How often do you eat Thai Food?

[uttradit]

49 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Killing and eating animals is disgusting.

Animals do it

[NativeBob]

Almost never.
Can cook anything myself: cleaner, cheaper and helthier.

[Luuk Chaai]

Only  1x every month   and that is cooked by my wife @ home  ..   either Phat ga phrao muu  or Penang curry / muu

no sugar, no msg

other wise,,  strict carnivore   zero carbs. zero vegetable

avg daily  1-1.5 lbs of beef and 6 size 0 eggs.. 1/2 pack of bacon ( no msg) sometimes sardines / salmon/ cod / shrimp and plenty of butter from grass feed cows .  very little chicken and pork    plenty of sea salt ...

worst thing I put in my mouth is every morning  a Cappuccino and I use heavy wipping cream

[zhounan]

My relationship with Thai food is like sex with a fix partner. 

 

As soon as I arrived, I was eating Thai food every day.

The more time passes, the more I get tired of eating it.

[Pattaya420]

Everyday. Mixing it. Thai and western.

 

But prefer Thai any day.

[brianthainess]

I rarely eat Thai food, the best Thai restaurant near me has rather an unfortunate name, and I don't eat Thai food there either, it's Mossman, sweet n sourer, or Penang.

          

  

           

 

[Ralf001]

8 hours ago, Prubangboy said:

 

 

Thai food Refuseniks:

 

Can you chart your exit from Thai food? Did you eat it at home? Was it a slow fall off or all at once?

 

I neve entered Thai food to create an exit.

 

[Ralf001]

4 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Flied Lice, did you say?

 

 

 

They say people who masturbate too much go blind, explains why you are seeing Flied Lice instead of Fried Rice.

[sirineou]

I eat it all the time , my wife is a great cook. I don't eat street food because it is not very healthy 

but there are a couple of restaurants we like to go every once in a while , nt too many because as I said my wife is such a great cook we are often disappointed at the restaurants.

If you are in Khon Kaen, Non Nan caffe and restaurant has excellent food, a great atmosphere , live music on the weekends after 7 pm. A very large selection of craft beers, wines and drinks, I Highly recommend it. 

https://www.facebook.com/Khonkaennonna/

 

[Middle Aged Grouch]

Depends where you are. If you to to Hua Hin, Phuket, Koh Samui etc...you will definately be ripped of with the overcharging and sometimes the average quality.

 

Bangkok seems the best place for quality at decent prices.

[HauptmannUK]

Eat Thai food every day both in UK and Thailand. My wife part-owns a hotel and Thai restaurant in the UK and loves to cook and experiment with Thai food. I also cook sometimes. Obviously the restaurant serves 'Westernised' Thai food but at home we eat the real deal. She makes her own spice pastes and sauces.  Pretty much every Thai ingredient is now available from UK importers - even things like 'Isaan Caviar' (red ant eggs) and 'Isaan Almonds'.

 

[Andre0720]

Just about never. All the food in Thailand is poisoned with refined sugar. And, as I was forgetting, cheap oil over-heated. Over-heating cooking oil can cause toxic fumes and free radicals — hazardous substances that can damage cells.

And Thai people all use the cheapest oils possible, no olive oil or coconut oil. Too expensive they will claim. Better poison the customer.

If you care for your health, avoid Thai food.

[OneMoreFarang]

I eat Thai food almost every day when my gf is with me - which she is most of the time.

Maybe we eat together outside at the market or some street noodle soup or something like that, or she cooks Thai food at home.

 

If she visits her family up country for a few days, then likely I eat only farang food on those days. Outside in restaurants or I cook spaghetti or pork chop or something like that.

 

I like it like this. I like Thai food. But I also like something else from time to time. 

[uttradit]

17 minutes ago, Middle Aged Grouch said:

Depends where you are. If you to to Hua Hin, Phuket, Koh Samui etc...you will definately be ripped of with the overcharging and sometimes the average quality.

 

Bangkok seems the best place for quality at decent prices.

Depends on each restaurant. Find a local area and go there. If there's more than 2 foreigners in restaurant it is a bad sign.

[captainjackS]

23 hours ago, Prubangboy said:

I live around the corner from this place, working hard towards getting their Michelin star.

 

N.Thai food is the most meat-heavy thai food, so I don't eat it a lot. But twice a year, we will wait on line here (there's always a line).

 

 

I have been to this restaurant, and it was good. but I didnot enjoy waiting with the crowds.  I have a few preferred Northern restaurants in Mae Rim

[Kalasin Jo]

Every day. At home, out in restaurants, even cook the dishes myself as well as buy " take away" in local markets. Rarely been ill, never seriously from eating Thai food. I do though avoid chicken feet,  BBQ rat and frog. Available uncooked in local markets. Rats always deceased and split open. Frogs always still jumping.

[sherwood]

19 hours ago, Prubangboy said:

You should be writing detailed reviews on various platforms to support a place you loved eating at. There are so few. That's the foundation that creates a Michelin visit. People in my neighborhood are obsessive about  Ging Grei and Tong Ten Toh. We root for them like they're Bon Jovi still playing in bars. 

 

In the Nimman1 Mall, there's a couple of 2 star restaurants. They're not super-fancy, they're not super-great. They're a bit innovative and flawlessly executed. A Michelin star means just that: food people love the place and you'll see a new thing or two on the menu.

