Thai food: Nice bits for me, nasty bits for her

LivinLOS says:

The preference for sliced Pigs ears and Chicken feet has always baffled me too.. Its like "Honey we are rich enough to eat the good bits you know"...

Dana says:

My first exposure to Thai snack cuisine was with Wan. I picked her up in a bar and took her back to the White Inn on Soi 14 in South Pattaya. I thought I had found my angel. After making love she volunteered to go out and get us some food. She came back with crepes for me (very good) and paper bags full of insects for her. We sat up in bed side by side naked eating. As she ate the various crickets and roaches and scorpians she would force the wings and legs to the front where they would eventually start coming out of her mouth. Then she would spit them out on the sheet. I spent years going back to visit Wan but I never used the word angel again.

Tracey Emin says:

After chomping on your fetid member, i'm sure the bugs tasted delicious for Wan.

DRONE says:

Tracey - maybe so, but always better than the acrid ooze and smell exuding out od your malodorant porthole!

Dana says:

Thank-you Drone! I posted a little story just for the fun of it and I get name calling. Next TK will weigh in with more of it. This could be a lot more fun.

TypicalAnonym says:

Had to laugh at this article. I used to make this same observation, over and over again! I'd come home to find a GF munching on a fish tail. Or we'd be watching a documentary on the Discovery Channel about some little creature or another and she'd say "saep" (Isaan Lao meaning 'delicious').

My wife, though, is not like this in the slightest, and feeding her in farangland is no problem. She's fully acclimated to a lot of western food now -- though thankfully, we eat a balanced diet and so she did not experience any weight gain.

Tracey Emin says:

C'mon Dana, I couldn't resist an obvious joke. Don't be so thin skinned.

Congrats on the 1000 post on the *other site*.

mr peter says:

'Tracey - maybe so, but always better than the acrid ooze and smell exuding out of your malodorant porthole!'

Mai pen rai, our tracey could just write all the names of the guys who have had licked it and call it an art exhibition. At least it would not involve buying a tent and it could not burn down in a warehouse. How would she sell it though?, oh I don't know there's a market for any old rubbish, we could call it post feminist tart art-peter

waxhead says:

As a "look krueng" I have to say that westerners have the wierdest ideas about food - for chicken the feet and the wings are far better than the dry tasteless breast.

And BTW I come from a family that has enough money to afford the "eye fillet" - instead I grew up eating liver; kidneys; bony bits etc. Guess that is why I probably will still be alive when most of you blokes will be suffering bowel problems and the like from a diet low in fibre, minerals and vitamins.

Dana - are you the same guy that winges incessantly on stickman's website about everything to do with Thailand? My advice if it you....
1. Ditch the g'friend if she really is as annoying and stupid as you imply (why you ever got with her if she peeves you so much is beyond comprehension)
2. Go live somewhere else which keeps you happier, as you can't be enjoying your life here given the amount of time you spend complaining in stickman's website (I admit to only having read Thai thoughts and anecdotes about 3 parts, but since I assume all of your 50 postings are basically the same story, as per police Academy I don't feel the need to read all of them)
3. Experience life outside the small tiny world of Nana Plaza and lower Sukhumvit
5. What happened to 4?
4. Ah, there it is.

And to the rest of you bunch of northern hemisphere sods...bow down to the the might of the Southern hemisphere tri nations teams ya blighters.

And to all the Americans.... well you know what a bunch of non-rugby players you are, so I don't need to rub it in.

Regards
Waxhead

p.s. Yaaas is all a buncha kunts. I loves ya. I really do.

Jules says:

Thanks Waxhead for some logic and reason in this thread. I also eat offal but I call them pork pies and sausages.

Oh and Dana, Waxhead does not appreciate your lyrical pose as much as die hard Stickman fans.

Alex says:

Ha ha ha ha haaaaaa,

Yes I recognise the somewhat different preferences
when it comes to buying and eating some food.

I try everything though unless it looks really un tasty. My GF from Isaan told me they eat rat, spider, basicaly anything that moves.

Grasshoppers are OK as a snack, but to be honest I don't see myself eating those big roaches, maybe someday. If you think the Thai are a bit weird wait untill you go to China and visit some of the local places..........

I have seen creatures there god knows where they found them, ready to be eaten (sometimes alive).

And then what to say when they invite you for a bite........

No, Thailand is not too bad after all

Alex

baz says:

Most of you blokes are lucky, my Thai GF(chinese) is into seafood(abalone,lobster...). Seafood is cheap in Thailand but not in Oz.

I love Issan food, but i still prefer the fleshy cuts of meat

Dante says:

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Was doing it to get the bad taste outa her mouth maybe!

