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Thai Food?

ebrbetty

By ebrbetty
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ebrbetty Rising Star
ebrbetty
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we are ordering in Thai food today for my sons 19th b-day..I've never had it and can't tolerate many spices..I did call them yesterday and they said most all the food is gluten-free and cooked to order..I'm nervous to order..any ideas, or should I just not eat it?

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carriecraig Enthusiast
carriecraig
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I love Thai food - but I love spicy food too. If you want something mild, I would suggest Pad Thai. It's noodles with chicken, shrimp, tofu or veggies. Their signature dish, and it's good almost everywhere you get it.

Have fun!

elonwy Enthusiast
elonwy
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Be warned though, alot of Pad Thai is not gluten free. The Thai restaurant that I frequent often that makes special dishes for me, I can't even have thier pad thai. Has something to do with the sauce. I know thai kitchen makes a gluten-free pad thai sauce, but most others have soy sauce in them.

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ebrbetty Rising Star
ebrbetty
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thank you I was just looking at that dish on the website, it seems very safe to eat Thai food

kimjoy24 Apprentice
kimjoy24
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You might also consider the Massaman curry. It tends to be the milder of the Thai curries- I just had some over the weekend (the restaurant that I went to normally serves it mildly spiced so that's how I ordered it). Definitely on the comfort food side of things, and light on spicy in the sense of heat. It's a Muslim/Indian influenced curry, so it has more cardamon/cinnamon kind of spice in it than chilie-based spice.

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CeliaCruz
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Does anyone else besides me watch Good Eats with Alton Brown on the Food Network? He did a wonderful show recently about Thai Food and, more specifically, how to make Pad Thai. I haven't tried it yet but I watched the show carefully and it didn't seem as though it necessarily called for anything glutenous. Of course, it's probably different when you actually go to your local thai restaurant and order it from the menu...but in theory Pad Thai should be safe as long as there's no cross-contamination.

I believe the trick is to find a gluten-free fish sauce. According to Alton, the "best" fish sauces to use are the ones with the fewest ingredients listed on the bottle and it seemed that there are plenty of simple non-glutenous fish sauces for sale at Asian markets.

ebrbetty Rising Star
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thanks for the ideas, I will ask about the sause when we call in the order

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