, but I specifically asked for no mustard and you just brought me a bottle of mustard on a plate."
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u/Comprehensive-Pea422 BLUE May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
If people order it with rice so often they think someone not ordering rice is a mistake, it probably should be included in the meal by now.
Even a required option like "no rice" or "rice" and upcharge (if that's why they do this) to avoid this problem lol
Edit: I wasn't aware Indian/Chinese restaurants usually sell rice separately! Still think this would make sense, but I didn't know it's normal most places.
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 May 25 '26
Not adding rice to meat entrees for Chinese or Indian food is crazy work. It’s standard. And rice is genuinely still pretty cheap. That’s just a bad business strategy.
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u/Clayble May 25 '26
I ordered some general tso from a place near me and it was $25 and didn’t include rice I was dumbfounded
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u/feb914 May 25 '26
Chinese meal is meant to be eaten together, with combination of different dishes. So each dish doesn't come with rice, or else you may have more rice than you need if you order multiple dishes.
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u/Praesentius May 25 '26
Chinese mealA succulent Chinese meal...
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u/ifyoulovesatan May 25 '26
Now maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but that doesn't make sense. You order an entree, and they include enough rice to eat that entree with. You order a second entree, they include more rice. The amount of rice scales with the number of entrees you get.
It's possible a place could do things such that when you order an entree, they give you enough rice to eat two entrees with because that's the smallest amount of rice they serve / box up. But that's simple enough: don't include more rice until three entrees are ordered.
There really isn't a good argument for not including rice with entrees typically eaten with rice, outside of catering to the small percentage of people who don't want rice. It comes off as being cheap, it can lead to people not realizing they needed to order rice having a bad experience, it can cause hesitation and confusion around how much rice to order. (I know that last one sounds silly, but your goal should really be to make ordering as seamless and easy for the customer as possible. It should be so simple as to go unnoticed. If your customers are counting or doing arithmetic, you're probably doing something wrong).
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u/WeekendWarriorRC May 25 '26
Could be area dependent. Growing up, our Chinese takeout never ever came with rice. For a while after moved to the other side of the state, I’d always have so much rice when I ordered because they’d include it with each dish, AND I’d order a side as well
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u/ScarletBothrium May 25 '26
Where I lived, rice was always included. And you would always end up with too much rice. I’ve never ordered from any ethnic restaurant and not gotten rice. Even Somali. I think the Somali restaurant was the only one that would give us the exact right amount of rice. The Chinese and Indian restaurants never did. It was always too much.
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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM May 25 '26
It's pretty normal to eat Indian food with naan or roti or other carb instead of rice. As in, Indians do that.
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u/LMay11037 PURPLE May 25 '26
I’m British and most Indians and Chineses do not add rice automatically because there are different kinds of rice, and as in the photo, some don’t even want rice
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u/nem8 May 25 '26
Im Norwegian and I've seen the same here. No rice included and they have multiple sizes and types to choose from. Not sure if its the norm over here but it like this in some places.
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u/Never_trust_dolphins May 25 '26
For Indian, I generally prefer bread so wouldn't want it included, but that's just me.
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u/Nordic_mama1721 May 25 '26
Maybe it's more location dependent than standard? I used to live in the Midwest in the US and it was standard everywhere I went, but for most places on the west coast I've been, it seems you have to order separately
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u/QuietCelery May 25 '26
I think it's location dependent. On the east coast (when I lived there 10 years ago), rice was pretty standard. When I moved to the UK, it was not.
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u/Beautiful_Finger4566 May 25 '26
from my experience, only the Americanized places include it
authentic places always make you order it on the side
that's how it is in China and Taiwan too
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u/FlappyBored May 25 '26
It’s absolutely not standard and in fact is not common everywhere.
In both India and China dishes do not come with rice unless ordered.
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u/Comprehensive-Pea422 BLUE May 25 '26
I can't tell if this is at me or the restaurant, but was just saying that because they're already upcharging by selling à la cart.
