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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
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cheers,
just googled them and seen they are close to thapae gate. will stop by tomorrow
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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this is strictly legit. well is probably fixed but all above board
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ok. sorry thanks anyway. just the 2 you know of?
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is everywhere now a `rip´for 150 baht any transaction? getting charged 2% from home as well plus 100 baht transaction charge. not good
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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?
English-Thai Translations Of Foods
in Chiang Mai
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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!