is thai food spicy and is it better than chinese food?

Question

what are some of the best thai foods that you could order when going to a thai restaurant and what restaurant do you recommend?is it expensive? i've never been to one and never tried thai food so i'm curious? thanks

Answer 1

not better, different
not expensive

doesn't have to be spicy, tell them how you like it- medium, spicy, very spicy

Pad Thai;
chicken, pork, or shrimp with different sauces you can choose
etc. Try it, you'll like it!

Answer 2

Thai food is spicy, a good thai reastaraunt useually tends too be pricy, but I'm sure there are some out there that aren't. You'll find Thai food uses alot of little thai chili peppers, if you are worried about the heat just don't eat them. The spice is uaeually balanced out with a coconut milk, or a peanut sauce, lime, etc. If you have never had Thai food before you really must get Schewan green beans, yum.

Answer 3

Thai food can be spicy to very spicy, so if you can handle heat, it's right up your alley. As to whether or not it's better than Chinese food, it depends on your tastes. Everybody has different palettes and different preferences, plus different restaurants have different interpretations of their respective cuisine and some are better than others. I'm a little biased so I have to favor the Chinese, but after eating in China and Thailand, you can't make any determinations based off of places here in the US. There's absolutely NO comparison.

Answer 4

oooooh thai food is yummy. It's nothing near chinese food but the ingredients they use are pretty similar. If you go to a particular chinese restuarant the food and stuff are more classy and tastes more sophisticated. However, thai people orginated from thailand (no ****) but they also ate with their hands... they didn't use chopsticks or spoons...very dirty, tsk tsk. So yeah, traditional families still use their hands to eat (correct me if im wrong). Thai foods are very spicy. Almost all their dishes include some sort of sweett and sour spicy sauce.. also very flavorful. I suggest for first timers to try the padtai. It's sauted noodles with bits of shrimp, meat, beansprouts, and roasted nuts. A shrimp salad is also famous dish.. spicy and tangy at the same time.. with sprigs of oinions, lettuce, special house sauce.. and veryy yummy.

Ohh im hungry. (:

Answer 5

I love my thai food! It's just got more flavour than chinese and glad I gave it a try. What to recommend... Pad Thai if into noodle dishes, then there are the curries, umm gaeng masman (think that's what it is called) which is a sweet curry with potato and peanuts usually, panang (a coconut red curry, quite nice), red curries, green curries, hmm if you get a chilli dish usually quite spicy I've found, umm can't remember the name of peanut vegetable dish I've eaten, think its sao na or something like that but could definitely be wrong. Yeah, its hard to pick something that is bad so I say go with whatever sounds good! :o)

Answer 6

Yes, it is spicy and yes in my opinion it is better than Chinese, at least the kind of Chinese you usually get in the US.

I would strongly recommend you try some satay... it tastes a bit like peanut butter and is very good, and you will see that flavor also used in Singaporean cuisine, in dishes such as roti prada (as a dipping sauce).

You might also try Thai beef salad -- not that amazing, but they cook the little bits of beef pretty crispy and they taste like a kind of crouton.

But -- if you are having a cold or the flu, nothing beats Tom Yum soup -- it's basically vegetable broth, mushrooms and hot peppers, and it will clean your sinuses out faster than sniffing Dran-O. Mm, mm, good (the soup, not Dran-O!)

Ask your server to recommend a dish!

Answer 7

If you have a Benjarong Thai Restaurant in your area my husband and I HIGHLY recommend them. They are not very expensive and you can order 1-5 stars as far as how spicy you want it. I LOVE their chicken with peanut sauce....YUM. He's taking me there for my b-day dinner tomorrow.

Answer 8

No it's not spicy , even when you ask for it spicy. It's really really good though, their version of wonton soup is the freaking bomb. So order some of that, and I had the spicy chicken with peppers, and it was delicious, then for dessert I had fried green tea ice cream. OMG so good. I had it while I was in Seattle, and we were only supposed to be there for a day, and got stuck for a week, and we at at that place like 12 times. Bai Dong I believe was the name .

Answer 9

Thai food is tonnes better than chinese food! There is spicy food and non spicy food in thai and they are all delicious. If you havent eaten thai food before i suggest you try it. its very tasty!

Answer 10

yes some are very spicy. if you do go to one, i recommend getting a pad-thai its a fried noodle dish and i order it frequently whenever i am at a thai restaurant.