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

[TimBKK]

1 hour 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. 

my girl came pre-trained in cooking falang food, from working in a “5 star” place in Naklua, so you are on the right path - the variety between home and eating out (mostly Thai food) is a nice balance and breaks up the monotony of Thai food only.  

[richard_smith237]

The Op is clearly not eating decent Thai food... Had he made his observations about Thai deserts I'd be inclined to agree..

 

.. I suspect the Op may have been eating bland food because he's avoiding spice.. so sticking to Chicken with Cashew Nuts, Pinnaple fried rice and Pad Thai... 

 

He's been here three weeks and he thinks he's become an expert on Thai food... 

 

 

 

 

The range of Thai food and variation of flavours here is outstanding... 

From Penang Curry, Green Curry, Tom Yum Nam Khon, Massaman curry, Laab, Boat Noodles, Khao Soi, Pad Gapraw, various variations of fish, mien Kham - the choices are excellent...

 

In some area's the quality of meat in Thai dishes can be variable, though there are not issues with tough chicken cut with a hammer at the better places.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 5 by richard_smith237

[richard_smith237]

26 minutes ago, Mekmong MICK said:

The food is very missionary and dull without any creativity 

 

You're painting with a very broad brush for someone who's only been here on holiday for a few weeks... 

 

Tarnishing cuisine thats famous world wide...  Millions are wrong and you are right of course.. 

 

[richard_smith237]

54 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

 

Some fusions go very well...

 

i.e. Green Curry Pie works very well (I've had one before)... 

... Another excellent 'fusion' is Gapraw Pizza and Laab Pizza...   Don't knock it till you've tried it... 

(on an excellent pizza base there are many things that are good).

 

 

I suspect there are a lot of foods you haven't tried in your short time here...  you've let your foot off the clutch very early on in this whinge...

 

 

For example: Have you tried Khao Soi  ???

 

 

[roo860]

1 hour 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

Go for it, this is a pie I made, hope it catches on!🙃🙃

[Gottfrid]

27 minutes ago, Mekmong MICK said:

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 

I can truly hear, that I have a real chef on my hands here. You know, you have a big problem, and that is you go eat in all the wrong places, or as already posted your palate is dead!

You should try go Cha Am and try the fresh crab curry with egg and leeks.

Going to Koh Samed is also a great choice to sit on the beach and eat a fresh seafood buffet with different pepper sauces.

Another thing might be go to Khao San Road, as they usually make a fairly mean Pad Thai there.

That is just a few examples, after that you can tell me it all taste the same. In that case, it´s time for incarceration and soft walls.

[Gottfrid]

46 minutes ago, Mekmong MICK said:

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 

You are in Thailand. they are using fermented anchovy in their food. They call it Nam Pla, and is the Thai replacement for salt in their cuisine.

After that, people in Europe and US are quite found of the Aromat. Here they use the different Knorr cubes as well as the same from Ajinomoto in powder form.

[Gottfrid]

23 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Some fusions go very well...

 

i.e. Green Curry Pie works very well (I've had one before)... 

... Another excellent 'fusion' is Gapraw Pizza and Laab Pizza...   Don't knock it till you've tried it... 

(on an excellent pizza base there are many things that are good).

 

 

I suspect there are a lot of foods you haven't tried in your short time here...  you've let your foot off the clutch very early on in this whinge...

 

 

For example: Have you tried Khao Soi  ???

 

 

Love it! Khao Soi is great!

The thing you post about pizza, I will definitely try. Kha Prao will definitiely work. Laab will be very interesting. Will tell you in a PM what I think after trying. 🙂 

Unfortunately, the guy you are trying to excite with this, will not be able to succeed with a restaurant. Please just take my word for it. I did run 3 restaurants, 2 discos and a lunch eatery in Sweden before moving here.

 

Edited July 5 by Gottfrid

[gamb00ler]

1 hour ago, Ralf001 said:

The local food is rancid.

 

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

 

You and mr mong must have the long COVID symptom of loss of your sense of taste .... or ..... you're trapped in a very short cycle of palatable (to you) food choices.  Plus you've got to learn how to use the Thai sauces to add a lot more variety of flavors.

 

Thanks to my wife's excellent knowledge of Thai cooking ingredients and skill I've learned to love literally hundreds of Thai dishes.

[gamb00ler]

59 minutes ago, TimBKK said:

breaks up the monotony of Thai food only

that was sarcasm, right?

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, Gottfrid said:

Love it! Khao Soi is great!

The thing you post about pizza, I will definitely try. Kha Prao will definitiely work. Laab will be very interesting. Will tell you in a PM what I think after trying. 🙂 

Unfortunately, the guy you are trying to excite with this, will not be able to succeed with a restaurant. Please just take my word for it. I did run 3 restaurants, 2 discos and a lunch eatery in Sweden before moving here.

 

 

He's new... thinks his idea's are original.. 

 

So many people come here and think.. Oh... there are no pie shops, I'll start a pie shop, oh, no decent sausages, I'll start sausage shop....   its just a different take on.. trying to run their own beer bar... 

 

Perhaps Mick will get a bar and try to sell his pies and sausages... 

