Thread: Thai food cannot be a cuisine of any worth.

As some OP commented about Aussi food - Oz cuisine no longer resembles the Brit food that it did years ago, now its a amazing blend of flavours, and tastes thanks to the huge varieties of cultures who now live there and have blended their food tastes - not unusual to sit down to a mix meal of 3-4 different dishes from that many different countries - try a visit to Melbourne - Lygon st - you would be amazed what you can find culinary wise - and Melb has some of the best Chinese restaurants out side CHina -

All regional cuisines have their staple ingredients. I'm quite happy to eat "repetitive" thai 3 or 4 times a week. There is no cuisine i could eat every day. If you think about it - isn't Chinese or French repetive for the most part? I couldnt eat French food every day - they almost always cook with butter, pepper and salt dont they?

If Thai food is so boring why are there such huge numbers of Thai restaurents in th UK .
If UK food is so interesting try a pub and see the endless platefuls of fry ups and chips, if this is preferable to fresh ingredients quickly cooked and simply served Ill stick with Thai ,and from the look of the majority of Westerners I think its better for my health too

Originally Posted by Sir Burr

have a general meet up and discuss the finer points of intercourse?

TD piss-up's are not that Gay.

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I never said that. You fucked up the quote.
Fix it and I'll green you.

Originally Posted by aussimike

Oz cuisine no longer resembles the Brit food that it did years ago, now its a amazing blend of flavours, and tastes thanks to the huge varieties of cultures who now live there and have blended their food tastes - not unusual to sit down to a mix meal of 3-4 different dishes from that many different countries

I wish I was an Aussie. We have no immigrants in the UK to influence our modern cuisine. We still eat mud and grass.

Originally Posted by donald36

If Thai food is so boring why are there such huge numbers of Thai restaurents in th UK .
If UK food is so interesting try a pub and see the endless platefuls of fry ups and chips, if this is preferable to fresh ingredients quickly cooked and simply served Ill stick with Thai ,and from the look of the majority of Westerners I think its better for my health too

UK food is not interesting, most is crap and one one reason for the popularity of Thai restaurants, even tho Thai food is in general boring it provides a welcome relief from the monotonous boring shit served in mist Uk restaurants.

Even Jamie says its rubbish.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has blasted his English homeland, saying it is a country full of people only interested in binge drinking and eating "bland" food.
In an interview with a French magazine, Oliver says he could find a tastier range of food in African slums compared to what is served up in England.
He argues the English have become too obsessed with big TVs, mobile phones and fast cars as well as getting drunk in pubs, all of which he says are symptoms of the "new poverty" emerging in Britain.
"I found the cooking of the inhabitants of the slum in Soweto in South Africa a lot more diverse than ours," he told Paris Match magazine.
"It's true! I'm going to be harsh, but I think a lot of English people's food lacks heart. It's bland."
Oliver, who wants to shoot a TV show in France, also noted that 80 percent of Britons no longer bother to sit down at the dinner table for a meal.
"It's true in the centre of London and in the big northern cities," he said.
"It's linked to the new poverty.
"It's nothing to do with famine or war - quite the opposite. England is one of the richest countries in the world.
"The people I'm telling you about have huge TV sets - a lot bigger than mine! They have state-of-the-art mobile phones, cars, and they go and get drunk in pubs at the weekend - their poverty shows in
the way they feed themselves."
When asked to compare British and French cuisine, Oliver said Britons had lost their gastronomic traditions.
"In the past, British cuisine was similar to Italian cuisine nowadays, without the pasta and risotto," he said.
"Steam cooking, grilled meat, herbs, spices - we used to cook fabulous dishes. It's all in the past!
"Unlike French people, and I regret it, we lost our traditions. In gastronomy, the world evolves and changes.
"And right in front of us, isolated from everything, you have France where nothing changes."

I generally like Thai food. The better Thai places tend to be a mix of cuisines. Thai/Jap, Thai/Greek, Thai/Viet Thai/Issan ect. But that relies very heavily on the particular cook.

I cant imagine anyone preferring Micky D's to even the most dull poorly prepared/served Thai dish.
Since coming to Thai I've eaten at Micky D's a grand total of one time and maybe four BK Whoppers over the course of 5 years.

I travel around the countryside a bunch and explore all kinds of little one in the wall Thai restaurants with generally very pleasant results.
Someone already mentioned it and I agree that Thai seafood restaurants can offer a wonderfully interesting array of extremely tasty culinary delights

I sooner eat a turd than a Micky D's burger!

Originally Posted by thegent

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You can be my editor if you wish.

Incidentally, I also used bland as a verb, another solecism although it served its purpose " regardless ".

You seem to be easily amused.

Not difficult to be amused by pompous arrogance.

Originally Posted by donald36

If Thai food is so boring why are there such huge numbers of Thai restaurents in th UK.

