Ciocco

And how much spaghetti for 10 people? I am at a total loss.I am talking about the package.

IMO 100gr is a regular portion, spaghetti is the paste version who weight more...

If for myself i use at least 125/150gr but am big guy abd for thais could be enough also the 75 suggested

a small piece of butter before to serve is not too bad also... make everything more gentle...

Tomato sauce is the basic of italian cooking... ready in 5 minutes as well, and just a few ingredients.

For 10 people i suggest:

- 2 kg of fresh red tomatoes

- 2 or 3 garlic cloves

- fresh basil (not the thai one)-

- extra virgin olive oil, half a glass

- salt, pepper

Take out the skin dipping tomatoes for a minute in boiling water (a few per time, not all togheter).

Chop it in small cunes.

In a large pan make the oil warm and add the chopped garlic (also 1 clove could be enough if you prefer to stay light). Once golden add some fresh basil and immediately add the tomatoes cubes.

Make it boling with strong fire for a few minutes, adjust with salt and pepper (sugar if tomatoes are little acid, chili pepper if you like spicy, origan or similar at your choice).

Cook pasta "al dente" and put in large pan with the sauce, continue cooking for 1 or 2 minutes so that sauce season pasta as well as possible.

Serve with some fresh basil on top and a few drops of raw olive oil.

Buon appetito

Salmonella is not a kind of thing to be undervalued. potential risk is in all (ALL) raw eggs, it don't count if extensive farm or the friendly old farmer, also having a chicken on the terrace you will risk the same...

In Europe is forbitten to wash eggs not because they loose "the protection" (??) but because is easy to contaminate the egg from the shell who is porouse.

Haccp procedures allowed to store eggs in normal shelter in the markets and Gdo, but have to be stored in a fridge (separate from other foods) once buyed (talking about restaurants).

Same procedures do not allowed to use raw eggs in pastry shops as well in ice cream production, just pastorized.

At home you can choose.

If i don't remember wrong a few years ago studies show that about 1/3 of the eggs coulb be infected by salmonella on the shell, being salmonella living and rasing very well in the hens feces. This of course do not mean 1/3 of eggs are contamined, but simply that could be contamined if not handled in the right way.

Salmonella is thermolabile, so very easy to solve the problem cooking the eggs.

Everyone is free to get the risk he is ready to care on, but better do not take with risk with kids, pregnant women or elder people.

I know personally a girl who take a very bad sickness having eaten a Tiramisu made with raw eggs in a party... she start with a salomellonis that she undervalue, getting a EpatiteA and getting worse going near to loose the liver. She made a very long and difficoult suit to the restaurant, winning after about 6 years fighting. She got a lot of money, but she never felt better and she still have a lot of problems for that incident.

Potentially risks are in all poultry meats...

Do it worth?

Really tough making mayonnaise with boiled eggs

Living is dangerous - everybody die from it sooner or later.

Of course not... but if me or you we have to make mayonnaise for ourself it is a risk we can afford... not a good idea to do this in a restaurant serving others.

In a restaurant i prefer to use a good quality mayonnaise prepared with pastourized eggs, i know... less taste... but safer (expecially considering mayonnaise like a sauce who stay long time around, different from the home made done and eaten).

About living is dangerous.. i agre... but looking to the gal i wrote... am sure she is not so happy

We likes to go at Nicha on Chomsin Road, is close to the Old Buffalo on the corner, near to the beachfront.

Clean, not overpriced, professionals.

They also use to babysitting our infant if they can do, and Elisa she looks very happy about this

Salmonella is not a kind of thing to be undervalued. potential risk is in all (ALL) raw eggs, it don't count if extensive farm or the friendly old farmer, also having a chicken on the terrace you will risk the same...

In Europe is forbitten to wash eggs not because they loose "the protection" (??) but because is easy to contaminate the egg from the shell who is porouse.

