What's Your Pattaya Diet Like?

[paranoidandroid123]

Managed to put on half a stone onto my skinny ass marathon runner frame. For the first 3 days in Pattaya I ate all Western food, mainly from the buffets at Lek and Pig and Whistle. Didnt really eat alot though, maybe because of heat, jet lag, beer, etc. The next 11 days all Thai, with the same girl chose different places and let her choose/recommend dishes that wouldnt kill me. Also bought a load of fruit from Soi Bukahow and the big fruit stall just up from Lek. The best thing was a cube shaped solid object that you chew which tastes of fruit sugar then bin the root, kind of hard to explain but I know I will be buying a bulk of it next time in Pattaya. Next best thing was sticky rice, caramalised packed in bamboo, that the Thai girl came back with from her family; phenomenal, felt guilty at eating what was probably for her but it's often difficult to reject TG especially when she wants you to eat . Just gone for a Thai meal (if you can call it that) with a group of friends. I had egg fried rice and pork, marinated with ginger and veg; came to £10! Extortion compared to Thai prices.

[paranoidandroid123]

Rarely made breakfast, so cant comment. Spent the second morning trying to find Canterbury Tales, even pointed to it on a map to a motorbike taxi driver, ended up nowhere close.

[Chris Pattaya]

Starting from Pattaya Klang:

Head down third road towards South Pattaya. Pass the huge Exite Disco complex on your right and as the road bends towards the right turn into Soi Chaiyaphum and it's at the bottom of the street. Alternatively, approach it from Soi Bukhao and look for the 7/11 after the Butchers Arms. It's around there.

Mind you, as I've posted before, I think the place is VERY overated. I've never had a good meal there.

[Legal Eagle]

It seems pretty funny to me that all the Thai people have the same default presumption about what foriegners want to eat. Here is what I get told on a daily basis:

 

You want fried rice?

 

You want KFC?

 

You want spicey thai style shrimp soup?

[Eneukman]

It seems pretty funny to me that all the Thai people have the same default presumption about what foriegners want to eat. Here is what I get told on a daily basis:

 

You want fried rice?

 

You want KFC?

 

You want spicey thai style shrimp soup?

 

I will answer no to each of the above questions.

 

Steamed rice - chicken or pork an not too spicy.

 

Last night I had a very nice chicken hot plate and the obligatory bottle of Singha. - All for 160 baht.

 

Alan

[sharcatac]

Can`t beat the roast lamb at Jack Tar bar in Soi Sex for 180 baht!

[jharrison]

I like:

 

The Korean style BBQ where you get all your food and cook it in those bbq dishes with soup around the outside and the meat cooks in the middle. If you go into the neighborhoods you find them and it's about 200 baht per person but it's all you can eat with crabs and fish and meat and chicken and just about every vegetable and meat you can think of included.

 

The street pancakes where they pour the batter out in a thin pancake then cut up bananas and honey and butter and then fold it all together...DELICIOUS!

 

The soups where you choose your "spicy" or "mild" soup then sit down to a table full of veggies that you mix in with your soup for 20 baht...delicious.

 

Fresh cut fruit on the street.

 

The Fish Restaurants on the water where you get a killer dish that would cost you $75 in the states for 400 baht...

 

Almost every street vendor with the different meals... the chopped minty pork with rice expecially.

 

I only ever had problems with digestion when I went to an expensive restaurant out on jomtien road and spent too much money and had to take my cipro to kill the bacteria...

 

I've never had any problems with the street food or the cheap local restaurant food...

 

They have some salads that are too spicy for me, but anything with rice I can take...I just use the rice to soak it up.

 

Anyway, those are some of my comments...

