1Gringo

is this a Thai bar featuring US C&W music?

it sounds a bit far out of town for a western clientele.

ate there last night. it's the best we've had, so far and I don't expect to find better in CM.

Pol Music SE of Anusarn Market; and there are two good shops on the same side as Shangri La but well south of them.

there is also a fairly good shop inside the moat on the north side near the Wat.

sorry, names escape me right now.

the largest slow cooker I've seen is in Home Pro, believe it or not. but it's not 15" which is about the same size I also want.

I've also been searching for an outstanding pizza in CM with no success, so far. I'll keep looking.

my 'standard' is, perhaps, the best pizza I've had anywhere (and I grew up in NY) was in BKK Suk Soi 31 called Bella Napoli. if I'm within a day of BKK and feel hungry, that's where I go.

I found comparable pizza in Pattaya but not here, so far.

please keep posting, people. maybe we can find a good place or create a demand for a really good pizza.

somebody must be up to the challenge!

yes, I think you should take it as a compliment. and I bookmarked it.

thank you!

thanks anyway, but it's not Greenside's map. it wasn't a Google map, though it may have been based on it way back.

today I did bookmark Greenside's map and I guess I'll just wait until that other map gets posted again.

the map I'm thinking of pinpointed several restaurants I hadn't gotten to at the time. these include Mei Jiang, Tsumani Sushi, Sushi Iciban and Haruto. from that list it seems I was looking for sushi.

but there was high praise for this cramped, overfilled general hardware store and the line about when you're tired hearing Mai Mee..........go here.

not critical. I'll check into the one on Greenside's map in the meantime.

thanks for the responses, good people!

thanks, but that's not the map I saw. the map I remember (wasn't a Google map) was much more focused at the old city and environs nearby. this hardware store was between the moat and the river, as I recall.

within the past couple of months, an obviously computer savvy person who'd created a marvelous map posted a link to it on a thread dealing with food. why do I remember that? mostly because I'm a food junkie. I made notes about restaurants I wanted to try but did not bookmark that map.

now I'm remembering he had a balloon pointing at a hardware emporium he/she recommended with something along these lines: "when you're tired of hearing Mai Mee from your local store, this is the place to go; they have everything."

I'd be interested in finding that hardware store location.

can you repost that, please?

many thanks.

ps I tried the search function but........after re-reading maybe fifty threads on food, I gave up. hence the appeal here.

I've been using Dr. Philip for the past month. as compared to every other chiropractor, he is different.

I cannot report that after two sessions I'm cured, but I do feel better.

he's at that hospital (across from the Holiday Inn) on Tues and Fri after 1:00.

do you let yours indoors?

thanks to those who offered advice.

I've been frequenting one particular garden supply shop behind Lotus. he's recently gotten perlite in but nobody around here seems to have even heard of vermiculite. and I tried lightening up the goop with perlite with no success.

Mr Brad, I see where you've already looked into this. (I didn't know there was a forum on farming. oops.)

I can't do composting for the same reasons as everybody else and the wife isn't much interested in waiting a year or more for cow manure to chill out. she has a shorter attention span than I do. I thought surely potting soil would be easy to find.

I will check on the rose logo, and thanks for that tip. and the links!

thanks for the offer for the wood chips, but I'm growing in plastic pots, not looking to make things pretty. the garden is on the roof and nobody sees it anyway.

just wondering if anybody has found a source or a brand name or a recognizable logo for potting soil. apparently what is in the bags of so-called soil is scrapings from paddies. this explains the leaves but not the coconut or peanut shells.

this stuff is great if I were trying to make mud lakes but not much else. I wasn't even thinking about growing water lilies and I can't imagine what else would survive this mess.

I thought I could tame it with sand, but in order to get a pot to drain, I needed to mix approximately 1 part dirt to 7 or 10 parts sand. and I don't know what would have grown in that abortion, either.

thanks in advance

That's good. They seem really fair there. I stopped at a different shop yesterday and was quoted 32,000 baht for the same thing I got today for under 9,000 baht. Titanium frames and progressive bi-focal lenses.

I got a new pair of glasses with progressive lenses (not bi-focal, by definition) from a shop in the Central Mall. it's on the left side between Tokyo Optical and the sports equipment store on the second floor. good price.

Thomas (Thai National) at The Pub says he plays in a band. he plays both western and Thai music, but I have no first hand experience with the band and couldn't venture a guess as to cost.

ah, thanks.

yes, I've had them removed before and they are on the vocal chords and yes, they were benign.

I dread a trip to BKK and would rather have it done here, but more than that, I want it done right or I might end up speechless.

they took the last one(s) off with a lasar and no side effects other than the prohibition against speaking for a couple of days, as I remember.

I will check out your recommendations and then decide.

really appreciate the tips.

Actually "nodes" mean lymph nodes or sometimes other nodular growths and can be anywhere on the body, so the further explanation was definitely needed.

I take it you had this before and they were found to be benign?

I would personally opt for Bangkok over Chiang Mai but if you are set on doing this in Chiang Mai the only place you should consider is Sri Pat ("Suan Doc" - part of CMU). You want a head & neck surgeon, preferrably one with training and board certification in a western country although i don't know if that will be possible to find up there, would be in Bkk.

unfortunately there is not ,so far as I have ever been able to discover, an online directory whereby you can look up the docs on staff at Sri Pat. So your best bet is to go over there and talk with the nurses in the ENT clinic, asking specifically for a good head & neck surgeon who speaks English fluently and, if possible, had some training abroad.

nodes are growths on the vocal chords. in general, they prevent the chords from closing.

1Gringo - what's a node , and where are yours?

Don't wan't to get too personal but it might help get some responses to your query.

Cheers.

it seems my nodes have come back.

I'm asking if anyone has had experience in Chiang Mai with this surgery.......recommendations, places to avoid..........anything helpful.

thanks in advance.