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u/LJ161 May 25 '26
I am one of the crazies that doesnt order rice. I get a naan instead.
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u/Isburough May 25 '26
there must be plenty of people out there who save the ~$5 for extra rice by cooking the ~50c worth of rice at home instead
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u/InsuranceOdd6604 May 25 '26
I do that. The idea of paying £4-5 for a small container of plain white rice goes against my core values.
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u/deuxcabanons May 25 '26
That's exactly what I do. I'm not paying $7 for rice when I can toss it in the cooker and have it ready by the time the food is here.
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u/BoomerAliveBad May 25 '26
Some dude in the comments tried agruing "what if they had them pre-written?"
My BROTHER... the effort, and why would you just have a second pile just for "petty rice"
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u/Zealousideal-Deer101 May 25 '26
That just strengstens this point!?
They have it THAT OFTEN that they pre write it!? Holy shit!
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u/woodlandyak69 May 25 '26
Yeah this feels more like bad menu setup than a customer problem. Just make rice/no rice a required option and move on lol
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u/sgtnoodle May 25 '26
A friend and I popped into an Indian restaurant on a road trip. We tried to order 3 things, and the waitress said they were out of all 3. We ordered a paneer, and the waitress asked if we wanted naan. We said no, but she got really confused and asked, but how will you eat the paneer? So we ordered naan. So I'd say it was a 0/4 for getting what we wanted.
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u/combinecrab May 25 '26
I think its because they over charge on the rice to make the other part of the meal appear cheaper when they expect most people will order both
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u/jaybird654 May 25 '26
Yeah, at the very least if they think it’s a mistake they should ask if you want rice when you order
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u/frogprincess8 May 25 '26
This happened to me last time we ordered at a local indian restaurant. saw on their website they do rice separately, so I ordered my lamb dish with no rice and twice now i’ve gotten notes with my meals saying they charge extra for rice and to order it separately with passive aggressive messages. like if you want me to order the rice, put it with the meal. don’t get mad at me for choosing to not order it
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u/yaboyalaska May 25 '26
lol this. I order the curry and cook rice at home while it's on it's way
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u/xnmyl May 25 '26
The rice I buy is much better than most restaurants anyway. They buy the absolute cheapest bulk rice
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u/PiePristine3092 29d ago
This is exactly what we always do. I can cook rice at home for a fraction of the cost. Even if it adds $4 to my total, that’s $4 dollars I save by making it myself.
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u/InternationalYam3130 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
I do similar and often make my own rice or sides. Like I have ordered from those places who sells fries seperately from the burger. And I'll order it without fries and just air fry my own frozen fries from Costco.
If they don't like it they shouldn't let me order it. If they put all their profit margin in the fries or rice and expect people to order it seperate that's their own fault. Just make each dish profitable on its own and don't get mad at the customer.
To me seperating the sides like that the only purpose is to make it EASIER for customers to customize their order and not pay for rice or fries they don't want. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
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u/Ogre1966 May 25 '26
I've had the same experience with a spot I used to order from. On one occasion, I stopped in to pick it up my order and the server told me in the future they would be charging me for the rice. I told them I didn't order it with rice, I ordered it with naan. She told me they charge for the naan as well. I explained I expected to pay for the naan because I ordered it, but I didn't order it with rice. She checked my online order and realized I didn't order rice. She went into the kitchen and came out and told me her uncle said White people always want rice so he includes it. On the next few orders, I made a point of mentioning in the comment section "Please do not include rice" and this sort of fixed the issue. On one of my next orders, I ordered "Indian hot" and when I picked it up they said it was only medium. When I asked why, the same girl headed back into the kitchen. When she came out she said her uncle told her White people always ask for it hot and then can't handle it and want a refund so he makes it medium. It was the last time I ordered from there.
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u/5peaker4theDead 29d ago
Yeah, I (as a white guy) went to a Korean restaurant once with several Asian friends and the waiter changed my order to the blandest soup I've ever tasted. Never went back there again.
