Darkkakashi

they are made of a root that comes from China, I have seen a documentary about it.

 

as everything food related coming from china you might want to think about what they put in it to grow it.

 

the main and only caratreristic of this root is that at the contact of liquid, it cells become 20 times bigger, here is what your "something stuck in throat feeling" comes from.

 

Obviously its 100% fiber so not digestible.

 

you will basically eat your noodle, it will becomes bigger in your stomach "making you feel full" effect, personally I have found the feeling not very comfortable, and then the next day you will make terrible poo where undigested "noodle" can be spotted. Honestly you will feel like a sort of shitty snake is getting from the entrance to the exit of your intestine. Obviously everyfood is, but given this one can not be digested at all, you kind of really feel it progress, LOL

 

Personnaly i have stopped it because of the imconfortable sensation, plus the "becoming bigger" side effect is that your stomach is becoming bigger while you want it to become smaller/maintained at the same size for a diet/healthy life style.

 

Honestly a salade is a much more enjoyable way of making yourself feel full but again, in thailand salade can be a concentrate of pesticide if you are not able to find some proper organic one.

 

Coming back to konjac noodle : not harmful but clearly not the magic trick + your <deleted> will thank you for stopping eating it.

 

PS : if you are looking for tasty high fiber food, but unfortunately with sugar, try the "KAnoun" aka the Jack Fruit. I love it and it is the fruit with the most fiber %. However make sure to find it not to young as you will have the sentation of eating cardboard packaging. Do not confuse it with the smelly Durian, not the same thing even though they look a bit a like, big with a thick brown skin, however the Durian has spikes while the Jack Fruit does not and is kind of a white/creamy while the Jack fruit is yellow (the inside)

 

 

I must be some kind of scatophile to speak so much about the toilet thing LOL

even if I am not involved in this topic, Thank you Sheryl for all your help, you are soooo helpful !

 

the world would be a better place with more people like you, helping others without being interest-oriented

pattayadude, do you have a, direct or indirect, financial interest in this waterfront building being completed ?

 

other than the poetical "i played simcity 2000 too much and I like to see cities grow like children or flowers or amybes"

sleep apnea syndrome maybe ?

maybe too much meat. Try to not eat meat at night, only breakfast/lunch/collations. See how you feel.

 

Meat can overload the liver with work which can create fatigue. Try it for a day or two and see how you feel when you wake up.

i am not a specialist of this side of the gulf of Thailand but the times I have been there I have found the water to be the cleanest I have seen in the region. It has been two years I have not visited though.

 

The bus transport is a bit of a rip-off/hassle/scam but for an afternoon at the beach i personnally think it's worth it.

 

What are the other options for such a clean beach in the region ? Koh Samet : far, dirty in some parts, etc... Koh Larn : chinese land

 

Koh chang is far and don't brag about Phuket, Koh Samui and Krabi please. Phuket full of french thugs, Samui full of Jelly Fish, Krabi full of potential terrorist attack.

 

I think this beach is ok despite this bus hassle, the amounnt of people and the crappy restaurant where I was sick.

 

At least water is clean.

 

 

text can always be interpreted, Xaos, the OP, is telling us that Phuket is packed, fine that is certainly true.

 

But packed by who ? While I agree that Pattaya has its share of really unpleasant tourists, Phuket has a very special breed.

 

Please let me elaborate, I come from France and their is a specificity to Phuket that relates to our country : it is filled with young thugs, mostly coming from our "projects", call it whatever you want but basically bad neighboorhood where they parents have been parks in the past.

 

There is now a trend in France, that I am sure you can easily linked to a lot of terrorist attacks, of young people (i would say the generations from 5 to 40) willing to go back to their roots, their religion, their own people and act violently.

 

They open halal fast food snack in phuket, they are noisy, not always polite, could be violent and also they come their to spend their money won by either selling their bodies (you must have noticed all these beurettes in Phuket) or selling drugs in France (mainly cocaine/haschich).

 

They also have dodgy business in Phuket, they know they just need to find an "uncle" like they call it, i.e. a Thai with connexion that takes a % of their business.

 

call me racist or whatever but I am of the same age of these guys and same roots...but I chose a different life path and to fly thousands of kilometers to see these dicks cocking around and playing mafia guys, getting a hard on at the shooting range, while acting like good integrist muslim is just a big "KEEP PHUKET TO YOURSELF OP" to me.

 

Also, not difficult to understand why they chose Phuket, a lot of thai muslim there, they just help each other.

 

anyway, even if Pattaya gets shits of its own, at least there are several forces in presences, which keep a balance. I dont see much resistance being opposed to these "French Copy" or "French Arabs" in Phuket, as Thais now called them (the nick names are here for a reason, Thais have noticed how bads these guys behave).

its been a while I havent been but Rimpa Lapin used to be romantic in my view, careful go to the one in the below link, there seems to be another one usurping the name of this one and that looks crappy.

 

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g293919-d1148733-Reviews-Rimpa_Lapin-Pattaya_Chonburi_Province.html

On ‎04‎.‎07‎.‎2017 at 9:54 AM, champers said:

I don't think being bitten by a dog is preceded by a stand-off like 2 cowboys having a gunfight in the Wild West. They run at you (likely from behind), bite and run away before they are hit back.

in the context of the messages preceding this one, about being the Alpha, eye contact, etc...i laughed

question : are you constantly under Keto buzz ? or are you switching on and off ? if so at what ratio please ?

Hey Guys,

 

i just wanted to react re Phangan and the guy who said that Cocohut was the shit.

