The Frightful Tale of the Disgusting Red Curry

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Hey guys.

So I ordered takeout for dinner tonight, as I was feeling lazy, and in the mood for spring rolls. I reach for the menu of my favorite Thai restaurant, and decide to deviate from my usual order. After much deliberation with the guy on the other end of the phone, I decide on a red curry. I don't eat much curry, but I thought that I'd give it a go, because I like Indian curries ect.

DEAR GOD IT WAS FUCKING DISGUSTING!!

As soon as I opened the bag I noticed a particular stench. I opened the container and had a look, it all seemed normal, but my god, it smelled like a fucking public toilet....

So I ate my spring rolls, which were delicious as always. Mulling over the meal before me, I reasoned that some Thai dishes smell putrid, but taste good. I remember once ordering a Phad Thai that smelled like a wet dog, but tasted pretty good.

So the time comes. My spring rolls have been eaten, and all that remains is me, and this red curry. I take a deep breath and make a move with my fork, only to chicken out and divert to the side of coconut rice.

This time I really go for it. I try a piece of chicken and a noodle. The chicken is good, but the noodle is crispy, like some kind of vegetable... o_O It tastes alright... kinda bland, a little coconutty... I'm still not sure what the noodles are... The green beans are good and crispy though!

But.

After a while, I slowly become aware of a lingering aftertaste. A bad aftertaste, not a good one. It's not the chilli, or the coconut. It's... sharp and chemicaly, like medicine. It kinda matches the smell now.

I can't take any more. I've choked down about half of it, I feel kinda full (and sick) this curry is done. I have no real choice other than to dispose of the remainder of the godawful dish.

I think I'm going to stick to my favorites from now on. Sweet and sour chicken, Beef and veggies in oyster sauce and satay chicken. Mmmm....

The worst part was that the curry was two dollars more expensive than usual!!

So, any similar experiences? Advice? Thoughts?
 
Thai curry is different from indian curry in that indian curry is very thick, both the actual curry sauce and the vegetables and meat chunks within the curry. Thai curry is very thin, with a consistency much closer to ice cream melt than to the 'thicker than pudding' consistency of indian curries.

Last piece of advice, get the green curry it tastes a lot better than the red curry. its possible that there was fish sauce in the red curry, which is pretty gross to a lot of people, especially non-thai people tend to be grossed out by fish sauce.


tl;dr: order pad thai or coconut soup
 
masaman, or how ever you spell it is also fucking amazing, another thai curry.

also, you might have just had a bad serving, as most red curry is pretty good, if a little to tomato-infused for my tastes.
 
itc college freshman has his first bad take-out experience

protip: if it's after 2 am, stick with pizza.
 
I was not aware that public toilets had a particular smell to them. So what, did it smell like chlorine and dried piss? Or did it smell like diarrhea left behind by a rude obese person who had just eaten at Arbys? You gotta be specific because as it is, the curry you're describing sounds pretty good to me.
 
Well, fuck. I was going to get the green curry, but the guy couldn't do the basic green curry with chicken and veg, just the red one. I don't mind fish sauce, I think.

The problem is that there's this really great Indian place right up the street from my place, but they don't have coconut rice on their menu, and if I ask them for it they do make it up for me but charge $10 for it...

iDunno said:
I was not aware that public toilets had a particular smell to them. So what, did it smell like chlorine and dried piss? Or did it smell like diarrhea left behind by a rude obese person who had just eaten at Arbys? You gotta be specific because as it is, the curry you're describing sounds pretty good to me.
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You know that kinda sharp stench? Urine cakes, industrial cleaning products, ect. Awful smell. If you were here I would have given the leftovers to you :P

I'm cooking my dinner tomorrow night, and I'm going to let y'all decide what I cook. Nothing too fancy or convoluted though.
 
Try to avoid using the word 'fuck' too much in your posts. Use sparingly, as they say. Like spices. I always found urinal cakes to smell rather nice so I don't see the issue there.

