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http://www.enjoythaifood.com/talkingmenu/

this talking menu looks useful. will try my thai out tonight and see what i get!

i think the place is called hansa house. it advertises steak coffee with a small sign on Huay Kaew and is at the end of the soi which has tmb bank on the corner in Huay Kaew. i must walk past this place 2 or 3 times a day and have yet to see a customer in there! all the locals seem to go to the place about 20 metres to the left on the corner

cheers,

just googled them and seen they are close to thapae gate. will stop by tomorrow

certainly wasn´t knocking Noi´s as like you say the food is top-notch. will go again for sure next week. maybe i´ll take a garlic bread as well and a glass or two of vino

anyone know a print/copy shop that offers this service and roughly the cost with the ring binder (in this case 275 A4 pages)?

many thanks

after today i can vouch for the thursday special at gecko garden - spaghetti with meatballs and garlic bread for 95B. big plateful of well cooked, tasty food and a nice, fresh orange juice to wash it down. good service too. i will definitely be back soon. noi´s cuisine was mentioned earlier in this thread so i gave that a whirl too. food was nicely presented and tasted great though the spaghetti looked a little lost on the plate compared to in gecko and i left still feeling a bit hungry despite having also devoured the mixed salad

Going back to The What (i probably won´t be!), this was one of the places i was looking forward to visiting after three years away from chiang mai. i remember a nice atmosphere with some decent, alternative sounds but now it seems to be playing the same dross as most of the other bars. i must say the music is one of the main draws for me. anywhere playing bruno mars or this sort of nonsense won´t be seeing much of my money. So, changing slightly from the original thread i would nominate The Small House, not just for the music but a friendly atmosphere to boot. if anyone knows any other places where i can listen to LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeahs Yeahs, Hot Chip, White Stripes, The Kills, Gorillaz, Arcade Fire etc on a regular basis i would like to know.

this is strictly legit. well is probably fixed but all above board

ok. sorry thanks anyway. just the 2 you know of?

is everywhere now a `rip´for 150 baht any transaction? getting charged 2% from home as well plus 100 baht transaction charge. not good

can´t find much info on internet. anyone know if on today and what time is start and finish? a winner would be nice too!

ok. thanks for advice. These re-entry permits can be purchased in advance or paperwork must be done when leaving/entering thailand? if available in advance i imagine i can go to immigration near the airport in chiang mai which is where i am based at the moment

cheers

sorry if this question has been covered before but i would like a definitive answer. i am a UK passport holder who arrived in thailand on oct 28 and my return flight is on mar 9 so i have around 130 days here. i purchased a double entry visa from the Royal Thai consulate in Birmingham before i left the UK so in theory just need to obtain a 15 day extension to add to the first or second block of 60 days to cover me. the question is i would like to visit laos and vietnam while i am here but as it is only a double entry visa then am i somewhat restricted because if for example i go to laos only 30 days into the first block and return a week later then my second period of 60 days starts on the day of return to thailand and in effect i would lose 23 days from the first block. am i missing the point somewhere or is there a way around this?

many thanks

getting thirsty reading this thread! dunkel in o´malleys sounds interesting. what are we talking for half a litre? been here just over 2 weeks now. chang is already a no-go area because of the hangover, singha doesn´t really taste of anything and i feel bloated after just a couple of big bottles, tiger slightly better. at the moment i have switched to leo but not over-impressed. may try to hunt down a lao bar tonight. any suggestions before i head out? think i was spoilt at the beer festival at j j market last saturday. quality

that was much tougher than i thought. riding to doi suthep is the easy bit apart from the last killer hairpin. from then on it gets a lot steeper. i made it to phu ping palace before having to admit defeat. legs were almost gone but the main problem was the saddle on new bike i bought 3 days earlier. mixture of walking and riding to get to the top and then a steady descent to the reservoir because i was physically and mentally tired (bowl of cornflakes not sufficient before tackling this ride). didn´t see the coffee stop. 4hr 30 round trip from santitam. think will be difficult to go all the way to the top without stopping but that is my goal. need a week to recover though!

Ok thanks. i´ll go early so still plenty of daylight if i get lost! will be coming from the city along the canal road. i can always go to reservoir and come back by the trail but where can i pick up the trail at the stadium end? would also like to attempt the climb from the zoo to doi suthep doi pui. don´t really want to cheat getting a songthaew and just riding down! i have a decent level of fitness so is this do-able and if so how long will it take? will probably try to find the trail down to the reservoir

first impressions were that 500 baht was over the top for ten samples although there was a fire show and live bands and they were knocking out half-litres of bitburger at 75 baht towards the end. problem was that some of the super-strong beers are too sickly unless very cold and unless you were speed-drinking you couldn´t get through the ten beer sampler without some of the beers getting warm.

all was quality beer however so no hangover. chang may be cheap but i would prefer to suffer less in the morning and pay a bit extra

was reading the other day on here about an off-road for the mountain bike from 700 year stadium to huay tung tao reservoir. i went to both on the bike yesterday but couldn´t find the start/finish points at either location and signs were non-existent so had to use the canal road. any ideas?