Author Topic: does anyone enquire with numbers (Read 2539 times)

Forth Bridges · « **on:** January 17, 2006, 07:43:49 pm »

when you ring up a chinees/ indin / pizzer shop do you use

Can I have 24 ., 56, 98, plz?

like what happen to mrs Bukect

I have never done that

oldspice · « **Reply #1 on:** January 18, 2006, 07:07:32 am »

I don't think i have ever had a take-away delivered. We hardly ever eat them. If we want an Indian, we go to a really good Indian Restaurant locally. If we want to eat Indian at home, I buy a selection of dishes from Sainsburys or M&S. We never eat Chinese.

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #2 on:** January 18, 2006, 07:58:42 am »

No, our Indian take-away menus don't have the numbers and I have never ordered Chinese food.

When we were in London before Xmas we went (in person) to a fried chicken take-away place and asked for what we wanted, and the assistant said "oh you mean a 15 and a 21?" like we should have asked by the number on the menu board!

I guess they do it so that you don't have to worry about pronouncing the food name correctly - so long as the take-away staff understand the numbers they know what you want?

chocolate chick · « **Reply #3 on:** January 18, 2006, 08:44:17 am »

Quote from: oldspice

I don't think i have ever had a take-away delivered. We hardly ever eat them. If we want an Indian, we go to a really good Indian Restaurant locally. If we want to eat Indian at home, I buy a selection of dishes from Sainsburys or M&S. We never eat Chinese.

I have ordered Chinese by number but like oldspice I have only had Indian in a restaurant. There is a really nice one in Crayford.

goldencup · « **Reply #4 on:** January 18, 2006, 09:16:27 am »

In the good old days before The Diet, I used to sometimes order Chinese and Indian takeaways to be delivered or collected but never by number. I heard someone try to do it once and they asked for the dishes to be named as the menus change and you might get something unexpected!

chocolate chick · « **Reply #5 on:** January 18, 2006, 09:31:28 am »

In our chinese, once you have placed the order they read it back to you. I once ordered chicken balls and got pork balls. I was not amused!

smurfboy · « **Reply #6 on:** January 18, 2006, 09:45:42 am »

Balls to that!

I think ordering by number has died out a bit now that people are more used to the pronunciation of foreign dishes. I do remember though when your Chinese order sounded more like you were buying a lottery ticket!

chocolate chick · « **Reply #7 on:** January 18, 2006, 09:55:01 am »

My favourite chinese meal is boiled rice with sweet & sour sauce.

oldspice · « **Reply #8 on:** January 18, 2006, 03:18:09 pm »

Customer to Chinese waiter "My chicken is rubbery"

Waiter to customer "Flankyou, I'll tell chef"

goldencup · « **Reply #9 on:** January 18, 2006, 04:49:54 pm »

loulou · « **Reply #10 on:** January 18, 2006, 11:57:58 pm »

I can never find the menu so I ring the Chinese and usually describe what I want and hope the right thing turns up.

smurfboy · « **Reply #11 on:** January 19, 2006, 12:00:30 am »

'That one with the red stuff please - and a portion of the one that looks like worms'.

loulou · « **Reply #12 on:** January 19, 2006, 12:07:39 am »

' the prawn thing i always have and them crispy things with the sweet and sour'

chocolate chick · « **Reply #13 on:** January 19, 2006, 09:40:38 am »

David has that chow mein stuff.

oldspice · « **Reply #14 on:** January 19, 2006, 07:45:45 pm »

"Have you got prawn balls?"

"How VERY dare you!"

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