 

this was my first trip to Phangan so here is an unbiased / uninterested point of view :

 

anything north of Thong Sala, so the west coast and north west of the island, i found to be extremely preserved and great. Not that much mass tourism or at least kept to an human scale.

 

I have not been to the top north nor to the east so can't comment.

 

tong sala and anything south until Haad Rin was pretty ok, laid back, with some gems and some more or less even place (some hookers bars too).

 

Haad Rin : first the road to get there is a one way ticket to death. Imagine impatient song taew driver, mixed with dickheads tourist on shrooms or simply beers riding scooters, all of that taking place in a space mountain like hill with a lot of corkscrew turns, small roads and poor lighting. It must claims lives.

 

so once You get through this and get into "the pit" because this is what it feels like, well you get the feeling of a mix of Benindorn/Malaguf and Goa.

 

so basically instead of hordes of <deleted> from Manchester drunks on beer and looking for a fight or a nasty uncleaned pussy you get hordes of hippies wannabe from all over the world (I would say scandies, French, brits, Israelis and Spanish/italiens).

 

you do feel like that all this flower power bullshit is commercialized by the thai, with a lot of shot selling goa/shrooms/molly lovers multicolor tee shirt with skulls heads with <deleted> up eyes...right we get the picture.

 

well one would say it is always better than Patong and all these French Arab/French Copy Thugs spending their money at French Arab owned halal restaurant, the whole thing being a money laundering machine for the haschisch business down in France ( I am French).

 

a nice parabol of all this would be the Isaan girl selling her body to foreigners well here Thais are selling their culture to foreigners.

 

coming back to our friend and the cocohut. Tonight, Friday, Haad Rin was mostly empty apart from the Same Same bar where a groups

of below 30's Brits where painting their face with light reflective painting in view of a private beach <deleted> up party I guess.

 

cocohut itself: 10.15 pm the "spirituals bar" separate from the hotel and the restaurant (they like to remind you this very roughly like if you where a <deleted> for not knowing in the first place) well basically the booze bar closes at 10.15pm tonight Friday. With 3 customers : a drunk young blonde guy. My wife and I.

 

the sushi restaurant/beer only / soft drinks Bar was really empty.

 

the reception was greedy on the taxi Fare but I guess this is the price you pay for getting in the <deleted> of the island.

 

we were told that for the "thai new year" it should be more crowded.

 

now the bright side : apart from Haad Rin, where I guess the only interest is for Occidentals youngster below 30 to try and wish getting some other occidental below 30 pussy, get some shrooms, some shitty buddathai weed, all this being very risky and some party, like if they could not get that back home but I guess youth has to be experienced.

 

well apart from this Koh Phangan is a great island, not filled with pushy locals, not overdeveloped, some great preserved beaches and nature, and some great hotels and restaurants.

 

special mention to L Alcove, French Restaurant in Hin Kong and the Italien Restaurant next to it (wood coven pizza !)

 

re the hotel, I stayed in Kupu, amazing, pricey but I would rather stay 5 nights in Kupu Kupu rather than 15 in a Haad Rin joint, I do prefer quality to quantity, should it be for sleeping, partying and eating.

 

i mean shit does attract a lot of flies.

 

maybe as Murtoph would say "I am getting too old for this shit" or I am just a old fart or an old snob posh head, who knows.

 

that was just my point of

view and like a fart or a tourista's dhiarea always better out than in.

ok so basically after 15 months of privation and hard work, my wife and I finally manage to place our 8 months old son to our family for a 10 days breather just the 2 of the us and the <deleted> weather is wasting everything.

 

I get all you guys said and thank you for this however from my perspective, a worker in his mid 30's with about 20 days of holidays per year, i just dont have the luxury/option to throw away money and time down the flush for unpredictable Thai weather. 

 

My wife and I use to come in Thailand since 2008, almost every two years for 2-3 weeks, but I think that this will be our last trip (my wife is not Thai, we come to Thailand because we like it). As said i need to be sure on which horse to bet and given there are new destinations, for this time of the year, that seem interesting (south africa, zanzibar, mexico, argentina,  even Nang Trang in Vietnam looks great, etc...) i will have to give it a miss for a while unfortunately.

 

will still be reading this forum though :)

 

Cheers.

hi guys,

 

i am now here...well full shitty. One question I asked which still remains straight unanswered : is it normal for that time of the year to get such shitty conditions ?

 

I mean, from all people I know who have been to samui in the past 4 months are all telling me the same : full rain, i will never go back.

 

I must admit that given the price it takes and the hassle it is to get from Europe to here, if I get more than 50% rain during this stay i will NEVER come back.

 

I mean thailand is more and more polluted, prices are inflating, and now weather is <deleted> ?  Definitely some other destinations worth a try with much more steady weather conditions ( a friend just came back from Sri lanka and...well)

 

wake up call for all these thais that still think they are sitting on a gold mine.

Thank you guys, I do feel better :)

Hi all,

 

thanks to all contributors to this great forum which really helps newbies like me,

 

Question : I am landing in Samui on the 28th, next tuesday, for 10 days (5 Koh Phangan, 5 Koh Samui).

 

I have seen the weather forecast to be very bad for next week, how is over there right now ? Is it just one afternoon shower with sun afterward, or is it full rain/full cloudy ?

 

I mean <deleted>, isnt right now the supposed Songkran/very dry period ?

 

Also, I am supposed to take the public ferry from Koh Samui to Koh Phangan, what if the weather is bad, do they cancel ? Is it risky.

 

Thanks in advance, wise members of this platform.

 

Cheers.

M.