Haccp procedures allowed to store eggs in normal shelter in the markets and Gdo, but have to be stored in a fridge (separate from other foods) once buyed (talking about restaurants).

Same procedures do not allowed to use raw eggs in pastry shops as well in ice cream production, just pastorized.

At home you can choose.

If i don't remember wrong a few years ago studies show that about 1/3 of the eggs coulb be infected by salmonella on the shell, being salmonella living and rasing very well in the hens feces. This of course do not mean 1/3 of eggs are contamined, but simply that could be contamined if not handled in the right way.

Salmonella is thermolabile, so very easy to solve the problem cooking the eggs.

Everyone is free to get the risk he is ready to care on, but better do not take with risk with kids, pregnant women or elder people.

I know personally a girl who take a very bad sickness having eaten a Tiramisu made with raw eggs in a party... she start with a salomellonis that she undervalue, getting a EpatiteA and getting worse going near to loose the liver. She made a very long and difficoult suit to the restaurant, winning after about 6 years fighting. She got a lot of money, but she never felt better and she still have a lot of problems for that incident.

Potentially risks are in all poultry meats...

Do it worth?

Agree with the comments about Grandma's papaya salad restaurant, used to go there all the time, then it changed to Cool Kitchen, then closed down.

The lady who owned and operated Grandma's Papaya Salad (Tik) when it was good has opened a new place (about 3 months ago) on Soi 112. It's on the left side a little over a kilometer up from Petchkasem road and it's called "Tiks". It's an open air Thai style place and she has both Issan food and some western food on the menu, and still some of the best Somtam (papaya salad) around in several varieties. Very cheap and good food.

This is a great news for me who am just come back...!!!

Hope Khun Tik still there, we'll go to try asap!

I seen the pictures on theyr FB page...

The size is too big for a person... i mean... not a problem into eat a 2 kilo's burger (if good meat and cooked in the proper way... not easy but if big eater not impossible...) but they put too much bread and seasonings... more than a stomach can keep... look at the pictures... and for sure the rules ask to eat all...

Just a way to make advertise...

Just bought nutmeg and grated Parmesean at Villa, Cheese can be bought in can, (Kraft), or by the wedge, and the Villa on S

ucumvit 33 has a large selection of spices

Kraft Parmesan??? May i laught?

How could they call that powder Parmesan?

Not sure about the fish massage,being dangerous ?

Any views ?

Here in Italy was a kind of fashion a few years ago, but after a few time the local health autorities stopped this practice sayng it was potentially dangerous because the high bacteric charge in the water (fishes lives there eating and...) could infect small injuries...

Is not my job so i can only report what i heard... but i don't like also

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We too we use to go in Nicha at Chomsin Road! Always happy about.

After 4 years in Hua Hin and having tryed a lot os Spa's (from Anantara to the street shops) i think Nicha is the best valued spa in Hua Hin, talking of street shops, clean, professional terapists, simpatic and smiling.

Of course is not luxury leveled like Anantara, but it cost ten time less :jap:

This august we went there 3-4 time per week and they used to make discount being there so often. We appreciated very much of course.

Also they was really very kind with our baby, always babysitting her during our stayng.

Our favourite massage is the feet massage 1,5 hour (who include 1 hour feet massage and half an hour back and shoulders massage), i think priced at 500 thb.

Last week they put outside of the door two big water pools with thousand of little fishes for "fish massage", onestly i don't like this and also i think is potentially dangerous... but seems to attract people.

Next time i'll try the one you talked :jap:

:jap:

I opened my account in Ayudhya Bank four years ago using just my passport.

I was asked to provide an address for the mailing and we used the one of the apt we rentals.

Easy and fast...

Rules here are very different, if for example you have to move money from here to bangkok you have to pay a fee bcz different province... best way remain internet banking.

:jap:

I think Vegemite stay to Australian people like Durian stay to Thai people

every one people have "memory food" that not always is good for others...

