What's Your Pattaya Diet Like?

[chef]

I know the appropriate answer is sex & beer but I'm curious poll-like if you dabble in mostly Thai/Issan foods or get your daily Fish & Chips?

 

I'm pretty comfortable sitting at Buakow market on a plastic stool eating next to motorbike taxi drivers for 30 baht as I am eating 3000 baht meals at Fuji Sushi.

 

I do admit giving my 'toot' a break once in awhile and having the salad bar at Sizzlers.

 

So what about you? Spicey Somtum or Pig & Whistle?

[nus01]

If I get up for breakfast which is rarely 2-3 times for the trip , i will have English Breakfast but all other Meals are Thai Food, after 2 weeks I start craving mashed potatoe so I might incorporate a falang meal every second day.

The only other Falang stuff is occasionaly I wil treat myself to a sundae in BIG C.

 

Kiss Cafe or Stone Oven Cafe , is where i'll have my Brunch most days.

Edited February 22, 2007 by nus01

[Nitram]

Breakfast buffet at the Areca Lodge, a Whopper or a slice of pizza in the afternoon and in the evening a nice T-bone or a filet mignon. Sometimes a Thai dish for a change, but I am not that much into Thai food.

[Panudate]

When in Thailand, I eat Thai food all the way, only time I eat western food is when i'm dying for a solid shit for once!

[whitespider - RIP]

96% thai for years now. have the odd steak on the bbq at home when they have somthing to smelly.

 

used to hate Som Tum but love itnow.

 

Once a week i go to the French bakery/hotel up Soi khao Noi for a breather and great salade nicoise

[erik3]

Thai food for me, not really fussy about where from, 20 baht food from street vendors tastes equally good with the one comes out of a posh restaurant.

If I fancy a fill-up, buffet in the Lek hotel will do, a good selection of both thai and farang food available for a cheap price.

[rawlins]

Thai food because I'm a cheap bastard... Have to fork out for immodium though.

 

Noodle soup on the street - lovely.

 

My stomach does need some stodge now and then - English breakfast or pizza.

 

'Fuji' does good stuff - Japanese chain... saki and raw fish.

[lvpitbear]

With that in mind, how safe is the food purchased from street vendors?

[bonabay]

If ya want the best thai food eat where the thais eat!

[drpaul854]

If ya want the best thai food eat where the thais eat!

That about sums it up - the busy popular food carts are fairly safe and I use them regularly. When in LOS it is Thai food for me 95% - I can get that western stuff anywhere and anytime, but good Thai is much harder to find in the USA

[jte]

Breakfast at either the Apex or Lek Buffet. Dinner at the Pig and Whistle,Big C plaza, or the nearest bar with balloons!

 

Then Beer, water,beer,water.......

Jim

 

PS: Plenty of Thai food at home... I do miss all the varieties of Fresh fruit in the markets !

[monkeyman]

I like to mix Western and Thai food.

 

No, not in the same meal.

[Dean]

Only ever eat thai food over ther...love the stuff.....shame i cant get it pre-cooked in the uk

[djcrazy]

Breakfast, either I get the free breakfast buffet in the hotel or it's Au Bon Pain. Lots of fruits b/c can't get it as fresh as I get it in NYC. Dinner, mostly seafood or local Thai flavor BTW, anyone has acquired the gourmet taste of Entomophagy aka insect eating??? :Brush_Teeth:

[The Mook]

I eat better in LOS than I do at home. Plenty of fresh fruit, some rice

and chicken with vegetables plus the occasional trip to Zen or Fuji.

Sometimes I will splurge and have fresh fish at a proper restaurant.

 

I usually drop a few pounds while vacationing.

[Soovu]

Very much like Thai food, so that will make up my majority of food intake, although the odd English Breakfast and KFC cant hurt too much. Also intend to eat lots of fruit whilst there.

 

For UK peeps who enjoy Thai food, you can get some authentic (although a lot is tinned) Thai food from http://www.thai4uk.com/ some of the curry pastes and sauces etc are very nice. They also import fresh Thai veg weekly;

 

Flown in directly from Thailand weekly. To ensure maximum freshness of these products: A) they are only available to order from 1pm Tuesday until 12am Thursday; B) we strongly recommend that you select 'Express - next day' delivery at the checkout.

 

Above taken directly from their site

[TheFiend]

My main diet in Thailand is Singha, but if I fancy something solid I'll go for the occasional meal from the Queen Vic, sometimes I'll get some of those kebabs from the street vendors, an occasional Noodle soup, and sometimes a cornish pasty from the pie shop on beach road near Soi 7. ^_^

[bundy]

When in Thailand, I eat Thai food all the way, only time I eat western food is when i'm dying for a solid shit for once!

 

I hear you on that one! but I do try to have something western on the one occasion it is not lunch when I wake up

[Berh]

I like TOPS supermarket for lunch where you can get fish or meat cooked instore and supermarket prices for both food and beer!

 

Also alot of FL also eat there (after a hard nights work) and its nice to have a chat with them, I've picked up a FL from there a couple of times.

[gregkai]

Only thai food for me, but strangely I am not too hungry in LOS so I eat 1 or 2 times a day, with the occasional fresh peanuts or fruits (lamut ??spelling?? is especially good) or coconut in the afternoon to wait for my evening lunch. I do not know if it is the hot climate or all the boum boum that cut my appetite, but it is very good poum pouy wise - I loose at least 2 kilo in 2 weeks :-) Thai food is very good for loosing weight anyway, on the other side thai girls in farangland get thicker fast, I can tell you first hand

In the evening, street food, or the quasi street restaurant complex after TOPS (their fried chicken is very good ;-) ), or MK suki in big C. Did not try eating in TOPS yet, but I plan to go next time if they have panang kai or panag neua...

 

I was an adept of vientiane restaurant before, but I feel quality has gone down and price up since they moved to Walking Street, I tryed it a few times since they moved and last time I felt the ratio quality/price was low enough for me to not try it anymore....

Edited February 25, 2007 by gregkai

[Matrix]

When in Thailand, I eat Thai food all the way, only time I eat western food is when i'm dying for a solid shit for once!

I say amen to that

 

If ya want the best thai food eat where the thais eat!

I go with you on that one

[controller]

i become a right lazy fat bastard when i am there ! all thanks to that door 2 door delivery mcdonalds to your apartments genius !

[Tatanka]

Amazing that almost everyone says that they eat thai food most of the time.

 

That's not what i see in most of the cases when i see a farang eat in Patts.

 

For me it's 1 day thai, 1 day western (with bread) for the reason already named. :Constipated:

[pentire]

I always eat fish on Fridays !

 

Just bought myself a nice pice of monk fish from Tesco's and in Pattaya I usually go for Parrot fish from a restaurant called Au Bon Coin.

[gambler]

Thai food all the way for me. Don't bother with breakfast. Tend to eat fruit or noodles during the day with a main meal in the evening. Quite happy to eat at sidewalk vendors and rarely have a problem with the $h1ts.