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digbeth

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  1. do people pay just for the access to salad bar? I thought the point is that they set the salad bar price so high it seems cheap to go for any of the 'meat' dishes with included salad bar don't they have cheaper price during weekdays monday-friday too? maybe it's just that this monday counts as a hoiday so the normal weekday discount don't apply
  2. in case for a counter top plug-in oven other issue is the plugs and wiring, is it adequate for an oven, in older houses with poor wiring the plugs and wiring can get hot from the currents
  3. Some government hospitals insist on everyone wearing masks before entering still
  4. Here in Chiangmai buffalo is actually a delicacy
  5. how much ground is left on the 'beach' side anyway most of the building seem to be on piers already they shouldn't pour money into improvements of the area unless they can clear up the legal status of those lands
  6. Do you know how to change the fonts used in excel in English, it's the same method, you just have to remember the name of the font select the Thai font you have to highlight the cells with the words, then select the thai fonts' name form the list of font either on the menu bar or the when you right click
  7. They do have beef now, but it's extra charge to go beef I know most of the beef in most corporate burger place are imported, thai beef are too variable in quality and price to use consistently, so they probably can't make the cost work
  8. Some Thai-Chinese really don't it used to be a thing to be able to tell how much in the boonies you are when you order a burger at McDonald's and they have to ask to confirm if you really want beef or pork, don't happen in downtown Bangkok, but out in the suburbs definitely, and never seen it asked in the past 10 years, so whomever advised Taco Bell on the opening was going by some very old playbook
  9. They didn't even have beef for a while when they firs opened in Bangkok
  10. there's an auction at the customs house every now and then of goods that's been 'stuck' or left by the owner refusing to pay customs/vat and possibly storage for every day it's been sitting in customs the worst outcome is your goods is destroyed, or Fedex send it back to the seller who can refund you
  11. they had routemaster bus with platform out the back like in London, if you jumped from that while the bus is moving you'll likely meet the same fate
  12. it's still illegal to smoke 'indoors' cigarette included, what's the 'lounge' situation like for these place, are the seating area comfortable, well cooled and do any of them serve foods and beverage as well? plenty of stoner run shops with flashy storefront, good products but nowhere to enjoy them
  13. plenty of 'vintage' watch dealers in Bangkok, but watchmaker that service high-end watch tend to be a separate entity, the service guys rarely sells, while the dealers can open the caseback, they won't be able to do much While the dealers in shophouse that sells seikos and such will trade in Rolexes, plenty circulating around from pawnshops and all, they won't know their way around a patek for example
  14. Malls and Night Markets are quite beginner friendly enough, taking the ferry to iconsiam can be a spectacle itself, EmSphere always have some decent street food in their event space and various cuisines from the restaurants and well decorated enough to not be a boring western mall the street food scene like Chinatown or Chula univ area while good are just as unauthentic as malls or tourist focussed night market, most of the shops there are brand new, For day out with culture there's either a walk around Koh Kret or Bang Krachao for the 'rural' feel Malls are probably the most authentic feel to how the real Bangkokian lives, more than any floating market or elephant ride, if you want to try living like a Thai, riding the Saen Saeb canal boat in stinking sewer to 'The Mall' in Bang Kapi is probably the closest you'll get to living working/Middle class Bangkok Thai lives
  15. Imagine the furor if immigrants in say, the UK or Australia are allowed citizenship without being able to speak English At least the Thai citizenship don't test you on history or cultural bits
  16. Where is that written?
  17. contract signing and detail revealed on the orange line: 3 car trains, also more trains and frequencies for the blue line ordered, but no extension to 4 cars, which is a shame with all that platform space going unused for decades, probably cheaper to just get more trains and update signaling for headway rather than refitting all the platform screen doors in all stations and mix of 3 and 4 car trains
  18. On the proper bus in Bangkok I've had to do a running jump to get of as they barely stop, but those are from side exit, I doubt I could jump out the back of a moving songthaew baht bus successfully
  19. Latest update in this case is still ongoing and residents still don't have clean water and recommended that they don't put the water near their face/eyes
  20. why should they rent from you, if you believe the location is sound, cough up the money for a building and franchise and bear the risks
  21. for pharmacy that sells tramadol with no questions asked, looks for the ever revolving clientele of boys on motorcycle out the front, some even sell soft drinks for the convenience too
  22. in the UK i used to be able to get paracetamol and caffein in one pills, not available in Thailand, so a shot of Redbull with the pill seem to work The gel cap version of paracetamol or ibuprofen also seem hard to come by or not available at all For me diclofenac (Voltaren) in various forms works well for arthritis pain, tramadol never seem to works for me, got loads from Thai hospitals after surgery, just makes me feel nauseous
  23. never worded it as advice or recommendation Getting it after the court auction is obviously safer than buying from the bank, you also get limitation on the co-owner / common fees in case of condo and gated villages are capped at five years I think and you don't require letter of debt-free status to transfer into new owner's name at the land office. Most Thai house flipper get their 'stock' this way, but most of these you'd have to buy sight unseen, most of the time you can't enter to see the state of the property inside safest bet is not to buy repossessed house at all, at least Thai people don't put oils or concrete down the drains when they got evicted, but making the previous owner homeless could get very ugly, so unless you have stomach for that it's more trouble than it's worth
  24. If you buy direct from the bank - you have to go through the court to evict the previous owner etc. Whereas if you buy through the Legal Execution Department auction, it'll come with the papers you can take to the police to start eviction the bank will save lots of time selling to you direct rather than wait it out to get it to auctioned by the court, if you think you'll get a better deal but have to do your own legwork to get evictions etc. go ahead.
  25. 2m+ cash withdrawal will likely trigger reporting threshold from the Bank too cashier's cheque/ bank draft are relatively easy to do, but cost more than just transfer, which if it's over your limit on the app/internet banking you can still do over the counter with the bank's staff
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