21 hours ago, 2long said:

The three best cuisines in the world are Japanese, Thai and

Italian

.

 

 

Italian

is lots of carbs.

 

I love Japanese, but given the variety Thai food wins... only just though.

Italian is great, but really only the pasta and pizza parts, which is all just empty carbs as you said. 
 

Japanese: gyoza, ramen, Japanese curry, done. Not much else of interest. 
 

Lebanese and Mexican. Two of the best!
 

 

19 hours ago, Dan747 said:

Yes, Thao food is "Great." After about 3 months, I am looking for a Good Hamburger here in Ubon that is hard to find. So I go ahead and order at McDonalds and that works till I make it to Bangkok.

Here in Chiang Mai we have The Duke's to satisfy those periodic burger cravings.

An alternative might be Mickey D's Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese. 

To my taste it's much better than their average fare.

 

On 10/12/2025 at 10:09 AM, MalcolmB said:

Frozen food? 
yeah wonderful, especially fish.

Nothin better than frozen old fish.

One of the stupidest comments I've read here.
Contesting freezing in a tropical country when you live far from anywhere is beyond archaic.
Do you have a brain, Malcolm?

We eat maybe once a week thai food. But restricted to a few places / restaurants / recipes wich I know that I like them.

 

My favorites are

- Khao Soi for brunch

- Sai Ua 

- Som Tam

- Fried fish with garlic

- green, red, yellow, massaman and Hung Lay curry

The first year I was here I tried assimilating to the Thai life style. I learned quickly that solid poops were a thing of the past while eating Thai food. On those rare occasions where I produced a nice healthy log, I'd send pictures of it to my friends. I finally had to wave the white flag, went back to a Western style diet and my body has thanked me since. A complete physical last April showed near-perfect results. I think the diet we are raised on is ingrained.

On 10/12/2025 at 9:39 AM, ColeBOzbourne said:

Thai food is pretty good, but my preference is authentic Mexican food in Mexico. Coming in second would be Brazilian food, followed by Thai food at number three.

American cuisine is the best. Today Italian, tomorrow Mexican, then Chinese, Southern US, NE Seafood, then Thai, Jamaican, Dominican, African, Canadian, USA style steak, Argentinian steak, French gourmet, Frech Bistro, Kosher Deli.....

 

If you ever do a layover at JFK airport, check out the various country cuisines in Queens. I think I counted 17, without street stalls.

On 10/12/2025 at 9:37 AM, KhunLA said:

I like Yum also, if not too spicy 

 

That looks like yum woonsen... one of my favorites but I pass on the added shrimp.

A YouTube with a Thai cooking channel says ... yum translates to spicy.   

9 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

That looks like yum woonsen... one of my favorites but I pass on the added shrimp.

A YouTube with a Thai cooking channel says ... yum translates to spicy.   

Yum Woon Sen is my choice, if not ordering a Curry / Massaman dish.   Like Som Tam Tai also, low spicy, as I carry Cayenne pepper with me, if needed to spice it up a bit.  If all else fails, everyone offers a KraPao.

 

Most places do nice grill meats w/dipping sauce, and if the Crispy Pork Belly is looking good, I'll get that when available.   That's about all my 'go to' items, maybe Khee Mao or Sweet & Sour for a veggie fix.

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

American cuisine is the best. Today Italian, tomorrow Mexican, then Chinese, Southern US, NE Seafood, then Thai, Jamaican, Dominican, African, Canadian, USA style steak, Argentinian steak, French gourmet, Frech Bistro, Kosher Deli.....

Unfortunately, my small-town, USA, offers little variety. American or Mexican are your choices. So I enjoy the variety offered here in Bangkok. This makes me think of that small group of snarky snobs that say, "When in Thailand you should only eat Thai food." I wonder if they also say, "When in America you should only eat American food."

18 minutes ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

Unfortunately, my small-town, USA, offers little variety.

