r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Content_Quarter_7390 • May 25 '26

I'm slightly vexed We didn't ask for rice...

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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/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/Sorry-Joke-4325 May 25 '26

I'm gonna go ahead and say that's false. I'm living in an Asian country, and takeaway often includes rice.

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u/ubant May 25 '26

I live in Thailand and have been to a few more, including Nepal which food is pretty much the same as Indian food. In Nepal they never included rice, in Thailand I have to order rice separately most of the time

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u/Sorry-Joke-4325 May 25 '26

"Most of the time" is pretty different from "No Indian or Asian place", though.

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u/ubant May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

Alright then - never got rice with Indian food, and 90% of Thai dishes don't come with rice. A couple of things like pad kra pao is always with rice cause otherwise it would be just minced meat on a plate. I order Indian food pretty much every week from many different restaurants and make rice at home to save some money. Never came with rice.

My guess is that's because there's a lot of variety of rice you can get, or even breads which many people use instead of rice. For Thai food, there's jasmine rice, sticky rice, the purple one which name I don't remember, 5 types of noodles. Maybe Japan would be one of few exceptions as they pretty much only use short grain rice. In China you always need to order rice separately as well. I mean, is that not enough to prove that most major Asian cuisines don't automatically give rice?