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Sadly it doesn't change the fact that pretty much all of the rood involves copious amounts of rice, noodles or some other starch

Just to go off on a tangent for a second, I do want to live in Melbourne but I don’t think I will try to do it until the salaries are closer to those in Perth. Currently teachers in Melbourne get paid about $13k less than in Perth (and that’s before the 12% pay rise which was just approved in WA). Fingers crossed this improves soon!

>> I *thought* when I was ordering Laarb Salad

Yeh, can never order Laarb as it will always have rice in it.

Some restaurant add these starchy chicken powders to Tom Kha and to all their curries, but not all. Maybe 50/50 chance I'd say. Easy to test with Iodine. I've (mostly) given up my fear of being "weird" and just get out the iodine and test regardless of who I'm with.

When ordering stir fry I just ask:
.."no oyster sauce, no wheat/corn/flour.. please use oil and soy sauce instead"
Has always well worked so far.

Yep, miss the freshness of vietnamese rolls and the Pho soup..

>> I'll have a double order of the sticky rice cooked with coconut milk
>> and monkey bananas!

Actually I believe we can tolerate sticky rice better than normal rice.. and far better than typical starchy foods. Sticky rice is very very low in amylose, and instead has something called "amylo-pectin" which is starch-like but doesn't provoke my immune system much. It does break down to simple sugars, and too much of that make me.. ahem.. itch :-(

Try starting with a small amount of sticky rice and gradually increasing - oh and when you do, take a probiotic with it. The sticky rice will serve as good food for the friendly probiotic flora (ie. act as a prebiotic).