Many thanks for the recommendation!Originally Posted by dorayme
Many thanks for the recommendation!
I understand when you live as an expat in Thailand you want to eat sometimes non-Thai food. But when I am on holiday here I eat only Thai. I am surprised that the many, almost all, restaurant tips here are for non-Thai food. Thai food is delicious. Back home you can eat your lasagna or steak again.
I would love to read about good Thai restaurants preferably having a a Thai chef. I still think it feels more authentic Thai when a Thai makes it then when the Pad Thai or Pad Krapow Gai is made by say a Dutch chef. I would welcome such recommendations.
a447 (June 16th, 2018), christianpfc (July 20th, 2018), Faranglaw (June 24th, 2018), llz (June 18th, 2018), Smiles (June 17th, 2018)
it tends to be the opposite problem here - all too often though the western restaurant is fronted by a falung it is Khun Lek in the kitchen trying to reproduce the secret family recipe for authentic fettuccine alfredo or bœuf bourguignon or for that matter even basic scrambled eggs and bacon!
though often for both Thai and western food it also comes down to the quality and freshness of ingredients the restaurant owner is willing to stretch to
bkkguy
Huh? Are you sure you have been to Thailand? I have lived here for 15+ years and have never seen anyone but a Thai cooking in a Thai restaurant and come ro think of it have only seen Thais cooking western food in Italian, German, etc. restaurants, check your passport to see if you actually have a Thai immigration stamp in it!
"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king"
paborn (June 20th, 2018)
That may be true of Pattaya but it’s certainly not true of Bangkok. Telephone Pub had a westerner cook for several years and that’s just one exampleHuh? Are you sure you have been to Thailand? I have lived here for 15+ years and have never seen anyone but a Thai cooking in a Thai restaurant and come ro think of it have only seen Thais cooking western food in Italian, German, etc. restaurants, check your passport to see if you actually have a Thai immigration stamp in it!
Poseidon has a Dutch chef. And I never see the cook when I am in a restaurant. If you know that many businesses are partly foreign owned I wouldn’t be surprised in some kitchens an expat is doing the cooking.Huh? Are you sure you have been to Thailand? I have lived here for 15+ years and have never seen anyone but a Thai cooking in a Thai restaurant and come ro think of it have only seen Thais cooking western food in Italian, German, etc. restaurants, check your passport to see if you actually have a Thai immigration stamp in it!
I always stay at Poseidon. They generally give me a room upgrade, so I can't complain.
In the evening I go cruising for Cambodian boys, who allegedly don't exist, per some other board member.
Thailand is the size of France. A few anecdotal examples of foreign cooks does not change the inevitability that the vast majority of cooks, in country, must be Thai.
True. But does this also go for the extremely touristy Pattaya where many bars and restaurants are foreign run?
If you buy your food from a food car where you can see the cook you can be sure. Pattaya also has some small eating stalls clearly run by Thai. But when you eat in a hotel or restaurant here, I think you just can’t be sure. You can be sure in 99% of Thailand, but a place like Pattaya gives me doubt.
Of course they are. But MFAS stated that he had never seen anyone but a Thai cooking, and challenged AsDaRa as never having been in Thailand
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