i love thai food!

[cellout]

.x

[falcor]

my boss, who grew up here in jersey and has never been out of the country:
'mei-ling! answer the phone!'
'show me sand da froor! show me creen da table!'
'su-chung-lai. you call me steve.'
and then one time he spoke in subtitles. and has the spanish guys in the kitchen calling me 'china' (cheena)
augh. sad to say, i've never even been there.
when i say i'm from the philippines their eyes just glaze over...or they make some wisecrack about the marcos fam. (SOO 1980s/early 90s. hah.) or just go, 'ohhh.' and then on to next subject. i like that better.

[BooBoo-Kitty]

etten mein scheisse!

i use that on all the german honeys on campus. i think it doesn't work because i don't wear any pants.

I wouldn't like it if I told someone I was filipina and they came back with

"I hate dinuguan!" :D

[BooBoo-Kitty]

Originally posted by Ko-Chan
I wouldn't like it if I told someone I was filipina and they came back with

"I hate dinuguan!" :D

i hate the look in their eyes when they tell me "sooooo, you eat balut eh?"

[Sleepy Introvert Ninja]

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Guten Tag.</font>

[angrykitty]

whenever i see a dalmation i ask, "which one are you?"

Originally posted by BooBoo-Kitty
i hate the look in their eyes when they tell me "sooooo, you eat balut eh?"


More realisitcally, people ask me when I say I'm a filipina,
"Do you eat bagoong?"

[dragon chic]

this post is too real. people can really be stupid/offensive and not even realize it!! (or they are just a plain asshole!!)
i once had someone come up to me, and ask "so what are you!?"..i replied to his ignorant ass by asking him what the fuck he was....
he then said "no, i really want to know"...
i told him i was 1/2 centaur 1/2 mermaid...assholes!!

[Sleepy Introvert Ninja]

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I am Sleepy.</font>

[chairmynmeow]

MMMMM.....Monkeyball Soup

[phism]

you were offended by someone asking what you were? it's just conversation. i'd rather someone ask me than assume i'm mexican or middle eastern or something, which most people do. i think most of my black or white friends think of me as white too. i don't know. i like people to know rather than guess. even though i know i guess often. i'd like to think i'm a good guesser though. i usually find out i'm right. i should keep score. i can play guess-the-asian. heh. like alllooksame.com. except those people are all weird ass looking.

uh, anyway.

hey falcor, can't you sue for that or something?

[angrykitty]

nobody got my joke.

Eh, I think people could have a little more tact that just blurting "What ARE you?" like "What ethnicity are you?" or "What is your background?"

When people say "What are you", the first thing you think is, "A human, asshole, what do you think?"

A recent coversation my brother in law and sister had with a cow-orker:
"This is my wife..."
"She's beautiful!"
"Pardon??"
"you're beautiful.. what are you?"
"Excuse me???"
"What's your ethnicity?"
"Spanish, filipino and chinese"
"I thought so.. the mutts are always beautiful"
"WHAT???"
"I didn't mean to offend you, I just mean mixed girls
are always prettier"
"Umm yeah thanks"

Originally posted by angrykitty
nobody got my joke.

Oh, I got the joke all right. Funny material, who writes for you? ;)

[Kenishiro]

Originally posted by angrykitty
whenever i see a dalmation i ask, "which one are you?"

10 posts later...

oh haha..

I got your joke.

[dragon chic]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by phism
[B]you were offended by someone asking what you were? it's just conversation.

yes, i do find it offfensive when an idiot asks me this question..i am a fucking human! are you? a conversation might start as: "hi, how are you today?".....

i would never walk up to a total stranger and say something like this...thanks to ko for understanding...

[angrykitty]

Originally posted by dragon chic
yes, i do find it offfensive when an idiot asks me this question..i am a fucking human! are you? a conversation might start as: "hi, how are you today?".....

i would never walk up to a total stranger and say something like this...thanks to ko for understanding...

i hear yah dragonchic. the question "what are you?" is a weird question. i rememeber i mentioned this in a class (i forget the subject, but i think it dealt with culture) and got in an argument with the teacher about it. her reasoning was that she had a heavy eastern europeon accent and was asked that question all the the time and didn't mind at all answering. my argument was people have a real difficult time excepting my answer,"i'm american", because they can't accept the idea that an asian can be american, thus racist. it just seems like a really personal question. sometimes people just can't relate to others...

i wonder how many white robots out there get asked the same question? i bet you it's not even close as the asian robots.

