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Trujillo
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Tilapia are farm raised in ponds with who knows what sort of mixture of antibiotics and nutrients.
Tilapia are hearty and do not need nutrients or drugs.
I know this from first-hand experience. After they get past the early growth, they will eat whatever is in the pond that is organic. You don't even have to give them food.
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A head's up about the Residency Certificate you need to renew your 5-year license.
Went to immigration at Promenada and was told, in a chilly and barely polite reply, that it takes 10 days to get it. So if you are like me and waited, you will be out of luck (to get the new driver's license before it expires) unless you plan in advance.
Moreover, they want the TM 30 BS so that's going to slow you down even more if you don't have the receipt already.
By the way, I had not been up to the second floor digs before and I have to say, the people working there are very, very testy and bordering on hostile. I don't know what goes on up there, but they act like they'd love to see all the farangs rounded up and shipped out.
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...after 5 years it is still going.
Still on immigration life support. Watch what happens when they pull out....
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The dialog was for color. And to show how the event transpired. The nature of the post was mostly about the food. Sorry, I will try to make it clearer for you should there be a next time...
And as I said: "The place looks good and clean."
I don't expect this place to be open much longer. They may be just sitting out the lease. The location is bad, even if the mall weren't dead and dying, so it's a wonder they do any business at all.
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Interesting you focus on a minor thing and not about the bland, weird tasting food.
I thought, well, as a customer in a restaurant that is known to cater to non-Thai speaking folks, I should be able to navigate in English. Cut out the dialog part if you want; the food was still pathetic.
I like Duke's. I go there regularly. They make the best burgers in town, that I know of. Pizzas can be good to, depending on the branch and the day.
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When Ragu first opened, I went with a group for a friend's birthday and all the dishes were heavily over-salted. Not to cause a fuss on this special day, we just nibbled what we could and paid and left.
That was a few years ago and I thought I might stop in there today to see what the place was like.
A family was just finishing and as they left, I was the only one in the restaurant, even though it was lunchtime. I saw a special menu item on the blackboard and decided on the corned beef sandwich.
I motioned someone over to order and, in English (I figured this place, like The Duke's, must be English friendly, so decided to not use Thai), asked the wait person if the sandwich came with anything.
She didn't speak a word of the language and so over came a stout ladyboy.
Me: "What comes with the corned beef sandwich?"
Wait staff: "Order corned beef..."
Me: "No. What comes with the corned beef sandwich?"Wait staff: "Okay. Order corn beef."
Me: "No. The corned beef sandwich comes with what?"
Wait staff: "Soup. Have tomato soup and (unintelligible) soup."
Me: "Tomato soup and what?"
Wait staff: "Tomato soup and (unintelligible) soup."
Me: "Sorry, tomato and what soup?"
So then some girl comes over, and I ask the same question and she says, "Soup or salad."
Me: "So...tomato soup and ...?"
Girl: (Points to the menu that says, Italian sausage and tomato soup -- that's one soup, by the way.)
Me: "Ah...I'll have a salad."
So everything comes really fast (there are at least eight people working for me; four seem to have chef costumes on), and I take a bite and find that the meat is stone cold -- that cold just before freezing. Cold beef has little flavor and I call the girl over again and say, "This meat is cold." She looks at me with the blankest of looks. "Can you heat the meat up for me, please?"
Away goes the dish and it's back pretty fast, meat barely warm. Maybe one the dukes in the chef costume put it under his arm for a few seconds...
The meat actually looks on the dry side. It barely has any flavor at all and it's inside a heel of French bread that's both tough and chewy. It wasn't very pleasant but the mitigating circumstance being that there wasn't much flavor to begin with.
I had asked for Caesar dressing with the salad and what came in a little dish was an oddly brackish, brownish color thin liquid which tasted strongly of vinegar. It didn't look anything like Caesar dressing and tasted like that strange brown stuff you see in the supermarket in the Japanese section that has sesame in it and when you buy some to try it think, "What on earth would you ever put this on?"
The salad was some rocket leaves and a small couple of rings of onion and some thinly sliced red bell pepper. The whole thing had a weird bitter aftertaste, like eating the root stalk of a head of lettuce.
That alone without a beverage, with all the taxes they like to put on, was 299 baht.
On a scale of one to 100 I'd probably give the food a 20 and the service about a 40. Trying to get someone's attention to bring condiments with the meal was like trying to signal a deaf person looking the other way.
