Whatever: The Open Lines Thread

[ShayP]

@ShayP I tasted Thai food for the first time when I was in the Air Force.  In a restaurant in 1979 near Offutt AFB in Omaha.  Pad Thai. The flavors exploded in my mouth and it has been my favorite cuisine ever since.  This last year I started eating the curries.  I like all of the curries now too.

My favorite dish lately is a cellophane glass noodle salad call Yum Moon Sen or Yum Woon Sen.  It’s one of the few dishes that registers on the border of my tolerance of Scoville units. 

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Thanks. @GravitySucks   You have a passion for this cuisine then. Cool. That dish looks tasty and refreshing.  Everything you've shown and described so far looks really good.  I've had to Google a few dishes to see what they were.  For instance, I didn't have a clue what Khoa Tom Pla was. 

I'm having lunch with one of my buddies next week and I think I'll suggest a Thai restaurant.  We planned on having Indian.  I've been craving Chicken Vindaloo.

[GravitySucks]

Thanks. @GravitySucks   You have a passion for this cuisine then. Cool. That dish looks tasty and refreshing.  Everything you've shown and described so far looks really good.  I've had to Google a few dishes to see what they were.  For instance, I didn't have a clue what Khoa Tom Pla was. 

I'm having lunch with one of my buddies next week and I think I'll suggest a Thai restaurant.  We planned on having Indian.  I've been craving Chicken Vindaloo.

@ShayP if you like the potatoes that some places put in vindaloo you might want to try the Massaman curry.  It’s not my favorite but it’s good.  Red curry may be the closest to vindaloo but it is still completely different. 

Most Thai curries use coconut milk.  This makes them a lot different than India curry.  And the Thai food is almost always cooked to order so it will have a different texture than the Indian curries.  Almost all of the Indian curries I have had seemed more like a stew that has been cooked for a long time.  The meat is tender but loses a lot of flavor.  That could be the fact that Indian curries rely on marinated meat.  The spices just imbibe the protein.  I don’t cook Indian so that last part is a guess. 

I seldom get beef in Thai dishes, especially curry.  The times I have tried it I didn’t like the texture.  I usually get pork or seafood, and once in awhile chicken. 

Panang curry is my favorite. Some places use peanut butter in it and it has a sweet flavor. 

[Jayzelady]

@ShayP if you like the potatoes that some places put in vindaloo you might want to try the Massaman curry.  It’s not my favorite but it’s good.  Red curry may be the closest to vindaloo but it is still completely different.  No tomato paste. 

Most Thai curries use coconut milk.  This makes them a lot different than India curry.  And the Thai food is almost always cooked to order so it will have a different texture than the Indian curries.  Almost all of the Indian curries I have had seemed more like a stew that has been cooked for a long time.  The meat is tender but loses a lot of flavor.  The it could be the fact that Indian curries rely on marinated meat.  The spices just imbibe the protein.  I don’t cook Indian so that last part is a guess. 

I seldom get beef in Thai dishes, especially curry.  The times I have tried it I didn’t like the texture.  I usually get pork or seafood, and once in awhile chicken. 

Panang curry is my favorite. Some places use peanut butter in it and it has a sweet flavor.

GS, I am so enjoying the Thai food posts .... I love Thai cuisine! There is a family run Thai restaurant not far from where we live in Baton Rouge and if we couldn’t get their food any other way, my hubby and I would walk to them from our nearby neighborhood. Their food is that good!

[PB]

...  I've been craving Chicken Vindaloo.

Vindaloo is a fantastic dish.  I the lamb and the chicken.

Nearly all Indian places around here are Northern style - good, but I really like South Indian dishes.  More flavorful, more spices (spicy doesn't necessary have to mean hot, Thai lemon grass is a spice), more vegetarian choices, more wheat breads and less rice, it seems like a lot more variety 

There was a place in Berkeley that is all vegetarian, one of the first Indian places around here.  For years I never tried it because, you know, vegetarian.  I finally went one time on a search for the best dosas in the area.  Unbelievably good food, it's my go-to now.

[TigerLily]

 

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[Spookcat]

Vindaloo is a fantastic dish.  I the lamb and the chicken.