What a daft comment - I bet there are more McDonalds than Thai restaurants in the UK, and yet you wouldn't describe Big Macs and fries as exciting cuisine, would you?

Originally Posted by thegent

meet up and discuss the finer points of intercourse?

I never said that. You fucked up the quote.

Sorry, too late for me to Edit the post SB.

The fact that so many will sit around and argue a totally pointless issue of aesthetics is absurd.

No one is right or wrong in these debates...stop jerking off.

Originally Posted by BugginOut

The fact that so many will sit around and argue a totally pointless issue of aesthetics is absurd.

No one is right or wrong in these debates...stop jerking off.

I am not jerking off, I am just massaging it a bit.......

Originally Posted by Sir Burr

Ahhh yes, the expected verbose put-down in thegent style.

Bit like being whipped with a piece of warm lettuce.

.......dressed first in a vinaigrette and mustard jus of course!

Some posters have misunderstood the thrust of my complaint.

I have nothing against Thai food per se and in fact enjoy it on ( not too ) many an occasion but as a cuisine it is disappointingly tedious and therefore its appeal soon wanes and probably quicker than any other. But then, what can one expect when it is utterly sustained by that ubiquitous staple, a bowl of luke warm, generally overcooked, insipid, plain boiled bloody rice.

I suppose it would be OKish if they at least put out a salt cellar but ..........

Originally Posted by thegent

I suppose it would be OKish if they at least put out a salt cellar but ..........

They do. It's that nasty fish smelling ultra salty brown stuff. Just douse everything in it.

Nam pla is no substitute.

Originally Posted by thegent

Thailand is the only place in the world where I am driven to eat MacDonalds hamburgers regularly.

Thai food has some variety but not too much. Most of the time I go with soup. Plenty of good jap food in Tland.

Funny I only eat McD, Pizza Hut and KFC in Thailand. Wouldn't even consider it in The States

Originally Posted by thegent

Some posters have misunderstood the thrust of my complaint.

I have nothing against Thai food per se and in fact enjoy it on ( not too ) many an occasion but as a cuisine it is disappointingly tedious and therefore its appeal soon wanes and probably quicker than any other. But then, what can one expect when it is utterly sustained by that ubiquitous staple, a bowl of luke warm, generally overcooked, insipid, plain boiled bloody rice.

I suppose it would be OKish if they at least put out a salt cellar but ..........

You do seem to have ignored any replies and are merely repeating your complaint

that is hardly interesting, in fact it is boring, very boring indeed

Originally Posted by donald36

If Thai food is so boring why are there such huge numbers of Thai restaurents in th UK .
If UK food is so interesting try a pub and see the endless platefuls of fry ups and chips, if this is preferable to fresh ingredients quickly cooked and simply served Ill stick with Thai ,and from the look of the majority of Westerners I think its better for my health too

Donald, the point is not being made about restaurants,it is about daily meals and foods . . . do you go to a restaurant EVERY (not referring to the street hawkers)

I mean, how many times can you eat cow pat (I know, misspelled to prove a point) or anything doused in chili so you can't taste anything?

Originally Posted by panama hat

or anything doused in chili so you can't taste anything

daily
I like sothern Thai curries.
A test of will or hunger.
great for losing weight.

Originally Posted by sabang

When I look at the average Aussie or Brit's diet, I don't really think Thai food can be described as boring. I think what is the case however is that basic Thai restaurants mostly suffer from a distinct lack of imagination- they pretty much all serve the same stuff. It's nice to come across one that is a bit different, like Lemongrass on Suk Soi 24, that specialises in Thai salads.

As for Thai being one of the worlds 'great' cuisines, well not quite. It is mostly adjusted from the Chinese recipes that the central Thai brought with them when they first migrated here. The worlds great cuisines are Chinese, Japanese, French and Italian.

disagree with italian, indian would be in its place.japanese would be my favourite

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by panama hat

I mean, how many times can you eat cow pat (I know, misspelled to prove a point) or anything doused in chili so you can't taste anything?

you have proved the opposite point PH

If you order Cowpat (oh, so did I!) every day, of course Thai food will seem boring

if you only eat food "doused" in chillies, then of course it would be too much

Maybe you could be a little more adventurous in your eating habits, there is an incredible variety of ingredients and ways of cooking them out there

I believe the point is exactly that there is not much choice, and my eating habits are quite varied, thanks. Today, after I arrived back from a two-day biz trip to Thailand (truth):

Breakfast: Roti Canay with daal and curry. Teh halia

Lunch: IKEA Swedish meatballs, brocoli and carrots

Dinner: German dark bread sandwich with leftover chicken roast, Hellman's mayo

Snacking while watching Football Crazy: Lebanese pastries


Sound varied enough?

Thai food is boring so I eat at McDonald's.

Can I introduce the OP and all the idiots agreeing with him to the term non sequitur?