Agreed, there are places in the USA where you are limited to basic American (like Waffle House), Fast food and maybe Italian and American-Chinese (storefront, take out, Universal Menu, Brooklyn baked Fortune Cookies). Or shopping mall yuck.

 

But, its always cool when you are in Bumfork, WV and you find some Lao refugees who have the only place in 100 miles for all the Asians who yearn for more. Or, where I have been going recently in the USA, Indian...but not $3.00 Channa Masala, rather, $15 from waiters with ties under Velvet paintings of Lord Ganesha.

 

I consider Southern US food to be the "true" American food: Barbecue, Grits, Fried everything, Cornbread, Pudding...

1 hour ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

Unfortunately, my small-town, USA, offers little variety. American or Mexican are your choices. So I enjoy the variety offered here in Bangkok. This makes me think of that small group of snarky snobs that say, "When in Thailand you should only eat Thai food." I wonder if they also say, "When in America you should only eat American food."

Yeah, I hear you.

If I'm ever forced by circumstances to repatriate it will need to be in a low cost area of the USA where I would likely be in a similar very boring food scene as that. Not that I could afford U.S. restaurant prices but even for shopping for cooking interesting stuff would be limited. Another reason I wouldn't want to live in a provincial area of Thailand which may have great Thai food, but only Thai food. 

On 10/11/2025 at 7:31 PM, Cardano said:

Not really no, it's generally cheap crap covered in a pungent sauce or a bowl of rice noodles with scraps of petrified protein and other non-describable things thrown in , their seafood locally caught is bland, tasteless and mushy, especially that rubbish they call sea bass. Don't even mention the freshwater garbage that they ironically sell as seafood. About the only palatable thing is a decent red chicken curry. But give me Chinese, western or Indian food any day.

Gotta love the thumbs down brigade, especially the ones that haven't got the wherewithal to put together a few words explaining why!!

9 hours ago, Yagoda said:

American cuisine is the best. Today Italian, tomorrow Mexican, then Chinese, Southern US, NE Seafood, then Thai, Jamaican, Dominican, African, Canadian, USA style steak, Argentinian steak, French gourmet, Frech Bistro, Kosher Deli.....

 

If you ever do a layover at JFK airport, check out the various country cuisines in Queens. I think I counted 17, without street stalls.

Think you've created the best contradiction in terms that I've ever had the pleasure to read. 

1 minute ago, Cardano said:

Think you've created the best contradiction in terms that I've ever had the pleasure to read. 

What do you disagree with?

1 minute ago, Yagoda said:

What do you disagree with?

I'm making an observation, not disagreeing with anything. But maybe try reading your opening 5 words, then read the rest of your post. It should be pretty obvious.

1 hour ago, Cardano said:

I'm making an observation, not disagreeing with anything. But maybe try reading your opening 5 words, then read the rest of your post. It should be pretty obvious.

So you agree with me. Thanks.

On 10/14/2025 at 9:12 PM, Yagoda said:

So you agree with me. Thanks.

You really do need lessons in literacy, LOL!

On 10/14/2025 at 12:21 PM, Yagoda said:

 

 

But, its always cool when you are in Bumfork, WV and you find some Lao refugees who have the only place in 100 miles  

 

I consider Southern US food to be the "true" American food: Barbecue, Grits, Fried everything, Cornbread, Pudding...

True on both counts. I lived in Appalachia for many years and have had some my best SEA food from Lao immigrants. They offer Somtam AND Issan Somtam. But most people only order Issan Somtam once.

 

Check out the menu of Tupelo Honey Grill Chain for very upscale and creative Southern food. It's up there with Italian and Chinese.

 

I only eat Thai food 1.5 times a week. The .5 will be a diet meal of roast chicken and Somtam.

 

I mostly order N. Thai food. Khao Soy Noodles and Hang Leng (Myanmar pork leg) Curry are solid go-to's. Pad Thai is great when it's great, but it seldom  is. Curry-wise, Red Curry is so deceptively simple that it is what I judge a restaurant on. I never eat on the street.

