# Restaurant Bread Baskets

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-bread-baskets/1017736
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 1, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-bread-baskets/1017736 "2025-05-01T03:34:56Z")
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### Author: ![Tokushizu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@Tokushizu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tokushizu)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-bread-baskets/1017736/44 "2025-05-02T17:04:21Z")

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Then of course there are (or at least were when this thread was created way back when) Chinese restaurants where bread is/was served. Thankfully I’ve never been subjected to that.

> [@Bread with your Chinese Food?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-with-your-chinese-food/449421):
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> So … the incredibly beautiful SO and I were kicking around Northern New Hampshire the last couple of days when we decided to stop in for dinner at a local Chinese restuarant. It was the greatest thing since chopped liver, which we decided not to order since there were other things we wanted. She had the Chicken Chow Mein; I had the Roast Duck (and the Egg Drop Soup … ohmigod … with just a touch of peas and carrots and so thick with egg and ohmigod it was the best I’d ever had) and both were ins…

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