As a Yorkshire lad brought up on egg and chips, beans on toast......I have a very conservative palate, but do eat Thai food.....but we as we live in Isaan, I don't even recognise the stuff SWBMO eats.....mainly dark green stuff with things floating about in a plastic bag....555

Mostly eat at home, not a great fan of Thai food, would never eat from a market let alone the street, hygiene and where the food is actually sourced and stored is a no no, though i do like the Fuji chain

I don't do chilli. Other than that some Thai dishes are OK. Not sure if I could survive solely on the Thai dishes I can eat.

BTW Indian is OK.

I used to love Thai food when I lived in the good ol USA. But then I moved to Thailand and experienced the real Thai food, poor quality, cooked in cheap cooking oil, saturated in sugar, and so spicy as to burn the esophagus as it does down. Now I never eat it unless my Thai wife makes it at home, which is very rare. So many foreigners fall ill to Thai food in Thailand and end up in the hospital. Best to stay away from it.

13 minutes ago, Screaming said:

So many foreigners fall ill to Thai food in Thailand and end up in the hospital. Best to stay away from it.

I have never, my wife and kids never and any friend that has ever visited never. Could not disagree more with your whole post.

17 minutes ago, Screaming said:

I used to love Thai food when I lived in the good ol USA. But then I moved to Thailand and experienced the real Thai food, poor quality, cooked in cheap cooking oil, saturated in sugar, and so spicy as to burn the esophagus as it does down. Now I never eat it unless my Thai wife makes it at home, which is very rare. So many foreigners fall ill to Thai food in Thailand and end up in the hospital. Best to stay away from it.

Many Thais have stomach trouble from local food, but it's largely the raw fish eaten in Somtam, which causes a large amount of cancer cases here.

Foreigners are susceptible when they arrive, not used to the bacteria strains here. Bangkok Belly it's called.

Eating too many Chilis over many years can hurt the gastro system in some people.

H Pylori is very common here,a lot more then in the West, especially in Isaan, so water should be bottled always, and it comes from shared living spaces, although it can also come from kissing. The best way besides cooking it yourself (wife or girlfriend), is going to restaurants with a high turnaround, as the Thais know where to go for general safety. Meats are left out here, unlike the west, so being careful to fully cook is mandatory.

Edited June 22Jun 22 by fredwiggy

MMM My Favourite thai Dish but i get the G/F to make it not spicy for me. How can you not like this with a bottle of nice chilled Leo beer.

There are some great Thai dishes but as a cuisine I feel it is over-rated, usually too salty/spicy/sweet, and the Isaan variety often consists of quite disgusting ingredients.

I tend to stick to safe Western Thai favourites, but these days prefer to cook my own western food.

16 hours ago, Kyoto Kyle said:

I know this might sound slightly heretical for somebody with a physical connection to Thailand, but I do not actually eat Thai food very often.

Before anybody accuses me of rejecting Thai culture or disrespecting one of the world’s great cuisines, that is not really the issue.

I think a lot of Thai food tastes fantastic. My only request is that the chilli content remains below the threshold where my tongue becomes a crime scene and I can still identify at least some of the other ingredients.

The real issue is nutritional value. Over the years I have become far more interested in macros than flavor alone. These days I tend to build most of my meals around protein, followed by healthy fats, fibre, and nutrient density. I generally avoid simple carbohydrates and pure starches with empty calories, whenever possible.

That is where my relationship with a lot of Thai food starts becoming complicated. Take a typical meal. You might get a mountain of rice or noodles, a relatively modest amount of vegetables, and a surprisingly small portion of meat. Quite often the meat itself is also a fatty cut of pork rather than something particularly protein rich.

It tastes great. That is not the problem. The problem is that I can easily look at the plate and see a huge carb load, modest protein, and not much else that fits particularly well with how I prefer to eat.

I am not somebody who counts calories obsessively. I am more interested in what those calories consist of.

Two very different meals can contain exactly the same number of calories and leave me feeling completely different about what I just put into my body.

As a result, most of my day to day meals are fairly boring by comparison. Lots of eggs. Chicken. Vegetables. Nuts. Some fruit.

The sort of food that nutritionists applaud and food photographers might immediately lose interest in.

So I am curious what others choose to eat, and are you mainly thinking about taste and enjoyment, or do you also pay strong attention to the nutritional value of what is on the plate?

What is Thai food today? Many people say they love Thai food, but do they really know what Thai food is anymore? Twenty years ago, and before that, I would say most places served more genuine Thai food. Today you need to look harder for Thai restaurants that have not changed their ingredients for convenience and still call it Thai food. I do not buy the Thai food concept claim so easily. Yes, I eat homemade Thai food, but when travelling I eat a mix of what I feel is proper healthy food, and of course western food. Often simple dishes that stay true to the idea and cannot be manipulated too much.

7 minutes ago, Hummin said:

What is Thai food today? Many people say they love Thai food, but do they really know what Thai food is anymore? Twenty years ago, and before that, I would say most places served more genuine Thai food. Today you need to look harder for Thai restaurants that have not changed their ingredients for convenience and still call it Thai food. I do not buy the Thai food concept claim so easily. Yes, I eat homemade Thai food, but when travelling I eat a mix of what I feel is proper healthy food, and of course western food. Often simple dishes that stay true to the idea and cannot be manipulated too much.

100 Thai dishes. I've tried about 90. Can't beat a good Massaman or Gaeng Hang Lay.

8 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

100 Thai dishes. I've tried about 90. Can't beat a good Massaman or Gaeng Hang Lay.

Then you missed what I said about today and before. Twenty years ago, and before that, they hardly used refined sugar or bottled premade sauces like they do today.

This I eat: Nara menu

Edited June 22Jun 22 by Peter Crow

Thai food goes ok,

Monday to Friday eat it for luch everyday at the work canteen.