Has anyone else noticed recently all Thai food tastes the same?

[Mekmong MICK]

I'm 3 weeks here and beginning to get sick of it tbh. I spent this afternoon training my Thai girlfriend how to make a chicken parmingana with chips and tomato sauce. 

 

All foods seem to rely on the same few spices I have noticed and lack salt. So once you've had a Tom yum, you've basically had green curry, bahm mi, pad Thai and all other local cuisines. The vegetables and herbs are all pretty much the same across dishes too. 

 

Don't get me wrong, Thai food is delicious but I think it gets a bit overrated after 3 straight weeks. Does anyone else feel the same?

[richard_smith237]

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Has anyone else noticed recently all Thai food tastes the same?

 

 

No because it doesn't... 

[Mekmong MICK]

Just now, richard_smith237 said:

 

No because it doesn't... 

Disagree mate, it's all essentially the same with the tried and true spices and herbs; just the meat, noodles / rice changes 

[SingAPorn]

Highly possible as they use commercial made instant curry pastes that usually come from a very limited amount of suppliers in the shops. Every where people are doing "sinkflation" in reducing not the price but the quality, the quantity and the standards of the produce used to make the dish.

[Mekmong MICK]

Just now, SingAPorn said:

Highly possible as they use commercial made instant curry pastes that usually come from a very limited amount of suppliers in the shops. Every where people are doing "sinkflation" in reducing not the price but the quality, the quantity and the standards of the produce used to make the dish.

Well said and so much truth in this, my thoughts exactly 

[Liverpool Lou]

"Mods can we do something about this poster? He is clearly here to spam and make nuffy threads"!

[Mekmong MICK]

1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"Mods can we do something about this poster? He is clearly here to spam and make nuffy threads"!

If you're not going to contribute kindly remove yourself from the thread, there's no need to carry on like a pork chop

[Liverpool Lou]

4 minutes ago, Mekmong MICK said:

6 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"Mods can we do something about this poster? He is clearly here to spam and make nuffy threads"!

If you're not going to contribute kindly remove yourself from the thread, there's no need to carry on like a pork chop

But your "contribution" on someone else's thread that I quoted, word for word, from that thread is ok?   Hypocrisy.

[Doctor Tom]

It always did.  I have never been a fan of Thai food. In my view it has an undeserved reputation, among those who only experience it in expensive western restaurants.  Here, in very many cases and locations, it can be bland, or worse still, taste disgusting and inedible. 

Edited Friday at 01:26 PM by Doctor Tom

[Ralf001]

The local food is rancid.

 

Plenty of other choices around to please one's tase buds.

 

[Mekmong MICK]

1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

But your "contribution" on someone else's thread that I quoted, word for word, from that thread is ok?   Hypocrisy.

Yeah he was rambling on worse than a Mr Abbott policy speech, I was saving him from further embarrassment and doing the forum a favour

[Mekmong MICK]

Just now, Ralf001 said:

The local food is rancid.

 

Plenty of other choices around to please one's tase buds.

 

The first sensible thing you've said all week mate

[Ralf001]

11 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"Mods can we do something about this poster? He is clearly here to spam and make nuffy threads"!

Mr Mong is on point though.... Thai food is same same terible.

[Yellow Fever]

27 minutes ago, Mekmong MICK said:

I'm 3 weeks here and beginning to get sick of it tbh. I spent this afternoon training my Thai girlfriend how to make a chicken parmingana with chips and tomato sauce. 

 

All foods seem to rely on the same few spices I have noticed and lack salt. So once you've had a Tom yum, you've basically had green curry, bahm mi, pad Thai and all other local cuisines. The vegetables and herbs are all pretty much the same across dishes too. 

 

Don't get me wrong, Thai food is delicious but I think it gets a bit overrated after 3 straight weeks. Does anyone else feel the same?

Yep 100% 

 

they can’t even cook a steak correctly ffs, let alone a simple pasta 

[Ralf001]

Just now, Mekmong MICK said:

The first sensible thing you've said all week mate

thanks for your approval... I will sleep good tonight.

