
I know this is Britain, but this is the first time a Thai place has ever sent me Basmati rice. đ
Labeled as jasmine not just on the menu but on the actual container, I might add. No warning that they had different rice, or anything.
Everything else is pretty good, but that was a bit of a surprise. Not a bad flavor, but really not the texture in particular that you usually expect with Thai food.
Thatâs also about half the size container of rice I would have expected with that size curry dishâso I was extra glad we did have some jasmine on hand. Have some cooking now, to go with the rest now that Iâm not too starving anymore to wait for it.
(Though, they did more than make up for the rice size with the soup. About twice as much decent tom kha goong as usually expected.)
No idea if they had a supplier mixup, or if they just figured locals wouldnât know the difference or care. (âItâs the staple food of almost half the worldâs population, yet for most Brits it comes in just two typesâ – One being Basmati, yeah.)
Especially with the saturation of Indian restaurants, Iâm sure restaurants would also find it both easier and cheaper to get here than the jasmine rice.
I donât feel like complaining about it, but not sure Iâll order from that place again if theyâre sending out the wrong rice with no warning, and also being skinchy with it for the price. (Like ÂŁ2.60 for that smallish container.)
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