Ciocco

Today we tryed a new place, opened 6 months ago, Pane e Focaccia on Soi 70, upper Hua Hin School, just before Itisukkato Hua Hin Temple on the way to go Wat Huoy Mong Kol .

It is a small deli shop with a few tables, mostly the produce bread and pizzas, with real professional hand.

Good pizzas and focaccias, sandwices, pasta, desserts, coffe shop.

They work as a restaurant just for lunch from monday to thursday, also for dinner but just with booking also on friday and saturday, closed on sunday.

Also they have a lot of frozen ready to eat foods, as pastas, sauces, lasagna, ossobuco, gnocchi and so on.

We had breakfast with raisin roll, very good, pizza with ham and rocket salad, generous piece at 45 thb, very good, my daughter she take a sandwic with italian salame and a perfect Cappuccino and good coffee.

Also they have a few italian products on sale as cold cuts, salami, cheeses, pickled, canned, oil, pasta and so on...and a lot of cheese from Del Casaro Factory.

We will be back for pasta with the friends who talked us about this place.

Sailing "inside" the perimeter protected by the navy ships in front there could give you a lot of troubles, not last the risk to be shooted by them.

Also if a beach boat you can easely circumnavigate those navy ships.

Do not take risk and choose the longer way.

 

I own and have run a successfull buisiness here for 11 years my friend.

And I stand by my quote , they are perfectly wirhin their right to refuse to carry out the repair.

Would you take a Rolex to Hublot and expect them to fix it because you might become one of their customers , there both watches right?

A buisiness succeeds by taking care of their customers and not running around helping out other companies problems.


 
 
 

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I think you have a very singolar idea of what "business" it mean... but i respect you.

A'm sure you are running your own as well as possible, but we are talking about something different...

I walked inside there (TCO) to ask for repair my glasses, of course not for free, of course thinking they do theyr job (don't be surprised if i say i was quiet expecting they say no, just because my previous experience with them ok?).

But simply they don't do... because they just look for to sell, nothing more. Not any assistance tho those who are not "customers", and not any assistance to the customers with "expired" warrant (singolar not?), not even payng.

And this talk very clearly about wich kind of serious company they are...

I will never buy something more there, because they do not deserve and because they are overpriced also offering bad products.

To stay on the market, running a business, for me it mean something different, it talk about caring about the Customer (where Customer is also the one who enter looking for assistance, not just for to buy), looking for him coming back, not running away. Expecially on those days...

We are not talking about Ferrari vendors, or Rolex as well... just an optical shop (this show the label),

And if an optical shop doesn't offert this kind of service it worth to close.

We hope this will be everywhere...

as we hope it will be just the start, in every field.

From beaches to restaurants, from transportation to services, from traffic to building...

They need rules a lot, but mostly someone who teach them to follow rules as well

I hope this is the right place to ask for...

From years we used to go in Ngwan Lee Restaurant, a chinese/thai located on the corner between Soi Langsuan and Lumpini.

A frien told us it was closed, making us really surprised.

Passing from Bkk last week we seen the restaurant doesn't exist more and they are building something...

Do someone knows this restaurant and knows if they move somewhere else?

Thank you so much,

ciocco

As you can see there is a lot of shadow and sheltered space now... the same was occupied by that illegal business they clean.

To those who are afraid by the sun, look how many place under the trees... of course no one noticed before, but just before there was chicken cages called restaurants...

Now looks like a normal beach have to look, also for thais and also in thailand.

Was 66 (SIXTIESIX!!!) business cleaned up... i never imagined a so high number... and this show how serious this matter it was.

Go to find a legal job now,

or in the jail if they try to do it again.

because a better Thailand could exist!

Dont see the problem , why should they fix them ?

There a retailer not a repair shop.

They didnt sell them so its up to them.

Guess theyve lost you as a customer but then again they didnt have you as one anyway as you chose to buy your glasses elsewhere anyway before

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No problem for me also...

in my behaviour a serious optical shop does not just sell glasses, but also make repair.

