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.
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@candycane I could probably eat that. I'm looking at pictures of Gai Pad King and some look alien and disgusting to me while others look like a possibility:
I just don't know about curry. I never tried it and I can break out in sweats and stare at a food I don't understand for a hour without eating it- I have a strong food aversion phobia due to a very mean chinese chef in San Francisco as a child- he tried feeding me a eggroll with chinese newspapers in it, and a purple moving sea urchin. It was all spiky. For years I wouldn't touch chinese food until I saw a picture of mongolian beef, then general tso's chicken. I can eat the red chinese ribs now too. Alot of stuff I just avoid.
@candycane I figured, I just gotta look it up (finding the thai name for it) to see if they put any extreme spices in it. If I eat something way too spicy, I pee fire for days.