[cellout]

so i was getting my hair cuty today, and my hair samurai told me he was from taiwan. then I told him that I was fo Thai ethnicity, and i hated it when people would think i was from taiwan. and then he told me about how he was with a friend, and somebody asked where he was from, and his friend said "Taiwan". the questioner responded with "oh, you mean Thailand." "No, Taiwan." "No, no, no. Repeat after me, Thai-land."
god. how fucking ignorant.

^c

[dragon chic]

thanks angry, sorry if i sound bitter as hell, but i am!! i've heard that line my whole life,and it gets really tiresome...on good days i might be willing to cut some asshole slack, on a bad day i won't stand for it...your comment regarding whites getting asked that rude question brings up a great point. if someone is attractive, i have no problem telling them so point blank..why people try to take it one step further is weird to me....that jerk that said "thailand" to your friend cellout, should get his ass kicked...

[Edited by dragon chic on 12-13-2001 at 03:47 PM]

I don't think people realize that they're being rude when they say that. To them, it's small talk. Ignorant, but they don't realize. It's because it's a foreign subject (literally) they obviously don't know anything about.

I doubt that white robots ever get that question, too. Only when they are an obvious mix, they get asked. Damn Americans, :P

[kamenriderv3]

I'm Chinese and people ask me what I am. Besides saying "a complete idiot", I tell them "I'm all Chinese, all the time". But at least half of the people who ask me are Asian or mixed. Some are Americans and some are not.

Sometimes non-Chinese people think I'm one of their kind. I have had to correct Japanese, Filipino and Vietnamese people. Sometimes Chinese people think I'm not one of their kind. In Hong Kong they thought I was Japanese. Maybe because no one there wore Timberlands. ;-] I don't know but I notice a lot of people in Macau looked at my shoes.

Although I know what you guys are saying by ignorant Americans, it happens on both sides in my experience.

[remotecontrolalligator]

Originally posted by yellahbastard
VIM's in Hollywood

spicy basil chicken
seafood glass noodle salad
tom yum soup (with real crab meat!)


the best

sanamluong in No.Hollywood is pretty rockin too!


Originally posted by angrykitty
nobody got my joke.

i did buddy!

[dragon chic]

kamen ~ i have experienced then same thing. most asian people that approach me get it dead on these days..it does happen from both sides, but i have never had any asian person walk up to me ,and shout out "what the hell are you!?" in broad day light...it hurts...

[Sleepy Introvert Ninja]

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"What the hell are you?"

"I'm Sleepy".

"And you're human".</font>

[fmstlr]

I yam wot I yam.
I yam my own
speso kweeayshone.

I think there's a short piece in GR#1 on this question 'what are you?'.

[nauism]

But...what if I do love thai food?

[Rev.Bucky]

Boy do I relate to this, being Half Japanese (call me Jad, that's Fair!!) . But whats Weird is I have had Black People walk up to me and ask "You're Half Japanese, Aren't you?" But with the White People it's always "What are you?" I usually wind up saying a spiel like "Well I'm Half Japanese, half English Irish mutt, but I'm more of an American."

Also, weirdly, when People know of my Asian half, I almost invariably get into some weird conversation about rice. SERIOUSLY, I don't start it but rice or tofu always get brought up. "Oh, You're Japanese, I like Rice."I always say "What is it with you white people and your Rice (or Tofu)". About half get it, the others usually just look at ME like I have some weird kinda racial thing, very strange.

[slackerbot]

what they say.. oh, i've never had korean food. what's it like?

what they're thinking.. oh, i wonder if they really do eat dogs?

[slackerbot]

by the way.. i find thai food to be blah. it seems like everything is made with coconut milk or buried in mint leaves.

am i missing something here? someone recommend a thai dish that will change my mind. :)

[Rev.Bucky]

Originally posted by matu
they're trying to relate. but they don't know anything except food. its a conversation. people do stuff like that. we're all social retards.