Why, for me,  they are not serious i already evalued from my previous experience with them, wasting my money for a pair of glasses they was not able to do in the right way (after a few minutes you wear it you start to loose your visual, checked in europe they told me they used junky lenses and wrong focal calculation...).

THIS is why they do not have me as a customer

It's just to advise people out there that it's possible to find better shops, as i done.

Happy also to know if someone was happy with them of course.

Lots of responses and as usual many idiotic.

Some follow on points. The beach at Khao Takiab runs from "chopstick" mountain to Khao Tao and is about 8km long. The section with the chairs and vendors is about 500 meters. So anyone who wants to sit on a towel in the sand has plenty of beach...... Next point, many Thai tourists come there. Thai's don't like to sit in the sun. Next point for the imbeciles who suggest bringing your own chair, umbrella etc. that is an option if you live here (but still a pain). In high season there are hundreds of European and other western tourists who come. What about them? Most stay in a condo or hotel in walking distance and don't use a car. They all want a chair and umbrella (in December/January every one is taken) and have come to expect that they will be available. Tourism is the life blood of Hua Hin and why would the army now take away things the tourists enjoy. Next point is about the horses. Every one of the jockies carries plastic bags and immediately scoops up the shit when their horse does it. Rarely have I seen horse shit on the beach. Last point again the vendors at K Tabiab are not mafia thugs. Each one is a very friendly Thai who have made a living from the beach. In addition to the chair vendors there are many massage ladies, roving food vendors and others who will now be put out of business. Very few posts show any sympathy for them. How nice of you all. Perhaps they are all there illegally, but it has been tollerated for years. Let the NCPO and army clean up the larrge scale corruption which is costing the country billions every year. Leave the little guy alone!!!!

To write who think differently is an idiot does not make you smarter...

About the chairs... what it mean they has been tollerated for years? Does this make the difference? Illegal it was, illegal it is, or not?

Yes, true, Thailand have bigger problems than this, but looks like the wind start to change... or, at least, i hope this... from some where they have to start, they done with taxis and tuk tuk, now with beach workers, may be one a day with sex workers... whats wrong?

Or it is the usual behaviour "not in my garden"?

Nothing against the people who runned illegal business on the beach till tomorrow, but it's time for them to enter in the legal society, and with all the taxes they skipped to pay in tha past, they could pay for a regular license as well.

Thailand is a country we all love,

but please do not lie ourself...

Is a kind of zoo where everything is allowed or not allowed depending on who you are.

Militars seems to be the only one who started a cleaning process, where cleaning it mean try (TRY!) to change this society...

To loose our chairs on the beach could be a wortable price to pay, if this will be really the start of a long process who have to involve all the business and common life, expecially on the roads.

Yesterday i seen a policeman making a fee to a car parked in "thai style" in Chomsin road, first time i ever seen something similar in town, hope this will happen daily and everywhere. Because thousand of people die every year on the roads, driving without license, without insurances, or drunk or... The only one thing they care it's money, so they have to start from there. They will learn and improve itself really fast, want to bid? Just have to be for real, not just a make up policy.

Because Thailand want to stay in Asean Group, but to do this they have to change a lot, and those mans wearing uniforms looks like the only one who can help on this...

We will see if a temporary fire or a long term behaviour...

A good solution (also very easy and fast to be realized) should be to build two pay toll stations, one on Route 4 after the intersection who lead to Cha-Am/Hua-Hin, and the other one after Pranburi on the same intersection who lead to Hua-Hin/Cha.Am.

This to make people driving on Route 4 from Bkk to south or viceversa do not enter Hua Hin if they don't need... a fee of 100 thb could be enough to convince people to skip the city, or at least will makes money to be invested into traffic/circulation matter.

But is a kind of dream because they will not think at this as a solution, but ust as a loose of money for locals business

Hello guys, a'm back for a while, hope you are well.

We tryed tonight an Italian Pizza Restaurant, opened on last January, so... new for us.

The name is Nai Lert Park, at 63 Petchkasem Road, just before Marrakesh Condo on the main road coming from the center.

