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the swedish embassy in vientianne is already informed probably (Sokpaluang Rd. Quartier Wat Nak, Open Monday to Friday from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM, Phone : +856 (021) 315003)

you sound like a very good person. take care of yourself.

HUB of Awards!

Great city. Always nice to come back, see and feel the real thing. Bangkok is the place which makes you smile after several months with boring people

and in grey coloured cities

This is vibrant city with all the good and bad things, you like it or you hate it and when the day comes then you move on and never look back.

i believe you are right... as long as you stay in your 20,000 baht condo in BKK, post code 10000

grilled fish, nam prik with steamed veggies, (norhthern style)

call it "nam prik", at the end of the day its fish with veggies, you will get in every country bordering to the sea...

though, the "steamed veggies" i find interesting, in the street kitchens around bangkok i also thought they steam the veggies, but in fact they pull them through boiling water... this is also the technique at MK - or did i miss the steaming there?

What puzzles me is that for a country with a justifiably world famous cuisine

I wish that I could see why it is justifiably famous. To me it is OK and nothing more (and some of it is bordering on revolting). I rather live here than anywhere else, but the food is not one of the reasons.

i also think its extremely overrated...

when tourists come here, they might be thrilled by a different taste, preparation, but in the long term, you cant live on that limited nutritional values... its not a diet for a physically working population...

its imo the most simple "cooking" possible... everything is cut into tiny pieces, so you just pull it for a few seconds through the pan or the boiling water, and thats it...

the more "complicated" things like bakery are here entirely unheard of...

the eating hours in the west stem from the work (on the fields)... where things were mostly done in teamwork...

when you are working (employed) you cant eat when you like...

how are you going to prove to your customers, that the products are "healthy"?

if you tell me, its from a local supplier i wouldnt believe that its healthy... sorry...

i would think you have to prove that...

if i look at the fruits and vegetables in the supermarket, the apples which dont show a country of origin/thai dont even taste for apple, often they taste awful, strange, chemical... then there is the chinese apple, which is found all over asia... the most affordable one, but the problem: it doesnt look like an apple and tastes for notthing... most of the eatable apples come from new zealand - price 40 tHB (1.30 USD) per apple plus plus...

even the lemons are "imported", though it usually doesnt say from where...

if something comes from china, it seems "promoted? on the product description...

the whole fruit and vegetables market is a real mystery to me...

i thought thailand was - agricultural wise - the land of "milk and honey"...

hardly true...

the onions are scaringly big, and even onions are imported from china

the red onions are surprisingly small..

a kilo bellpepper is 160 thb... hello? thats european pricing (with much higher wages there)...

keep us posted... im really interested where you will get "healthy" vegetables from and how you are going to prove that to your customers...

i find the food in the supermarkets very expensive...

this study is imo only the tip of the iceberg...

if it had taken into account the QUALITY of products (what do you get for your money), then thailand would have shown really bad in the list...

"loyal dog" = aggressive towards visitors

"vocal dog" = permanently barking

thanks brotherother, i will try otto - and the supermarkets, its just all a bit of travel to get there...

there might be "zwieback" out there, but nothing similar to brandt zwieback...

Anyone seen this in BKK?

TIA

the attacker

- brown thick hair, some reports say black hair, very short, he was wearing a wig at the scene...

- he spoke russian, some reports say "decent", others "fluent"

- he had a french accent

- he was about 182 cm tall

- some reports say, he came from belgium

- apparently there are leads to the UK, he might have lived there for some time

- actually, his head is searched for traces, which might reveal his ethnicity etc...

- when he loaded his backpack, there was a discussion (heated) with some israelis, then the backpack detonated...

Israeli officials have claimed the bomber may have been a ‘mule’ who was duped into the attack and that the explosive was detonated from a distance by remote control.

Brigadier General Nitzan Nuriel said: ‘The terrorist was deliberately picked up from an ethnic group different from the one of the organizers of the bomb attack in order to avoid any suspicions.’

http://www.dailymail...-people-UK.html

if its just too embarrassing - the bullshit to be told to the papers - the israelis always use some "ex"...t

his general is of course retired, and does not hold an official position...

we had a dog in europe. a red cockerspaniel with an impressive pedigree, and a very very pretty dog.

he would bite. not attack on the street, but do so, without warning, when people tried to touch him - what would always happen, as he was such a cute dog.

he would also break out, for reasons we couldnt figure out how he did...

things escalated, when he bite a girl (very pretty one too) into the face.

no breader and not a single animal shelter was willing to take him - for free.

because he had bitten once - that was enough.

for dogs that bite, there is only one option. may he RIP.

thai dogs cant be given for adoption, as approx 95 % of them do bite.

It leads to allowing the private sector to decide if a restraunt is worthy of eating at instead of the gov. It leads to hotels who want customers not poisioning them rather than paying the gov to run around checking for poisions in hotels. What it leads to is giving more choice to everyone with less expense rather than high taxes and the gov telling everyone how to act while pertending to earn their pay. What it leads to is exactly what most Westerners wish they had , less gov and no property taxes.

i dont agree...

in general tourists are considered "one-time-customers" by restaurants, and in case of guesthouses, if someone just falls sick, it even extends the stay... nobody in the first place thinks of a poisoned room... its blamed onto food, the new environment, ice cubes etc...

it leads to recklessnes towards people and environment... jmho...

hospital pharmacy?

how do you take your own blood?

i did, they refuse - also at superrich...

once i managed, with quite some "effort", showing only my bank card - being their customer...

Must be your looks then, sorry, no other explanation.

is there anybody else who has to show passport when changing money at superrich or BKK-banks?

A bit different from a Western society where the population sees it as their right to sue or blame the nearest person for the smallest inconvenience

true, a fine declaration/enforcement of citizens right might lead to sort of "insurance mentality"...

but where does the other extreme as in thailand practised lead to ?

that a restaurant can serve you their rotten fish - and get away with it...

that guest house owners can spray every cheap poison in their rooms - and get away with it..?

possible?

Thailand IS declared as a country to have rabies

It is your responsibility as a tourist to come prepared with adequate vaccins

wow, one would think they would then do something about the straying dogs...

rabies just shrugged off?

ok... im convinced...

i will take all bites and just roll over...

at the end it was my fault anyway... something is wrong with me... the dogs here are fine...

thanks everyone for their contribution.

otherwise, i would have never made that connection...

it is IMPOSSIBLE to walk along ANY street in bangkok at night time, without having a gang of dogs running after you... and to make clear, its not only one gang... one after the other, all along the way...

A slight exaggeration?

yes, possibly... the streets along the big shopping malls in the city might be ok

Well it must be accepted by tourists because as far as I can tell the tourists are more concerned about how cute the bargirls are than how ugly the dogs are !

My guess woud be if the dog problem was a Cobra problem of the same magnatude the tourists would still not care !

yes, posters on here would probably recommend to throw them half a pig, when passing by...

it is IMPOSSIBLE to walk along ANY street in bangkok at night time, without having a gang of dogs running after you... and to make clear, its not only one gang... one after the other, all along the way...

in reality this means, people cant walk on the sidewalk...

i think, the travel guides have to be updated by this fact...

"you cant walk at nighttime on a sidewalk"

"be prepared to pay some thousands for rabies shots"

you might find that normal and to be accepted by tourists, i dont think it is...

I hope you bought a return/round-trip ticket.

i wish...