Thai food the best in the world?

[Grateful farang]

Is thai cuisine the best food in the world?

Indian food, chinese food and thai food are my favourite.

But I think thai food is best.

What do you think?

[AYJAYDEE]

i judge food by how it tastes, not which national label it goes by

[JLCrab]

If you were a car, what make / model / year car would you be and what color?

[Crazy chef 1]

if you like plenty sugar,"fermented" stuff,MSG and deep frying is your prefered cooking method than you are right.

[Thai at Heart]

The flavours are good, but at the end of the day, the lack of red meat makes it a limited cuisine.

Also throw in the virtual complete lack of oven cooking, and its definitely not the best cuisine in the world. But hey, its just food.

[ATF]

1.French

2.Japanese

3.Thai

4.Chinese

[sirineou]

If you like Thai food it is the best, if you don't it is the worst.

same as the food of any nation.

[CharlesHH]

What I see Thai eating is

-white rice, denuded of most of its husk food value and is pure starch,

-lots of noodles, starch again,

-a fried egg with yellow included on top of a hunk of white rice,

-some little chunk of mystery meat,

-fish heads,

-cooking in heavy oils and, gasp, cocoanut juice,

-lots of frying and little baking and no poaching, and

-non varying diet.

Add, no vitamin pills, but taking fad pyramid scheme elixirs.

Increasing taste for sugary drinks and candies.

I guess the chicken protein keeps some going.

Sure, the varied and healthily cooked Thai dishes are wonderful, but .................

[daoyai]

What I see Thai eating is

-white rice, denuded of most of its husk food value and is pure starch,

-lots of noodles, starch again,

-a fried egg with yellow included on top of a hunk of white rice,

-some little chunk of mystery meat,

-fish heads,

-cooking in heavy oils and, gasp, cocoanut juice,

-lots of frying and little baking and no poaching, and

-non varying diet.

Add, no vitamin pills, but taking fad pyramid scheme elixirs.

Increasing taste for sugary drinks and candies.

I guess the chicken protein keeps some going.

Sure, the varied and healthily cooked Thai dishes are wonderful, but .................

As seen through your cultural imperialist lense, (?) there are many varieties and colors of whole grain rice available here, piles of raw field greens eaten (south Thai) and fruits aplenty. Why do you "gasp" at coconut "juice" or do you mean the "gatee" coco milk or cream that enriches curries and such? great stuff, ... and crispy edge fried eggs are yummy on top of pad grapau. If I had to choose only one nations cuisine it would probably be Mexico for the wide variety and regional styles.

Edited June 19, 2014 by daoyai

[baneko]

I knew you would get immediate smart a*se replies to this question.

Thai at heat is right....very little red meat or oven cooking. Some is very nice mind you. Again very little dairy products either.

My favorite is Indian food all the way. Greek is fine too.

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[kurnell]

It depends in whether you include isaan/Laos food. Som tam poo prarah, sticky rice and bbq chicken/fish or catfish larb/fermented sausage is my #1, closely followed by Lebanese food.

[timewilltell]

Thai food cooked right I find delicious. However the average Thai dish eaten by most out of the little plastic bangs they have a penchant for carrying with them so often is pretty much junk food, though is just about edible.

Then again any style of cooking prepared with good ingredients can be delicious. I often eat a little salmon with a salad. Add a few sesame seeds, a little chia, a little salad dressing and using fresh salad and a few mushrooms and the result is delicious.

One issue with Thai food, apart from the fact that basic Thai food is barely much better for you than a Big Mac, is very poor nutritionally, consisting predominately of processed rice and fried inadequate morsels of protein which is why many Thais are stunted. Eaten daily it also destroys your palate because the dominant taste is chilli and eventually anything that does not have chilli in it tastes very bland. Which is maybe why Thais don't like western food much on the whole.

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[geronimo]

It is purely a matter of opinion, I'll vote for Thai.

[bocceball1]

I Think you have TOO much time on your hands!

[HeijoshinCool]

By Thai food, you mean fried chicken feet? Fish Poop Soup? Stir fried weeds harvested fresh, from the side of the road? Or those plasticky bean pods whose flavor they must subdue by dipping them in 1000-chili bean dip?

Ohhhh, you mean Phad Thai, something most Thais don't eat too much of ...