No particular advertise outside, the hotel it's still building and they ust open the restaurant.

Beach side, nice interiors, white colours, in a centenary building they restyled.

We already met the Chef in the past, he owned a pizza take away in Chomsin Road on a sharpe curve i always asked myself how could work being there. But pizza was good...

This is a new location and we went there to test the kitchen ;-)

Short menu (8 pizzas, 5 pastas, 6 appetizers, a few specials.

No Thai Food (i guess this is a real mistake considering farang's ladies) but my wife she likes pizza.

Good ingredients, good pizza (thin but not too much, well cooked, generous seasoning).

We tryed chicken liver patè (good, french style, with toasted bread and pickled veg), Eggplants Parmigiana (good also if little different from original), Pizza Margherita (with extra anchovies, very good with fresh basil and good tomato), Pizza with ham (good, with sweet Parma Ham put on pizza after exit by the oven).

No woodfired, electric oven.

Not cheap, but quality food we doesn't expect too cheap.

450 thb for pizza (any style), 60 thb extra anchovies (very good quality), 120 thb for chicken liver patè, i forgot the price of eggplants.

A place we liked and we can raccomand,

The main reason that urine does work is because of the ammonia in it. You are much better off if you can find a bottle of pure ammonia to keep in your first aid kit. I speak from experience...I was stung ny a Portuguese Man O-War...Agonizing pain....the big help was at the hospital, they poured ammonia all over my back and then a very hard scrub to remove the stingers still in there. After that it was a long soak in a hot whirlpool. no scars or anything...The scars happen when people wait too long to go to the Dr. and it gets infected. Safe swimming out there guys.

This article suggests:

"Bluebottle" aka portuguese Man'o War are not jellyfish and that a victim should flush the sting with sea water, not fresh water or vinegar, as is the case with jellyfish.

http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-swimmers-warned-to-beware-portuguese-men-o-war-47031.php

Seems to contradict many of the posts here.

It doesn't contradict read the last line

You need to include cut&paste in order for me to know what to respond.

I pasted the last line in my comment.

The poster I responded to indicated he was stung by a Portuguese Man-o-War and received a vinegar wash at the hospital. I pasted a news article that indicates the proper treatment is not vinegar.

Also because if winegar could be a reasonable first aid by common people... looks really a poor way inside an hospital...

The main reason that urine does work is because of the ammonia in it. You are much better off if you can find a bottle of pure ammonia to keep in your first aid kit. I speak from experience...I was stung ny a Portuguese Man O-War...Agonizing pain....the big help was at the hospital, they poured ammonia all over my back and then a very hard scrub to remove the stingers still in there. After that it was a long soak in a hot whirlpool. no scars or anything...The scars happen when people wait too long to go to the Dr. and it gets infected. Safe swimming out there guys.

This are the kind of metropolitan legends who can make people regrett for long time to believe it.

Same legend talk about to put sand on...

If you ask to every one Doctor about urin or amoniac probably you will see them laughting...

Please do not put urine on fresh jellyfish injuries if you don't want to risk also a bad infection.

Also amoniac is not safe to be used, expecially if pure because it hurt, but for sure less dangerous than urine.

In the hospitals, nowaday, usually they put alumium salt on the fresh injuries.

If you applied sand or urine better to net immediately and everyday with betadine and to take an antistaminic for a few days, then a cream like Rilastil.

The better firts aid is the winegar, if available (Australian Coast Guard keep buoys with winegars as first aid all along the coasts).

Hot water can be used to clean the part taking away stingers, but you need a good experience into doing this because the risk is to release more poison and should be better to leave a doctor doing this rather than to do worse.

Umh... could be they planned the schedule thinking to people from Bangkok who use to spend the weekend in Hua HIn... for them could be good... arriving at dinner time on friday and being back on dinner time again in sunday...

If this will help the street traffic, welcome!

Agree it is kitsch, but the drive there throught some lush country roads is well worth it and kids love it. Dont take life so seriously.

I think that if someone looks to make money offering this kind of "amusement" park as minimum have to spend a few money and time to share culture with the Customers giving the rights informations...

