When out of Thailand, what foods does your spouse prefer?

[canuckamuck]

This thread is primarily about Thai's married to foreigners, but I always cringe when I see the term 'Thai wife'. Like it denotes an alternate wife type from the standard issue one.

I have have been overseas a number of times with my wife and she has developed some strong preferences. As we are usually in Canada she absolutely craves, Salmon, properly aged t-bone steak , and weirdly, A&W Teen burgers. Which is strange because she generally avoids fast food. Also, she is a huge fan of all the salads. When she needs a break from too much farang food we go eat at my brother's house. His wife is from Szechuan and her food is hotter than even my wife is used to. When the whole family gets together for a turkey dinner,  us Canadians eat the turkey meat and those two eat the rest of the bird. Everyone happy especially if some spicy rotten bean curd is readily available.

How about you guys?

[oldhippy]

Smos - Baguette filled with ham & cheese & mayo & tomato & egg & salad

Vlaai - you probably have to google that....

Pizza

All kinds of salads

Euro Thai soups with any vegetables & Thai dry mushrooms & spices

Croque Monsieur - toasted cheese & ham & onion - bread

Euro Som Tam - made with turnips and unfortunately also homemade pla ra

Melon & Parma ham  

Pancakes

Basmati rice - my wife's favourite rice...., wheat

Duck or beef with Thai herbs

And most of all..... Belgian special beers.... (is that considered to be food?)

 

 

 

Edited October 2, 2016 by oldhippy
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[anotheruser]

"This thread is primarily about Thai's married to foreigners, but I always cringe when I see the term 'Thai wife'. Like it denotes an alternate wife type from the standard issue one."

 

This comes from the need to qualify their statements half the time. Every line from them starts out as "My TGF said" Many do not know enough about Thailand to speak about anything on an independent basis so the TW thing lends them unsurpassed credibility. It is almost as if their wife has become some sort of proxy.... 

 

 I know this is off topic but it gives me an idea for an amusing thread which I am too tired to start now. Have to go my Thai bf is telling me he needs to trim my toe nails.

[nuakmuaynina]

My ex ( Male) was a nightmare in the UK, luckily he was a good cook, so we mainly ate Thai food all the time. Sometimes he'd be OK with going to Chinatown, but getting him to try anything new was a battle, except when we'd visit my Mum, then he'd have whatever she had made. 

[Wilsonandson]

My missus would drag me to every Thai restaurant when we go abroad. She won't eat Indian, she'll only eat kfc chicken or steak for western food. She'll eat Chinese such as suki. Japanese she hates. If she can't find food to her liking she'd rather starve than eat what's on offer. Very picky about her food and when we get back to Thailand it's straight off to buy somtam and smelly fish liquid in a bag. Bala or something. Me I'll eat anything!

[chiang mai]

Spaghetti.

[Donutz]

My late wife prefer to eat European food and  I myself am a real rice eater though. So after she immigrated we would eat  rice dish 4-5 days a week. Half of the rice dishes being Thai cooked by my teerak, the other half Indonesian and other asian dishes cooked by me. 1-2 days a week would be pasta dishes, about 1-2 days a week it could vary (pizza, dönner kebab, bbq, grill, ..)  and  1 (or fewer) days a week we'd eat potato dishes.  She was not picky at all and loved to try out new food and drinks. A few times I bought something that didn't require further preparation such as herring and I'd be gone for an hour, arrive back and found out she tried the new food herself, liked it and ate it all. And if I asked were my half went she'd say "It was aroi makmak, you can go back and buy some more!!" with a big smile. 

 

In Thailand we'd ofcourse pretty much only eat Thai food. I'm not going to touch western food on holidays abroad that I can get more cheaply, easier, better tasting etc.  at home in NL. 

 

Short answer:  in NL mostly European food and in TH mostly Thai. And that applied to the both of us. Neither of us being difficult eithers (silly sods that refuse to try out dishes and drinks unfamiliar to them). 

 

I think it must be absolute horror to have a partner (foreign or not) that simply will stick to a selected few dishes and be very reluctant to go outside the box with food, drinks, thinking, trips, entertainment and what not.  I do know one farang who will drag a suitcase full of European foods to TH as he refused to eat anything Thai and does not like rice.  I pitty his (Thai) partner.  Cooking double dishes, missing out on the enjoyement of eating a dish together and talking about it, preparing the dish together (one would cook, the other assist) etc. 

 

Edit: If it had been entirely up to me I'd be eating rice 5-6 days a week. Often my darling would be the onne telling me she wanted to eat a certain no-rice dish.  And not only because that meant I woul be doing the cooking in most of those cases. 555

Edited October 3, 2016 by Donutz

[nausea]

7 hours ago, chiang mai said:

Spaghetti.

