This is a buth packet. Not a Lamprais.
Back to an old, familiar theme. We had buth packets for lunch the other day. Whilst it wasn't particularly good, it was good enough to keep the hunger pangs away till it was time for dinner. There's the ever popular Rice and Curry buth packet and then there's the Lampraise. In concept, they are identical. In execution and experience they are ideological extremes. Here's a more confusing thought. All lampraise are buth packets but not all buth packets are lampraise! I've gone on at length about what a genuine lamprais is, but not about what a buth packet is so this is to address that error. A buth packet is a "normal" rice and curry meal, packed in a plastic wrap (cellophane, it used to be called) and wrapped up again in a piece of paper. That's it. "But what" I hear you say, "is a normal rice and curry"? That would be a good question. Over here, we believe in a good, heavy mid-day meal and generally, it is rice bas