Reply to Help! What can I order from an Indian restaurant if I can't handle ANY spice?

Forum Index » Food, Cooking, and Restaurants

Reply to "Help! What can I order from an Indian restaurant if I can't handle ANY spice? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In your shoes, I'd just tell the host that you are incredibly sensitive to any spices in food and that you'd hate for them to order something that you aren't able to eat. So you'd love to join, but will just eat bread/rice (or, depending on how close you are to the host, you could offer to bring your own chicken/beans to eat with naan/rice).

As the host, I'd rather hear this than have my guest request a particular dish and then not eat any (or very little) of it. But that really depends on the host and your relationship to them.[/quote]

The host is my brother. It will literally be him and my little niece, who would absolutely notice if I didn't eat or brought my own food.  SURELY there is something non-spicy at a typical indian restaurant that I can ask for? [/quote]
Indian-American here. The only reliably non-spicy things are naan, plain rice, and raita. Everything else can vary, depending on the restaurant. I would never make yellow daal spicy, but I've been to many restaurants that do. Asking for non-spicy isn't worth the risk given your extreme sensitivity, especially since they may have some things pre-cooked...so at best they can do low-spice.

All of that said, I think it's weird that your brother is being so rigid (niece gets to pick this time) given your dietary issues. Surely she could identify a second choice.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics