If your wife eats beef in Thailand, where does she go to get it?

Question

Is there a guy on a motorcycle bringing the beef to your wife at the house? Or does she go to the nut? How do you know your not getting Kwai?

After the guy delivers it and she cooks it up does it taste the same or can you even tell the difference? How do you know it sanitary? My neighbor is an older American guy he always go to Tesco but I don't think it fresher there.

My wife and I eat fish but its always fresh because we buy it alive clean it ourselves.

Answer 1

My  Thai  wife  and  I  seldom  eat  beef .

My  wife  buys  beef , for  other  family  members , at  the  local  market .   Brahma  cattle  are  very  scrawny  and  I  am  afraid  they  may  be  TB  infected .   The  meat  offered  seems  to  be  exclusively  the  hind  leg  of  a  freshly  killed  animal .   Beef  should  be  hung  for  two  weeks  before  serving .   Thais  like  to  eat  it raw , finely  chopped  and  mixes  with  raw  garlic , chillies , blood , fish  sauce  and  sodium  glutamate .

Unless  you  are  in  Bangkok , it  is  not  easy  to  buy  good  beef .

Undoubtedly  Tesco-Lotus  is  the  best/safest  place  to  buy  beef ; but  I  doubt  you  will  get  a  tender  juicey  steak .   I  sometimes  buy  stew  meat  to  make  an  English  stew , or  steak  and  kidney  pie .   My  wife  and  I  eart  a  lot  of  fish  too , mostly  fresh  farmed  Carp .   My  wife  gets  it  filletted  at  the  market , she  sometimes  buys  them  live  and  whole  to  barbeque .  I  have  found  Tesco  fish  tends  to  be  old  and  stale .   We  have  had  people  selling  beef  at  the  door ; i  won't  touch  it , or  even  give  it  to  the  dog .  

Answer 2

I buy it in Tops/Big C or if I'm feeling particularly generous the supermarket downstairs in Paragon. My gf buys it in the local market and thinks I am stupid for paying the supermarket price. We agree to disagree on that one.

Nice tip from Ice Cube - I'm trying to picture opposite Emporium but all I'm getting is the stationary shop office (Office) and then (going up Sukhumvit) a Japanese restaurant, a book shop, a furniture shop and, eventually, a massage place. I'll have to look for Villa more closely next time.

We get fish from the river near gf's family house.

What's a "nut"? as in "does she go to the nut?" Thai word for market is talarg.  nut = Issan word? Sorry, my Thai is a bit basic.

Answer 3

Mmm, I'm a beef eater too. Kwai or water buffalo isn’t that bad if you can chew through it sticky meat; and like everyone else says, if you can’t tell the differences, it’s the same.

I usually shop at TOP from Central, and they have pretty good beef. The Thai-French beef is as good as Australian beef, although a little more expensive that normal beef. There’s a big butcher shop selling only Thai-French beef just behind the Villa supermarket opposite to the Emporium. Villa and Emporium also sell good beef, but the Thai-French one does come from the same cow and Emporium is more expensive than Villa and Villa is more than the specialised butcher shop I mentioned. They deliver the beef to Emporium first, then Villa and the Butcher shop from the same Van and very much the same dead cow.

Siam Paragon has great beef too.

So, the thing is usually the higher price you pay the better quality of beef you will get (usually but not always).

Answer 4

Probably a supermarket.