It was a very enlightening experience, all in all. The place looks good and clean and full of people dressed up as chefs, and lots of staff...but in the end it was a total bait and switch.
If food courts served sandwiches, they could give master classes to the Ragu crowd.
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On the menu, plain to read, Sea Perch.
And whatever they print on the menu is 100% true.
Yes, that's my be perch. But the notion mentioned before about cod being on menus here is almost certainly false.
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I believe this is the Chiang Mai forum and not about what you can find in Bangkok.
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The Duke's is good.
My only complaint is that the food quality and ingredients can vary from branch to branch.
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Admittedly I am no ichthyologist, but the cod we had looked like cod and tasted like cod. Therefore I believe it was cod.
...but it wasn't.
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The problem with this watch repair is that they have no old parts and are totally unwilling to either order them or make them. I've tried.
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I think he lumps him in with ..."some capitalist who got rich on the back of the working class," which, in his worldview, is a person ripe to be stolen from.
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You previously stated that you would steal a wallet if you were given the opportunity .
You missed the double negative...he will steal from those who have stolen from him or who have "done him a bad turn."
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No, it is not OK to steal things from anyone who has not stolen from you or done you a bad turn.
You are the one who doesn't get it.
We don't live in an eye for an eye legal or moral system.
Not sure what a "bad turn" might be, but it's irrelevant. If someone steals from you, that doesn't make your thevery against him acceptable. Or legal.
If I own a big company and I catch you stealing and fire you, does that now give you the clearance to slash my car tires and break out all my windows? What system do you think the world lives by?
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QuoteBut some capitalist who got rich on the back of the working class,
Not sure what that means, but however you slice it, you are still splitting hairs on theft. You are making a case for a tiered reasoning for theft that in certain circumstances, it's an acceptable practice.
Is that like a defense for rape saying she was hot and therefore asking for it?
In civilized societies, we live by the rule of law. I'm not aware of any law anywhere that differentiates between victims in theft cases, whereby the thief is considered innocent according to the status of the individual.
There is no "justifiable theft."
I gather you are not a very wealthy or financially successful individual or you would not be trying to champion a morally indefensible position.
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She should be naked, put on a robe open at the front, knock loudly on the door, and get into a 3-some.
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Isn't theft, theft?
Or is it okay to steal an expensive car, but not okay to steal an economy car?
It's okay to mug and steal from a wealthy person but not okay to mug and steal from a commoner?
What sort of mind-warped thinking is this?
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I certain would not report the employee for the reasons you mention, but if it was a very small business, and the owner is only trying to make a living, I would report it to the owner then.
So stealing from a big company is okay, but stealing from a small company is not okay?
Explain, please...
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you really don't know anything. you've made an observation and now your making a conclusion based on what? maybe the employee is correcting the till? more importantly get a life, you sound like a loser.
Wow, welcome to the Land of Smiles...haha
I want Peasandmash to start a thread on something...I want to see what a "winner" has on his mind....
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In the late 70s when I was working in a big pizza place, some geezers would pay with old coins or bills -- pure silver coins and silver certificates (this is in the US). No idea why; maybe just to see how I would react.
I would fake the ring up and pocket the bills or coins and then on the next sale, put my own (current bills and coins) in the till to make up the difference.
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Another example of learning Thai as a must, at least to a basic level, if you want to stay here longer than a tourist. ...
I find this story hard to swallow, though. Just walk back to the cashier and settle it. (Ask all seven...the one who rang it up will remember.) She will remember you, and the sale will be in the store's receipt. Watch CCTV over a pack of gum? Yeah, right....
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I still can't think of any known chains that would show you the total on a hand-held calculator. They all have displays that show that.
Why not say the name of the chain? It's not a direct implication of anything against them; they are just the backdrop for employee theft.
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"Was in a well known fast food chain restaurant this morning and ordered three drinks. The attendant showed me the price on a calculator ..."
What well-known fast food chain shows you the price on a calculator?
Something fishy here....
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I've posted this before, but the odds that an actual cod reaching Thailand's food chain is miniscule.
Google Cod Stock Collapse
Ragu Rustic Italiano, Promenada
in Chiang Mai
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You forgot a comma....
Since you are such a rube, I will explain the obvious: People come to the mall because they have business at immigration. Most have to hang around for a while, and this benefits the existing shops. It has nothing to do with how much (or how little) immigration pays Promenada.
When immigration moves back to its original location, watch what happens at Promenada.