21 hours ago, SHA 2 BKK said:

My Thai friends are horrified when I put Penang or Massaman on a couple of pieces of heavily buttered toast and scoff it down.   My explanation that this is the way Stew is supposed to be consumed meets with vacant stares.   

Thais seem to be very fixed in how their dishes should be consumed, and what sauces etc must go with them. I am constantly having food go cold when I ask for my preferred sweet chilly sauce, rather than the overly sweet honey-like one that always comes!

23 hours ago, SHA 2 BKK said:

My Thai friends are horrified when I put Penang or Massaman on a couple of pieces of heavily buttered toast and scoff it down.   My explanation that this is the way Stew is supposed to be consumed meets with vacant stares.   

About the same as myself (though chuckle to myself) when Thais drown their pizza in ketchup (tomato sauce) ... W T F