:jap:

I bought the frozen one in Villa, was good.

Also i tryed to find it somewhere else, but everywhere they look me as an alien... expecially in the fresh market

I also asked at MK where do they buy but the suppliers are in Bkk... of course.

:jap:

If you think it is bad now imagine what it will be like when there are high-speed trains doing +/- 150 kph and people will STILL try to beat the trains.

Before they will have hi-speed trains we will be all passed away...

no problem so...

:jap:

I think that they will have to raise all the trackbeds by at least a metre to get over the flooding every year.

Hi speed needs for a dedicated railway... honestly it don't seems thailand it's ready for this... they still have stone age trains running...

and as you well wrote they first have to safe all the lines... it could ask for 10 years working... am not sure they will do at all...

:jap:

If you think it is bad now imagine what it will be like when there are high-speed trains doing +/- 150 kph and people will STILL try to beat the trains.

Before they will have hi-speed trains we will be all passed away...

no problem so...

:jap:

I guess it was because the long weekend who combined Mom day with the weekend, having a lot of Bangkok's people coming here as each weekend...

The biggest problem for me it looks the non-sense traffic limitation that police sometime act.

For example, if you arrive in town from Chomsin they do not allowed to go strait or turn right, you can just go left to Cha Am direction... really crazy because everyone needs to make a u-turn ahead, making traffic more problematic...

Just stay on the traffic light and stop the traffic if the crossing is full, this will be enough to avoid more problems (because we know that everyone enter the crossing also if already full, remaining there to block others once red...).

Or u-turn arrangment on the main roads with plastic cones? Mah...

:jap:

Believe me, i never thought they called it Maldives because they want to cook maldivian style

labelling and giving name to places here have often no one reasonable explication...

:jap:

ps

howevere it don't worth the money

We just spent a dinner there.

The place will not see me going back.

Ambient isn't too bad, a kind of cement garden with a few trees. Lot of tables but at 9 on saturday dinner just a few was occupied.

Plenty of waiters and waitresses, but service is really to improve (i asked for a lime juice with soda, first they bring me a soda with two lime slices, after a glass of lime juice...).

My menu was different from the one of my wife... on mine i have two pages with a lot of "farang proposals" like lobsters, jumbo prawns, t-bones etc etc, but no price on that first two pages... Honestly it sound not so nice... like a tourist trap... may be was a mistake but am used to think bad in this situation.

The simpatic waitress insisted a lot for to offer me a t-bone, or thai meat she say it was really good... insisting little bit too much.

Whe ordered a kao pad kung, a tom juud, garlic squid, chicken wings, som-tam, a plate of sliced seasoned pork, a fish with erbs and a portion of mashed potatoes. We just drink singha water and my lemonade.

Kao pad was right good, tom juud also not bad, garlic squid was so-so with too much oil, chicken wings (we asked very crispy) was crispy outside but still little bloody inside , som-tam was good, the fish also.

Mashed potatoes was "ashamed potatoes" ... :realangry:really bad, completely cold, wet and covered by a curry sauce no one asked for.

Portions was quiete small.

Drinking just water,

1060 thb... onestly too much for what we had...

:jap:

Oh, dear me. there is no such thing as good and bad in Thailand.As in any other country Everything here ,is bad -Or hadn't you noticed? I have only lived since 1989, yes ,I plead guilty ,I am a "Johnny Come Lately"But yes, I have NO intention of leaving. Luckily ,I am a "little bit long in the tooth". Happy days are here again. Where I live ,no security problems. Often forget to put a lock on the door

Am happy you feel so safe,

honestly i cannot say the same... i mean, am not fearing nothing, but just let me say that things looks different as 7 years ago on my first coming...

Living here just a few months per year of course i cannot have a complete point of view, but am seeing lot of little things who make me alerted...Me too am not intentioned to move away, but actually i feel less sure than years ago.

