RamdomChances

what a bunch of moaning minnies... jeez, what are you all doing in Thailand if you don't like Thai food? you could live there for 10 years and eat something different every single day, it's not as if there's no choice... and as for being ill, the only time i have ever had food poisoning in Thailand is from eating at Pizza Hut

I think you may be missing the point a bit, a lot of the posts here are from people that live in thailand, but away from the main tourist/falang areas. I personely eat thai food everyday, my wife and mother in are good cooks, we have good meat, fresh fish, veg, rice.

Its not for some people and it still does not stop you craving for a good steak sometimes. My nearest supermarket is 70 km away and that carries a minimul supply of falang food, so when I go to BKK I usually head for a good steak and try and stock up on supplies, so as for "it's not as if there's no choice", for many of us there are'nt!!

Yea, you can still drive across the dam, but forget being alone, there's a market there, resteraunts, its pretty busy, its also The place to go for the local thais on songram, its hectic there then, and they have a stall there doing the best Roti's i've tasted.

Is this turning into a private chat room, never mind there's no one else here!!!

I always thought Grits were small furry animals!!!! whats a Scapple?

Tak Fa is just off highway 11, this is still mostly a two lane, used heavily in the nights buy busses going up to Phichit and Phitsanulok, many times I've been driving back up in the night ot be confrounted by a large buss coming towards me in my lane, at least the hard shoulder is wider now!!

I like Chinat, and its only half hour, infact off there now.

Cheers

Up here Macro is about the best, fresh milk, bread, Somtines they have the big 4kg blocks of anchor chedder (about 500bht), always have big blocks of Motzarella(but it tastes like plastic), sometimes even have imported frozen lamb, but cant bring myself to pay 700bht for a leg!!

For those of you who live "upcountry" like me 7-11 stocks unsweetened bread and fresh milk, ours does anyway, if it does'nt ask the manager if you but it regularly they should get it in, mine did.

I've been to a Foodland in Bkk and found them pretty good as well went to the one in Lat Prow, my friend lives near there, even got some dried oregano and pizza herb mix (my wife makes a cracking pizza)

I'll have a look at that place on soi 71 next time i'm in BKK, never been to Carrefour either, but I like blue cheese so I'll have a look next time.

I was talking to a thai friend of mine before about lamb, and he said he could get some for me no prob, ok I thought I'll give it a try! about 3 days later he turns up with two live lambs on the back of the pickup (should of known really). they we're so cute I nearly did'nt eat them!! still tough though and not as much meat.

Anyway thanks for the replies

As an off shoot from "Can't Eat Thai Food, And I'm constantly hungry", where do you but your falang food, I'm not talking about resteraunts, but ingredients, here's a few I'd like to find:- hinez baked beans, beef oxo, mature chedder, blue cheese, hams, salami, real sauges,LAMB.

There is an excellent deli in Patong near the Blue Elephant bar, and I know off a good place in Jomtien for pies, sauges I think it called "Yorkies or Porkies" on the beach road, what about BKK and the rest of the country.

I'm in Nakhorn Sawan, cant get s##t here even Big C, and Macro have very limited selections, I'm out and about often so I could stock up!!

Cheers

Do you have any cooking facilities?

If so get yourself to a supermarket, of local market and by some potatos, carrots that sort of thing. Meat esp chicken and pork are avalible every where, and even the local beef is ok if you casserole or stew it.

If you have'nt got an oven, just chuck some chicken and veg in a sausepan and make a stew.

Oh and one know where to buy beef stock cubes.

I find the rice ok but tend to get a craving for large slabs of meat,

esp Lamb mmmmm!!

If you are in Lopburi you probably drive past if you go to Chinat, i'm in Tak Fa about 25 km from Takli/Takhli, its about 45min to nakhorn and 1hr to Lopburi they are supposed to be doing the 4 lane all the way from Chinat to Lopburi.

Yes you are right not many falangs here, used to be a few in Chinat

I mean if you have some lazy dyslexic little retard

Is that how you really spelly "dyslexic", because I am dyslexic and have been trying to look it up in a dictanary, to explaine to my wife why I cant spell things in english when she asks me.

