Originally Posted by
estnet
Wow I can't imagine eating chinese w/o rice and when I was there (as a tourist) it certainly was omnipresent in the restaurants - but they were many cuts below the places I imagine you ate
there’s definitely the factor of the host (vendor) ordering / etc; as guest / client, it would have been EV- to ask for something. Sigh.
I’ve almost always had rice with chinese food so this was a weird experience that I can’t forget, like the live drunken shrimps :-)