Is the meal a big deal?

[shark1963]

Being now some month here in the forum and giving a few posts to my best, now here comes my first thread. To all BM´s living together with a Thai woman in farang land my question is: Is the meal a big deal? What is your experience about the food? I have been together with a thai woman here in germany for about one year and she was eating only thai food with a few exceptions. I like asian food very much but after a certain time you want to have sometimes western food. Thanks god we had a lot of asia markets in the city i lived in the past with her and also here in my town now. but even than it was sometimes a pain in my a$$ driving around for exactly the food she liked. whats the situation at your hometown with your thai partner? are you always doing a little journey to pick up all the food she needs? and what about you? being in holiday is one think, but is the thai food your first choice back home?

[steve@thaib]

I find it great. We both enjoy cooking and we have a very good mix of Thai and Western food, often at the same time.

She can get all the Asian supplies she wants, and lots that I dont want including (but not limited to) that diabolical stinking dried squid.

[JayBee]

Originally Posted by shark1963

Being now some month here in the forum and giving a few posts to my best, now here comes my first thread. To all BM´s living together with a Thai woman in farang land my question is: Is the meal a big deal? What is your experience about the food? I have been together with a thai woman here in germany for about one year and she was eating only thai food with a few exceptions. I like asian food very much but after a certain time you want to have sometimes western food. Thanks god we had a lot of asia markets in the city i lived in the past with her and also here in my town now. but even than it was sometimes a pain in my a$$ driving around for exactly the food she liked. whats the situation at your hometown with your thai partner? are you always doing a little journey to pick up all the food she needs? and what about you? being in holiday is one think, but is the thai food your first choice back home?

I suspect that you ought to be glad that your girl wants to stick to the Thai food. What would happen if she switched to Grman food? It might not be pretty? I have known a lot of BGs who put on 7 kilos in the first 6 months working at the bar, just from drinking a lot of beer. Add German food to that equation and the result could be disastrous!

[magnusvv]

We have had a couple months now to adjust to each others cooking. Most of the time she whips up thai dishes for me, and I cook the quick american style meal for her. Since she is a good cook and I really enjoy thai food I think we eat about 75% thai food and 25% western food. One of our great compramises is barbeque. I cook out on the grill and she prepares thai salads and side dishes, which go great together.

We have managed to find most of the necessities in the asian food markets here, although right now she is missing the young mangos in thailand.

Friday night has turned into Pizza and Ice Cream night. She never liked these much back in Thailand but now she refers to them as yabah.

[Hansel]

shark 1963, food is the one and only important thing for any Thai girl besides her parents. It will be worshipped and eaten in great celebrations all day long, every day.

Doing the same with German food will create a Farang-sized ugly witch, so see the good side of it

However, even in Germany it should not be very difficult to get all the ingredients, as you can buy the fish sauce, chilis and the rice at an Asian (or even specialized Thai) shop in bulk and it will keep for a long time; the Thai food they eat normally is not very sophisticated and with simple ingredients.

If you do not know any shops in your neighborhood, it should not be very difficult to find people with Thai spouses within a radius of a few km from your home and they can help you with directions; from my experience, there is an incredible number of Thai girls in Germany. Also a good place to ask would be German courses at the next Fachhochschule, participants there should be able to help you on.

Beware however, together with good advice your GF might very easily pick up a lot of bad habits (like gambling) from them as well, so keep an eye on it; also an experience, luckily not a personal one...

[junkhouse]

I see couples around where the tg will pretty much only eat thai, maybe I'm wrong but I feel that issan girls and alike have a harder time with farang food?

With a few exceptions my wife loves Norwegian food so much that she even cooked Norwegian soup based on thai ingredients while we were in Patong last time, even invited Geir and Mike for soup

She do however require something spicy from time to time but I'd say we eat more farang food then thai and she are all smiles if my parents invite us for Grouse.

She now works in a salmon processing factory and she allready stocked up on salmon so guess we got that part covered

Going to see some friends this evening so issan style papaya is on the menu then.

I can understand a tg not being impressed with german food though, not trying to insult any germans but it just aint good

[Frode10]

She has no problems to get most of the ingredient she needs to make the thai-food she wants. We have at least three asian shops in a five minute walking distance from our home, and sometimes she tells me that she never believed she could find some of the things they have outside Thailand, and for sure not in Norway.

I like thai-food, but to eat it every day is a little bit too much for me. My children loves her food, and they are thrilled every time they are here with us. The first thing they ask her when they come is if she can make thai-food for them.

Sometimes we eat scandinavian food together, but she often tells me that she can not eat too much of this because she then get fat (potatoes are banned). And she doesn't eat beef, because of this king number five who also didn't eat beef and he was the luckiest king ever.

I know how important the social part of the meals in LOS is, and in the western busy life I sometimes feel sorry for not having enough time to spend together with her when she eats her food several times a day, like her friends and family do back home.

