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Have the child in the US.Then apply through the Thai embassy for a Thai birth certificate.To do that you will first have to get the US birth certificate from your state.Then have that certificate certified by your Secretary of State from your state.Then that will have to be authinticated by the Secretary of State in Washington DC.At present that is Hillary Clinton.You will then send that authinticated birth certificate to the Thai embassy with the application ( that is written in Thai ).If you are a man and Thai then you have to fill out the application.If your wife is the Thai person then ethier one of you can fill it out.The Thai embassy will keep the one signed by Hillary Clinton.When you recieve the Thai birth certificate you can then now apply for a Thai passport for your child.Now that you will have to go to the Thai embassy ( not the Thai consulate in your city ) in person to apply for the passport.It is not as complicated as it sounds.You will not be able to get a Thai ID card for your child until they are 15 years old.It was 18 some time back but they lowered the age to 15.

It would be cheaper to have the kid born in a Thai hospital if you do not have insurance but..............................Up to you.Me, ours born in the US and happy we did.

Need to add this bit of info.To apply for the Thai passport you will need your passport to leave with the embassy.Better to get a copy and have it notorized,they will accept that instead of your passport.The Thai person also.They will mail the passport to you ,by Fedx when they get it back from Thailand.You see they have to mail the application with your passports to Thailand for proccesing.

I guess I can share one photo of the little queen.

already now walking down the entrance part of soi 8 in high season you pass a crowd of the 'shaved heads- tattoos- sleevless beer chang shirts- walking with beer in hand' crowd.

The British blokes like to travel.

I'm surprised at you UG making such a stupid sweeping generalization

The truth hurts some times carmine.

I guess that I shoiuld have mentioned that it was built in 1892 and has been closed to prisoners since around 1990.It is now a museum.So I will only be visiting this time.

Am going to be going to Remand Prison on Maha Chai road and was wondering if anyone has been there.Looks to be an interesting time.

This is the fuseless telephone station protector installed in my house.

Anyone has something different from the above?

In the photo between the top two connections is that a lightning arrester?

Rat out of the paddies are very tasty.I would never eat one from a road side stand though.Just have no idea where it came from or how it was killed,poison maybe?Not good.Same with crickets.I really enjoy them fried in oil with lime leaves.But will not buy them from the roadside.

Oh and dog is fantastic if you like meat.I had it in Vietnam.If you look at some of my past post I had posted some photos of cooked dog for sale in the meat market in Vietnam.

This is the brand that we buy.As you can see the ingredients are coffee,corn and soya bean.We make a liter at a time then put it in to the ice box and use as needed.Place coffee in a cup heat in microwave add condensed milk to hot coffee,place ice in another cup ,pour hot coffee mix over ice and enjoy!

I have no idea how to shut them up!!

What I would like to do is get rid of them all together.Why you ask?Because the little sh_ts are tearing up our garden and all of our flowers looking for food!I really do not mind the crowing just them tearing everything up!

We have a piece of land that the wife had bought from her sister.It has a full chanot so it should be no problem with it.I do not wish to do anything with the land until it is in the wifes name.She has said to me that after you go to the ampor to apply for the land in your name they will post a notice that the land is being sold and anyone that have a claim has 3 months to claim.So it will take at least 3 months to get it done.Then they will do the survey of the land.BUT...........She has said that they do not like to survey in the rainy season.This could be the reason for the long delay in getting the chanot.

Mcdonald's fried chicken is actually pretty good and beats the pants off any of the Thai street stall chicken vendors that i've had and is arguably much better than KFC which is a salty greasy mess. Everything else offered by Mickey D's is pretty subpar health, taste, and cost wise for what you could make yourself though.

I can't hate on Burger King or Subway. I think Burger King's offerings are good when you crave a big fat greasy burger. Subway is still healthy enough that I don't quite classify it as typical fast food.

On the otherhand the pizza chains in Thailand are mostly overpriced garbage.

Fried chicken at Mc is good??Yeah right BK is fat greasy?Do not think so.The meat is broiled so the fat dripps off of the meat.My favorit fast food burger by the way.Subway healthy?If you like a ton of sodium in your meats.

I really enjoy the crickets fried in fresh oil with lime leaves and the grubs to.I will not buy them on the street because they do not tast good and I have no idea where they came from.Poison and all that you know.But to get them on our farm and fry them up fresh MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have this same problem.I could not stand all of the kissing,cheek pinching and holding that they have done with my daughter.But she is now 4yr and she is just fine.The one thing that I ALWAYS got enraged about was when someone would take her and disappear.My wife would say "it ok she with my friend".But where the hel_l is she "with my friend".The never ending story/With my friend...........Beat me with a stick until I accept it...................