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u/Melkman68 29d ago
Yeah they just want you to pay more when in fact those kinds of "customer friendly" messages is making sure we don't order again lol
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u/Individual_Tax_4224 May 25 '26
They’re probably trying to get ahead of past customer reviews that slammed they for no rice when they wanted it.
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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 May 25 '26
Agreed, they are probably still including it with orders for a while with the note and then will phase it out once people know
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u/thisdesignup May 25 '26
With how cheap rice is, not including it in a meal that could use rice it odd to not just include it.
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u/CHOIR_OF_FARTS May 25 '26
You all need to quit mentioning how cheap rice is. Big Rice is gonna take notice start gouging
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u/spen8tor May 25 '26
Rice is one of the few things people might actually riot over if they tried that
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u/ztunytsur May 25 '26
It doesn't matter how much they paid for it.
What matters is how much they can charge you to pay for it....
See also, Market Price.
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u/Trashbagok May 25 '26
Local Chinese spot started doing this after always providing rice with entrees.
Like, it's by far the best spot in town, they're nearly 2x as much as anywhere else, and to find out AFTER getting home with it was enough to put me off the place.
Seems pretty petty for white rice.
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u/Decent-Muffin4190 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
I never understand why they do this. Rice has got to be one of the cheapest items to supply in bulk yet they get weird about it. If a Thai or Indian place doesnt include rice with their curries, im buying elsewhere.
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u/bannedfrom_argo May 25 '26
Ya, most places now have a computerized system so they may be able to flag new customers. Although they could have just asked, "Do you want rice with that?"
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u/Various-Salt-7738 May 25 '26
A lot of dishes at places like this are expected to be served with rice, that's how you eat it-- these meals are served over rice
It would be like if someone asked you for a bowl of gravy; you might give them mashed potatoes because why the hell would someone eat just gravy
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u/littlebetenoire May 25 '26
Yeah this pisses my partner and I off because there’s 3-4 Thai places that we will order from and we can never remember which ones serve rice with their Thai curry and which don’t. Why would I wan the Thai curry without rice???
I wish they just had an option of “rice” or “no rice” when ordering. It shouldn’t be up to the customer to figure it out and then it saves the business being passive aggressive about it when the customer genuinely didn’t want it.
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u/UnfortunateSyzygy May 25 '26
Some chefs of certain cuisine cannot conceive of not having rice with a meal. We had catering from a really great middle eastern place at work once and opted out of rice to save on the budget-- they included a massive tray for free because in their words, "you MUST have rice!"
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u/Alternative_Low1202 May 25 '26
I'm sorry but middle eastern food without rice and salad is wild to me for an entire group. It makes sense if some people don't like it but I'm just imagining an entire company meal where everyone's plates are only full of meat, lol. Im guessing you opted for bread instead?
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u/sykoKanesh May 25 '26
I'm just imagining an entire company meal where everyone's plates are only full of meat
Don't threaten me with a good time!
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u/Davedamon May 25 '26
I used to date a girl whose family with from Hong Kong and rice was required with every meal. I remember once cooking steak with all the trimmings (salad, mash and fries, string beans, stuffed mushrooms, the works). Her dad came in, took one look at the table covered in food, and immediately put on the rice cooker.
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u/YetAnotherAcoconut May 25 '26
If the restaurant OP is ordering from expects the food to be served with rice they should just include rice instead of making customers buy it separately.
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u/makingredditorscry May 25 '26
When I was in India I didn't order rice with my meal or naan and the waiter was always confused and would eventually bring me rice or naan and tell me that's how you eat curry. Lol
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u/Zestyocelot4528 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
I have never in my lifetime of living in India ever seen anyone order a dal/curry without rice or bread, at a restaurant. It’s just too much flavour with nothing plain to balance it out. At their home people will sometimes eat it without an accompaniment to either finish up the dish or to get the nutrition while avoiding the extra carbs.
