Re: When In Thailand do you Eat Thai or Falang Food?
Probably 70-30 Thai food for me. I have pretty simple tastes: two of the things I most look forward too are rice soup with pork for breakfast which is a sort of signature for the start of my stay in Thailand on the first morning, and barbecue chicken with sticky rice at any roadside place outside the cities. It's easy to find good Thai food at the cheaper end of the market. You just look for the restaurants full of Thais and the street stalls with Thais queuing at them. Food courts are reliable wherever you find them, too.
Re: When In Thailand do you Eat Thai or Falang Food?
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That's what everyone says before they've lived here for years. :blob7: I find it funny though that you think there are two major food choices: Thai and Swedish. There are hundreds of countries on earth, most have some good food, and a lot of them are represented in urban Thailand, in restaurants or you can cook yourself.
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Narakmakmak I am not sure what is the point with your post, or are you just trying to be funny, with no success.
To your surprise we also have a lot of ethnic restaurants in Denmark: Mongolian, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Thai, Chinese, you name it.
But why should i eat Scandinavian food, when I am away from my country.
In Spain I eat Spanish, in Italy Italian, in Thailand Thai food.
I could live on Thai food every day, and I think it is some of the best food in the world.
So I eat it whenever I have the opportunity.
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If you move to Thailand, your life won't be what you think it will be like now, I can guarantee you that.
Re: When In Thailand do you Eat Thai or Falang Food?
I eat about 90% Thai food when I am in Thailand, mostly on the street or at food stalls. It's the cheapest and easiest way, and I like Thai food. When I am with a Thai friend, I occasionally have a splurge (that would be 500-1000 Baht in a restaurant for both of us). About once per week farang food (pizza or pasta).
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Apart from most breakfast, I only eat thai food. I never find it boring and much much better than what is called farang food.
I don't see why I'd go to Thailand to eat german, british, dutch, etc food, I'd never eat in Europe. Same same applies to the fast bad food like hamburger or pizzas. (An italian wouldn't recognize those nor the spaghetti served here).
One can find good farang food, but then it is very expensive while thai is good and cheap. And I like very spicy too.
I only stay about 3 months a year and can understand the expats wanting now and then to find the tastes of their country of origin.
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Pattaya has some good Italian pizza. I see Italians there regularly and they seem very happy! It's called La Bocca and has a wood fired oven and Sicilian chef. I also had their eggplant parm on special; it was decadently good (very richly oiled). Personally I much prefer their calzone (ask to substitute ricotta for the cheese though). If you're talking about Thai style pizza, yes that is horrible. I also like the ponzones (like calzones) from New York Pizza House, more American style of course.
http://pattayatoday.net/wining-dining/d ... /la-bocca/
Re: When In Thailand do you Eat Thai or Falang Food?
Some great replies..and interesting.
I see a lot of folks go with a Western breakfast, but then Thai for the rest of the meals. I can see where this would be easier for visitors, as we tend to stay in guesthouses that would offer a western breakfast option, sometimes as part of the room rate. And I do agree with the poster that can't get on board with fish in the morning. I don't like seafood much anyway, but for breakfast...just don't see it. Other than the rice porridge option, is there a typical Thai breakfast food? I can't seem to recall Thais eating something specifically for breakfast...
I have a self-imposed rule to only eat Thai when I am visiting. I try to get some exercise each morning, so typically I will grab some BBQ pork skewers and sticky rice on my way back to the room. I would never think to eat this for breakfast at home, but in Thailand, it seems perfect...
I did break my own rule one time. Stumbling back to my room after a late night of drinking and carousing, I went by one of the hamburger stands in Sunee. The smell of the burgers, my better sense eroded by alcohol, and craving sustenance after a lot of bedroom activity, I stopped and ordered up. Man, at the time it tasted awesome. Funny how being drunk affects how good the food tastes... :sign5:
I also totally get how an expat resident or long time visitor would crave some Western options. A thick burger would certainly be on my list, grilled not fried.....
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Here is what I don't think some people get.
You're still the same person when you move to Thailand, especially after a long time.
If you were (like me) the kind of person who loved variety before they moved to Thailand, you will still crave variety when living in Thailand. If you live in the sticks, you're stuck with Thai food or what you can cook with limited correct ingredients.
But if you live in an expat city, you can mix it up in a similar way to as when you lived back there. You can also cook a huge variety of stuff too with all the expat food markets.
But the choices will be different.
For example, back in my last US city my main preferences for eating out were:
Chinese (lots of real Sechuan)
Mexican
Thai only rarely because that city had poor Thai food compared to other places I lived
Korean
Vietnamese (a lot)
Southern American (BBQ, collard greens, corn bread, that kind of thing)
Dominican
Indian
In Pattaya, my main preferences are
Thai
Italian
Korean
Chinese (at Pao)
British (blush)
Greek (Pattayanis)
Scandinavian
Mexican (it's not great but I like Sunrise sometimes)
Iranian
Indian
I don't bother with burgers in Thailand. They are crap and was never much into them in the US either. Maybe once every few months in the US at a gourmet type place. Here, it's been years.
On the contrary if you weren't into variety in your old life, it's probable you won't need much variety in Thailand. Again, you're still the same person.
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Originally Posted by Narakmak
If you live in the sticks, you're stuck with Thai food or what you can cook with limited correct ingredients.
Yeah, this is one of the things that tends to frustrate me. Just finding various ingredients like bell peppers, lemons, celery, zucchini, strawberries, honey, cornstarch, and the list is endless... is a huge pain. To the point where when I move to Chiang Mai, I'm planning to start my own garden plus aquaculture setup, and grow my own veggies.
On the flip side, it's also taught me to be a much better cook, because you have to create everything yourself. There's no relying on packaged seasonings, or various other things like flour tortillas, pita bread, etc. So you end up teaching yourself how to blend all the ingredients and spices together much more than you would back home by just using the packaged crap. For example, if you're making a nice Greek meal, you're making both, the pita bread and tzatziki sauce from scratch. There's none of this buying it from the store. If you want fajitas, you're making the tortillas and seasoning from scratch, and nowadays, I'd much prefer my own seasoning to what you'd get in a store in Canada. Same goes with everything. Japanese beef? You're on your own.