A few years ago I worked in Paris and was astounded at the popularity of McDonalds and learnt that France has (maybe now "had") the greatest number per capita of Maccy Dees in the world. Astounding when you think how arrogant the French are about their food.

The point is, no matter what anybody thinks about the stuff, fast food is here to stay. Personally I just cannot understand why any sane person would queue up to buy a lukewarm hamburger, equally lukewarm insipid fried sticks of reconstituted stuff washed down by a concoction of chemicals and sugar. But it's their life and their money and I'd tell them to combine sex with travel if they tried telling me what to eat.

When I was in France (which I found the people to be the most smelly and rude of any people in the whole world,maybe that is why they call them frogs) I had the pleasure of eating fast food/street food.There was a cart on the street selling "hamburgers".A meat patty on a baguette with mustard.It was the best "hamburger "that I had ever had.I went back to them regularly to get them.I finally found out why they tasted so good.It was horse meat.I still went because they were so good.Some people have asked me why I would eat horse meat.Becuase it tastes GOOD.

As to the OP.I would say that most Thai street food is fast food and much of that is served in plastic and styrofoam ,not good for the enviroment.But I have to agree that Mc is not good for you or taste good.

Why would you want to rent farmland in Korat whan the growing season is over and the dry season is coming?

I had kapow roo in Australia.

Did you?

Um....yes...?

WOW really?? In Australia?Do they really have it there?

I have rented many "cars"over the years in Thailand.What I have found is Avis and Budget are the most expencive BUT I have good insurance and a big company to stand behind me if in an accident.I had rented a truck from a company in Korat once.It was a great truck new,clean,great price and in great shape.The reason I did not rent again from them was because of the insurance thing.They told me if I had an accident to call them right away and to tell the other person that my cousion will be here soon,it is his "car".Come to find out the company really did not have a supply of cars that they owened but a supply of friends that would rent their cars out through the car rental agency.Yes supposedly the cars did have insurance but I would think that if the insurance agent found out that the person was renting out their car the insurance would be no good.

My take on renting a car.....Unless you really know the "mom and pop" company go with the big boys.Better safe then sorry!

I am sad to hear another one of these stories.There are bad people throughout the world.This could happen,and does throught the world.I truly beileve that what goes around comes around.The victums attackers will get theirs sometime when they least expect it.Just another sad, sad day for humanity.

Rest in peace knowing that you tried in your heart to better the lives of some other people.

Slice the pineapple then place on a hot grill.What ever you do do not marinate shrimp with pinapple.I did it once and the shrimp became "mush".The acid broke down the shrimp.

The rat is the only thing the forces say not to eat it Carry's many deceases on it and in it.

What "forces"?

Highway 2 in Issan is just that, a highway that has high speeds on it.While travling this road you have to be perpared to jam on the brakes a every turn.You see they have no problem just taking their cows in large groups across the highway at any location at any time of the day or night.

Now imagen a high speed train going twice the speed of what the cars on highway 2 are doing.

WOW!!! I sure would not want to be any of those cows or anyone on that train as they cross the tracks.

If you eat any variaty of meats you will like BBQ rat.I would never eat one in the cities,but up in Issan where they come out of the paddies they are great.They are eating rice and like the beef that is corn feed are just the best.

I have always heard that Loei province is the clodest place in Thailand.

Horseradish is something very hard to come by in Thailand.My wife had never heard of it and when I got some she had never seen it or tasted it before.She did like it though.The number one way that she likes it is mixed with ketchup and lime juice for shrimp.

I enjoy some Thai dishs to be very hot,not just spicey.But other ones I like spicey but not hot.It really depends on the dish.I can handle super hot if I am at someone elses home.But that does not mean I like it like that.I have had some Thai people make a dish SUPER hot and watch to see my reaction as I ate it.They would ask "aloay"?I would look at them throiugh my watering eyes and say "aloay"but I not come back.Everyone would get a good laugh out of that.I grew up eating hot and spicey food from living around the world and have come to enjoy the pepper of many different kinds.

Here is a site about peppers that I think many people will find of interest.

http://userwebs.batnet.com/rwc-seed//peppe...ness.scale.html