 

The diff between a C restaurant and a B is great. The diff between A- and an A is much greater. I've eaten a few hundred pad Thai's, but there's only one place where I ordered it 10 times. Food can be judged semi-objectively, like it is on cooking shows.

 

I bought the Northern Thai cook book mainly to read about the places. And I did pop into a few BBQ shacks in Phrae. Value for the money for reasonable food. I payed B prices to eat B food.

 

But it's eating, not dining. Great to dip in at some Khao Soi shrine off the highway, but people who went to cooking school will always make better noodles.

 

Haha, wtf is this post about?

[Lemsta69]

15 hours ago, uttradit said:

Khao Soi

 

That looks gross, give me a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese any old day of the week. 

[Lemsta69]

Why do you all keep calling it Penang curry? Wikipedia spells it as "Phanaeng".

 

'The etymology of the word phanaeng is unknown, but it may derive from the Malay word panggang, meaning "grilled."'

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanaeng

 

That is somewhat different to "Penang" which is the Malay name for the areca nut.

 

"The name Penang comes from the modern Malay name Pulau Pinang which means 'areca nut island'."

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang

 

inb4: if you think Wikipedia is full of it then cite credible academic sources or get off my lawn 🤣

[Ralf001]

8 hours ago, Andre0720 said:

 free radicals — hazardous substances that can damage cells.

 

 

Ive not heard that song.

Their cover of backdoor boys song is ok(ish).

 

[Skeptic7]

Daily. Usually twice per day. Love it and spicier the better. "Mai pet...mai aroy' is my saying. GF cooks at home, but we do eat Thai food out when traveling, which is often. 

[Prubangboy]

13 hours ago, Middle Aged Grouch said:

If you to to Hua Hin, .you will definately be ripped off

 

 

I killed a smoke season month and liked the cheap Thai food there. Yellow curry was on most menu's which is rarely seen in Chiang Mai.

 

Southern Style Sour Curry is also one you don't see much south of Bangkok. I had it every other day on a month stay in Koh Tao recently. It's a simple dish, but sour is a very hard flavor to get right.

 

What is the most disappointing curry? I very reluctantly have to say Mussaman. I love the name, I love the idea of peanuts, but it's usually too sweet and overloaded with very blah potato chunks. 

 

Why is Green Curry the only one that occasionally comes with roti slices? You'd think that Massaman would too. Maybe it's the potato's.

 

Jungle Curry seldom lives up to its exotic-sounding name. Wiki says it's supposed to be coconut-free and a bit bitter, but Jungle Curry is the most variable in terms of what you can expect to get put in front of you.

 

 

[Andycoops]

Every day

[brewsterbudgen]

Once or twice a week.  I try to limit eating it as it's full of sugar, sodium/MSG.

[steven100]

whenever I don't have western food

[steven100]

15 hours ago, Andre0720 said:

Just about never. All the food in Thailand is poisoned with refined sugar. And, as I was forgetting, cheap oil over-heated. Over-heating cooking oil can cause toxic fumes and free radicals — hazardous substances that can damage cells.

And Thai people all use the cheapest oils possible, no olive oil or coconut oil. Too expensive they will claim. Better poison the customer.

If you care for your health, avoid Thai food.

 

you really need to get a hobby ...

[Prubangboy]

2 minutes ago, steven100 said:

 

you really need to get a hobby ...

A lot of anti-street food sentiment seems out of date. I've been coming her for 35 years; the pad thai of today is def less oily. Everything is fresher. Local tastes have evolved.

 

Last night, I had a pad thai and a papaya salad -from the place I mentioned.

 

Health-wise, the papaya salad makes that meal healthier than any cheap eats I might get back in the states. A papaya salad must be minus-zero calories. I only very rarely don't order it.

 

In Ubon I found my first Som tum only restaurant. They also had unripe mango and cucumber. A som tum specialist is my favorite kind of Thai food foodie snobbery.

 

There's a woman in the Old City of Chiang Mai down a quiet alley who bangs out a few outside of her house (near carrot coffee bar). Is it really any better, or am I just inhaling the last of the ol' Lonely Planet vibe?

[sirineou]

Perhaps where you eat, or what you eat. I don't disagree with you that there is some good street food.

But for the most part the quality has declined. I had a conversation with my wife about that the other day, She says she thinks it's because prices on ingredients have gone up, and vendors to stay competitive and maintain  the low price, are cutting corners. 

 

 

 

[Prubangboy]

7 minutes ago, sirineou said:

Perhaps where you eat, or what you eat. I don't disagree with you that there is some good street food.

But for the most part the quality has declined.  

 

 

 

Fair point; I practically never have "real" Thai food, in a Thai area, at Thai prices. If you say it's gross, I believe you.

 

Do people pick a lane and stick to it? A lot of people will eat in a food court, but not on the street. I prefer restaurants.

[jacnl2000]

On 2/16/2024 at 9:54 PM, uttradit said:

Fried rice is chinese food

 

On 2/17/2024 at 3:11 AM, Ralf001 said:

 

And yet very common in Thailand.

 

Chinese Influence On Thai Cuisine | Feast Thailand

 

As long as my eyes allow it, every evening, I try to select the best grains of rice for tomorrows cooking. This rice does not come from China 😉