Guangzhou Local Custom Tips by jackiesg Top 5 Page for this destination

If you are someone who likes to have rice to go with the chinese dishes you ordered, you need to remind the waiters/ waitresses to serve you the rice when your first dish was being served. My experiences and also of many of my friends were that: they tend to serve the rice only when ALL the dishes you ordered are served. So, if you are one who needs to have rice to go with your food, remember to ask again and again for the rice. Usually it takes me 2 to 3 reminders before the waiters come with my rice.

Think because the locals here deemed rice as the "main course" where they consumed only after they had taken all the dishes. Rice is just to fill up the stomach and not so much to go with the dishes. Like attending a typical chinese wedding, rice or noodles are usually the last 2nd dish, just before dessert.