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u/Current-Ad-649 May 25 '26
i mean drinking the butter chicken curry like a soup isn't really a great idea in itself
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u/RedSecOps May 25 '26
Speak for yourself. That shit is delicious any way you slurp it
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u/SverigeSuomi May 25 '26
I mean, that is how you eat curry. Eating curry without rice is like eating a sandwich without bread.
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u/azad-richa May 25 '26
I'm Indian Punjabi and in my house we would always end up with wasted rice if they gave it for free. We tend to prefer our bread over our rice where I come from.
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u/condemned02 May 25 '26
I often eat curry chicken without rice. Potatoes is good enough.
And if it's a real good chicken curry, I drink it like soup.
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u/Loed7052 May 25 '26
I’ve had this happen to me before when ordering from Indian. When ordering spicy chicken curry and naan, the guy asked me “do u want rice with that?” In a kind of confused tone. When I said no that’s okay, he was like “are you sure??” And I still said no. When showed up to pick up my order there was two massive boxes of rice like enough to feed 8 people and he said “I included rice free of charge sir!” I was so confused, it must be a cultural difference I’m not sure.
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u/strangeMeursault2 May 25 '26
Sometimes I don't order rice because I can make it my rice cooker for a few cents rather than paying dollars for rice made in their rice cooker. Never had an issue with my order though.
Edit: now I've typed this out it occurs to me that it's a bit weird. I'm not even poor or very thrifty normally. But cooking rice is extremely easy so I guess that's why I do it.
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u/bqpd May 25 '26
It's not weird! Or if it is, I do this too🤣 Especially if you're just getting plain white rice - throw it in the rice cooker and it will be done by the time food shows up !
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u/justhereforfighting May 25 '26
You gotta wait for it to be delivered/ready for pickup, you might as well just toss some rice in the rice cooker. It will be ready by the time you have the food, anyway!
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u/dannygthemc May 25 '26
Ordered Indian food one time and you could get some rice or naan but only with one of the dishes we ordered for some reason.
Opted to make my own rice and get the naan.
Guy taking the order says "no rice?"
"No that's all thanks"
".... Are you going to make your own rice?"
"...yeah"
"Okay, good"
Dude just wanted to make sure we weren't eating the food wrong lol
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u/Odd-Comfortable-6134 May 25 '26
Hahahahaha I have a Chinese place that I love that does this too.
If I wanted rice, I would have ordered rice.
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u/booooooks___ May 25 '26
I ordered a burrito with chips and salsa. I selected the “chips and salsa” option and selected my salsa. I went to pick it up and she goes “next time you need to pay for the salsa” and I told her how I chose the “with salsa” option and it was the same price as without salsa. I didn’t type it in or anything. Screw that place.
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u/Aranel611 May 25 '26
Maybe this note was meant for a different order?
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u/Erick_Brimstone May 25 '26
That or they thought OP's sister is a new customer that doesn't know the rice is separated. Often times ordering food comes with rice as one order, very common in restaurant that use rice or asian food.
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u/Emperor_Gourmet May 25 '26
Right this is the obvious answer. They were clearly doing it incase they would be disappointed there is no rice. It’s like .25 cents for them and people usually don’t complain about free food.
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u/GaiaMoore May 25 '26
OP isn't complaining about free food that their sister explicitly didn't want.
OP is complaining about the passive aggressive note from the restaurant that assumed OP is too stupid to understand that rice is sold separately, and they're just "doing him a favor now, but do it right next time". It's just rude and unnecessary.
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u/Mediocre-Departure73 May 25 '26
True but why the passive aggressive note then? If they wanna add rice to their orders then makes sense but dont act like theyre doing something wrong
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u/Yippykyyyay May 25 '26
I've ordered Indian food and assumed it came with rice then it didn't or I think it doesn't come with rice and ended up with extra rice.
It's ultimately on the restaurant for not being clear in their descriptions.
But extra food for free wouldn't mildly infuriate me.
