Thread: Thai Food V Potatoes

I'm with Mr Scamp. I love potatoes. Japanese rice is good. But give me a steak, baked potato with loads of sour cream, garlic toast, and caesar salad. Glass of wine. A dishwasher. And a couch and good vid after. Heaven.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Not in Thailand, Asia or even California!

Sure would in my house in Central Thailand, the ones with their feet under my table will leave the rice in the pot and eat spuds with any meal I cook, I cook spuds and the wife and kid cook rice, but when spuds hit the plank, the rice don't make it.

Pan broiled steak, boiled or mashed spuds and sawmill gravy and thats all they will eat. Hell with vegs and rice..
But Thai ain't that stupid, so stupid that they didn't invent nothing to eat but Thai food, but when offered better, they sure as hell will eat it.

I don't understand this thread, maybe because me and the wife eat anything, as long as it is good

there is no competition between foods......or is there a secret Olympics?

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Originally Posted by slimboyfat

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

How about you Slimboy?

Do you enjoy Thai food? ...I've yet to get the opinion of some half baked, two faced bitter old dullard who follows me around the forum nitpicking and whinging when he should be at a nice Indian restaurant in Robinson Road with a wise expat friend, re-planning his future.

Thai food -i like it well enough, but then I like all types of food really. I will be going out for a walk to get a Zinger burger from KFC in a short while.

two faced? well i didnt notice that myself. maybe i have mood swings.

bitter - possibly but thats just a phase.

old - I am 34

dullard - sometimes i suppose. it depends on what you are comparing to. I dont have any tattoos. I go out 2 or 3 times a week but tonight I am staying in to do my laundry because I wont have any clean underwear for tomorrow otherwise. Rock and Roll!

nice Indian restaurant at Robinson road - please give me the address - I work nearby, but quite frankly I cant afford nice restaurants at the moment.

expat friend - I dont really have any - wise or not. My friends here are all Singaporeans or Malaysian.

I think I would get on well with you in real life but just at the moment your threads wind me up, which is probably your intention anyway.

I'm just having one of those days and I'd had enough of your recent acidic repostes and barbed banter, probably why I'd forgotten you were only a year my senior - I know you're having a bad time at the moment and a month or so ago I appealed for any TD members near you to hook up with you and buy you a beer, this was back in the days when I thought Jarvis was alright - so it's not so much two faced just dissapointing when a member you once considered an ally joins the bashing crew.

I can't see how moaning about food would wind anyone up, the only thing that winds me up is people having a pop at somebody when they don't deserve it.

It's not my intention to wind anyone up, just airing my views - Anyway fukkit, last night I was missing the fried fish I had in the Fills but I can't get the same here as the Thai's deep fry fish until it's shrivelled to half the size it started out.

I rarely eat western food here, but I am 100% sure there are good places where it can be had in Bangkok. Obviously, if you want good western food you have to dish out more money. So if you're prepared to pay 200-500 baht for a meal, I am sure some places will cook up something that beats the best food you have had in Blighty.

For 40 baht you can get decent Thai food. So for me the choice is simple. I dont have the economy to eat constant 500 baht meals, and by trial and error I have learned where to go for excellent Thai, Japanese, Korean, Italian and Chinese. I don't feel anything is missing in my life food-wise.

A tip if you want good fish is to locate tup tim fish steamed in lemon sauce or deep fried with herbs. Tup tim is an excellent food fish. The other types of fish and seafood I only have when I am right at the source, as they tend to taste of mud when bought upcountry.

some of the chefs in the big hotels are world class

so, pay your money and have a nice meal

To market, to market. Cook my own, dash of salt, no MSG, herb/spice to suit the dish. Way cheap and way tasty. Do not like Thai food.

Originally Posted by Wallalai

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

When you are hungry, and I don't mean peckish I mean proper hungry, can you honestly say that Thai food does it for you?

Depend what and where you eat. KuayTiaw sen lek or SomTam maybe not. But you'll find potatoes and meat in Kaeng Masamarn or Kaeng Karii gai. Tom kha Gai with plain rice, khao niao-somtam-gai yang looks ok to me; Namtok moo & sticky rice, khao moo daeng, and many other dishes are available on the street. There are plenty of fruits also.

Most of us have their own house and kitchen, plenty of food in the local market, everybody have a fridge and shops providing occidental products are not difficult to find. If you can cook it's not very difficult to eat varied meals. If you're bored with thai food then cook italian, french... any food you want.

And if you don't stay in your own home here there are plenty of international cuisine to eat. Unless you are on budget and have to eat Kuaytiow or fried rice here I don't see why you complain.