 

Anyone living in Chiang Mai should go to Ging Grai for the best (not sweet) Pad Thai I have ever eaten. Around the corner is a  100 baht Pad Thai place that is worthy of a taste off.

 

Bangkok has more Wow-restaurants, but I never ate so well day to day as in Chiang Mai.

There is nothing else available. No worries, where ever you are in the tropics, the local food is best. 

On 10/14/2025 at 7:46 PM, Cardano said:

Think you've created the best contradiction in terms that I've ever had the pleasure to read. 

Actually he didn't. The US adopted all the foods of immigrants from around the world. London sort of did the same and had nowhere to go but up.

13 minutes ago, Prubangboy said:

Check out the menu of Tupelo Honey Grill Chain for very upscale and creative

Oh, so grits and chitlins then. And dirty rice.

6 minutes ago, gargamon said:

Oh, so grits and chitlins then. And dirty rice.

Any affluent tourist town in The South will have tricked up Southern food. Places like Asheville or Taos represent the best of America; it's bounteous creativity and generosity.

 

Why do such places only (only) ever vote Blue?

 

Why can't Red places use the brains that god gave them and fry up a grit cake to upsell?  

 

Brew Pub? At best.

 

 

16 minutes ago, Prubangboy said:

Any affluent tourist town in The South will have tricked up Southern food. Places like Asheville or Taos represent the best of America;

Where they play ”dueling banjos” all day long and keep asking people to ”squeeel like a pig”

That cabbage soup that stinks up the food courts is an atrocity.  Makes me think of the stories of the slop the guys had to live on in the WWII POW camps.

But otherwise yeah, good stuff in itself, and inspiring for coming up with your own recipes.  There is a certain dish I make where a splash of naam pla is added to the stir-fry for a quick burn-off, and man does that reek!  It only lasts about 10 seconds but even then it's 9 seconds too long.

All that said, I am really really tired of lemon grass, almost to the point of it being sickening.

 

27 minutes ago, gargamon said:

Where they play ”dueling banjos” all day long and keep asking people to ”squeeel like a pig”

In my town, they sold tee shirts saying, "If you hear banjo's, paddle faster".

On 10/12/2025 at 9:28 AM, Toc-Toc said:

Never Thai food.
Airfryer for lunch and dinner. With experience, I know perfectly well how to cook meat and vegetables in the same pot with very little fat, most often replaced by broth.
Alternating between beef, chicken, duck, mutton, pork, and fish stored in a large freezer also alternating between fries and rice, always with a little green vegetable.
At local restaurants with girls, I often miss my own cooking.

 

Sorry dude, that looks overcooked, bland and dry as old saw dust - it looks horrdenous.

And you think that is better than Thai food, wow. 

7 hours ago, gargamon said:

And dirty rice.

Made right, its the Cajun Biryani

7 hours ago, gargamon said:

Where they play ”dueling banjos” all day long and keep asking people to ”squeeel like a pig”

Thats how the Scotch-Irish are. 

I love it. Just yesterday I was debating which food court to go to depending on what I wanted to eat. I was really befuddled. 

 

Pad krapow moo gorp

Pad krueng gaeng gai

Keaw tiew sukothai thom yam

Gaeng Penang or Masaman

 

I went with Keaw tiew sukothai. The guy knows my order I just walk up and hand him my card. Been eating there since the FC opened 

 

Been eating Thai sweets lately. Too expensive but very nice alternative to cookies and candy 

 

So much delicious food here 

 

Farang food also 3x more expensive 

Okay, much Issarn food is off-putting and I'm not keen on offal, but all that is avoidable. 

 

I could not imagine not sharing meals with my wife. Eating separate food is just juvenile. She's not keen on most farang food. Pizza few times a year. She'll eat spaghetti on rare occasion. She does love strong foods like blue cheese, calamatta olives, prosciutto.

 

We just eat Thai and why not.