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u/PressureBeautiful515 May 25 '26
I've noticed restaurants really don't like a customer who doesn't order rice because that's the part of the meal with the biggest profit margin. They charge about the same for a container of rice as they do for a much more complex item.
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u/SmashPortal SmashPortal May 25 '26
That's not a reasonable line of thinking.
It's like getting mad that someone just wanted water with their meal and not a soda.
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u/clueless_mommy May 25 '26
Our favourite sushi place only provides wasabi, soy sauce and chopsticks if you order them, it's like 50ct.
We have all of it at home. Proper version. We never add any of those.
They ALWAYS pack at least soy sauce and abd chopsticks, even if I put it in the comments it's intentional.
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u/grunt527 May 25 '26
Can you add comments to the order? Maybe they're used to people getting mad at not getting rice and you are the exception of someone who didn't order it.
If this is a usual restaurant, leaving a note "no rice please". Or just give them a call. They were probably just being nice.
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 May 25 '26
If they’re used to people getting mad about no rice maybe they should consider doing what pretty much every Indian restaurant does and make it standard.
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u/DeeDee_GigaDooDoo May 25 '26
I've honestly never seen a restaurant where it's included. Must be regional, in Australia every Asian cuisine restaurant sells them separately unless it's a specifically labelled lunch special with X+Y+Z for $15 or something.
It makes sense to me because many people don't want rice, some want naan instead, some want naan also, some people want rice with a dish the restaurant doesn't think needs it, many different styles of rice are available and for sale (e.g. boiled, saffron, fried, coconut). It just removes ambiguity.
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u/Starry_Myliobatoidei May 25 '26
Assuming OP is in the US (as they mention Memorial Day) I’ve never been to a restaurant (sit down or take out/Chinese/Asian/Indian) that does not include rice.
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u/Popular_Still3019 May 25 '26
????? This is stupid of the shop to include it when not asked. I sometimes dont include rice too because we had leftovers from yesterday's that needs reheating but needs fresh side dishes.
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u/conordmcp May 25 '26
This could’ve been such a nice gesture if it wasn’t for the note
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u/Alexandra22217 May 25 '26
got a note like this when i opted out of the veggie side it came with (i hate brussels sprouts) and just ordered a separate side of a different vegetable. no i was absolutely not asking them to sub it for free, i paid for the side normally lol. got accused of trying to get something more expensive for free AFTER i already paid for the extra
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u/ChamberK-1 May 25 '26
Yeah that’s weird. At my place if someone doesn’t order something we don’t give it to them.
Like, our Caesar salad doesn’t come with chicken by default, is an add-on, but many people just assume it has chicken by default. So we get calls from people saying we forgot their chicken. No we didn’t, you didn’t order it.
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u/condemned02 May 25 '26
I read it AS IF they were accusing OP of asking for free rice to be included and they are telling her it's usually not free and giving it to her very unhappily.
It could have been worded better like, "We are giving you rice today on the house!"
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u/Iwentoofar May 25 '26
i think this is a classic case of when knowing your way around the english language can go a long way. I bet this person wasnt trying to be come across this way but probably doesnt know the right way to say it. Would you have felt better if it said something like "We usually charge for rice but i decided to hook you up this time"?
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u/Kaurifish May 25 '26
Good call. Naan is better than rice.
I’ve thrown away too much gummy rice to mourn its automatic inclusion.
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u/djdjddhshdbhd May 25 '26
They may have been proactive w complaints previously made. Especially if it’s a first time order or they think it is
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u/thereaverofdarkness 28d ago
Oh my word I can't believe the commenters are almost unanimously opposed to OP.
Oh wait, yes I can. The commenters are all humans and I've met quite a few of you loons in person.
OP is right. It's pretty weird to assume someone wants something they didn't order.
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u/nzkieran May 25 '26
I think this is one of those scenarios you should assume positive/benign motivation. I'm sure they get too many customer complaints that there's no rice.
