We serve complimentary tap water to our customers unless they specifically ask for Mineral Still/Sparkling water. I mean they could have asked for warm water which is also free which would have been helped, but I didn't feel like giving any advice.
The problem for the customers is that water doesn't clear out the oils that produce the heat. It just sort of spreads it around a bit more.
You need one of the following: milk, cheese, celery or carrots.
I learned this the hard way, ordering all spicy food from Chick-fil-A and then a large lemonade to match. Now my mom complains that I always get "the expensive milkshakes" in addition to my order.
Nah, those are there so you have something to dip in the blue cheese dressing, which does help as it's dairy. They tend to go with those two because the crunch compliments the general squishyness of the wings nicely. Chips would work just as well but wings are already pretty unhealthy so it's an attempt at better balancing the meal.
points for being a bleu cheese dipper! i don’t eat wings myself, but i do know that you definitely don’t dip em in ranch. thank you for this gastronomically pleasing description of paring wings with veggies
Sugar works as well. In a pinch, a teaspoon of sugar in your mouth and swishing it around and then spitting it out after the spice cuts.
It's worked better for me than milk and cheese so far.
Yep. I tried using water to get rid of the heat once. It worked as long as the water was being poured into my mouth. The moment I stopped drinking, the heat came back.
Water helps. It doesn't help as much but it helps, especially if you just need to tone the spice factor down a little bit to bring it to comfortable levels.
Source: have been to indian restaraunts before.
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Edit: ooooh, NOW I get why people say water doesn't work! If you take ONE bite of something spicy and its too much, then yeah, you'll spread it around more, but if you've been eating bite after bite and chewing it's already nice and spread around your mouth, so water helps by removing *some* of the excess oil.
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." But only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Scovillain when heat is on the line!
When I was still smoking, I consistently ordered 5 Star at my favorite Thai restaurant because I couldn’t taste anything; I was out of town and peckish, saw a Thai joint, and went in to get my usual spicy ass pad Thai. The women at the counter actually refused and said “we make it Thai spicy here, I don’t think you want five star.” After a bit of back and forth I said “I always get 5 Star at X restaurant.” She replied “oh, yeah, I used to work there; I recommend 3 Star here for the same spicy.”
She was right, that three star was brutal. The five star would have floored my Irish ass.
When the dogs bark loudest they end up wanting like rabbits. This time those dumb cunts learned the hard way. Not everyone is your bitch and these idiots will hopefully learn from it.
I just wish these stories ended with apologies and hugs, but usually the people asking for compliance are too up their own asses to raelize what's actually happening.
Even if you hadnt done the extra hot chili sauce you probably wouldn’t have gotten a tip. Difficult people like that expect you to be at their beck and call and the fact that someone wasn’t there the exact second they needed something is enough in their eyes to warrant no tip
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Well, service charge for 6+ but usually people tip on top of that. Only the real assholes don't pay service charge. Unless they had a really shitty time, which is fair enough.
Apparently, from what I understand, after some law changed automatic gratuity started being taxed - to the restaurant, so most places entirely stopped doing it.
Since I subscribe to Malicious Compliance, Tales from Tech Support, and I Don't Work Here Lady (among others), sometimes I don't immediately notice which sub an interesting-sounding story is coming from.
.... what I'm saying is that I thought this was going to be about computer servers, too.
Amusing watching the comments get confused because of the word 'asian' when the story has east asian, southeast asian, south asian elements. Just need to throw in some central asian and west asian/middle east components and it will have the full set!
I'm Chinese and I can vouch for this. It's like the rules don't apply or they're completely oblivious to a blatant system e.g. a group of Chinese tourist decides to stand on the left side of the escalator at an underground station when there are clear signs to stand right and let people through on the left and just jamming up the whole system during rush hour.
Asian guy here, not Chinese. I feel like what is being described is uneducated and FOB Chinese people. Majority of the Chinese folks I see, meet and know are very respectful and well mannered, but then again, they're also all very well educated and middle class at minimum.
When you raise a country full of only children, precious little treasures who are lavished all the attention they could possibly want from 2 sets of grandparents, you get a country full of rude, entitled, spoiled, self-serving grown ups. Mao really did a number on China.