This topic wasn't originally posted in order to elicit intelligent replies like this one. Hence don't be surprised if TGS doesn't comment on it.

I think he's looking more for the "Grrr Scampy" responses.

Just seems funny to me that some folks think that because you move to Thailand that you should eat Thai food.
Why,
There are thousands of Thai restaurants in the states and in Britain as well.
But no one says that you should not eat in any foreign food place and only eat local cuisine.
There are other types of food available everywhere you go, In Mexico they have Thai, Chinese, Indian, not just Mex food, altho it is better food than Thai. Do you think it would be OK with the nay sayers to eat Mex food in Thailand?

I was never told when buying food to cook Gringo food in Mexico that if I didn't want to eat Mex that I should move back to America Norte.

To damn many folks try to be Thai and seem to forget that they are just ExPats like the rest of us, only they run around Wieing every swinging dick they meet and looking like a fokin idiot just because they work for the same wages as a Thai.

I think that Mexican food is the most boring imaginable, consists of 3 main ingrediants, beans, Tortilla and Minced beef, all mexican food is just a combination of these cooked in a different (but same) way, its stodgy, makes you fart and makes you fat.

Originally Posted by peterpan

I think that Mexican food is the most boring imaginable, consists of 3 main ingrediants, beans, Tortilla and Minced beef, all mexican food is just a combination of these cooked in a different (but same) way, its stodgy, makes you fart and makes you fat.

No Mister Pan, it is not.

Now Peter, if I may be so bold, The Mexican cuisine covers quite an extensive menu if you get away from some cheap Mex TACO BELL places where they just sell Tacos and Enchiladas, if I were able to get the correct spices I could cook you a right feast here.
You would love a good Caldo De Siete Mares, Or some fine Bistek Rancheros,, how bout some Pollo Con Arroze, or Fresh Pozole..
No my friend there is a lot to good mex chuck.

I have eaten that food for years and never got fat.

Mexican food is quite possibly my favourite of international quisine, absolutely love it.

Tortillas, guacamole, refried beans (whatever the fuck that means) burrittos, Larry's Dive is the best place I know in Bangers for Mex.

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Larry's Dive is the best place I know in Bangers for Mex.

Mine too, but us Limeys don't know squat about Mexican food.

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

I do a great chicken balti with yoghurt but I need a jar of Pataks medium hot balti paste from any Sainsbury's in the UK so somebody send one over.

It's one of the meals I like to make over here, just get me mum to bring over a couple of jars of pataks - don't know if she'll bring them anymore since one of them somehow leaked all over her clothes.

Mr Scamp, I am with you. Rice is just like fairy dust - in my opinion and experience you may as well not bother with it. If I eat Indian food I generally have either naan or roti (sometimes both) rather than rice. I adore potatoes in all their guises - roast, jacket, saute, dauponoise, mashed (best way with lots of butter and milk/cream) croquettes.......not a big fan of chips but even those are way better than rice.
I shall be PMing you at some point next week to arrange to meet you. I never made it to the Banyan tree - I had a strange feeling I sat next seat but one to you on the MRT on Thursday. I won't go into the conversation I initiated but if it was you you did a good job of denying you had a camera (if you or someone you know was accosted by a farang woman asking random questions I can only apologise!)

^ I knew you were female, somebody said you were a bloke but I thought the username was a bit gay!

It wasn't me, I haven't used the MRT in a while - I'm Skytrain loyal me.
Not sure I understand the bit about 'Denying you had a camera' but by all means PM me, I'm always up for a meet up in fact I think a Bangkok TD meet should be organised.

May I add to your mash with butter and milk some cracked black pepper, a little grated chaddar and some wholegrain mustard.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Larry's Dive is the best place I know in Bangers for Mex.

Mine too, but us Limeys don't know squat about Mexican food.

nor does he, all that is is TExMex, not Mexican

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Originally Posted by Marmers Mine too, but us Limeys don't know squat about Mexican food.

= I would imagine a trip to Mexico would be as dissapointing to us as a trip to Thailand would be for somebody who loved eating 'British' Thai food at a London Thai restaurant and assumed it was what Thais ate on a daily basis.

No a trip to mexico would not be dissapointing if you like Mex food, it would be on the order of what you had eaten, only a hell of a lot better.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

nor does he, all that is is TExMex, not Mexican

Same, same...

What are Pataks??

Originally Posted by blackgang

What are Pataks??

A by-product of the oil industry used by Brits to give flavour to what passes for food over there.

^^

^ That photo is out of focus.

Pretty good picture tho when you consider it was taken by a guy with his finger in his nose.