Life in Thailand Poll No.3 (Food preferences)

[Spitfire]

OK Pete, maybe we can have a poll for this regarding how your palate preferences have changed since you've been visiting or living here.

How has it influenced your food intake decisions?

More adventurous or not?

Feel free to elaborate everyone. I gave 2 options as some of the options may overlap in some people's experiences.

For me, more adventurous but enjoy a mix ultimately.

Edit - Extra vote option and tidying up.

[Vital Spark]

I am, and always have been, an extremely fussy eater. I don't like seafood, and I find the older I get the less I like meat. I do, however, love veggies. Trying to get a restaurant to serve me a delicious veggie fried rice or noodle dish is practically impossible in Nakhon Pathom. Despite my requests, in Thai, they just can't resist throwing in a few prawns or squid legs, which puts me right off the dish. If they don't do that I get a tasteless dish with one green, stalky-leafed vegetable.

Working full-time, and having an avid cook as a husband, we mostly eat at home. It's invariably western dishes or Indian curries.

I do, however, like Thai/Chinese dishes served at our favourite small resort, which are invariably anglicised.

To sum up, I'm not adventurous at all. Mr.VS is braver than me...

VS

[richard]

Well I've tried most Thai food I guess having lived in Isaan and initially with two girls in HH one who came from a hill tribe and the other Kanchanamburi but I still love good western food. Need a Sunday roast now and again and off course a good blue fillet steak.

You can keep your fast foods and I've never figured out how they inject cardboard flavour into the burgers but I do succumb now and again but usually end up bringing it up for a soi dog

Ask me again in 2 months. I've just rediscovered my taste buds after giving up smoking after 50 years and somethings are tasting better and some worse.

[c.g]

When I moved over here 6 years ago I was a funny eater but now a days eat Thai food everyday, still like my fix of western food every now and then

[buksida]

A lot of those options can be clumped together, I voted convert as I eat Thai food 6 days out of 7 but like something heavy and western once a week. Was always a fan of the spices and chili goes on everything here which suits me fine!

[lindosfan1]

I voted other, my wife is a superb cook, here in Greece, I eat:
Greek dishes with Thai herbs and some pure Greek
Thai food and Thai food with a western influence
English food sometimes with a Thai slant.
Italian pastas with Thai herbs.
When my family visited me here I made a stew started English added some indian herbs and finished with some Thai herbs which they thought was delicious. Asked for the recipe I had to confess if it looks good or smells good chuck in the pot.

[johnnyk]

A lot of those options can be clumped together, I voted convert as I eat Thai food 6 days out of 7 but like something heavy and western once a week. Was always a fan of the spices and chili goes on everything here which suits me fine!

Samesame as buks. Western food once maybe twice a week just for a bit of bulk, a burger at JW's or pizza.

[migrant]

I've always been an adventerous, spicy food, eater, but I have also liked variety.

My mother in law lives with us here in California, and was head chef at a Thai restaurant. She cooks most days and we get Thai food. Lunches tend to be business, so a variety, or left-overs (Thai). I cook 1-2 times a week so generally Western, or another ethnic type.

So since meeting the wife (and MIL) my diet has moved from periodic Thai, to periodic other types.

It's all good!

[Bamboo Grove]

I have always liked to try different kind of food from all over the world. That's the salt of life for me. At home there's still plenty of Thai food but I like other Asian (Chinese, Indian, Korean, Japanese) as well. Also enjoy food from Hungary, southern Europe and midlle-East.

[lomuamart]

I like my mashed potato most of the time but only when it's made with crushed garlic and black pepper.
I love stews, but they've got to be fairly heavily spiced and that dosn't necessarily mean with chilli.
So, definitely farangish food with a heavy leaning to spices for me.

[Big Boy]

I'm sitting on the fence with the majority (better get off before it breaks ), and have chosen 'I like both and tend to eat a mix of Western and Asian food'

[richard]

I like my mashed potato most of the time but only when it's made with crushed garlic and black pepper.
I love stews, but they've got to be fairly heavily spiced and that dosn't necessarily mean with chilli.
So, definitely farangish food with a heavy leaning to spices for me.

Hey man, When are you going to invite me for dinner? I'll bring the Chang dray wagon

I'm a mash freak too

[STEVE G]

I'll always eat Asian food by choice but when I'm working back here I often eat pasta purely for convenience and even then it's liberally dosed with sun-dried chillis that I bring back from our small farm in Issan.
I lived in Indonesia for six years with an Indonesian and ate nothing but local food and to be honest, I felt much better for it and I'm quite sure that it's much healthier.
One thing that I've never missed is English food which just brings back bad memories of the gristle and bland stodge of school dinners and military catering.

[PeteC]

I like both and tend to eat a mix, which is also the leading category at the moment. A good western dinner/roast is usually once every fortnight, with Thai, Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean BBQ thrown in depending upon what we feel like and where we are. There's really not much organization to it. I personally have a special affection for Japanese, although one of my favourite evening meals is simple rice porridge (Khao Toom) with half dozen or more small Thai side dishes including an omelet, small dried shrimp, duck sometimes, pork stew sometimes, various vegetables, small dried anchovies. It's really a traditional Thai late night meal, especially after a drinking session, but makes a great supper as well.

My little daughter though has set a pattern for herself for life, in that she gets in quite a bad mood if she doesn't get some rice and/or noodles with at least one meal a day. Her school lunch menu always has 4-5 daily choices and she always chooses Thai or Halal.

One thing we've started and don't ask me why, is to put a variety of sliced fresh fruit on the table and eat it right along with the Thai or other food and not as a separate dessert. Enjoyable and gives the food an interesting flavour. Pete

[richard]

Pete

Too true. When I'm up north east there is always fruit and raw veg on the table (or floor) and it is consumed at the same time as other dishes and that is morning noon and night