If you put a windmill in a place so called "Swiss farm" you are offending the Q.I. of a lot of people, as first of the Customers, and last but not least of Swiss people...

Also they loose a very good opportunity to do things in the right way, but am not so surprised about this because mostly of farang names and brands are wrong, from menus to titles, from brands to sentences (famous the "Sirocco" at Lebua Bangkok...)

Is not "taking life so seriously" it's more "living happy and polite"

It's like in Bangkok... never been at Terminal 21?

In the basement they have builded a kind of "old Rome set"... well, no one (no one, i checked) of the streets name they wrote on the walls are correct... this show a very low level of caring about details who do not give any pride and make people "who know" laugthing...

Do not misunderstand, i love thais and thailand, but this kind of place make me mad.

Fakes are fakes, also if you born and grow up in Los...

Kids will love everything you will tech them, expecially if serious, polite ena "real" (who it don't mean you have to fly Zurich... just avoid fakes...).

I know is a big success. but leave me thinking this do not make thai people have a good reputation talking about this kind of things...

Look like Thais loves fakes...

Nothing new, i know... but the success this kind of parks are having sounds really strange, or... more than strange... out of mind

Ok, never being is Switzerland could help... but... but... a windmill??? And sheeps insted cows???

If people lack of geografy and general culture i can also understand... but what about the company who build it? same same?

But it's the same all over... mistakes on names and brands... a lot of confusion about history...

Mah... amazing Thailand

Most Big C supermarkets stock fresh mozz along with all the other cheeses. I suggest you taking a look at the plastic containers in the cheese sections. I usually pick up Caroline brand fresh mozzarella (http://www.carolinecheese.com/webpage/fresh_product.html), which is about 80 or 90 baht for 100g. It's made by a Thai producer, so the taste isn't very rich, but it's fine for caprese salad or on a pizza magherita. Hope that helps.

One question, if i can...

which is the reason who make people buyng something like the product you described?

"taste isn't very rich...!

and if taste is like you described... why use it for to prepare a Caprese...?

I mean... Caprese have just two ingredients... Mozzarella and Tomatoes... if one isn't fine... what do you eat for what?

Curious, just curious...

^ I'm glad you enjoyed it Claudio. It is still one of our regulars as the Missus and I have lunch there at least once a week.

By the way, the place directly next door appears to have some good food as well. I've never eaten in because it's like sitting in someones carport, but I've ordered take-out of both the BBQ pork ribs and the Chicken Quesadilla which were both some of the best I've ever had. Their menu includes European, Mexican, and Thai food, open lunch, dinner, and maybe even breakfast.

Just further than that in the same direction on the corner of Soi 94 is a new Pizza place. It was an Italian place for a while but he has expanded to double his former space and installed a genuine wood fired pizza oven. I've eaten pasta and other Italian dishes there before and they were good but I haven't tried the pizza yet, opens at 1 p.m. but be aware that it takes a several hours for the wood fired pizza oven to get up to the necessary temperature and when I went to try one at 1 p.m. last week he told me the oven wouldn't be ready for another hour.

The place next door do not just seems a carport, i thought it was a carport... yesterday night they was working on a table making a terrible noise (it was the only one thing who disturbed us there...) but... but... i understand that during day it's too hot... but wait for dinner time is not so smart...

The italian Pizza place i know the ownwer by another Facebook group, i still have to try it, i know they invest a lot in the past months to build the new wood fire oven... i'll try before to leave.

Also i was curious about the other italian named Olivo just a few meters before... but my problem is that i cook a lot italian at home so that honestly i prefer to taste something different once out of home...

A couple of days ago I went to a newish restaurant just off Soi 94 for lunch called Khorat Kitchen and it is a very good new addition to the local restaurant scene. The food was excellent, prices were very reasonable and service was good. They offer Thai food with an emphasis on Issan fare and a very good selection of western food.

