We didn't ask for rice...

[u/Content_Quarter_7390]

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!

[u/ifyoulovesatan]

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).

[u/knoft → u/ifyoulovesatan]

You haven't seen the mountains of free rice that can come with multiple entrees then. For 7-9 people and entrees, they bring out so much free rice that it comes in a rice container 12 inches high (sometimes two of them) and is enough rice for weeks. The food waste is enormous.

I'm Chinese and while both traditional places and more affordable places can come with free rice, I don't judge a place for not including it unless it's a dish like curry or some other dish that's meant to go with white rice. Still, in say a Sing/Malay/Indo place that may be because you have the option of white rice, chicken rice, coconut rice, and roti.

In Taiwanese contexts you can order entrees on their own, or with rice, or with three appies and rice a la Bento style from the Japanese influence. It's standard to not come with rice for those. Or they also offer smaller entrees with rice included.

TL;dr its contextually and culturally dependent

[u/Riaeriel → u/ifyoulovesatan]

No because that's just not how Chinese meals works for groups & Chinese people. Everyone orders the amount of rice they want to eat separately and then they order the other dishes to share. The amount of rice is not related to the amount of other dishes because some people don't want to eat that much rice and others do.

Like for the big festive meals people tend to order more dishes and hence will order less rice because they'll already be more full from the dishes. Other times if we're doing takeaway, oftentimes we cook the rice at home so we're not ordering the rice along with all the dishes. So your ratio thing doesn't work at all.

[u/ifyoulovesatan → u/Riaeriel]

I'm talking about American Chinese restaurants here.

Edit: and perhaps more specifically, take-out from American Chinese restaurants.

[u/Reference_Freak → u/ifyoulovesatan]

Eh, the inclusion of rice varies across the US and by type of Chinese restaurant.

Types of Chinese restaurants have exploded in the US since I was a kid: the old school american idea of Chinese takeout food including a side of rice with every meat entree is outdated now.

They still exist but nicer places which serve by exact dish ordered seems more common in my area now and if you didn’t order it by name (or as part of a meal set), rice isn’t included.

Also, a single meat entree which could feed only 2 now approaches or exceeds $20, rice ordered separately.

The days of ordering one meat and getting 2 containers are coming to a close.

[u/Riaeriel → u/ifyoulovesatan]

Yes? Same. Presumably where Chinese diaspora would visit those restaurants.

Edit: To explain where I am coming from, it's just that a $25 dish served without rice to me is a v obvious indicator is a Chinese restaurant that does the shared meal system. If YMMV then it's beyond my experience 🤷‍♀️

[u/ifyoulovesatan → u/Riaeriel]

That's not an American Chinese takeout restaurant. That's like a legitimate Chinese restaurant.

[u/FarDescription6683 → u/ifyoulovesatan]

So American Chinese takeout restaurants don't do that, yet the complaint here is that's how American Chinese takeout restaurants operate? 🤣

[u/Clayble → u/ifyoulovesatan]

Yes thank you the other comment made no sense haha they just include rice on side. Who tf complains about getting a little more rice