The trouble is if you cant spell it you cant look it up, never thought of putting the "y" after the "d" .

thanks

Just wondering if there are any other falangs living around this area.

I'm in the southern part of Nakhorn, 65 km to Nakhorn, 80 Lopburi, 45 Chinat, if any one knows the old US air force base at Takli i'm not far from there. Maybe if there we're a few of us we could arrange a get together some time.

Cheers

Hi my sisters coming out to see me next month, and she has allready booked a week in Hua Hin at the Hilton.

I will be going down for a week, but cant really see myself paying 4000 bht a night. Any one got any ideas of hotels that are'nt to far from there, for around 1000bht.

Thanks

"Miang consists of steamed leaves (of which plant?)"

I think its wild tea plants

I've been in bars before and been asked to translate letters sent to girls,

they seem genuinly pleased to have got the letter/e-mail, but usually are'nt that interested after the " I'll be back on the......."

I don't live in the city and my nearest "falang" is about 40km away, so I am the only Falang here, maybe this is why I've never seen any?

Johann

Glad you found somone who was right for you, personaly I think it is the woman that counts, and not what country she comes from or what she does/did, if you can make each other happy thats what matters.

I feel sorry for those people who have had bad experiances with women here, but you know the one about man having two brains!! you have to know which to use and when.

Any one that knows please let me know!!!

My question is..... was this a factor in anyones decision to call Thailand home, either conciously or not, and are you feeling better for it?

Bit confused, if its not a concious desision, it must be an unconcious one.

So how do you know if you've made an unconcious desision!!!

"are you feeling beter for it" for what! calling thailand home or making an unconcious/concious desision about living here.

Just a question back if "we find it necessary to impress people of higher social status" what happens if there are'nt any, who do you impress!! and why are you trying to imply that every one in thailand is of a "lower social status"

I'm from Wales if you ask most English men they'd tell you I've taken a step up living here.

Please read by point no.5 again...

why should I be 'bitter' to (all) women?

I am married to a Japanese woman since 1976 now almost 28 years....

You said, you were happy, married 13 years to a foreign woman.....(this means foreign woman by the way? white? Latino? black? American? European? or whoever?)

why did you separate? Or are you widower? and so happy and why did you not marry a foreign woman again? Why did you prefer a Thai woman to follow up?

Your piont no 5 mearly states "5- Out of my own personal bad experiences I do not recommend any relationship with a Western woman, especially from Europe. This does not mean, that I hate all women. Sorry! This is my opinion. Other people might have another opinion" I asked "did somethnig happen", sorry I should have writen "what happened" I also did'nt say that you were bitter to all women.

Falang does'nt mean "foreign woman" Falang usually apply's to white American or European's , and the thread is called Falang women. how did you fare with them.

Anyway she was White and Brithish(as am I), and she died in a car crash, we did'nt have any children.

I did'nt prefer a thai woman, i did'nt activley consider her nationality, I was'nt activley looking for a new wife, maybe if I was living in Britian I would have married a British lady, if I'd met one. As I was living in Thailand there were not that many her to meet!!

Did you activly try to marry a Japanese or did you just meet and things progressed from there?

Its a bit "like serves you right", if you wake up in the morning with a hangover your GF might say "Som Nam Na" cos it was your own fault. thats not the exact translation, but it gives you an idea of the meaning.

I was married to a "falang" woman for 13 years and was very happy. now I am married to a thai (for 3 years) and also very happy.

Maybe I'm just a freak.

Yahon, not accusing you of anything and I think everybody should be able to express thier own opinions, but did something make you this bitter to women?

The legal age of consent in Thailand is 15 (Doc, will you please correct me if it is 16) providing that no money changes hands i.e. having it off with with a prostitue.

As far as I'm aware It is 15 but you have to have the parents consent (and i would imagine the girls), and I thought prostituion was illegal here at all ages.

