jayenram

Welcome back to the Land where nothing makes sense.

Cheers

For instance, I want to know more about the Thai 'song-a-song' cafe near the elephant stadium!

Yorky has the grils advertising for him now! :D

I'm sure if you search around a bit, you'll find an outlet open.

BTW, it's the law.

At those rates inflation will eat into any savings sitting around for long periods of timelike a school of pirannas!

Archa beer at launch (3 years ago approx) = Bht 280.00/case

Archa beer, 3 months later = Bht 300.00/case

Archa beer, last week = Bht 230.00/case

However, I can understand your point when considering fuel prices.

2.25% on a time deposit account with Kasikorn Bank. Less 15% withholding tax.

In order for the fill to settle and compact naturally it is best to wait for several months before starting construction. If you plan to start construction right away, then suggest you consider hiring a contractor to do compacting as the fill is put in.

I would personally recommend not commencing construction until the fill has been down for at least one rainy season.

A friend here took his builder's advice and allowed construction to commence virtually immediately after filling (ignoring the advice of other farangs). The house has settled substantially and cracks have appeared throughout, some as much as 10 mm wide.

Surin is a nice place to go for a snooze.

Sounds like it dosent it ,. how anyone that has lived in ( some sort of ) civiisation can stay there is beyond me !

Are we referring here to Pattaya?

The situation at present is that we now have the chanot for 3.5 rai of land.

That's a fair size piece of land. I have 1 rai and am at a loss at what to do with a third of it.

I looked into it a while ago but what is the current going rate for a lorry load of fill

There is an old thread which gives an indication of a variety of prices for fill, if I remember correctly, they vary from between Bht 150 and Bht 300 per 4 wheel truck (4/3.2 m3). The price depends upon the cost at source, the quality and the haulage distance.

One 4 wheel truck load will raise a talang wah (4 sq m) of land by 0.80 m approximately when compacted. IMO it would be prudent to raise the land to at least 1 m above the adjacent road level.

My girlfriend told me they like spicy food because it gives them more power for long days and hard work.

I thought Thai men eat spicy food also?

OK ....Let's meet at FC November 10 8:30 PM for a beer

Most of the FC regulars will be totally fishcaked by 8:30 pm!

Roast beef gravy is made from the drippings. Cook the roast and there's juice and scrapings enough for three days of gravy, so you can slice up onions and leftover beef to make leftover roast gravy on bread.

Remove cooked beef from roaster, put roaster with juices on a hob and bring to a boil. Sprinkle flour in it and let brown while stirring with a fork. When the flour is cooked, start adding the hot water from the potatoes you cooked for the mash. Stir and stir until it thickens. Feking real gravy.

That is virtually precisely how my old mum used to make gravy. However, here I don't roast beef (fg doesn't eat it) but I have gravy on many other things. I therefore have to resort to gravy granules or similar for my "sausage, liver, onions and mashed spuds", "seasoned puddings", "Yorkshire puddings", etc.

Well I thought I had a good night after the BBQ, but seeing the info from CENT I need an excuse for another night out purely and simple for Documentary purposes of course

I hope you haven't been taking those funny pills again, Mac.

Please could we calm down a little on this thread.

Also I'm moving it to the Thai food forum.

jayenram,sounds delicious.

Where did you get your OXO ?

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be available in Thailand. I get mine hand carried from UK.

Two years ago, in order to minimise flooding of the road, new "drains" were installed both sides of the road in our neighbouring village. The drains were 600 mm diameter and ran the length of the village with no discharge, i.e. basically storage reservoirs.

The village road flooded last year.

This year, the village elders decided that further work was needed. They laid what is effectively a layer of 50 mm to dust stone on the concrete pavement, then a layer of soft sand and a further concrete pavement on top, total increase in height of approximately 300 mm. No alterations were made to the drains with the exception of increasing the height of the manholes (manholes at 10 m centres).

The result is that the road surface is now higher than the majority of the surrounding land (where houses are built) so it is unlikely to flood. (It's not quite completed yet).

TiT

I used to eat quite a lot of grapefruit (and drink grapefruit juice) but they appear to be impossible to get (at least in Isaan). I find pomelos a reasonable substitute after leaving to 'marinate' in lemon juice for an hour.

Yes I eat a lot of them.

Going back to Yorkie's sing-a-song bars (Thai-style cafes?), is he willing to disclose where these are? Earlier in the thread Jayenram mentioned some on the Buriram road and one near the elephant stadium. Are Yorkie's the same or different ones?

The ones on the Buriram road are quite easy to find. Just drive slowly, look out for the "fairy lights" and listen for the tuneless "singing".

The one where Yorkie's pictures were taken is the one by the elephant stadium. Not easy to find if you're new to the town but I'm sure Yorkie will give you a guided tour for the price of a pint. I could point it out on a map but we don't want every Tom, Dick and Collin there.

Yep, I love Thai beef. Could never trust an English "chef" who said Thai beef was crap and then made gravy for his Sunday roast out of Bisto cubes. That ain't gravy. Oh, but Bt650 a kilo is WAY overpriced. More like Bt250.

Beef in Big C up here in the sticks: Topside (rump) = Bht 220.00 per kg.

I make my gravy with Oxo.

IMO even if you determine the name for the sauce, a definitive recipe may be hard to come by. Each individual restaurant and even each individual chef will probably make it differently.

Check this thread first. It will give you an idea of what is available.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3139

I see someone mentioned Rab C Nesbitt, but what about "Still Game"?

An Aberdonian mate brought some DVDs over from UK. Very funny if you understand the language.

you must be older than yorkie then shadie, most Aussies with convict heritage can trace it back to a great, great, great, great, great, great, great granparent.

Australian aristocracy: a person who can trace his lineage back to his father.

The majority of the previously mentioned BBC comedies and a few American ones (Cheers, Married with Children (early ones), The Golden Grils (first series) and Home Improvement (early ones)) are still watchable and funny.

However, I didn't see the following in anyone's list:

Have I Got News For You?

The Thin Blue Line

Drop the Dead Donkey

Absolutely Fabulous

Yes, what is bhaji please?

This is an onion one:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...25416&st=75

There are a number of others. Basically they are served before Indian meals as appetisers.

bhajis???...we ain't got no bhajis...we doan got to show you no stinkin' bhajis!!!

Have you been drinking?