 

All the best,

 

jH

[upforfun]

Rice soup with an egg for breakfast

Lad Nah, Pad Krapao or something similar for dinner

Somtam for teatime

Beer Chang for supper What a great life

[hpsauce]

I try to skip breakfast, and usually just have a cup of three-in-one instant coffee (ideal for lazy sods like me whoc an't be bothered to think about putting sugar and milk in the cup). Lunchtimes, I eat Thai food. Anything goes now, even som tam but I prefer kway teoy with look chin. Evenings can be Asian food (e.g. korean/Japanese restaurant in Big C) or farang food (any of the places in Soi Chaiyapoon). Sometimes I have a craving to eat bland but (for me) tasty British pies such as steak and kidney or even scotch eggs.

[Buzzy]

This trip I stayed at Robins Nest, ate breakfast there, Falang and ate thai for the rest of the day. Great time. Jon.

[Sheist!]

I'll eat a Thai dish if I am out with a BG that I want to impress (for whatever reason!), but otherwise its any Western place with a salad bar and/or recognizeable, fatty foods.

 

Yum.

[Vibs103]

Being Cajun from Louisiana we are will know for eating almost any kind of food, especially if it is well peppered, Hot and spicy. So many of the Thai dishes are fine with me. Quite a few years back the TG I was out with (on LT) wanted to eat at a Thai restaurant so I said OK. I told her to go ahead and order what she wanted and I would eat what she had. She ordered Som Tam and a couple of other dishes and when they got there she smiled real big and asked me to take a bite of the Som Tam, I took a bite and told her to order another just like it. She protested she could not eat it with all the other food she had. I told her it wasn't for her but for me. The look on her face when it came and I started eating it was priceless, I finished it off, that most certainly blew her mind.

 

The Thai spicy salad is a little hot but not bad, it is all about what you are raised eating I guess. Now the bugs I am not crazy about but having been all over the Far East I have eaten a lot of stuff, as long as it taste OK, then I'll eat it. Prawn Szechwan (China) with the little dark green peppers and rice on the side is another favorite of mine. Yum.

[promotz]

Thai food all the way for me especially off the street

[Siege]

Fish everyday I just love ther Fish of the street stalls.

[Schubser]

I love the fresh sandwichs from "Au Bon Pain", but sometimes pineapple from a street vendor and a cappucchino sitting outside at Starbucks does the job. Later during the day I prefer thai food, at least at the beginning of my vacation. I loose some pounds during the first weeks, too. From the third week on, I tend more to falang food, so I gain all the weight I lost before. No wonder I'm a fat bastard.

[boroboy]

i eat a lot of thai grub. after i finish playing at Insomnia i go off somewhere with the staff and eat loads of different stuff. its good and cheap. 2 dishes of whatever for 40bht beats 250bht at burger king although i do treat myself to a double whopper meal once a week!

[Ajay75]

Is there a load of street vendor food around the LK Metro area like there is on Soi 15 in Walking St. I've not eaten up this side of town but went to Soi 15 as theres quite a few stalls.

 

For me its Thai all the way until the shits kick in after about 5 days (weird how this happens every time I go Thailand). Then its a Maccy's or English pub meal for a day to stodge the system as well as Immodium. Much prefer the Thai food and usually only eat twice a day as just dont have the same appetite as in the UK.

[Gobby]

ham and cheese sandwiches from 7/11... every day... dame i got fat..... lol...

 

and yes some rice and friend rice and pad see ew.. and curry.. and sir frys... and all you can eat places.. mk.. and hot pot..

thats pretty much it....

[likeaking]

Two meals a day versus three at home. Late American breakfast and then Thai dinner.

[monkey01]

probably a lot better than at home some salads and stuff pasta all sorts really including thai

[martinbarrett99]

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:

 

My fiancee tried the locusts/crickets(?) last time we were in BKK, she loves em!!!!

[Siam Sam]

It's pretty good. I don't eat farang food in LOS at all hardly (maybe the odd English breakfast) and I find I eat a hell of a lot of fruit. I always get bad stomach though, I don't know if this is a result of too much beer or too much spicy food, or the different bacteria I pick up.

[RobbyDobby]

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.

It is nice to know that there is normal food. you need to keep your strength for those all night boom sessions

[duck69]

i like the german food in patts,or thaifood an lots of beer.

[kobeworld]

a lot of FRUIT