There were two of us for lunch and my friend and I both had food from the western section of the menu and were both very pleased with the main, side dishes and sauces. I also took home a couple of Thai dishes for the missus and she said they were good enough for a return visit. I don't know if it was just the one they handed me or if they are all like that, but the Thai food section of the menu was only in Thai language while the western food section was in English. There are lots of photos though so I just ordered the ones I knew my wife likes from those. I had the pork fillets with Bearnaise sauce and it was an excellent dish.

It's located about 150 meters off soi 94. It's next door to a restaurant whose sign says they have Thai, European, and "Maxican" food. I've been meaning to try that one but haven't made it there yet.

To get there go up 94 and turn left on the next major cross street above the railroad tracks (maybe 500 meters after the RR). It's the soi that crosses 94 just after the Amara Inn. The soi makes a slight turn to the left about 100 meters in and then you'll see the "Maxican" place followed by Khorat Kitchen immediately after.

Thank you hhfarang,once again your tips about restaurant are preciosus.

We tryed Korat Kitchen this evening, and honestly i have to say that without your review i'll probably never entered/find this place...

I was a little suspicious reading the menu... a lot of farang food with important titles... but was really good indeed.

I tryed a beef strogonoff with mashed and adjusting with a little salt and pepper was good enough, and also mashed it was as jack potato also. My wife she tryed a couple of Isaan plates, others a tuna salad, others pad kaprao mu.

Being in 4 more the baby, just 715 thb... really honest for the quality.

A place to be back.

Thanks,

Claudio

Ptt vice president just talked... he say Ao Prao it's already fine... beach and stones cleaned up and water lopks crystalline.

How can a men be so stupid and go to television to tell such kind of bullshits in front of millions people remaining untouched???

So much lack of respect for thai and foreigner sayng this things...

What they gonna do with those thousands of plastic bags with oil etc. ? They gonna dump them on a random place in the nature were are no camera's or what ?

The problem it's how they are doing the cleaning... not what they will do with that rubbish... take a look to the news channels, and let me know if you do not feel unconfortable looking them operating in that way...

Honestly, looking the few different television channels showing the "cleaning" in Samet i cannot realize if it's more tragic or ridicolus... people filling bins with water and oil with bins falling continuely and rolling on the waves mote... others moving barrers uo and down for nothing... others more taking out the sand with toys...

Did you seen the same imagines?

Poor Samet, poor Thailand...

Quackers, I appreciate that note but we actually see this as a positive feature. The hotel has a "shuttle service" that takes guests to the night market/city center. Since the hotel is where we are going to sleep & relax, we would rather this be further from the center and closer to the nicer beaches. We are also considering visiting the Pala-U Waterfall and Khao Tao, and this may be possible through the hotel's "tours service" they have listed. Is the area around HH Ibis otherwise bad in your opinion?

The Ibis hotels are only good for sleep and not for spending any further time in. The location of Ibis HH is between the Centre and koh Takiab. If you are happy waiting for the shuttle service every time you want to go somewhere then OK. If you go to the bars/restaurants in the centre each night then you have a 200 baht Tuk Tuk drive home, Hua Hin centre is busy with people walking around and going to restaurants at night but it is gets quiet around 11/12 and only the soi bintabaht area has noise (not too loud) up to 2am.

Koh Takiab is not a nicer beach then Hua Hin but it has more restaurants on the beach front and the Anantasila Hotel is a nice place for lunch/dinner.

There are many tour shops which will do trips to Pala-U (nice waterfalls and about 1 hour from centre) and koh tao (nothing much there).

There is a small shopping mall near the centre (Market Village) and there is a wine shop at the entrance. The wine shop can arrange trips to their vineyard (that's if you like wine)

If you want an English Sunday roast then the best place is Palm Bistro (usually need to book)

ps. August is during rain season so the beaches are empty

Just to add to your good description a few tips

Walking 2 minutes in Kao Takiab direction you'll find Hyatt Hotel, in front of it (on the same land) they make a not-too-bad night market weekly (Cikada Market) with food street and so on.

Crossing the street from Hyatt, and walking 3 more minutes in Kao Takiab direction you'll find Wilawain, a very nice (for us) place for greakfast/snacks/bakery/cafè...