Reply #2: You can't expect kids to eat Thai food; it's too weird.

[eyesroll]

Their little delicate tummies can't handle noodles and rice.
:D

I nver really did the picky thing -- I impressed the hell out of a Japanese restaurant waiter when I was 4 by pointing out that there was tofu in the soup (this was before tofu was everywhere). And I ate the tofu and everything else in the bento box.

I remember going to a birthday party in junior high -- the girl was fillipina, and the party was for extended family as well as friends, and friends' parents were invited in for food, too. There was Subway or some such, but the rest of the food was pancit and buns and so forth (cooked by the girl's immigrant grandmother). I ate myself silly, ignorning the Subway (I think I was the only American kid to do so), and when my dad came to pick me up, he ate himself silly, too. This repeated itself at my Korean friend's 16th birthday a few years later.