Thai Dismissal of other Food Cultures

**KEVIN2008** · 22-05-2012, 11:48 PM

Originally Posted by BobR

Sadly many Thais seem to think this small Country is the center of the universe and have little interest learning about other countries or trying anything from foreign cultures.

.....TOTALLY AGREE, WELL SAID.

**tsicar** · 22-05-2012, 11:50 PM

Originally Posted by fiddler

My (American) brother won't allow Thai food to be cooked in his house. Says it smells like crap.

.

it fukkin does, too!
..even the thais know that and that's why they have open air kitchens.

i once invited a few thai friends over for a barbeque (in issaan)
now they barbeque all the time, and mostly know their stuff.

drove 100km to buy imported australian beef fillet, spent a 'kkin fortune just to entertain these fukwits.

gesswot?
every one of the fukkers brought along their own stinky isaan shite, and nobody touched anything i had prepared for them- just assumed it was farang food, and so wouldn't even try it, although it is what they cook all the time except good quality stuff and so they scoffed their rice and rotten fish while i pigged out on my marinaded rare fillet.
the one exception was one thai guy who tried a piece of the beef but would not eat more than the first bite.
...asked me the next day if there was something wrong with the beef, coz it was tender and every thai knows thart beef is supposed to be tough as nails!

fukkem.
let them eat dogs, rotten fish, entrails, raw pig's blood, cows' afterbirths etc. if they want to:
i can't stomach the shite they rave about- better they leave the decent grub for us civilised farangs!

**ralphlsasser** · 23-05-2012, 06:07 AM

Originally Posted by BobR

Sadly many Thais seem to think this small Country is the center of the universe and have little interest learning about other countries or trying anything from foreign cultures.

You my friend are so right. They don't know, nor do they want to know about any where else.

**ralphlsasser** · 23-05-2012, 06:13 AM

I must say, I make a killer hamburger, so I'm told. Last Saturday, my midget's neice was over and I was grilling hamburgers. After FINALLY getting her to try one, she ate two bites and couldn't take anymore. So, I ate what she left.

**ralphlsasser** · 23-05-2012, 06:17 AM

Originally Posted by ShrewedPunter

Could you attribute this to the Thai mindset being closer related to that of an animal?

The instinctive reaction of a cow. if given some meat would be to refuse.
Try to feed a dog some grass, instantly refuse.

Give an educated, western farang some different food, curiosity and the natural desire to better ones person with experiences will lead him to at least try the new food.

My mom and dad always told me, "how do you know you don't like it if you don't try it?" Still true today.

**Kwang** · 23-05-2012, 06:48 AM

The 2 cuisines I thought my Missus would like, Mexican and Indian, due to her like for chillis, she's none too keen on, although she does enjoy Piri Piri Chicken with the hot sauce,
She loves lamb and had never tried that before, she will also eat KFC and the Samurai burger from Maccy D's, and Pizza and spaghetti sometimes. She likes her seafood too, always on a promise if I buy her oysters

Although there is no doubting her favourite food is Somtam, which is also her main staple

**Kwang** · 23-05-2012, 06:49 AM

Originally Posted by ralphlsasser

My mom and dad always told me, "how do you know you don't like it if you don't try it?

The colour and smell and ingredients and texture?

I've never ate shit but I'm pretty confident I wouldn't enjoy it

**ShrewedPunter** · 23-05-2012, 07:05 AM

I think up country Thailand, people are not even aware of the planet called earth..
Only Thailand and Laos

The Bangkok folk will know about the jean(china), yippon(japan), farang kaek (indian)

scary

**TizMe** · 23-05-2012, 07:17 AM

I work in Singapore for an American owned company.

A while back about 10 middle to senior managers visited "The Outpost".

Few of them had ever left North America before.

Each night we went out to some fine restaurants around Singapore.

Each night they hardly touched a thing on their plates.

I'm sure they all headed for McDonalds on the way back to the hotel.

**Davis Knowlton** · 23-05-2012, 08:57 AM

In defense of Filipinos, who got slammed with a generalization early in the thread, I have found, in 16 years here, that they are usually keen to try food other than fast food crap which has been well prepared. Now my wife, who is a graduate of a well-known international chef school here which trains chefs for hotels and cruise ships, is obviously an exception, having been married to me for 21 years and having traveled extensively. The only food she really doesn't like, to cook or eat, is lamb. Other than that, she can cook, and will eat, anything. Filipino 'cuisine' clearly sucks - no question. Flips can take fresh seafood, fruit and vegetables of world class quality, and fuck it up. But most I have met enjoy just about any kind of foreign food - it's primarily an issue of cost which keeps them in the fast food restaurants if they go out for a meal. My wife occasionally conducts a small weekend cooking class here at the house, and it is always packed. They like to learn and experiment, but the prices of quality ingredients are often out of their price range.

**Spin** · 23-05-2012, 09:15 AM

Ignorant uneducated bannork fuckwits are not to used as a benchmark for whether Thais appreciate foreign fare or not, many seem to be basing their overall opinion of a nation based on the behaviour on the strata that farangs usually associate with here.
You have to look at the monied class and see what they are doing, and from what I see, they are spending plenty of money experimenting on all kinds of imported food and especially beers.

