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?
This has always been my problem here, when I am really hungry I need potato based fuel, or at the very least good quality bread (not that cheap spongy sweet shite) - good quality pasta (not that lame Asian spaghetti bolognese effort) or a decent serving of fluffy rice (not a small round pile of greasy fried rice).
When I fancy an omlette I want an omlette, not a greasy, bubbly, dark yellow deep fried egg pancake and when I want a fried breakfast and I'm not in a tourist area with 300 baht to spare, then I want a fried breakfast that fills the plate to the extent that only the rim is visable, not some minature frankfurters with the ends splayed open with a half cooked flemmy fried egg, a solitary lettuce leaf, one streak of pathetic plasticy bacon and one square of warm bread which I am told is toast.
In the Phillipines I was expecting even worse, but to be honest I had basic, filling food and not once did I have the shits or witness undigested bits of spring onion leaf in the toilet bowl after flushing.
So if without room service or a cooker or a Tesco Lotus at hand and away from a tourist area, what to do when the rumbles kick in?
I find a couple of large bottles of Singha does the trick.