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I'm a white man, I enjoy very spicy food. My partner is a southeastern Asian woman, who enjoys a bit less spicy food. I find it easier if we just order for each other and swap plates when the food comes. Because the servers assume that I can't handle spice, and my partner can. Which is incorrect. Also, my partner isn't very happy about it.

NGL, getting profiled as a tender tongue is pretty fucking annoying. The only thing worse than no spice is mild spice.

My old manager used to take his team out to a Szechuan Chinese place and order for us, family style. It was awesome.

I'm white AF and it was the first time I had actually spicy Chinese food. He'd also order a few mild dishes for the pair of no-spice folk on the team.

Thinking back, manager was a Chinese immigrant, most team mates were Indian immigrants, and the spice-free teammates were both white. (I mention immigrant because my Indian teammates with kids would complain about their American-born kids' low spice tolerance.)

It always made my smile that on every coffee shop they assumed my girlfriend was drinking latte and I read drinking black Turkish coffee, when it was the other way around.

It was a bit embarrassing at the beginning, but then I remembered I was a college student and she was in the army, so any attempt of being the strong one in the relationship was already out the window

I once went to a Chinese restaurant and when food arrived they also gave me a fork, when I looked around all the Asian customers were given chopsticks.

I'mma go with "yes", it's racist. But like, such a mild (pun intended) form of racism that the only appropriate response is a polite chuckle and shrug.

I'd say yes. Yes that's racist. 

I mean yes, but not in a way that's likely to result in significant harm, even in the long term. It's the kind of thing that being white myself (and having IBS on top), I would feel comfortable laughing at.

Not spice but caffeine. Stopped at a reservation gas station on a road trip to grab water and fuel. I walk in and the lady at the counter says that the sodas are on the far wall, I ask why she thinks I want soda and she says it's cause I'm white but definitely not any type of Mormon since I don't hold myself like them. Anyways I grab my water and fuel after that rather amusing interaction, then I go to my car and make another thing of gamersupps. She was simply wrong about my source of caffeine.

I'd say it's racist if they try to "protect" you from spicier sauces. Like if you ask for medium and they try to give you mild.

The shibboleth for getting really spicy food at a Thai placed is to order it "phed phed". Phed means spicy and in Thai you can repeat some adjectives for emphasis.

This works equally well in Touristy places in Thailand as in Thai run restaurants back home (Switzerland) in my experience.