how would you rate the food here besides Thailand and Vietnam?
>>2751042Malaysian food is excellent—particularly the fusionish Straits Chinese-Malay-Indian cooking that evolved around Penang. Singapore’s version of basically the same cuisine is also very good, although the Malaysian version is its equal and a lot cheaper. Singapore is better for international cooking of just about all kinds. Indonesian food can be great (with many similarities to Malayan cooking) but it’s generally milder and ingredient quality/hygiene standards can be somewhat lower.Burmese food is often excellent but hygiene standards are more often than not quite bad. I like Burmese restaurants abroad more than in Myanmar. Laotian food can be very good if you like a lot of capsaicin, raw meat, and sticky rice—most of what most tourists eat in Laos is basically just Thai food, while the best stuff is at heart fancified Isaan food. Protip: if it has coconut milk, it’s not really local.I don’t really like Filipino food, but I haven’t spent much time there. I hear they’re good at roasting pigs. Most of the food on offer there seems to have close analogs elsewhere in Asia that are better.
Philippines: TrashMalaysia/Indonesia/Singapore: Lot of overlap between each other, but really solid all the same. Indonesian food is slated to be the next trendy Asian cuisine, if not already. China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam had their time in the spotlight, next up is Indonesia.Rest of the region: Don't know enough to comment.
Terrible food.
>>2751046Laotian food seems to vary widely by region. In Vientiane you can find cuisine from all over the world. Here in Xayaboury province near the Thai border there's little I've eaten that is much different from Thai food. More limited selection of food due to lower local spending power is the primary difference from Thailand. >>2751042Southeast Asian food is more difficult to eat than Western goyslop. That's why people here are rarely fat. It's also why foreigners obsess over Southeast Asian food so much, because it's no bangers and mash. Intense and spicy flavors, chewy meats, steaming hot broths, sticky rice that is difficult to swallow, fish full of bones. Eating can be an ordeal, but the end result is feeling more sated than you do after wolfing down some bland western mush.
Indonesian food is very underrated. Though it doesn't have the freshness of Vietnamese or the delicacy of Thai. Think big plates of tasty greasy noodles, bbq pork. The kind of feel-good stuff I'd cook for myself at home if I had the ingredients. My favorite is gado-gado, kind of a stir-fry/salad hybrid with peanutty sauce.
>>2751068>little I've eaten that is much different from Thai food.that's because you're a farang and they serve Thai slop to farang
>>2751115The food is shit. All Asian food besides Japanese is shit-tier. Indonesia rice and burnt meat. They can't even afford meat. And much of it is spicy fish sauces. You don't know shit. It's not Chinese takeout. It's shit. Take some advice boys, and eat at Western establishments only. Or are you some thai foodie wannabe? You probably haven't even ever ate lap dip (raw buffalo intestine dish). Fuck you faggots.
>>2751046I'm sure you'll love Jollibee's cheesy rice! My girlfriend always recommends that. I'd say it's close to Michellin 5 Star! Rivals some of my dining in Hong Kong!
I've had Laotian food in London for what it's worth. I wasn't a fan. I didn't like the flavours. I liked that it was spicy, but it wasn't actually good.
>>2751166I’m starting to get the feeling loas is just a an ultramid Thailand but they’re qtpies are indeed scrumptious
God damnit. Fuck Malaysia. I know the food will be absolute ass. I think I'm going to bail on that flight I have purchased and fly the additional hour to Thailand instead just so I can get some real Western food and other conveniences. Yes, the food is that bad in Malaysia. I'll miss out on bangladeshi girls and be in tourist cuck central, but I think it's worth it to refuel with some actual food on Sukhumvit.
>but mister.. what kind of food with reasonable proportions and ingredient quality can you get in Bangkok that you can't find anywhere else in the SEA region? Don't you like cheesy rice and tapas, miiiister???A motherfucking Crackgriddle, bitch. Also bee products like royal jelly made for the Japanese market and realcoo-travelers. I really didn't want to go to BKK for a visa run but look what you made me do.
>>2751193Everyone needs to just “let go” and accept that Thailand is the best place in the world. Even with all its externalities. You can’t just pull up and get delicious food AND get your pecker played with as quick as using delivery apps anywhere else.
>>2751042Rotten dogshit/what is wrong with these people, tier.Really remarkable just how fucking nasty almost everything is in SEA except for siam region.
>>2751222That's right, buddy. It's time to stop pretending to be cultured. I also realized that except thai malls I tend to only shop at Japanese grocery stores in these countries because the quality otherwise is dogshit. On the plus side, I have plenty of xylitol for stray dogs. It's good for your teeth.
Why does every SEA thread attract schizos? This was a thread about food, for crying out loud. At least do schizo shit in the generals and poorly disguised coomthreads.
>>2751254Oh sorry you travel for food? Foodies are the only non schizo people? How about you eat an actual hardcore indiginous dish and you will be shitting liquid for a month like I have before. I earned those stripes (in my underwear). Yes and it was at an Anthony Bourdaine restaurant. What more do you want?
>>2751332Traditional ways of preparing meat in Laos can be awfully sketchy. Go into the soup place where the locals eat and there's intestines all dried out from sitting in the open air for so long. Seems it helps the meat soak up the broth flavor better. >>2751187It's quite a bit cheaper than Thailand when you compare the provincial cities of the two countries. The young Lao ladies are indeed a beautiful sight in their traditional attire or school uniforms. Other countries, the girls are all dressed like trash and giving sidelong glances like "eww see that guy looking at me, he's so creepy right?" Not here. Here the girls are taught to be both ladylike and friendly to strangers. It's very endearing for little girls in dresses to pipe up "Hello farang!" when they see me walking by, and giggle musically when I wave back.>>2751122Lao food is meant to be eaten communally, with dishes in the middle of the table shared by everyone. So yeah, as a solo diner I end up eating the same old stir-fry and fried rice and omelet and noodle soup.>>2751129Indos can't eat pork, so they miss out on a lot. The barbecued pork ribs they serve here in Laos are fucking amazing. Pork laab is great as well, but make sure you get the cooked pork option.>>2751235After nine months of eating whatever they serve me, my gut turns the local food into energy just as effectively as it does for the locals, if not more so.
Didn't get the name but this Lao dish looks good.
is Malaysian food as good as Bourdain claims?
>>2751332>What more do you want?I want you to leave this board, schizo.