Yeah, same for me.

[TheRascal]

Not married but I can weigh in I hope

 

Went to UK with my GF last year for 7 weeks. She definitely missed Thai food and cooked at my mum's place when she got chance. 

 

She loved nandos (extra hot), liked the fish part of fish and chips (didn't like the chips), enjoyed chicken fajitas when we cooked them at home, loved chicken pie that my grandma made, enjoyed most cakes and desserts, absolutely hated pork pie!

 

She'd never tried Indian food before we went and now loves a good vindaloo with garlic naan. 

[CLW]

German sausages in all variations.
Especially Weißwurst. Ha ha.
We have to take some to here, or send by post sometimes.
Any other meat is fine, as long as rice is the side dish.

[avander]

That's easy.......when out of Thailand she cooks or buys Thai food ...usually.

She will on occasion eat an Aussie BBQ, pizza or a Chicken Tikka with salad and mint/yoghurt sauce with naan.  Also likes KFC (unfortunately for me).

She has a wide taste but is not really open to exploring other foods.  A shame as she has no idea what she's missing.

 

[upside]

Since foods fresher and cleaner outside of thailand including Thai food,  she enjoyed eating everything. 

 

Lucky she's not one for scorpions and bugs on a stick cause those are something I wasn't willing to go catch. 

[brianinbangkok]

We eat Thai food as often as we can when not in Thailand.
Lunch however will be bread or so.

[Ridler]

Go to london and you could eat a different cuisine every night of the year. But take a Thai person and they have to eat Thai food, they'll die without it and are usually so backward they can't ever contemplate eating 'foreign' food

[SOUTHERNSTAR]

It differs between people, but my lovie don't eat cheese, cream and creamy food, sweet stuff, butter, she don't like potato's and bread. That makes it interesting when we are outside Thailand. Mostly meat, vegetables, fruit, nuts, yogurt, zero fat milk and rice. When we are on the run instant noodles saves the day. She have learned how to use Tabasco and other spicy sauces to spice up foreign food. Must say it is better now than 6 years ago. The only thing that still gets her in farang land is when the temperature falls below 30 degrees C. 555

[zd1]

When in Thailand we mostly eat thai food, having said that I do like a bacon sandwich from time to time.

In the UK we will eat a bit of everything my Mrs is a fabulous cook and makes really good thai food, so good in fact that we started a business doing it several years ago.

My Mrs loves carribean food and also Spanish food, she's not into anything to creamy or cheesy though which is good for me as I am lactose intolerant.

Generally if we are not working it will come down to who is willing to cook, if it is me it could be anything from a roast dinner to spaghetti bolagnese to stews or salads, last night we had fahitas which I cooked. If she cooks it will normally be thai she makes delicious pad krapow with fresh krapow, she also makes tom yam seafood, pad king gai, pad prik geang, moo and neur tort and far too many other delicious dishes to mention.

[Stevemercer]

My wife will not try new foods, but will eat steak, garlic bread, salads and the odd McDonalds when in Australia. She won't eat raw fish (Japanese style), but will happily eat raw crab, raw prawns and raw pork in Thailand. Like most Thais she cannot tolerate wasabi, horse radish or hot English mustard. 

[gamini]

My Thai wife and I used to go to Europe every year and in London  we would make straight for Harrods and go to the seafood bar and eat oysters and real lobster. We would then seek out a nice Indian  restaurant in London where we could get some really good Indian food. In France we would seek out the best and most famous restaurants and gorge ourselves on wonderful French food and wine. Fortunately my wife loves  good food and never eats junk food like hamburgers, French fries et cetera. When we left Thailand for a while we never went to any Thai restaurant simply because they were not good. But she was a fabulous clock and her Thai food and cooking was greatly admired by the locals . Back now e in Thailand we eat Thai food and Italian food. We find there are some really good Italian restaurants in Thailand. The best ones being in Chiangmai  where as a matter of fact we are going next week to celebrate our 44th wedding anniversary

[Aussieroaming]

Depends where we are, but mostly she prefers home cooked meals (mine)

 

She avoids Thai restaurants. because its generally high priced and doesnt actually taste that good.

 

She likes to eat whatever locals eat and mama noodles are her back up comfort food, so I usually arrange for mates to bring in care packages of noodles and fish sauce if they are transitting through Thailand on rotation.

 

 

[jacko45k]

Thai food, she even brought her own noodles.

 

Sometimes Chinese but we have to get some extra chilli....

She might go for some ribs but from then on it is a struggle, she is pernickity anyhow and limited to fish, pork, chicken or shrimp...