Doha, Qatar
Says the reader:
We recently cooked a Thai banquet for a group of ex-pats from around the world that included fried chicken wrapped in pandan leaves; fried chicken wings with lemongrass; a super-spicy beef salad with ground roasted rice, green beans, and fresh green chilis (which left us all a bit runny-nosed); steamed grass noodles with shiitake mushrooms; and several other dishes as well.
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JonF says: Oh, yum. We need to get some meatless recipes from these folks for the upcoming fast!
AnotherBeliever says: That all looks amazing. I’d eat the heck out of that. 
David J. White says: We recently cooked a Thai banquet for a group of ex-pats from around the world
Looks good (if too spicy for my taste), but just out of curiosity, were these expatriate Thais or expatriate Americans? If I were living abroad and a group of other American expats got together for dinner, I’d be rather disappointed if the dinner didn’t consist of hamburgers, hot dogs, fried chicken, and potato salad. But I suppose that’s me.
The summer I lived in Rome doing Fr. Reggie Foster’s Latin program, to celebrate the Fourth of July a bunch of us put together an American picnic dinner as well as we could from shopping at Italian markets (not as difficult as we thought, but probably much easier than it would have been 50 years ago). I made potato salad and deviled eggs.
MEH 0910 says: I shouldn’t do this, but I just read the transcription of John Derbyshire speaking in connection to the horsemeat scandal:
Browsing in a store in Thailand once I spotted a can whose label bore a picture of a creature I couldn’t place at all, sort of cross between a squirrel and a bush baby. I pulled out my Thai dictionary and looked up the words: “FIELD RABBIT” was the translation. What the heck did that mean? I asked a Thai friend. “Field rabbit”? What other kind of rabbit is there? Town rabbit? Mall rabbit? Parking lot rabbit? My friend explained that “field rabbit” is a euphemism for “rat.” The can contained rat meat. He then hastened to assure me that these are countryside rats who feed on dropped grain, not city rats who feed on sewage. Good to know, but I passed up on the “field rabbit” anyway.
a super-spicy beef salad with ground roasted rice, green beans, and fresh green chilis (which left us all a bit runny-nosed);
One may consider oneself lucky that one still has a nose at that point.