To know is not different from other countries do not make me more happy, because years ago i came here and it was different.

just my 5 cents, of course.

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They have also allowed the weeds to grow to a two meter height at that particular crossing on Soi 94 where the accident was. There is no way to see if a train is coming or not as your view is blocked by the vegetation. I stop, turn off any music, and roll down the windows to listen for a train coming. That crossing, and one in Takiab (Soi 91) are very dangerous as I've lost three friends on them myself in the last eight years.

As for deaths in this one, I heard a young child was killed instantly and the Mother was not expected to live.

True,

passing there i seen better and non signakls at all, just a "give way" signal...

Am little surprised of how also Hua Hin is changing, and not always in good way...

Robber in our house two weeks ago, ok, they arrested the thiefs... always finit well.

But yesterday i noticed that 2 of our friends from holland was attacked by someone rididng a motorbike while they was biking home at night time on the way fron Petchakasem to Horizon ( ok, this street have not so much lights... but is the one they need to use to go home).

They arrive by motorbike near to them and they kick a wheel making them falling down, one after the other in a few seconds.

I didn't really understand if they stole something or not, because we just talk with them by phone once they already gone back europe, but the guy needed to go hospital for having scraves on harms and legs. Luckly the wife she was ok...

So, what's going on?

Do we have to be resigned to this?

:jap:

One hour ago we was sitted at Minifarm Restaurant for breakfast, looking the train passing on the near railway.

From there it's very easy to ear the alarm signal of the near railway crossing, and also the train who use to ring the bell continuely when crossing the city and leaving/approaching the station.

After a while we ear an ambulance passing from the other side, going south.

We leave from Minifarm to go Tesco passing from the next railway crossing (the one back to Market Village) and arriving there we seen a lot of confusion, i thought there was a kind of street market at the start, but seeing a lot of Police cars i suspected something happens, then we seen also the ambulance and someone walking on the railway with the portable bed... the train was stopped a few hundred meters south.

They say the train catch a car and bring it 300mt away in front of it.

We don't know if someone die or just injured...

I know is not the first time... for sure nore the last one...

The only one crossing with barrers look the one on Chomsin, and also there people make like a contest tryng to pass when signal is ringing and barrers going down... what a kind of stupid suicide game is this?

Ok, i know Thai's don't like to follow rules so much... but this is really crazy...

May be the people in the car this morning was listening the radio so loud do not ear the signal?

Or just they think to ne smarter than the train? Boh...

For sure we have to be very awake when approaching the railway here...

:jap:

Good reasonably priced Thai (and some international) food:

Minifarm Kitchen on Soi 88 beside 7/11 just across the railroad tracks and turn right.

cut...

Went there yesterday,

good food, friendly service, well priced.

The menu is really huge,

Kao Pad Kung was good, same as Pla Nung Buoi and Tom Jeeb.

Most of plates are priced around 90-100 thb, 200 for soft crab portion.

We will return for sure,

ciocco

Because of the alkalinity of vinegar it will help but it will make you stink.

...and piss doesn't?

In my years of scuba diving I used the piss method for urchin wounds (to dissolve the spine left behind) but didn't know it worked with jellyfish stings, which is what the do by the way, they don't bite. They have stinging cells in their tentacles and the stings result in brushing against those tentacles. Your second wound probably occurred because when you jumped or exited the water fast, you went in the direction of the jelly and brushed against it again.

I also ear piss it could works...

but could be very unconfortable if you don't have it bottled before... (not so nice to bring in the bag...)

and i don't dare to think what could happen on the beach if a policeman pass there while you decided to use the "fresh" one

at the end winegar is better, and avoid to be jailed

:jap:

What a sadness alina...

If you want to find a bad way everywhere for sure you will...

common places...

metropolitan legends...

to be sure everyone is the same of others...

such a bad feeling.

I use to say who do bad, think bad... sorry...

i wish you to meet better people in the future, may be you will change your mind.

:jap: