I'm extremely picky and most Thai food looks scary to me. I want to eat at a Thai restaurant nearby and I haven't the slightest clue what to order, and want somwthing safe and familiar the first time around.
To me, Thai foos is weird pastries floating in strange broths with unidentifiable vegetables that may not be a vegetable at all but rather a very upset sea urchin.
To establish a pattern for my preferred dishes in other asian cultures:
For Chinese food, I'll usually eat mongolian beef:
For Vietnamese it's Lemongrass Beef or Chicken:
This is a Hawaiian Plate Lunch with Kalbi Ribs (supposedly korean)
You may see a pattern emerging in how I eat. A western asian meal I wouldn't hesitate to eat, Turkish Kebob:
Oh, and I never eat seafood or fried rice, or tofu.
Chinese food is absolute bomb. but Thai is awful for me, cococut milk all over the place and Vietnamese has too much green. problem is i can never replicate what i eat in a restaurant
I ordered a Garlic chicken dish with green and red peppers once at a Thai place. It was AWEESOMEEE!!! I NEVver ordered any other dish there besides that, it was that good. I highly recommend garlic chicken at a Thai place, and their Thai iced tea..the best!!
Thai lettuce wraps are amazing! I had them once when I was invited to lunch in Cambridge, and an American friend of my Thai friends prepared them. They were delish, and not too spicy!
They have a dipping sauce, and the dipping sauce is sometimes spicy hot.