Does anybody else think that the original post was very big on rhetoric and short of facts, don't know about the Aus press but the english papers are allways looking for a sensational story, that can't be dissproven.

I've never seen any evidence of child prostetution here, but know that it exist, mainly catering to Asian males, maybe I'm blinkerd or not looking in the right places, but then if I was forigen journalist, with money to pay for a good story i'm sure I could find plenty of evidence.

As a relitive newcomer here, just like to say its been discussed, many,many times, maybe it should have its own forum?, and what is "normal"?, people talk about BG like they were a different species or something.

May as well ask are shop assistants better than office workers. They are all people and you have good and bad in all of them, There are many factors that make a relationship work, not just the previuos occupation of the wife/GF.

"up country" 20,000 is plenty, and thats living good (I dont spend this). In the cities, tourist areas, i would of said more like 30,000 to 40,000 depending on your sleeping and drinking arrangments, and which of your brains you use!!

what kind of vaccines if any are you required to do i.e. brucellosis, hoof and mouth, etc;

The only vaccination thet we are required do is for foot and mouth, every 6 months, also a blood check is carried out every six months. I am not aware of any requirment on "notifiable desieses" or for that matter if the local "vets" would be able to spot one! Oh yes I assume that the vaccine is gov sponsored cos its free!!.

what breed of cow produces milk (they all produce milk obviously) for commercial use? the red hump backed cow i saw in thailand, is that for meat milk or both?

The browny/red cows that you usually see are Brahaman crosses (I think) and are for beef, they dont produce very much milk, it just for rearing the calfs. the most comman breed is a Hersian Freasion cross (ie with a bit of Brhaman(thai)), but you get all sorts, jearsy, charelay, all crosses, I've even got some that we're origanally imported from New Zeland, the reasosn for the crossing is that pure bred Hersion Fresions (whitch are the best milkers) dont cope well with the heat and humidity and are very prone to illness and suceptable to the numeraous pariste's here. You can buy imported bull semen to improve you blood line, but due to the low conseption rates here, it gets to be a bit expensive and there is not much point having a cow that will produce 30Kg milk a day pluss if you cant get it pregnate again, its ill all the time or even worst die's. Oh just for info, there are a few farms here now rearing charolay cattle(dont know how to spell it) for beef production, I'm told that you can get a very good price when you sell them. As for speciality milk, dont really know, you would have to find a market for it, although I've heard that the Pizza Company makes its own mozarella here in thailand.

the only 'veterinarians' i met were people like me who know how to inject medication for usual common problems, but none of them were vets, just experienced (or quack) animal husbandry people.

There are "vets" here, the level of competance varies from piss poor to bearly acceptable, the nearest one to me that is any good is in Pitsanuluk, 150km away. we also take students studying to be vets for work experiance on the farm, but there should be gov employed vets in every ampour, with a main office in the jangwat (the Nakon Sawan one is'nt up to much), there are also regeonal offices mine's in Pitsanuluk, where you should fine technicely very good vets but lacking in real world experiance. There are also what I term "para vets" trained in specific things like giving injections, artificall insemination, that sort of thing, often these are actually better that the "vet's", usually they have thier own farms and a lot of experiance, the one here is exelent and is allways ready to help out, often for free, but then his sister and brother-in-law do work for me, also my wifes cousin (describes 95% of village) is the local vet (real vet) and lives about 300m away. Usually minor things, injections and assisting calfing (unless breached) I do myself.

question for the milk cow people

I think I'm the only "milk cow people here" but would love to here from others if there are any??

My bill is around 3500 a month, but thats for my house, 1 aircon (on in night), fand, comp, tv, fridge and all that stuff, a shop, with 1 frezer, 3 fridge, tv and stuff (my motherinlaw lives there) and a dairy farm for 70 head with milking machines, big fans (to keep the cows cool), 2 staff rooms with all the stuff, fridge, tv ect and we pump all our own water.

So yea I think your paying too much, oh dont know if BK is the same but here the more you use the higher the rate.

Picky, but 1 wah = 2m

1 talang wah (square wah)= 4sqm