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Hi, I'm trying to cook more and have come across some recipes that need ham hock. I'm not sure if this is something Thai's eat also or what they would call it. Does anyone know where I can find ham hock/how to ask for it? I'm currently located in Bangkok near Phaya Thai station.

I stayed in Thailand from about 2009 - 2013 using a combination of education, tourist, and exempt visas. Towards the end of my stay I got some grief about how long I was stay and why, etc. In the end i was let through, but now I would like to try to stay for another extended period of time and I was wondering if having so many visas in my passport will make it difficult for me. Should I try to get a new passport? Will this help?

I would also say use "go". Other people have explained why "goes" is wrong, because 7% of the oranges is more than 1 orange. Some people are proposing "have gone" or "went" which are both grammatically correct. To say "7% of the oranges have gone bad" is to say something like, "Right now, 7% of these oranges are bad, and they went bad some time in the past." So you would use "have x" to reference the past while talking about the present. You would use "went" if you were referencing the past while talking about the past. So "Last year I went to Thailand for the second time" and "As of today, I have gone to Thailand twice."

The original example describes events as they (hypothetically) occur in the present. This is the form sports announcers usually use. ("He jumps, he shoots, he scores!") Sometimes you see it in narratives. So in the original example, when the speaker says "7% of the oranges go bad" that is when they went bad. How or why this occurred is assumed to be irrelevant. Math problems, like this one appears to be, are often worded this way.

A Reference Grammar of Thai is much more technical than the other two. I think the other books are more straightforward if you're not interested in the linguistic details of the language. That said, those are really the only 3 good Thai grammar books that you'll find, so if you're serious about learning Thai just I'd just get them all.