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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Thai dishes without chili pepper
Reader question: Thai dishes without chili pepper
Dear readers,
We are looking for Thai dishes that are not hot. We know Sweet and Sour and a dish with Cashewnuts, but what else is there?
Unfortunately, my husband and I cannot tolerate peppers.
Thanks in advance!
Christina
In my experience, all tourists in the normal restaurants get the totally non-spicy version of the dish anyway. I always have to ask for 'thai spicy'.
And like samee asks for Thai spicy, you can also ask for no spicy.
In any case, Pad Thai is not spicy either
Have fun and tasty food
Cor Verkerk
Hi Christina,
In addition to the two dishes mentioned, there are many Thai dishes that are not spicy, for example:
Pad king Kai, a delicious wok dish with fresh ginger, onions, chicken and coriander. You can always replace the chicken with, for example, pieces of duck or beef.
The well-known Pad Thai, delicious wok with rice noodles, tamarind, soy sprouts, young onions and peanuts. Delicious with chicken, scampis or vegetarian. The fried rice dishes are basically not spicy either. Kao Pad poo is fried rice with crab and coriander. The delicious Tom Kha Kai is a chicken soup based on a reasonably spicy and sour Tom Yam broth, but is pleasantly soft because coconut cream is added. The same goes for the yellow curry and the massaman curries (a real stew of beef or chicken with fresh pineapple and sweet potatoes) which are sweet and soft. Pad Pong Kerry Kung (scampis marinated in yellow curry powder in the wok with scrambled eggs and onion rings) and Pad pong Nooj Maj Farang Kung (scampis with green asparagus in the wok with a rather soft soy sauce).
So far …….. If you are in Brussels, I would like to welcome you in one of our Thai restaurants. Villa Thai or Le Thai. Enjoy your meal
Indeed, just asking for fried rice, or flied lice as they say there is never a problem, it's just like the fried rice here in Holland
Tip, once noticed when a Thai ordered for us:
“prik mai chai” also called “farang style” or as the same Thai called it: “no taste at all”
I myself can't tolerate a lot, always indicate that in the restaurant, so far, they always make it the way I can have it. No problem, just indicate and if possible, they will make it the way you want it.
Hello christina
More than enough choice though;
Meat/fish/shrimp Nam manhoi (oyster sauce)
Ditto Kratiem Prik Thai (garlic black pepper)
Ditto Phad priuw delusion (sweet/sour)
Pad Thai (noodles)
Kui tiaaw (noodles but different)
Khao Phad (fried rice)
Mama (with or without meat/vegetables) = a noodle soup, which is often eaten “dry”.
Sate
Spring rolls
Various dishes with khaaw new (glutinous rice)
Good luck with your choice, but Thai cuisine is so diverse that you can always eat something delicious.
I don't know if it's allowed here, otherwise by PM, FYI my wife has a takeaway restaurant with a very extensive menu, also a lot of choice in not spicy (menu is also 2 languages) we have had several customers who had our menu on vacation and indicate in the restaurant what they want to eat.
Perhaps you “read in” here at various Thai restaurants in what you want to eat, and order it on the spot.
Have fun with your trip.
Martin
cook pieces of chicken in coconut milk with a little water with lemongrass lemon juice a little sugar add fresh chopped vegetables thicken with some rice flour when the vegetables are al dente eat with rice.
Please indicate “Mai phet” when ordering at the restaurant. That means something like "not spicy".
A dish that you will certainly appreciate is “padthai”.
Mai pIt is “not duck”, without blown H it is indeed not spicy
Hello, Actually the question is not correct, you can of course use a "Thai cooking technique", but it is not a real Thai recipe if the essence has to be left out, namely the peppers. However, there is still a lot of tasty food to cook, check out cooking forums.
Good luck and enjoy your meal. You can live without peppers
Sabine
Sabine:
peppers (the peppers that are so spicy) are not traditionally used in Thai cuisine.
As you may know, the origin is South American and especially Chile ~ and that is why these peppers are also called Chili peppers.
But Thailand has only been called Thailand for a few decades… So we should actually talk about Siamese cuisine…
I can't appreciate the peppers as a seasoning. At most in minute quantities. I know I'm not the only one who thinks this way. I see it more as an impairment of the taste 🙂
In most tourist restaurants (and also in our homeland) the Thai food is adapted to the taste of the Westerners, if you go outside you will find the real Thai cuisine where the dishes can usually be very hot (pet). If you go to eat in such a restaurant and you see something on the menu that you want, ask “mai pet khaa”. If your husband asks, he will say: “mai pet kap”. Then they don't add chillie, my wife always asks for that for me and it's never pet. If it does get served, just give it back or just put those little hot devils aside, it's that simple. If you do get hold of a dish that is too hot for your taste, don't drink beer or wine with it, but eat rice. Beer or wine enhances the spicy taste 😉
if it's too hot, it's best to take a sip of coconut milk, it's over immediately
and unless the peppers provoke an allergic reaction, you can of course also teach yourself to eat spicy food. Start with a teaspoon of sambal in the soup. Little tabasco sauce through your salad.
Keep taking it up.
Now you can enjoy like a Thai enjoy 🙂
Often enough experienced that the cook (in) came out of the kitchen to see who was that weird farang who could tolerate spicy thai food 🙂
Learn to eat spicy? You can also just choose to taste the dish as it is intended. Or - at most - to enhance the natural taste a bit; but as far as I'm concerned, the taste doesn't need to be "turned around". I know that others often think otherwise. But I don't see the point.
I often see in Asia and elsewhere that a dish is often topped with chili sauce or tomato sauce… I think it's a shame.
I will ask my Thai friends here if they have recipes, if I do I will put them online! Greeting; Andre Maijers/Den Helder/Holland
Thank you very much for all your nice comments. We hope to go again in December and will definitely try to taste some more things from the Thai kitchen.
padthai, chicken with cashew nuts and pineapple, beef with oyster sauce and if you are not sure, say no chilli
: )