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I received 17 responses when I wrote "My son is coming into town and wants
to take his mom to dinner - Thai Food.  I'm afraid to go because I know
nothing about there sauces."  I ended up having a wonderful meal however as
always things didn't go as planned.  The waiter spoke perfect English and
looked out for me with many recommendations.  I ended up with a Thai Stir
Fry and I put fish sauce on it.  There soy sauce comes in a larger bottle
and then broken down into smaller bottles with no labels.  There pad thai
was already pre-marinated (that surprised me).  Thank you to the many that
responded, I felt much more comfortable with the knowledge that I went in
with and Yes I would do it again.

Here's what I learned from your responses.

Ask for rice noodles or ask if the food has wheat flour in it.  What to
watch out for is if you are allergic to coconut, or peanuts.
thai food is largely not made with gluten products
Ask them to rinse the pan for before cooking
Take your own gluten/wheat free soy sauce
Curries do not usually contain gluten. They use rice noodles and will fix a
gf sauce for them
Fish sauce which is GF is a good substitute for soy sauce
Peanut sauce is GF
Do not eat oyster sauce.
Everything is usually thickened with corn starch.
Check to see what kind of rice noodles they use--dry are GF but 'fresh' ones
are not
     (may have flour sprinkled on them to keep from sticking together).
Golden Mountain Soy Sauce is not made with wheat
They do not grow wheat in Thailand

Good dishes that were recommended
rice noodle dishes like phad ke mao or phad thai.
Order the lemon grass coconut soup!!! It's beyond good.
Pad Thai is the national dish of Thailand
chicken sartay (or satay)
Tom Ka Gai--Thai galanga soup--is ok.

I ordered the spring rolls, made with rice wrappers.  They were filled w/
chicken, rice noodles, cucumber, and bean sprouts.  Delicious with the chili
sauce.  I also ordered a stir fry veggie dish - cashews w chicken and
veggies, a clear sauce and steam rice.

Here's a link to a website that explains the gf
diet in Thai (in case they're not too good at English):

http://members.aol.com/zoeliak/spr_info.htm.

The only items my Thai restaurant needs to omit for me are soy sauce &
imitation crab meat.
Its best to give them a copy of this page:

www.zoeliakie-info.de/Spranchinfo/Thailandisch/thailandisch.htm.

* Please remember some posters may be WHEAT-FREE, but not GLUTEN-FREE *