[Mekmong MICK]

Just now, Ralf001 said:

Mr Mong is on point though.... Thai food is same same terible.

All they need is a bit of salt, tomato sauce and more bulkier meat meals and it would be elite

[Ralf001]

Just now, Mekmong MICK said:

All they need is a bit of salt, tomato sauce and more bulkier meat meals and it would be elite

MSG goes good.

[Mekmong MICK]

Just now, Yellow Fever said:

Yep 100% 

 

they can’t even cook a steak correctly ffs, let alone a simple pasta 

I'm thinking of putting some of the money I cashed out from my dent repair business into an Aussie-Thai fusion restaurant. Green curry pies, kangaroo bahm mi and sweet and sour steak

[Yagoda]

If you want boring and insipid national foods, come to Cambodia.

 

As to Thai foods, I could eat Pad Krapow (two eggs please) every day, so I am a fanboy. What has disturbed me a bit in my last few visits to Bangkok is the paucity of dudes grilling chicken. Gai yang and sticky rice baby.

[Ralf001]

1 minute ago, Mekmong MICK said:

I'm thinking of putting some of the money I cashed out from my dent repair business into an Aussie-Thai fusion restaurant. Green curry pies, kangaroo bahm mi and sweet and sour steak

 

sounds rancid.. locals will flock.

[Liverpool Lou]

3 minutes ago, Mekmong MICK said:

5 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

But your "contribution" on someone else's thread that I quoted, word for word, from that thread is ok?   Hypocrisy.

Yeah he was rambling on worse than a Mr Abbott policy speech, I was saving him from further embarrassment and doing the forum a favour

Me too!...

16 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"Mods can we do something about this poster? He is clearly here to spam and make nuffy threads"!

 

[Mekmong MICK]

Just now, Ralf001 said:

 

sounds rancid.. locals will flock.

It'll obviously be above your price range and affordability but if I have a spare table, I'll give you my monger's discount and you can pay half price 

[Yellow Fever]

2 minutes ago, Mekmong MICK said:

I'm thinking of putting some of the money I cashed out from my dent repair business into an Aussie-Thai fusion restaurant. Green curry pies, kangaroo bahm mi and sweet and sour steak

Sounds like a winner 

 

a west bix pad Thai wouldn’t go astray 

or a Vegemite and Tim tam

infused pho  

[Ralf001]

Just now, Mekmong MICK said:

It'll obviously be above your price range and affordability but if I have a spare table, I'll give you my monger's discount and you can pay half price 

 

Monger discount ?

 

The rent a root give you the flick already ?

[Mekmong MICK]

1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Me too!...

 

You're embarrassing yourself here friend and melting down. 

 

Show a bit of grace and humility and move along to another thread to derail 

[tjintx]

How many accounts does Bob Smith have???

[Gottfrid]

30 minutes ago, Mekmong MICK said:

Disagree mate, it's all essentially the same with the tried and true spices and herbs; just the meat, noodles / rice changes 

Yeah, it would be the same taste for a person who just burnt his brain and is the proud owner of a dead palate

[Gottfrid]

19 minutes ago, Mekmong MICK said:

All they need is a bit of salt, tomato sauce and more bulkier meat meals and it would be elite

You do know your are talking about Thai cuisine, and not Spanish nor Italian or a country surronding the mediterranian sea, right?

Edited Friday at 01:46 PM by Gottfrid

[Mekmong MICK]

5 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

You do know your are talking about Thai cuisine, and not Spanish nor Italian or a country surronding the mediterranian sea, right?

They've been trading salt for years and surely the Thai's have discovered the tomato by now. 

 

The food is very missionary and dull without any creativity 

[Upnotover]

59 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"Mods can we do something about this poster? He is clearly here to spam and make nuffy threads"!

I fear your plea will fail.  He/it is clearly s-ponsored to do it, along with all the others.