Nearly all Indian places around here are Northern style - good, but I really like South Indian dishes.  More flavorful, more spices (spicy doesn't necessary have to mean hot, Thai lemon grass is a spice), more vegetarian choices, more wheat breads and less rice, it seems like a lot more variety 

There was a place in Berkeley that is all vegetarian, one of the first Indian places around here.  For years I never tried it because, you know, vegetarian.  I finally went one time on a search for the best dosas in the area.  Unbelievably good food, it's my go-to now.

Chocolate is a spice.

[PB]

Chocolate is a spice.

Chocolate is... everything

[PB]

… Most Thai curries use coconut milk.  This makes them a lot different than India curry...

Yeah, coconut milk is the base for Thai curries.  The curry is diluted a bit, more subtle - the coconut milk adds sweetness, and allows for one or more of the other tastes (sweet, sour, salty, bitter, hot, savory)  to be added to the dish, whereas Indian curry is just the curry and maybe hot - overwhelming anything else

To add flavors to an Indian curry meal, one has to add separate dishes, plus bread, raita...

[ShayP]

@ShayP if you like the potatoes that some places put in vindaloo you might want to try the Massaman curry.  It’s not my favorite but it’s good.  Red curry may be the closest to vindaloo but it is still completely different. 

Most Thai curries use coconut milk.  This makes them a lot different than India curry.  And the Thai food is almost always cooked to order so it will have a different texture than the Indian curries.  Almost all of the Indian curries I have had seemed more like a stew that has been cooked for a long time.  The meat is tender but loses a lot of flavor.  That could be the fact that Indian curries rely on marinated meat.  The spices just imbibe the protein.  I don’t cook Indian so that last part is a guess. 

I seldom get beef in Thai dishes, especially curry.  The times I have tried it I didn’t like the texture.  I usually get pork or seafood, and once in awhile chicken. 

Panang curry is my favorite. Some places use peanut butter in it and it has a sweet flavor.

I've had vindaloo in various fashions.  I'll eat nearly anything. I'm going to look up the curries you mentioned.  I too have had Indian curries that were, to me, just a pasty bland stew of meat.  There are exceptions though.  I guess it's like the Chinese restaurants that serve the "Americanized" version of a dish.  Maybe?

I've had some exceptional dishes here though. There are 2 fantastic Indian restaurants here.  My favorite of all time closed several years ago and boy do I miss it.  Always a great experience.  But alas, the owners sold it and the new ownership did more of an Indo-Pak thing.  The food was Indian per se, but like the bland stuff we have experienced.

[ShayP]

Vindaloo is a fantastic dish.  I the lamb and the chicken.

Nearly all Indian places around here are Northern style - good, but I really like South Indian dishes.  More flavorful, more spices (spicy doesn't necessary have to mean hot, Thai lemon grass is a spice), more vegetarian choices, more wheat breads and less rice, it seems like a lot more variety 

There was a place in Berkeley that is all vegetarian, one of the first Indian places around here.  For years I never tried it because, you know, vegetarian.  I finally went one time on a search for the best dosas in the area.  Unbelievably good food, it's my go-to now.

The vindaloo I had last time was so good that I was in a state of euphoria.  I am not exaggerating either.  When I ordered I was asked if I wanted "authentic" vindaloo.  I said "Yeah!"  So apparently they had to dumb down the menu a bit since some people are afraid of heat, spice, etc.  Nonetheless it was one of the most delicious meals I ever had.  The heat was as much as I could handle and the overall flavor made me want more, but it wasn't humanly possible to do so.  It was intense due to the heat and spice.  In a good way though.  I could taste every ingredient and all the while it felt like I was under a heat lamp...sweating slightly.  I felt energized after the meal!

Oh!  You referenced regions.  North and south.  I think my dish was from the Goan region which is south and on the west coast.  I too favor the southern style, but like them both.

[ShayP]

GS, I am so enjoying the Thai food posts.

Ditto! 

[GravitySucks]

All this discussion and I couldn’t wait any longer. Had to go toa Thai restaurant and eat some Yum Woon Sen.

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[Bart Ell]

All this discussion and I couldn’t wait any longer. Had to go toa Thai restaurant and eat some Yum Woon Sen.

Does any Thai dish not sound like a gay porn title?

[GravitySucks]

Does any Thai dish not sound like a gay porn title?

I’ve always steered away from Pad See Ew