**misskit** · 23-05-2012, 09:31 AM

^Sounds good, but doesn't fit in the case of Thais I know. Most are very well educated and of a higher monied group.

An example. There are many Vietnamese restaurnants in Chaing Mai. The locals are quite keen on dining there. I see the food as a sort of fusion, made for Thai taste.

I went to Vietnam with a group of hi-so people. Everything was hunky-dory when we went to the huge restaurants specializing in Thai tourist groups. The night we went to an elegant restaurant serving fine very Vietnamese traditional food, they turned up their noses. The food was much to delicate for their taste buds.

**DrAndy** · 23-05-2012, 01:23 PM

It is all about exposure

It is an inbuilt protection mechanism to not be too adventurous in food eating habits and stick with what you know

I remember my father always saying he wouldn't want to eat any of that foreign muck (this was in the 1960's), full of garlic and dirt

several years later he was more than happy to go to an Indian or Chinese restaurant, even eating garlic at Italian places

**Bobcock** · 23-05-2012, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by nidhogg

This is much nearer to my experience as well. Food prepared by my missus includes italian, Indian and we love a good casserole, steaks etc. Take away japanese food is a regular treat at our house -my son thinks the best food in the world is salmon -smoked or sashimi. last nights eveninng meal was egg and chip butties for me and the boy, and a tossed salad for her. We mix western and Thai during the week - some days one, some days another.

Jesus.....you and I are both married to the same woman..... guns at dawn?

**Bobcock** · 23-05-2012, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

she still regularly munches it some ten years later, she can't get enough of it

Oooooh errrrrrr missus

**Bobcock** · 23-05-2012, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by ShrewedPunter

I think up country Thailand, people are not even aware of the planet called earth..
Only Thailand and Laos

The Bangkok folk will know about the jean(china), yippon(japan), farang kaek (indian)

scary

Yep you've nailed.

I also don't think there is a Thai yet who has been outside of Thailand and enjoyed one single second.

**fryatuck** · 23-05-2012, 06:36 PM

Took a female thai friend to Soi 3 about 2 months ago, we sat in a turkish restaurant (can't remember the name) I ordered the Hummus and some pitta bread for starters, she was totally intrigued when it arrived, she tried it and loved it so much that she goes to that same restaurant regularly just to eat Hummus!
My currant GF loves an Indian meal once in a while. I think it depends on the individual, but yes agree with other posters the Thais seem to be reluctant to try different foreign foods.

**Marmite the Dog** · 23-05-2012, 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by Bobcock

I also don't think there is a Thai yet who has been outside of Thailand and enjoyed one single second.

Really? The Midget would love to leave Thailand. She's knows it's a shit hole inhabited by retards and generally only likes it here because her family are near.

She also prefers foreign food and makes some excellent dishes, from scratch (none of this plastic sauce in a jar shit) as well as being an excellent baker.

Oh, except that can't be, as she is an ignorant rice farmer...

**Kwang** · 23-05-2012, 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

The Midget would love to leave Thailand

I bet she'd get homesick though, and I'd give you 3 days in Luton before you were phoning Thai Airways

**ShrewedPunter** · 24-05-2012, 12:00 AM

Originally Posted by Kwang

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

The Midget would love to leave Thailand

I bet she'd get homesick though, and I'd give you 3 days in Luton before you were phoning Thai Airways

Luton ???

I'm sure you can find an area of Luton mainly populated by people from SE Asia

**TizMe** · 24-05-2012, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

In defense of Filipinos, who got slammed with a generalization early in the thread, I have found, in 16 years here, that they are usually keen to try food other than fast food crap which has been well prepared. Now my wife, who is a graduate of a well-known international chef school here which trains chefs for hotels and cruise ships, is obviously an exception, having been married to me for 21 years and having traveled extensively. The only food she really doesn't like, to cook or eat, is lamb. Other than that, she can cook, and will eat, anything. Filipino 'cuisine' clearly sucks - no question. Flips can take fresh seafood, fruit and vegetables of world class quality, and fuck it up. But most I have met enjoy just about any kind of foreign food - it's primarily an issue of cost which keeps them in the fast food restaurants if they go out for a meal. My wife occasionally conducts a small weekend cooking class here at the house, and it is always packed. They like to learn and experiment, but the prices of quality ingredients are often out of their price range.

I work with a lot of Flippers. I find they are much more adventurous than any Thai that I've known. They clearly can't handle very spicy food, but they try a little bit of it anyway.

**Kwang** · 24-05-2012, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by ShrewedPunter

Luton ???

I'm sure you can find an area of Luton mainly populated by people from SE Asia

Place is full of Pakis, here's their Sporting Homegrown legend

**Bobcock** · 24-05-2012, 10:42 AM

Monty is a Paki is he?

Such ignorance.....

**Kwang** · 24-05-2012, 10:56 AM

^ Only when he fucks up

**Marmite the Dog** · 25-05-2012, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by Kwang

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

The Midget would love to leave Thailand

I bet she'd get homesick though, and I'd give you 3 days in Luton before you were phoning Thai Airways

I have never lived in Luton and I never would - it's a shit hole.

I was actually looking at property prices near Albany a couple of days ago.

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