Seems common in Asia. I had the same experience in cambodia. One example: - I was very, very sick (Traveler's diarrhea) and we were about to embark for a 5 ho

Seems common in Asia. I had the same experience in cambodia. One example: - I was very, very sick (Traveler's diarrhea) and we were about to embark for a 5 hours minivan trip with a guy without a driving license. - 5 minutes before departure, I ask the organizer "do you have a vomit bag?" - "Yes" - I wait around a bit, but he carries on with his work and just ignore me - "Sorry, did you have a bag, any bag? maybe a plastic bag, as I'm sick" - "Yes" - Now it's 30s before departure and I get pretty stressed as I have nothing should I need to throw up. So I ask him again, and he actually get pretty mad (with that asian "must not lose face" style though) and ignore me because I insisted and didn't just drop the issue (I didn't know what was going on at the time ...)