On 10/7/2021 at 5:26 AM, sead said:

Well stop buying 30 bht meals and go biy real thaifood.... 

Been on the road all day, those 30 baht meals come in handy.

BTW, I find that your small stalls and eateries are more likely to customize your dish over the higher end restaurants. At least with the smaller places, they're prepping the dish in front of me and we can communicate to get the flavor I'm looking for. 

22 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Best Thai restaurant I know is Number 9 at Huay Tung Tao lake.

Hardly expensive, 1,000bht buys more than 4 people can eat.

Do they specialize in the food from a particular region of Thailand?  Central, Issan, Northern or Southern?

I've been to 2 really good Thai restaurants in CM.  Both concentrate on mainly central cuisine as both my wife and stepson prefer it as much as I.

 

One is We-La-Dee in San Sai.  https://g.page/weladeechiangmai?share

The other I don't know the name, but I will ask my stepson.

5 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

Do they specialize in the food from a particular region of Thailand?  Central, Issan, Northern or Southern?

I've been to 2 really good Thai restaurants in CM.  Both concentrate on mainly central cuisine as both my wife and stepson prefer it as much as I.

 

One is We-La-Dee in San Sai.  https://g.page/weladeechiangmai?share

The other I don't know the name, but I will ask my stepson.

Not sure, but every lunch time No. 9 is packed and the restaurants on either side are empty.

We usually order 'cow pat gung', 'pla tam tim sam rot', 'moo deng deeow' and 'tom yam talet' along with another couple of dishes that catch the ladies eye, my misses quite likes the coconut stuffed with sea food..

 

I suspect it's Lanna food.

Edited October 8, 20214 yr by BritManToo

We all have our tastes.   A good elk steak on the barbie with stuffed baked potatoe and fresh garden salad is hard to beat.  Smoked ribs, pork, or chicken is tops on my list.  Expensive and hard to find in Thailand. I do like Tex Mex food.  Lots of taco trucks now in USA.  I detest the fish balls or meat balls in Thailand.  I hate to think what's in them. Packaged sandwich ham or crappy hot dogs or terrible bacon die breakfast is not acceptable. Eggs with lace not ok.   I do enjoy many Thai dishes.  But I  dislike all the unchewable ingredients and  you know most places they use the cheapest unhealthy palm oil, msg, sugar.  No small shards of chopped bones , shell fragments, unchewable leaves and lemon grass.   Peppers should be put in a tea strainer.   American man want to be able to shovel it all in and not have to pick out all the inedible stuff.   Maybe I should try to swallow all that unchewable stuff like wife does.  The dog cries when she finishes with the chicken bones. 

12 hours ago, Elkski said:

We all have our tastes.   A good elk steak on the barbie with stuffed baked potatoe and fresh garden salad is hard to beat.  Smoked ribs, pork, or chicken is tops on my list.  Expensive and hard to find in Thailand. I do like Tex Mex food.  Lots of taco trucks now in USA.  I detest the fish balls or meat balls in Thailand.  I hate to think what's in them. Packaged sandwich ham or crappy hot dogs or terrible bacon die breakfast is not acceptable. Eggs with lace not ok.   I do enjoy many Thai dishes.  But I  dislike all the unchewable ingredients and  you know most places they use the cheapest unhealthy palm oil, msg, sugar.  No small shards of chopped bones , shell fragments, unchewable leaves and lemon grass.   Peppers should be put in a tea strainer.   American man want to be able to shovel it all in and not have to pick out all the inedible stuff.   Maybe I should try to swallow all that unchewable stuff like wife does.  The dog cries when she finishes with the chicken bones. 

I agree with you about breakfast. Very hard to find a good breakfast here. Well cooked breakfast potatoes, fresh croissants, real dark bread toast, etc. Fried eggs, with white toast, is not an inspired breakfast!

18 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I agree with you about breakfast. Very hard to find a good breakfast here. Well cooked breakfast potatoes, fresh croissants, real dark bread toast, etc. Fried eggs, with white toast, is not an inspired breakfast!

Not a problem down here in Phuket maybe because there is more farang owners here

On 10/8/2021 at 9:07 AM, Michaelaway said:

"Also, Thai restaurants overseas are always better than the ones here."

Crazy talk; there is no country in the world whose food is better outside their country than in.

 

Nonsense. I also had a Paella in J'burg once, and was better than anything I have tasted in Spain.