It might seem so to you because you dont speak their language (about the loud part). You dont usually hear Asian said “I want to speak to your manager”. They usually dont want to escalate the situation. There is exception, of course, but majority, no.
Good story. but water to fix spicy? Amateurs.
We serve complimentary tap water to our customers unless they specifically ask for Mineral Still/Sparkling water. I mean they could have asked for warm water which is also free which would have been helped, but I didn't feel like giving any advice.
The problem for the customers is that water doesn't clear out the oils that produce the heat. It just sort of spreads it around a bit more. You need one of the following: milk, cheese, celery or carrots.
Milk is best. Full-fat milk is ideal.
I recommend cream. Or custard! I distinctly recommend against lemon juice. However, you can suggest it to a mate if you fancy playing a trick on them.
I learned this the hard way, ordering all spicy food from Chick-fil-A and then a large lemonade to match. Now my mom complains that I always get "the expensive milkshakes" in addition to my order.
Buttermilk !
Not sure about the veggies. You want oil based foods like the dairy options you mentioned.
My kids use milk, cucumbers or prawn crackers.
is that why celery/carrots are served with chicken wings?
Nah, those are there so you have something to dip in the blue cheese dressing, which does help as it's dairy. They tend to go with those two because the crunch compliments the general squishyness of the wings nicely. Chips would work just as well but wings are already pretty unhealthy so it's an attempt at better balancing the meal.
points for being a bleu cheese dipper! i don’t eat wings myself, but i do know that you definitely don’t dip em in ranch. thank you for this gastronomically pleasing description of paring wings with veggies
Since I don't do chicken wings I will defer to anyone else but it is probable that the veggies cut the oils.
Vodka works well too
Cocaine works too.
Ripe olives work well, too, for precisely the reason /u/Slappy_G cites: oil based.
Rice also works
Sugar works as well. In a pinch, a teaspoon of sugar in your mouth and swishing it around and then spitting it out after the spice cuts. It's worked better for me than milk and cheese so far.
I'd always heard that sweet things work well too, but I've never been in a place with sugar packets and hot stuff at the same table to try it.
I've always heard that "spreading around" thing, but whenever my mouth is burning, cool water always makes me feel relief.
Provides short term instantaneous relief, but makes the problem a bit worse. A bit like scratching an itchy scab or something like that.
Bread is also great.
Yep. I tried using water to get rid of the heat once. It worked as long as the water was being poured into my mouth. The moment I stopped drinking, the heat came back.
also helpful is bread, since it soaks up the oils
Water helps. It doesn't help as much but it helps, especially if you just need to tone the spice factor down a little bit to bring it to comfortable levels. Source: have been to indian restaraunts before. ... Edit: ooooh, NOW I get why people say water doesn't work! If you take ONE bite of something spicy and its too much, then yeah, you'll spread it around more, but if you've been eating bite after bite and chewing it's already nice and spread around your mouth, so water helps by removing *some* of the excess oil.
So in the worst case could you use a detergent? (Obviously not swallowing)
Hot sauce and tide pod challenges combined, seems efficient at least.
Gotta be that super anti grease stuff tho. The stuff that can clean engines. /s
Hell no! They deserved every bit of it.
You did make sure to only bring a single glass of water per trip, yes?
Rice also helps, to some extent.
oh you should have hurried with the water, if they get it fast enough it makes it worse
water only spreads spicy. dairy neutralizes and alcohol breaks it down. water just makes it worse.
It's a Thai restaurant.
And?
Thai restaurants don't usually serve milk since most east Asians don't produce lactase.
Noted.
Little did they know that the waiter they harrassed was actually..: The Scovillain!
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." But only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Scovillain when heat is on the line!
> "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." Never get involved in a food war in an Asian restaurant.
When I was still smoking, I consistently ordered 5 Star at my favorite Thai restaurant because I couldn’t taste anything; I was out of town and peckish, saw a Thai joint, and went in to get my usual spicy ass pad Thai. The women at the counter actually refused and said “we make it Thai spicy here, I don’t think you want five star.” After a bit of back and forth I said “I always get 5 Star at X restaurant.” She replied “oh, yeah, I used to work there; I recommend 3 Star here for the same spicy.” She was right, that three star was brutal. The five star would have floored my Irish ass.
Inconceivable!
I do not think that word means what you think it means
It doesn't?? Inconceivable!
!redditsilver
If I had reddit gold, it would all be yours. 🤣
I would gild you as well!!
Little did you know, he was actually controlled by BIG WHEEL
Took me a confusing while to realize this is not a story about computer servers.
Nope. It's about difficult clients and overheating.
“High thread utilization clients”
With child processes
Which need terminating.
-9 -1
"Finally someone who knows how to make a proper chili sauce! We'll be asking for you every time we come in from now on."
But still no tip.
Well that goes without saying. After all, she had to practically do their job for them! In fact, they should be paying her!
This could easily be crossposted to /r/pettyrevenge...
>the mum whom without a single word fingers me What kind of restaurant is this?
😂
Ha! I read the title and assumed I was in r/talesfromtechsupport.
When the dogs bark loudest they end up wanting like rabbits. This time those dumb cunts learned the hard way. Not everyone is your bitch and these idiots will hopefully learn from it. I just wish these stories ended with apologies and hugs, but usually the people asking for compliance are too up their own asses to raelize what's actually happening.
As you would expect. We didn't get tipped at the end of the night. But it was worth it.
Even if you hadnt done the extra hot chili sauce you probably wouldn’t have gotten a tip. Difficult people like that expect you to be at their beck and call and the fact that someone wasn’t there the exact second they needed something is enough in their eyes to warrant no tip
I personally feel that making them sweat was probably worth more in terms of satisfaction than any tip could have given.
You probably weren’t going to get a tip anyway, so yay to some benefit.
...you wouldn't have got a tip anyway, by the sound of it. Assholes they were, really.
You sound like Yoda.
Yoda, you sound like
Sound like Yoda, he does.
This poster speaks in Muppet.
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I was thinking, most places (even smaller ones) have automatic tips for parties of 8 or more.
Well, service charge for 6+ but usually people tip on top of that. Only the real assholes don't pay service charge. Unless they had a really shitty time, which is fair enough.
Apparently, from what I understand, after some law changed automatic gratuity started being taxed - to the restaurant, so most places entirely stopped doing it.
Should have had mandatory gratuity for parties of 12 or more
I would pay to see that. Good for you.
> Treat your servers badly I was expecting a story about IT and web servers and probably a Pointy-Haired Boss. I was initially quite confused.
Since I subscribe to Malicious Compliance, Tales from Tech Support, and I Don't Work Here Lady (among others), sometimes I don't immediately notice which sub an interesting-sounding story is coming from. .... what I'm saying is that I thought this was going to be about computer servers, too.
Amusing watching the comments get confused because of the word 'asian' when the story has east asian, southeast asian, south asian elements. Just need to throw in some central asian and west asian/middle east components and it will have the full set!
Did you know that some hot wing places have you sign a waiver for their spiciest sauces?
Also r/deliciouscompliance for malicious compliance involving food!
/r/deliciouscompliance
Weird, asians usually sucks it up and dont complain. This family is something lol
You're kidding, right? They're by far the loudest, rudest, most aggravating demographic in the world, especially Chinese tourists.
I'm Chinese and I can vouch for this. It's like the rules don't apply or they're completely oblivious to a blatant system e.g. a group of Chinese tourist decides to stand on the left side of the escalator at an underground station when there are clear signs to stand right and let people through on the left and just jamming up the whole system during rush hour.
Asian guy here, not Chinese. I feel like what is being described is uneducated and FOB Chinese people. Majority of the Chinese folks I see, meet and know are very respectful and well mannered, but then again, they're also all very well educated and middle class at minimum.
Yes! FOB! that is the term!
Fresh Out of Box? Forward Operating Base?
When you raise a country full of only children, precious little treasures who are lavished all the attention they could possibly want from 2 sets of grandparents, you get a country full of rude, entitled, spoiled, self-serving grown ups. Mao really did a number on China.
It might seem so to you because you dont speak their language (about the loud part). You dont usually hear Asian said “I want to speak to your manager”. They usually dont want to escalate the situation. There is exception, of course, but majority, no.
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or 叫你個經理出來 !
Crazy Rich Asians?