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RE: Isaan food: the real Thai food
go with what you like buddy! I have only had som-tum outside of Thailand once as papaya and mango are indeed luxuries outside of the tropical world. They grow friggin everywhere here so perhaps that is why it is so cheap :) Pad Thai is fine, it't highly sought after over here as well although it is consumed in much greater quantities by tourists than actual Thai people :)
Eating Pad Thai in Thailand seems nuts for a tourist, though. To go to the trouble of traveling half way across the world to eat the most common dish in your local restaurant! Surely that is the time to quit Pad Thai and try something else. Even for me lol.
When I visited West Africa as a boy, I climbed a few mango and papaya trees. They don't call papayas that in West Africa, they call them paw paws. But my favorite tree in Africa was called the black tumbler tree. It grew these sweet little orange things, the size of a thumbnail, that were contained in pods, which grew in huge bunches. The trees were hard to climb, with long trunks, but those black tumblers were so delicious, each one melting in your mouth like warm ice cream. :)
Eating Pad Thai in Thailand seems nuts for a tourist, though. To go to the trouble of traveling half way across the world to eat the most common dish in your local restaurant! Surely that is the time to quit Pad Thai and try something else. Even for me lol.
When I visited West Africa as a boy, I climbed a few mango and papaya trees. They don't call papayas that in West Africa, they call them paw paws. But my favorite tree in Africa was called the black tumbler tree. It grew these sweet little orange things, the size of a thumbnail, that were contained in pods, which grew in huge bunches. The trees were hard to climb, with long trunks, but those black tumblers were so delicious, each one melting in your mouth like warm ice cream. :)