This one is pretty easy to see the reason for if you go to a random tourist restaurant in each country. In Thailand, you get four pages of Thai food, going way

This one is pretty easy to see the reason for if you go to a random tourist restaurant in each country. In Thailand, you get four pages of Thai food, going way deeper in variety than you ever see exported. Enough that you could eat there every day and not feel the need to flip to that last page full of Pizzas and spaghetti bolognese. In Indonesia, though, you get Nasi Goreng, Mee Goreng, and if you're really lucky a single curry, before learning about their wood-fired pizzas and other western junk. So you can go there for a month and come back having eaten a lifetime's worth of salty noodles, but not really learning anything about all the other good food you can get there. It's pretty rare that I choose Indonesian over Thai, when I have the choice.