Anyways, what's your budget for eating at home? Are you willing to make your food from scratch or are you okay buying a frozen dinner and heating it up? A good mix of the two would include hamburgers and some sort of fried potato. Burger meat (or any ground beef) is pretty trivial to make, while you can buy frozen bags of Ore-Ida potatoes in many forms; my favorites are the shoe string fries and crinkle cut. Just put some oil in a pan, heat it up, and when it starts crackling, throw in the fries. Or you can make it on a small pan in the toaster oven, or microwave it (try it with the metal pan and see what happens) but that's not unhealthy enough—not that you're making a healthy dinner with burgers, but you get my point. Remember to buy lettuce, tomatoes, avocados, onions, and any other veggie you can think of, and whatever kind of condiments you like (Srirachi hot sauce does the trick!)
 
I didn't even notice my pottymouthed language until you pointed it out.

Anyway, frozen meals?! Nonono.

My budget isn't a problem. It's the time, and effort. It's gotta be quick because I don't have the kitchen free for long.

I make burgers sometimes, but they're veggie burgers. I don't do much meat. I do a lot of chips (not with dinner) but I bake them. Hot oven > Tray > Foil > Chips. Why the hell would you fry them?!?!

I'm Australian BTW. I don't really like fatty unhealthy food. I'm in a slump really. I want to cook stuff, but I don't know what to cook. I do have a few recipes that I can cook really well, my fave being a risotto with varying ingredients.

What am I trying to say? I dunno, but I'm leaving it like this, I'm tired.

There, a bunch of discombobulated facts about me. I'm tired and going to bed.

What are your fave recipes? What do you like to cook?
 
JT Swift said:
Well, fuck. I was going to get the green curry, but the guy couldn't do the basic green curry with chicken and veg, just the red one. I don't mind fish sauce, I think.

The problem is that there's this really great Indian place right up the street from my place, but they don't have coconut rice on their menu, and if I ask them for it they do make it up for me but charge $10 for it...



You know that kinda sharp stench? Urine cakes, industrial cleaning products, ect. Awful smell. If you were here I would have given the leftovers to you :P

I'm cooking my dinner tomorrow night, and I'm going to let y'all decide what I cook. Nothing too fancy or convoluted though.
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One more thing, dont get asian food if you live in area with no asian people, if youre living in philly expect any cheaper asian food to be bad. east coast asian food has a reputation on the west coast for being watered down for white people. just throwing that out there without knowing where you live.


edit: if you live in australia you shouldnt have a problem, bad experience or bad restaurant, give thai food another chance. spicy thai noodles are perfect fo beating hangovers (their thai name means 'hangover noodles' iirc).
 
Thai is incredibly popular in Sydney around the university area (basically because it's 6 bucks for a thai meal, compared to 8-12 of anything else).

I'm really blase about thai, though. Maybe it's the fact I've been eating the far more aromatic Indian curries since I was a kid, but all thai basically tastes like a combination of the same flavours to me: Chilli, Coconut, Peanuts, Soy. The concentrations of each differ, but it's all basically the same.
 
thai usually tastes pretty bad in general

except i could probably eat about 900 of these and still not have enough
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Um. Fuck Green thai curry. I had some and it was pretty gross.

Red Curry was the shit, but it was a bit of an acquired taste for me.

Next time, as tennisace said, go with pizza
 
I didn't even know it was possible to not like thai curries. Learn something new every day, I guess. Personally I think if you're getting some sort of horrible chemical taste out of it, you're probably not going to fare any better with a green. It's not supposed to taste like that.
 
Nastyjungle said:
im sorry you guys think it looks like something, it doesn't make it that
they are indeed a thai food
educate yourselves
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I'm almost certain that dishes such as Karipap and Sate are of Malaysian origin.

Thung thong looks a hell of a lot like fried wontons, which are of Chinese origin. I know you're chinese

Unless you're just saying that Thais serve as a revamped, renamed dish; in which case:

FRYD WONTON IZ AWESUM GUISE
 
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