Thai food stalls for farangs

**Jomtienexpat** · 06-02-2010, 04:51 PM

Ketchup, especially that cheap sweet Thai ketchup ruins the schwarmas/kebabs. To solve that just make it clear you do not want that crap on it when you order. I got it accidentally once and it tasted really wrong.

**Beadle** · 06-02-2010, 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by Jomtienexpat

Ketchup, especially that cheap sweet Thai ketchup ruins the schwarmas/kebabs. To solve that just make it clear you do not want that crap on it when you order. I got it accidentally once and it tasted really wrong.

They had salad cream, ketchup or sweet chilli sauce only at the stall outside Panthip Plaza. Looked like an operation run by people that don't actually understand the food they are selling at all so I opted not to try it but there were several farangs standing around munching them, unawares of the delights of the Panthip Plaza food court just upstairs or just too scared to try something new. Probably one of the reasons the Burger King across the road is always mobbed with farang too.

**dirtydog** · 24-02-2010, 01:41 AM

Now I know Japanese aren't considered farangs but don't think this deserves a thread of its own, so there I was wandering down to my local 7/11, usual Pattaya type food stalls outside, squid and fermented sausage one, BBQ one, noodle soup one amongst a few other more normal Thai ones, and I came a cross a new one, it does those Japanese snack type things that you normally see on a conveyor belt going round a restaurant with people like scampy sticking his fingers into them.

Nice and clean, food protected from scampy type fingerings.

Now I have never eaten this stuff sober so have no idea what is what, and I wouldn't eat uncooked fish etc anyway, don't mind a bit of blood spurting out of a nice juicy steak when you stick the fork in, but raw fish and stuff like that is not for me.

These are actually bigger in the pictures than in real life so a lot of work goes into each one, myself, I think spooning baked beans onto a slice of toast is arty enough.

Is that fish skin or sea weed binding the prawns together?

Stick these in the oven for a few minutes and I bet they would be delicious.

**Bung** · 24-02-2010, 02:26 AM

I can only look on a dream as my little village only just had a sewen open recently. I buy all sorts of junk there to scoff in the car before I go dirt riding. Nothing like a seven chicken burger burp in your helmet! The market is a joke and I often walk through thinking I may (should) find something to ease the munchies and walk out dissapointed...another reason I can't wait to move to CM!

I did have a good kebab just down the road from Nana a while back. Real good.

**English Noodles** · 24-02-2010, 04:39 PM

^^All over Bangkok.

**Chairman Mao** · 24-02-2010, 05:00 PM

Call me worldly, but I believe those 'Japanese snack type things' are called sushi.

Personally I only go for the flat shrimp (ebi) on rice, called ebi nigiri-zushi. Don't expect somchai to know what that is though.

Have been increasing around bkk for the past year or so. quite like them myself with a nice green tea.

**English Noodles** · 24-02-2010, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

Call me worldly, but I believe those 'Japanese snack type things' are called sushi.

Well it does say that on the stall in the first picture. See the big lettered writing at the top, 3 words, third word, sushi.

**Chairman Mao** · 24-02-2010, 07:38 PM

Actually that says 'Suu-shee' but let's not be pedantic eh.

**DrB0b** · 24-02-2010, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

Actually that says 'Suu-shee' but let's not be pedantic eh.

Let's

According to the Royal Thai General System, the official and only standardised system for transliterating Thai, it says "suchi". Be careful with this one, many foreigners end up ordering an embarrassing urination when all they really want is a hunk of raw fish with some rice

**puppy** · 24-02-2010, 07:50 PM

No. Thai fast food is like most things in Thailand; looks great, but once you taste it, it's awful. Thai desserts look great and are really colourful, but they taste like wallpaper paste. Give me a great kebab or pie any day.

First time I tried a Thai sausage, it looked just like a Wall's pork sausage, but when I bit into it, it was full of foul-tasting rice. eurgh!!

Looked great, but no subtance. Sound familiar?

Originally Posted by taxexile

although thai food can often look quite tempting, even when prepared in a hygeine free zone by a sweaty nose picking chain smoking isaan dumbfukc yokel and sold off a rusty pushcart pulled by a 20 year old motorbike, i'm afraid falang fast food such as pre-prepared cheeseburgers and kebabs dripping with grease will always look like a bun full of shite and in all probability taste much worse.

**sharon** · 24-02-2010, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

"suchi"

**Chairman Mao** · 24-02-2010, 08:00 PM

Tiz certainly good to see some relatively healthy food creep into the nation's snack diet.

**English Noodles** · 24-02-2010, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

let's not be pedantic eh.

It better that you don't, after all, you can't read it.

**Chairman Mao** · 24-02-2010, 08:12 PM

More than you mate.

sushi.

But let's not be pedantic. Nice food. Good to see it's demand in Thailand increasing.

**English Noodles** · 24-02-2010, 08:25 PM

^You don't fool anyone you fuckwit.

DaffyDuck · 24-02-2010, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by Panda

Once the groundwork is done all the labour side of things could be handed over to the Thais.

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Originally Posted by Panda

Finding an unexploited niche in the market is where people make money.

Food carts = unexploited niche.

Right!

Brilliant!

**Fabian** · 24-02-2010, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Is that fish skin or sea weed binding the prawns together?

Sea weed.

**Spin** · 24-02-2010, 10:42 PM

There's a farang selling English pancakes off a salairng-motorci-sidecar jobby here in Roi-et. He has a gammy leg. (and it aint me)

Apparently the labour dept know about him, he has no work permit (not that you can get them for that job anyway) and no visa apparently. Does a nice trade by the looks of things.

**hooter** · 24-02-2010, 11:43 PM

Had a good kebab on Soi Cowboy a couple of weeks back.

Was that good I had another.

Wasn't anywhere near the English version dripping with grease, chilli sauce and lemon juice but was still nice.

This is the bird and seems to be doing a roaring trade.

**Smug Farang Bore** · 25-02-2010, 01:03 AM

I had a clown ask me after a couple of months here how he could open a place to make ice as EVERYONE needs it.

..My answer...Do you like your legs?

**Jack meoff** · 23-03-2010, 10:42 AM

^ Was it Elckie?

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