Hey, often with Asian restaurant in the US, especially at this Thai restaurant, I find myself feeling like crap the next day (okay, not often but a couple times). I didn’t get this until I cleaned up my diet, but now my favorite spicy Thai Curry Dish just doesn’t agree with me.
The stuff that I know is in it, I’m fine with. When I make something similar to it at home, I’m good. But more and more I find myself feeling terrible 8-12 hours after eating at a number of Asian restaurants.
I was wondering if anyone knows of any “extra” common ingredients they might be adding, and that I should ask about (removing) at these places.
[quote]Spartiates wrote:
Hey, often with Asian restaurant in the US, especially at this Thai restaurant, I find myself feeling like crap the next day (okay, not often but a couple times). I didn’t get this until I cleaned up my diet, but now my favorite spicy Thai Curry Dish just doesn’t agree with me.
The stuff that I know is in it, I’m fine with. When I make something similar to it at home, I’m good. But more and more I find myself feeling terrible 8-12 hours after eating at a number of Asian restaurants.
I was wondering if anyone knows of any “extra” common ingredients they might be adding, and that I should ask about (removing) at these places.[/quote]
It’s very likely too much salt. There aren’t any ingredients that I can think of in Thai food (and I’ve eaten and cooked Thai food my entire life) that should cause you a problem, but as restaurants are prone to do they may use much more salt than you would at home. You don’t get sweetened Thai tea or anything do you? I guess that could do it also if you’re eating very clean otherwise…but that should be pretty obvious.
I don’t get the Thai tea, but I am about to give up on that Thai restaurant. Ate there for years, but the last three times I’ve gotten (red) curry there, I’ve ended up feeling terrible afterwords, and this has only been since I really cleaned up my diet.
So I don’t know if it’s me not too sensitive, or them adding something new.
is it just the red curry, or do other dishes do it?
I’d also suspect salt/MSG as the first thing. Another might be if you’re just not used to the makeup in the meal (maybe fatty with a bunch of rice, or whatever), although you mentioned that when you cook at home you feel okay.
I would guess MSG. Ive eaten at places I know use it and I feel like shit immediately and for a couple of hours afterward. Ive eaten at places I know dont use it and feel fine after.
I’ve got some people in my family who are sensitive to it, but it never bothered me before. I guess I could have sensitized myself to it, by totally removing it from my diet, huh?
I’m going with the salt. Popular products in chinese cooking include stuff like soy sauce, oyster sauce, hoisin sauce; with each tablespoon containing something like half your RDI…and they might only use a tablespoon of one product in a dish, but then there’s all the others on top.
I would say it’s something other than MSG. I’m half Thai and I’ve never heard of it being used in Thai curry before. Since you mentioned you are “eating clean” it would also assume your calories have reduced for each meal. It could be that when eating at restaurants, you are consuming a lot more calories in one sitting than you have become used to.
I know when I “eat cleaner”, then eat white bread, I feel like crap soon afterward.