 

 

[stoner]

2 hours 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

 

do it. get your new gf to handle it all for you. cake walk. 

[tomazbodner]

Maybe you have COVID and can't smell or taste anything so it all tastes the same to you?

 

3 hours ago, Mekmong MICK said:

So once you've had a Tom yum, you've basically had green curry, bahm mi, pad Thai and all other local cuisines.

 

Right. I would guess you've never seen any of these dishes to say Bahm Mi and Tom Yum taste the same. That's about the same as me saying that you and Robert Mugabe are identical twins...

[Ralf001]

6 hours ago, gamb00ler said:

You and mr mong must have the long COVID symptom of loss of your sense of taste .... or ..... you're trapped in a very short cycle of palatable (to you) food choices.  Plus you've got to learn how to use the Thai sauces to add a lot more variety of flavors.

 

Thanks to my wife's excellent knowledge of Thai cooking ingredients and skill I've learned to love literally hundreds of Thai dishes.

 

Moved here long before covid.

 

Fried rice and chicken with cashew nuts goes ok.

 

But not nearly as good as a decent steak and 3 veg or a  parmi with chips with gravy and chicken salt.

Edited July 5 by Ralf001

[Hawaiian]

8 hours 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?

When I first visited Thailand twenty years ago I had the same impression.  On repeated visits and traveling all over the country with new friends I discovered there is so much variety.  Not all Thai food is prepared using the same seasonings.  There are so many regional variations. 

Being from Hawaii I am accustomed to eating all the different ethnic dishes found here and over the years have learned to prepare many of them, including Thai food.  Online recipes and suggestions from my Thai girlfriend helps.  In fact, she says some Thai dishes are comparable to what her mother cooks.

 

[jerrymahoney]

8 hours ago, Yellow Fever said:

Yep 100% 

 

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

So Yellow Fever (joined AN June 27) having a conversation with Mekmong MICK (joined AN June 27).

 

Kinda like Norman Bates having a conversation with his Mother.

[Mekmong MICK]

11 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

So Yellow Fever (joined AN June 27) having a conversation with Mekmong MICK (joined AN June 27).

 

Kinda like Norman Bates having a conversation with his Mother.

Yellow Fever probably one of the few rational and sensible posters I've come across on the forum who isn't in Thailand to be a sex pest. He speaks a lot of sense

[jerrymahoney]

5 minutes ago, Mekmong MICK said:

Yellow Fever probably one of the few rational and sensible posters I've come across on the forum who isn't in Thailand to be a sex pest. He speaks a lot of sense

Yes as is his comment on the Why Are You Here? topic:

 

Yellow Fever
Posted 10 hours ago
The easy women 

 

 

[Bday Prang]

11 minutes ago, Mekmong MICK said:

Yellow Fever probably one of the few rational and sensible posters I've come across on the forum who isn't in Thailand to be a sex pest

Why, were does he indulge in his sex pest activities? is he in the Philippines

[Mekmong MICK]

45 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Yes as is his comment on the Why Are You Here? topic:

 

Yellow Fever
Posted 10 hours ago
The easy women 

 

 

I took it to mean easy going; I.e the women don't nag him. 

 

It seems you're part of the assumption brigade here mate thinking he's a sex tourist 

[jerrymahoney]

31 minutes ago, Mekmong MICK said:

I took it to mean easy going; I.e the women don't nag him. 

 

It seems you're part of the assumption brigade here mate thinking he's a sex tourist 

Assumption brigade? I didn't attend any catholic school.

Edited July 5 by jerrymahoney

[EVENKEEL]

1 hour ago, Mekmong MICK said:

Yellow Fever probably one of the few rational and sensible posters I've come across on the forum who isn't in Thailand to be a sex pest. He speaks a lot of sense

OK Bob.......

[2baht]

11 hours ago, Mekmong MICK said:

it gets a bit overrated after 3 straight weeks

Hang in the Mm, another three weeks and who knows what you'll learn in that time! 

[jerrymahoney]

Well in the old days you used to be able to tell who left the emoticons. Not now. But maybe it was June 27 thanking June 27.

[Rimmer]

Some racists slurs and troll posts have been removed also replies

[Robert Paulson]

On 7/5/2024 at 8:46 PM, Gottfrid said:

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

What a stupid post

[Gottfrid]

11 minutes ago, Robert Paulson said:

What a stupid post

What is stupid? In Thailand they use nam pla instead of salt. After that, most of the countries surrounding the Mediterranian sea have a very high use of tomatos per capita.

[Robert Paulson]

2 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

What is stupid? In Thailand they use nam pla instead of salt. After that, most of the countries surrounding the Mediterranian sea have a very high use of tomatos per capita.

Dumbest posts of the years. Don’t @ me bro 

[Gottfrid]

3 hours ago, Robert Paulson said:

Dumbest posts of the years. Don’t @ me bro 

A post from someone who do not understand, and calling other things for the dumbest things. It might have do you?

[bob smith]

On 7/5/2024 at 8:41 PM, tjintx said:

How many accounts does Bob Smith have???

Just the one.

 

why, do you have evidence to the contrary??

 

bob.

Edited July 7 by bob smith