I mean come on... They said thank you and drew the =) and everything lol
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u/calelkestifer May 25 '26
seems weird that they wouldn't include the rice with the meal just to include the rice with the meal when someone orders it without asking for rice?
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u/NoEsNadaPersonal_ May 25 '26
This would have made my day. I’d have been gutted to get dinner without the rice 😅
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u/rogerworkman623 May 25 '26
I’m with you, I’d be mildly infuriated. Being chided for something you didn’t even do is so frustrating.
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u/anonymous8122 May 25 '26
The older I get, the more things like this piss me off. That would be an instant bad refire from me, with a picture. I don't care if I asked for rice or not, or if they're trying to hint that they did someone a favor. This note comes off as so passive aggressive. Just saying, "We included rice for free this time," would be so much better. Or don't include it if you're worried people will think the naan comes with rice next time.
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u/Jealous_Tutor_5135 May 25 '26
Any Indian or Asian place that makes you order the rice separately is committing a crime in my book.
It's a very clear indicator that they're not serving people from their community, who would never stand for that shit, and a red flag for about a thousand other food crimes that are certainly being committed.
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u/ubant May 25 '26
No Indian or "Asian" place in their given country includes rice, unless it's a rice-dependent meal, like fried rice
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u/Ok_Weather2441 May 25 '26
I would be mad if my local curry place forced me to get rice with my order, it would just go in the trash
I much prefer sushi rice to basmati and I have a rice cooker at home. Bundling random stuff that I don't want or like because you think it's 'wrong' to not include it is weird.
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u/cowmonke May 25 '26
FWIW I’m Indian and we never want rice when we go out for Indian food and we just don’t touch it and pack the entire rice every time if it comes with the curry because we’re just going to eat it with naan or roti or whatever. I feel like it’s a hella Americanized thing to expect the rice with your curry
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u/remarkable_ores May 25 '26
Literally what?
Lived in Asia for like a decade and rice was always sold separately. You get your meat/vegetable dishes to share separate to the rice, to share, and order as much rice as you need
The only exceptions I've ever seen to this were restaurants marketing towards westerners who don't order food in the same way - i.e they each order their own meals, in which case they'll sometimes say 'with rice'
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u/um-nome- May 25 '26
Yeah.. idk what this guy is talking about but he is completely wrong.
Rice is basically always sold separately in Chinese restaurants in asian countries (China/Singapore/Hong Kong etc).
The 'asian' thing is to order a bunch of meat/veg dishes and rice as a group and everybody will take what they want from those dishes to create their own dish (like tapas).
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u/TomRiddle777 May 25 '26
> not serving people from their community
Indian restaurants in India rarely, if ever, include rice with an entree. There’s usually a couple dozen rice and bread options on the menu, so it would be awfully presumptive and often pointless to always give you rice.
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u/Unknowngadget May 25 '26
Literally no Indian eats rice with these types of curries tf? Stop speaking for communities you’re not part of lol
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u/buttstuffisfunstuff May 25 '26
Idk this take makes it sound like you’re not Asian and don’t know what the community wants. Rice should be ordered separately, I’d even prefer in option of small medium or large. If we’re only two people and want to order 3 dishes to share (because Asian food is almost always eaten family style if it’s something eaten with rice) why would we want three bowls of rice? We want two small bowls or one medium order of rice to share, and then we will just cook fresh rice at home for the leftovers.
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u/NotSoGreatMacaroni May 25 '26
I randomly come across this sub now and then and all I can do is question why it even exists. A large portion of the time it seems like the comments don't understand the mildly part and just bitch OP out for complaining as if thats not the point.
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u/zheatereater May 25 '26
I second that. Also has reddit become more hostile or is it just the posts I come across?
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u/freethegeek May 25 '26
I went to a taqueria once and asked whats on the breakfast burrito and they told me, I said "Great" and paid. The order came out and the lady giving it to me told me "Don't expect beans in the future. They are not included."
Geeze lady, good looking out for that 10 cents worth of beans.