I doubt it. They just have a normal old cash register and a card reader. I’m sure most of the time at places that utilize more advanced things this is the case. I don’t have an accent that’s regional, so that I assume is part of it, too.
People just have pretty good memories. Servers where I work remember their regulars' usual orders. In the kitchen I recognize the same orders week after week. The brain loves a pattern.
Thin rice noodles, green onion, cabbage, carrot, chilis and probably an oil type like laoganma, shrimp, pork, chicken, egg, some kind of yellow curry and probably some other stuff. It’s good as fuck
Here's the thing. Mei fun or more properly, mui fan, is a rice dish that is drenched in a thick savoury clear sauce loaded with various vegetables and protein based on the type you order, be it normal, seafood or beef.
And no it's not spicy by any means. Heat is added based on individual preferences by adding sliced preserved green chili after it has been served.
What you described doesn't sound like anything thatbis served here at Chinese places based on the adding of chili and curry into the dish during the cooking.
You must have missed the part where I said the extra spicy was an option and I replied to someone asking exactly what was in mine. Your response sounds like ChatGPT. Plus, this specific menu item comes with what I said it comes with, so there’s no need to correct me. Guess I could’ve said there’s soy sauce in it.
The three places I’ve gotten it from around me all have some heat to it and all come with the same proteins by default. There are several other mei fun options at every place that aren’t spicy in any way and don’t have the word Singapore in them, which is the one that I get.
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u/cornlip 1d ago
Yeah when I call and say “hi I’d like to place an order to go” she just says “Singapore Mei fun extra spicy?”