https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/1ifjbhj/anyone_else_get_disappointed_when_a_chinese/
created by TechnonUK on 01/02/2025 at 23:19 UTC
485 upvotes, 51 top-level comments (showing 25)
Not sure if I’ve just been conditioned by our local Chinese which chucks in a bag on any purchase over £20.
I’ve been to some places where I’ve spent £60+, and they can’t even chuck in a little bag of prawn crackers? It makes me utterly dischuffed.
Makes you really wonder, it really does.
Comment by Reasonable_Try_1346 at 01/02/2025 at 23:24 UTC
228 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'm actually raging when this happens
Comment by McCretin at 01/02/2025 at 23:27 UTC
180 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Yep. Same when you put in a big curry order and they don’t give you any popadoms. It’s just stingy.
I once ordered from a curry place when I lived in London and selected “popadom”, (singular) on the menu for £1.50, assuming it was a typo and there would be multiple popadoms included.
Nope. In the paper bag was one solitary £1.50 popadom.
Never ordered from there again.
Comment by IAMACiderDrinker at 01/02/2025 at 23:29 UTC
42 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It’s pretty devastating
Also I’ve never heard the word ‘dischuffed’ and I’m going to start using it immediately
Comment by VeneMage at 01/02/2025 at 23:25 UTC
97 upvotes, 7 direct replies
Same when I don’t get free poppadoms, onion salad and sauce with my Indian. Thats a whole course I’m missing.
Comment by AestheticAdvocate at 01/02/2025 at 23:37 UTC
25 upvotes, 2 direct replies
And then you specifically order a bag, and then get two!
Comment by gaynorg at 01/02/2025 at 23:30 UTC
48 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Fortune cookies can fuck off. It's the free prawn crackers I'm after
Comment by Admirable-Cow-1132 at 01/02/2025 at 23:39 UTC
26 upvotes, 0 direct replies
My local hasn’t changed their menu (and barely changed the prices) in the 15+ years I lived near them. Husband and wife couple who hold the whole place together. I am more than happy to add an extra £2 to my order for the prawn crackers. They’ve more than earned it.
Comment by dick1204 at 01/02/2025 at 23:45 UTC
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
We use to walk out with a haul of extras prawn crackers, Chinese hors d’oeuvres,fortune cookies and bottles of drink but the last 3 times we went and order something on par with “big boooshhhh John” for our whole family a load of stuff would be missing…the 7 mile round trip had me grumpy by the time I got back
Comment by Fun-Friendship2182 at 01/02/2025 at 23:27 UTC
21 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's broken Britain
Comment by PipBin at 01/02/2025 at 23:38 UTC
19 upvotes, 3 direct replies
You can all have mine. Order a completely vegetarian meal, still get prawn crackers
Comment by Sidian at 02/02/2025 at 01:08 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
At my favourite local place, you used to get free prawn crackers with any order, and a free bottle of coke for orders over £25. This continuously went up, and now you need to order that much just to get prawn crackers, and some insane amount like £80 to get a bottle of coke. Prices of every menu item get put up every few months. It's the same for all of them, but they've got me by the balls as they're by far the best one around.
Here's an open question: can anyone think of something that has got better in recent years? It'd be nice if, just occasionally, something got better; 'oh wow, they've increased the amount of jaffa cakes you get in this box', or 'oh nice, the 'new improved recipe' is actually better' or even 'the price of [product] has gone down'. But no. Things only ever get worse, the future is bleak.
Comment by OgreOfTheMind at 01/02/2025 at 23:30 UTC*
17 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I think I'm an outlier who doesn't like prawn crackers, they go in the bin if I get them. It's weird because I remember loving them as a kid.
One near me gives mini spring rolls instead of crackers if you ask, which is basically the only reason I choose them.
Comment by BurnyBob at 01/02/2025 at 23:26 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Crackers in this economy? Wishful thinking.
Comment by bleak_gallery at 02/02/2025 at 00:54 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
My local charge £2.50 a bag no matter how much you spend😟
Comment by Car-Nivore at 01/02/2025 at 23:51 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Free Prawn Crackers and Fortune Cookies last night. Felt liked I stepped back into the early 2000s for one moment.
Comment by furstimus at 01/02/2025 at 23:39 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
‘Dischuffed’ is a cracking word that I will be using henceforth. Thank you.
Comment by mittenkrusty at 01/02/2025 at 23:55 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I instead think I wish they gave me a free can of Pepsi/Coca Cola instead.
Even when I say "no prawn crackers, thanks" I still get them, sometimes I get an extra one!
Comment by Roper1537 at 02/02/2025 at 00:01 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You never get them in the US. Fortune cookies are fucking shite
Comment by StandFreeAndy at 02/02/2025 at 00:40 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I used to order regularly at a local spot and they’d always provide free prawn crackers. Haven’t ever ordered from them again since the day they didn’t give me free prawn crackers.
Their loss.
Comment by I-Smack-Women at 02/02/2025 at 03:39 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Had a conversation with my local Chinese as I’ve been there since I was a young lad so they already know my order by the time I walk through the door ha. Lovely family from Hong Kong who’ve been here since the late 90s. They’ve been hit hard by inflation in ingredients which largely came after Brexit. Actually with how tight the margins are now the elderly couple are looking to pack it in now and retire.
The father says he’s still full of energy to keep going but financially it’s not possible, I can kind of see from their perspective why they can’t hand out free stuff as easy as they used to before.
Comment by stonkacquirer69 at 02/02/2025 at 04:50 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Last time, ordered from a new place and added prawn crackers to the order, and they forgot them!
Comment by GrumpyGG64 at 01/02/2025 at 23:28 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Not happened round here for years.
Comment by Original_Spud at 01/02/2025 at 23:29 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Controversial, I know, but I don't actually eat them. Even still, I'm so annoyed when they don't come with the food.
Comment by lastaccountgotlocked at 01/02/2025 at 23:37 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Free? Do you know how many men’s lives are lost every year down those mines?
Comment by DrEdwodCheem at 01/02/2025 at 23:53 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Mine does prawn crackers £20-30, beef spring rolls £30+. The spring rolls are delicious, but I still want the crackers.