Bixby says:

Baz-

Just wondering why you felt the need to point out that your girlfriend is Thai (Chinese). Is it somehow significant? Are you saying that she's of part Chinese extraction that she's somehow different or better than the LBFM Isaan types most bokes on this site are dating? What gives?

Combover says:

Right - Baz believes there is a certain cache to pointing out her Chinese extraction because he believes it indicates that she is from a good family, likes him for who he his rather than his money, and is not, nor ever has been, a whore.

Bixby says:

Comb-

Yeah, I hear ya. Having spent too many years of my life around Cchinese though, to me it indicates she's most likely:

Rude
Materialistic
Money obsessed
Beset by chronic halitosis
Talking with her mouth full of food
Loud
Think she's better than everyone else and treating brown Thais like her slaves

TIMH says:

Bixby,

Don't forget the hawking and spitting in public.
TH

Waxhead says:

It is kinda funny watching white guys who live here talk about their girlfriends...on the off chance that they are shacked up with some Thai-Chinese (whose Chinese ethnicity is usually far from readily apparent, and rather instead looks exactly the same as any one else in MBK/Nana Plaza/other farang hangouts) the immediate comment is my THAI CHINESE girlfriend... listen to a Thai person speak and you will very rarely hear anyone say something like this about their partner. Sure, about the look they like, but not about their partner.

It is almost like a self justification that they are in some way better than the rest of the shmucks cruising around with girls from Isaan.

Newsflash.
MOst of the Thai Chinese chicks you blokes are claiming are so nice are no different to other "normal" girls and in a fair few cases are just as screwed up, lazy or suffering from flaws as the rest of us

Many of the areas of Isaan (particularly Ubon, Kon Kaen and northern Isaan) have significant CHinese influence already and this is readily apparent in looking at some of the faces of the chicks at er, Nana Plaza, ahp op nuets, the streets in Ubon etc etc

If you are trying to imply that somehow because she is Thai Chinese she is "hi-so" ya better get ya head read. Yes, there are a few high powered Thai Chinese families in Bangkok. No, there is minimal chance (some chance yes, but minimal) that your dodgy chick that ya met on the steps of CM2 (she was just there with her friends) or Q Bar (she actually works by day as a real estate manager) is one of them.

I have to say that ironically the most scathing and rude comments I ever hear about people from the provinces ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS comes from knaff white expats who are getting all uppity and "going local".

As the bishop once said to the hairdresser as he sat in the chair on a Sunday afternoon..... "FARK OFF YA KUNTS"

Jules says:

Yeah Waxhead you tell them. All those knaff white expats "going local" on ya......

Seriously though, the Chinese immigrants of the late 19th and 20th centuries have got on marvellously well.

Who has not heard the Chinese success story of turning up on a boat, hawking some veggies, becoming a rice merchant, giving your son an education, him in turn building the family business and the grandson being educated in the States, becoming a policeman, satellite concession owner, prime minister, fabulous wealth etc.

And the biggest story of all, we are Thai.

Not Thai Chinese or Chinese Thai or "granddad came on a boat from China" but THAI.

Let us now celebrate our Thainess, go local 100% and tell everyone that we are Thai. Maybe they will believe us if we try and sound like them. Of course our food is different and we look different so why not pretend that the ideal Thai has farang skin (not Chinese skin), is a bit fat (not skinny) and we love all Thais who we want to love us.

Waxhead says:

And that is exactly it. But listen to how often ya expat community go all "I got a THAI CHINESE girl" - girl 'cause they ain't good enough to be a woman and Thai CHinese just so they are better than their best mate with some chick from isaan.

Ya wouldn't guess....but I am actually Thai CHinese look krueng yo...with family in Isaan, so I know what is up wid this.

Few groups other than the Jewish and Chinese have been so singularly successful in moving to a new country; adopting the language; working hard and then succeeding. In Thialand and Malaysia, people of Chinese ethnic origin account for over 50% of the business activity; in Indo I think it is less than 10% of the population of Chinese origin account for more than 70% of the businesses.

In USA, Australia, NZ and other countries, people of Chinese origin regularly account for the most academic acheivements, etc, etc. But at the end of the day, when ya come from some place where there isn't enough to eat and people have to collect turds to grow crops while burning cow dung to keep warm....well there is quite an incentive to work hard in the new place. Western immigrants to New Zealand, Hong Kong and other places ain't much different.

Whereas for people like us, we can be lazy sods, since all mommies and daddies gave us lots to sit on our asses and surf for porn. As Thais say...there is rice in the fields and fish in the river or somat.

As the sods around here say, there are hos in the bars and bars with dem shows.

Any more wise comments like this, and our friendship will be at an end.

dm says:

I laughed so hard I almost wet myself. My wife is Thai. She tells me they eat worms. Worms!