Thai Food V Potatoes

**mrsquirrel** · 08-06-2007, 07:32 PM

Had wicked indigestion for two days after a massive pork and kimchi binge.

**NickA** · 08-06-2007, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

^^ Yeah yeah whatever Nicholas - I want to know what YOU eat! Not just you but everyone, stop turning everything around at me for fucks sake, I know I'm the infamous Gentleman Scamp and all that but post with a little more meat and potatoes and a little less tabasco and this will become a better forum all round.

My point being is that you seem to equate Thai food to the 20 baht stalls that you eat at, whereas I equate it to the meals I eat at home, which don't sound anything like the food you describe and quite often contains potatoes.

Having said that, I haven't eaten much for a week because I've been ill with the shits amongst other things, maybe caused by a 20 baht Thai meal or maybe caused by an Indian mushroom curry I cooked myself.

**Spin** · 08-06-2007, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Spud

when I am really hungry I need potato based fuel

Ok spud head, thats cool but its hardly an interest of most people on here

**peterpan** · 08-06-2007, 07:37 PM

I eat a bit of both, my ol lady is a dab hand at cooking farang food, whips up a mean chill or Roast chicken and potatoes, but she is totally and unbelievably crap at Thai food, so I prefer to do that myself.
My kids prefer western food,

**buad hai** · 08-06-2007, 07:40 PM

Go buy yourself a can of Pringles and a jar of Jergen's Lotion.

**Marmite the Dog** · 08-06-2007, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by Spin

Ok spud head, thats cool but its hardly an interest of most people on here

I beg to differ...

**The Gentleman Scamp** · 08-06-2007, 07:51 PM

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.

**dirtydog** · 08-06-2007, 07:55 PM

I prefer Indian food, foked if I would want to live there though, most Thai food I wouldn't eat as I don't think people should eat dogs, insects, snakes, gone off meat, afterbirth, fertilised chicken eggs with developed chicken foetueses in them and stuff like that, if you were meant to piss out of your ass you wouldn't need one.

**Boon Mee** · 08-06-2007, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

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.

Not winding me up, Scamp - just can't figure out why you are eating crap when there's lots of good Thai food out there. If you don't want a greasy fried egg like you've described, don't eat off the street. While street food can be good in a pinch, it's not made for a steady diet.

**blackgang** · 08-06-2007, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Had wicked indigestion for two days after a massive pork and kimchi binge.

Yea, the pork and Kinchee is rough sometimes.
I prefer the Bul Kalbi or Bul Kogi any day, fact I might make some for dinner tomorrow, but i can't get the Kimchee right, pobly the Thai Knappa cabbage,But then the chilli ain't right, the green cabbage will not make real good kraut either, wifey tells me ther are to many chemicals in the Thai Vegs.

**The Gentleman Scamp** · 08-06-2007, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by Booners

just can't figure out why you are eating crap when there's lots of good Thai food out there.

Good Thai food?

Some of it is alright but not on an empty stomach, I quite like Tom Yam Goong.

I guess going from Banyan menu to foodcourt is a step too far.

**buad hai** · 08-06-2007, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Good Thai food?

What are you on about? Thailand has one of the most varied cuisines in the world. Aside from potatoes, which are readily available in almost infinite form, what are you longing for?

**The Gentleman Scamp** · 08-06-2007, 08:52 PM

Varied cuisines in the world?

You sure???

If Thai food had a fight against potatoes the spuds would win for sure.

**slimboyfat** · 08-06-2007, 09:43 PM

well my laundry is done. i didnt go to KFC in the end, i went to an Indian shop 5 mins walk away and had mutton curry and rice. very nice it was too. there is no thai restaurant nearby here, save for a Thai Muslim place which I think is run by Malaysians anyway.

i did write a long PM to you Scampy before I left for dinner but when I clicked send i got a page saying 'cannot find the webpage' - due to this awful wireless connection i have here. I cant be bothered to write it again but it was basically one of those handshake, water under the bridge type of things

**ChiangMai noon** · 08-06-2007, 09:56 PM

thai food is waay over rated.
It's all much of a muchness really.

my wife doesn't seem to eat any of it anymore.
She sometimes cooks it for me when i fancy it, but rarely touches it herself.
She would prefer baked beans, toast and sausage for breakfast than the old pork curry type stuff.
She has only put on 12 kilos in the last year too.

**Boon Mee** · 08-06-2007, 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Varied cuisines in the world?

You sure???

If Thai food had a fight against potatoes the spuds would win for sure.

Not in Thailand, Asia or even California!

**slimboyfat** · 08-06-2007, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Varied cuisines in the world?

You sure???

If Thai food had a fight against potatoes the spuds would win for sure.

i think the potatoes would get mashed

BOOM BOOM!

**NickA** · 08-06-2007, 10:26 PM

^Then again the rice could meet a sticky end!

Sorry that wasn't very good.

**Wallalai** · 08-06-2007, 10:35 PM

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.

**MeMock** · 08-06-2007, 10:38 PM

My Mum has arrived to help us out with the new addition to our family....last night she made this

Yummy!

**NickA** · 08-06-2007, 10:40 PM

^Does she deliver?

**Wallalai** · 08-06-2007, 11:47 PM

Looks good.

**republic** · 09-06-2007, 12:15 AM

hang on. you blokes are slagging some bloke off for wanting potatoes then saying nice one to a guy for eating a pizza.
Have a word with yourself.

**Marmite the Dog** · 09-06-2007, 12:26 AM

Originally Posted by republic

hang on. you blokes are slagging some bloke off for wanting potatoes then saying nice one to a guy for eating a pizza.
Have a word with yourself.

**Wallalai** · 09-06-2007, 12:57 AM

Originally Posted by republic

hang on. you blokes are slagging some bloke off for wanting potatoes then saying nice one to a guy for eating a pizza. Have a word with yourself.

What's wrong with having a pizza ?

Unlike locked in a cell it should not be very difficult to eat anything you want in Thailand, espacially in Bangkok.

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