Yeah, but do you go up to white people and say, "hmm, you're white, you know I really like Mayonaise and marshmellows."?

[YelloKitty]

Originally posted by slackerbot
am i missing something here? someone recommend a thai dish that will change my mind. :)
there's this one dish that i really like... it's ground pork or chicken, kind of tamarind-y, with nam pla, chili and lime. and bean sprouts! i don't know what it's called, but it's really simple and yummy with rice.

[nauism]

I like duck in coconut sauce.

[HwaRang012]

Nice.

gonna try and make some green curry chicken tonight

[nikel]

Originally posted by slackerbot
by the way.. i find thai food to be blah. it seems like everything is made with coconut milk or buried in mint leaves.

Have you tried tom yum goong (spelling?) - the prawn and lemongrass soup? It's spicy and isn't buried in mint or coconut.

[akuma]

^ that soup is my jam- the feeling it leaves you with is wonderful


lemongrass! \m/

[shampoo]

Originally posted by YelloKitty

there's this one dish that i really like... it's ground pork or chicken, kind of tamarind-y, with nam pla, chili and lime. and bean sprouts! i don't know what it's called, but it's really simple and yummy with rice.

its called larb. and it really depends on the execution, whether all the flavors are balanced. but it can definitely be good.

my standard order is a curry (green or panang), pad see ew and rice. if im feeling splurge-y throw in some tom yum gai to start. ooo im hungry.

[nauism]

i ate pad see you twice this weekend.

[-minus_one]

we used to eat a hell of a lot more thai food than we do now (but it's still one of my favorites). som tam malakaw is a green papaya salad that if made properly is delicious, another light summery meal is khao man kai or simply chicken rice (the chopped cucumber makes it great). yumm.
the best pad thai i ever had was in the outdoor food court of suanpai market in bangkok, amazing -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/bkkgroup/padthai.jpg :heart:

[Rev.Bucky]

Originally posted by matu


is that all you know about white people though? don't be silly. it'd be more like...

"I'm German."

"Oh yeah? I like Lowenbrau and Bratwurst."

"VAT?!? SIEG HEIL!"

yeah.

I may well be socially inept (think I proved that with my quote there!!) but I will be damned If I'm going to ask a stranger if they like sausage, just a little too much innuendo there!

Oh you're a Czech? You like Paprika?

Oh You're Greek? Ouzo and olives for everyone.

Oh you're English? Boil any meat lately?

Oh you're Polish? hey, love yer sausage!!

See how lame that all sounds? Then why is it "o.k" to talk to Asians about Rice and Tofu? Especially when I eat rice only to soak up the flavor of the sauces and such. I've also been told by white people that Tofu has no flavor! I hate the way Tofu tastes, and even when covered with something else, I can still taste that fermented bean curd!! But I hear the same thing everytime (same thing I always heard about Liver) "OH, you just haven't had it cooked right." Indeed I have, I JUST DON'T LIKE IT!!!!

[tangent23]

i always just say i'm genetically korean, that way they have to think a bit about what they mean..

we have a whole lot of new african refugees in our city over the last few years [from sudan mostly], and i am genuinely interested in them, have met a few out at bars and stuff, but it's kinda wierd being on the other end and wanting to ask, 'so where you from?'..

is that rude or what? how is it different to white people doing the same? is it different?

i think generally they take it as it's offered, a genuine interest in their story and we usually end up having good conversations [tho that might be the alcohol]..

hmm..

green curry in a can.

don't eat it.

[tangent23]

these are pretty good:

mae ploy brand
http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/images/curries.jpg

[tangent23]

seriously alb, try the mae ploy brand, there's not additives/preservatives of any kind, just spiced up goodness..

[invictus]

That's the kind I like for home cooking...

[tangent23]

a jar lasts forever too..

cool, i bought some of that too.

we decided to buy several different brands,

but we cooked the stuff from a can first.

got a favorite coconut milk?

[puppy fields]

what's your favorite soup from thailand?

[fad3r]

tom yum goon...oh wait, that was a movie

[graceyjung]

Gaeng Som is my fave thai soup. it's a spicy and sour vegetable soup. i :heart: sour!! i can make any type of generic soup good. just give me some limes to squeeze, sriracha sauce, and cilantro and Voila! Tastiness!!!