F

[junkhouse]

Originally Posted by Frode10

She has no problems to get most of the ingredient she needs to make the thai-food she wants. We have at least three asian shops in a five minute walking distance from our home, and sometimes she tells me that she never believed she could find some of the things they have outside Thailand, and for sure not in Norway.

I like thai-food, but to eat it every day is a little bit too much for me. My children loves her food, and they are thrilled every time they are here with us. The first thing they ask her when they come is if she can make thai-food for them.

Sometimes we eat scandinavian food together, but she often tells me that she can not eat too much of this because she then get fat (potatoes are banned). And she doesn't eat beef, because of this king number five who also didn't eat beef and he was the luckiest king ever.

I know how important the social part of the meals in LOS is, and in the western busy life I sometimes feel sorry for not having enough time to spend together with her when she eats her food several times a day, like her friends and family do back home.

F

The social part is the most important, anyone that ever seen a thai family or friends chow down knows that
She often ask me to make a steak so she love beef but potatoes she'll settle for just one

[shark1963]

Originally Posted by Hansel

shark 1963, food is the one and only important thing for any Thai girl besides her parents. It will be worshipped and eaten in great celebrations all day long, every day.

Doing the same with German food will create a Farang-sized ugly witch, so see the good side of it

However, even in Germany it should not be very difficult to get all the ingredients, as you can buy the fish sauce, chilis and the rice at an Asian (or even specialized Thai) shop in bulk and it will keep for a long time; the Thai food they eat normally is not very sophisticated and with simple ingredients.

If you do not know any shops in your neighborhood, it should not be very difficult to find people with Thai spouses within a radius of a few km from your home and they can help you with directions; from my experience, there is an incredible number of Thai girls in Germany. Also a good place to ask would be German courses at the next Fachhochschule, participants there should be able to help you on.

Beware however, together with good advice your GF might very easily pick up a lot of bad habits (like gambling) from them as well, so keep an eye on it; also an experience, luckily not a personal one...

Thanks hansel, as you can read in my post we have a lot of asia markets here and i really enjoy the thai food. As we lived in frankfurt/main years ago it was easy to get the food in the asia markets, but just wracked sometimes my nerves driving around to get the food in that traffic jam, as she was really in almost no way to eat anything else than thai food. And in one point you are right, gambling is a really bad habitt they can easily take from their friends. This has been the reason i finished the relationship after one year. She didnt gambled my money but a lot of hers.
Now i have another GF wich i met last year in LOS. And i am just thinking about if the food will get the same "problem". But we are also well prepared with Asia markets in my new home town. So its not difficult to get the food anyway. also Mannheim is a smaller city than frankfurt and the traffic jam is not that bad. But i also stick to my italian food and dont want to chance it completly. I will see what happens and hope she will like italian food too. Not the pizza but i like my pasta, mmmmmmmmh.
I think the social part of all she wont have to miss.One of my best friends and his woman are thai and we meet many times a week. So i believe this will be covered. I am not sure to stick together with other farang thai couples, i am not a thai maniac, who does need everything thai all my day. My tilak and my thai friends are enough.

[midnightsun1]

I am not at the stage where I am bringing a TG back with me. But for myself even if there was a store where I easily could buy... Then there comes the cooking part. I have not cooked a meal in 8 months let alone Thai food.

When the day comes though a day in Seattle should load the cupboards full for 4 months. Then I stay where the ocean and beach is at your front door loaded with seafood and and those little crabs for the papaya salad. I don't think she will have any problem.

Her diet and happiness would be number one priority for me. I sure not want her at the local McSh** getting fat like many other American woman.

I often wonder how difficult it can be for a Thai girl to leave her country. So much easier for us to come to Thailand.

[Hansel]

shark1963, I see again and again, how small the world is; I could see Mannheim from the balcony of my parents' house, coming from Neustadt/Wstr.

There sure should be enough Asian markets around and if you worry, let her bring a few kg of the not perishable stuff with her from Thailand. Even with a Thai girl, if all the other things are right in the relationship, food should not become THAT much of an issue.

[K2]

Originally Posted by Hansel

shark 1963, food is the one and only important thing for any Thai girl besides her parents. It will be worshipped and eaten in great celebrations all day long, every morning,day, evening and night (Ed)

So so true Hansel - no race on earth is so passionately obsessed with their own cuisine and while she may smile and please you by eating western food with you - always she will yern for som tum or some true Thai dish.

[shark1963]

Originally Posted by Hansel

shark1963, I see again and again, how small the world is; I could see Mannheim from the balcony of my parents' house, coming from Neustadt/Wstr.

There sure should be enough Asian markets around and if you worry, let her bring a few kg of the not perishable stuff with her from Thailand. Even with a Thai girl, if all the other things are right in the relationship, food should not become THAT much of an issue.

Thanks hansel, i also had some friends in neustadt and met them there sometimes for a nice day in that quite city, having a god dinner and some wine. To get any thai food in mannheim is just easy, i am just curious about if it will get such a stress like with my former TGF. But this has been frankfurt and you know the traffic jam there. So driving around there is not really a pleasure