[DP25]

Mexican and Italian are the best food, but Thai is pretty damn good. I'd put it in third place.

[meatboy]

all food if its cooked right is yumeeeeeeeeee never mind what part of the world your in,indian,Mexican,Chinese,ect.ect.ect.but don't forget the great british sunday lunch,roast beef and Yorkshire pud.fish and chips cooked in beef dripping.

my favourite,salt marsh welsh spring lamb,with jersey royals and runner beans.

[Grateful farang]

Thank you all for the replies.

Even the sarcastic replies, very funny.

But for me I like the taste of blending different things

Like I have always hated celery!

Even the smell of it makes me want to vomit but cooked in some thai dishes, celery adds an interesting and delicious flavour.

I now experiment with celery in one of my curry dishes.

Also drinks

They have a delicious beverage: orange, honey and ginger.

Wow! So delicious!

[HeijoshinCool]

Thank you all for the replies.

Even the sarcastic replies, very funny.

But for me I like the taste of blending different things

Like I have always hated celery!

Even the smell of it makes me want to vomit but cooked in some thai dishes, celery adds an interesting and delicious flavour.

I now experiment with celery in one of my curry dishes.

Also drinks

They have a delicious beverage: orange, honey and ginger.

Wow! So delicious!

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You're welcome.

But let me tell you, you haven't dined until you tried Fish Poop Soup. And there's a dip version, too, don't ya know.

[Grateful farang]

Fish poop soup?!!!

Are you serious or joking?

I was eating chicken at a party, I collected alot of chicken to eat

Then I saw a strange piece, it had a chickens foot at the end of it

Disgusting! I threw it away and tried not to think too much about it.

But the thought of chicken marching.around in shit all day then they cooked those dirty shitty feet in with the thighs, breasts, wings was quite disturbing

[AYJAYDEE]

Fish poop soup?!!!

Are you serious or joking?

I was eating chicken at a party, I collected alot of chicken to eat

Then I saw a strange piece, it had a chickens foot at the end of it

Disgusting! I threw it away and tried not to think too much about it.

But the thought of chicken marching.around in shit all day then they cooked those dirty shitty feet in with the thighs, breasts, wings was quite disturbing

It may sound strange to you but thais WASH their food before they cook it. you should try it next time you cook a sirloin tip, rump roast or eye of round. those cows tend to crap down their hind legs you know

[HeijoshinCool]

Fish poop soup?!!!

Are you serious or joking?

I was eating chicken at a party, I collected alot of chicken to eat

Then I saw a strange piece, it had a chickens foot at the end of it

Disgusting! I threw it away and tried not to think too much about it.

But the thought of chicken marching.around in shit all day then they cooked those dirty shitty feet in with the thighs, breasts, wings was quite disturbing

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Yeah, I'm serious. In Khon Kaen they scrape the intestines of a certain fish, and mix it up with chilies and God-knows-what, and dip those bean pod things into it. Nasty, nasty.

The international perception of what constitutes the typical Thai meal is off by about 179 degrees.

EDIT: To correct the spellchecker.

Edited June 20, 2014 by HeijoshinCool

[Somsrisonphimai]

Yes, Thai foods are the BEST!

[sirineou]

I like Thai food more than any other food in the world, and since I am the final arbiter of what's good or bad, Thai food has to be the best in the world

Moderator , you can close this thread now.

[ATF]

Anyone tried Goong Den (Dancing Shrimp)?

[Somsrisonphimai]

Anyone tried Goong Den (Dancing Shrimp)?

Have you? They are not cook .

[sirineou]

Anyone tried Goong Den (Dancing Shrimp)?

Yeaa I tried once, but they always want to lead

[ATF]

Anyone tried Goong Den (Dancing Shrimp)?

Have you? They are not cook .

Sure they aren't cooked, they aren't even dead! Not bad though. Mt favorite Thai dish is Bho Lon.

[WitawatWatawit]

Anyone tried Goong Den (Dancing Shrimp)?

No, she doesn't barfine.

[h90]

"ndian food, chinese food and thai food are my favourite."

did you notice that India and China contains more countries than the EU?

To say Chinese Food is like saying European Food....Differences like from Italian to Swedish food or Portuguese to Russian.

India is the same.