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2 minutes ago, smotherb said:

Gee, did I say it was Australian? It is Australian-themed offering ab-originals such as stuff off the barbie, kukaburra wings, Ned Kelly Burgers, etc. And, as I said, if you want a good steak, go elsewhere.

Golly gee Jimmyjoebob, never said you did...but others might have.

On 10/20/2017 at 3:27 PM, Wim1954 said:

Once again there is no polution at Mae Ramphung beach Rayong.

mixed reviews here

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g2301761-d3982203-Reviews-Mae_Ram_Phueng_Beach-Phe_Rayong_Province.html

1 minute ago, Goldbear said:

They probably won't let him in the club with a 50b t-shirt. 

specially if it has a bit of a mothball smell

9 minutes ago, smotherb said:

The Outback is little more than a fast food franchise. Not the place to go if you want a real good steak.

What's more, it is actually an American resto!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outback_Steakhouse

Outback Steakhouse is an Australian-themed American casual dining restaurant chain, serving American cuisine, based in Tampa, Florida, with almost 1,000 locations in 23 countries throughout North and South America, Asia, and Australia. It was founded in February 1988 in Tampa by Bob Basham, Chris T. Sullivan, Trudy Cooper, and Tim Gannon, and it was owned and operated in the United States by OSI Restaurant Partners until it was acquired by Bloomin' Brands, and by other franchise and venture agreements internationally.

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

What are you on about? It's for eating in only. No exceptions. 

What, do you think I have memorized the policies at all 1746 restos in town......you go right ahead, I have better things to do!

8 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

 

They are ahead of you. Eat-in only.

Does door to door deliver this..if so, how much would it cost?  You may be onto something?

21 minutes ago, Gruff said:

I was responding to Karenbravo who stated that Phils was the only country in Asia not to have a have a proper cuisine.

 

Think I will go with Karenbravo on this one

On 11/3/2017 at 10:00 PM, Naam said:

does he who lives on 4,000 Baht a month own 100+ pieces of clothing?

OK...you may be right

Redoing the math, assuming 10 pairs each of everything and getting 2 days usage out of each.

That is one wash every 20 days for around 40 baht, or average of 60 baht per month, 720 baht per year.  Pretty good deal!

14 minutes ago, greatwhitenorth said:

 

The softness of the  Neapolitan pizza crust partly comes from its being cooked in a 900℉ wood-fired oven.

The air bubbles in the dough are pushed outward  to form the cornicione  or rim of the pizza base. The rim will swell, char and blister before the interior dough has dried out and hardened. But the dough itself is made to be elastic, able to cradle the tomatoes and mozzarella and toppings in a  fold. 

Nominating this for the most intelligent post of the year.....did you know that, or did you look it up?

Just now, JSixpack said:

 

LOL. Now I'm thinking you've never actually been to Pattaya.

 

Hey, no selfies allowed!

15 minutes ago, Gruff said:

Well F

Well Fish and Chips is of British origin. TexMex is the result of those of Mexican heritage living in Texas and turkey dinners were around in the UK in the time of Henry V111 so i think fair to say of British origin also. In the UK we have Indian rest, Chinese, Italian, Greek, Persian, Mexican, even Filipino. Never seen an Australian restaurant but we do have fast fast joints and roadside diners with US influence.

Alot of food comes from different places, even in Phils so what is your point?  What matters is how the food is adapted once it gets to a new place, like how spicy chillis were adapted into great Thai food.

Re. thanksgiving style turkey dinner, sorry but that is not British....see wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_dinner

"The majority of the dishes in the traditional American version of Thanksgiving dinner are made from foods native to the New World, as according to tradition the Pilgrims received these foods, or learned how to grow them, from the Native Americans.[1]

For the rest of your points, I am reminded of that great joke,

Heaven & Hell

HEAVEN is where:

The police are British, The chefs Italian, The mechanics are German, The lovers are French, and it's all organised by the Swiss

HELL is where: The police are German, The chefs are British, The mechanics are French, The lovers are Swiss, and it's all organised by the Italians!!

Maybe we can get someone to attempt a localized version of this joke with the theme of this thread woven into it?

7 minutes ago, greatwhitenorth said:

There are actually 7 styles of pizza that are native meals in Italy. 

 

Pizza Napoletana- hard  crust and from the city of Naples.

Pizza al Taglio- hard thin crust cut into strips and cooked in an electric oven. popular in Rome

Pizza Sciciliana- hard crust, square popular in Sicily

Pizza Romano Tonda- thin hard crust, hard enough there is no sag popular in Rome

Pizza Fritta - a pizza folded in half and deep fried - it will give you a heart attack  popular in Naples

Pizza Alla Pala- oblong shaped and up to a meter long, thick crusted - a group meal

Calzone- smallish pizza folded in half and baked -  originally from Naples

 

I quite like Bella Italia located on 2nd road  at the end of soi 6  reasonably priced and very good food

 

Which is it, because others have specifically said that it shouldn't be crispy?

12 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I agree it's a great bargain but I still go elsewhere because there are no toppings and I like other places better. Cheapness isn't everything unless you're very broke. 

Not knocking it. Have been twice already for the deal. 

What about buying this bargain as a take-away, bringing it home and adding some ingredients?  Maybe a budget way to get the job done?

4 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Living the dream , my friend living the dream ....supping from an ice cold Chang on the 7/11 steps in singlet and shorts ....all roads lead to .....Pattaya. 

why are people so obsessed with singlets?  I mean do they expected people to wear north face long sleeve fleece sweaters????I am guessing the complainers all have skinny arms and are jealous of guys with a modicum of muscle.

16 hours ago, TaaSaparot said:

 

Just one of the branches of 'Pak boong loy fa' .

 

Always found them pricey for what you get, and food is pretty touristy bland.

 

Certainly pricey for the cheap decor it has IMO.

Some of the best local fare is in places without expensive "decor"....or do you go to eat at places for the furniture?

21 hours ago, JSixpack said:

 

I haven't read anything about BIB claiming the copy is illegible if it's legible. Sounds like an excuse. Reference? Lies and misunderstandings abound. Nor is it in the least difficult to have a copy made up. Not really in the same category as a bespoke suit is it. I've always taken along a copy, and I think most of us do, for exactly this reason:

 

 

Thought everybody knew that. Evidently, you yourself had already learned about that rule in the "illegible copy" claim but merely paid the price of ignoring it.

 

 

Rentals are an exception. In that case you can show your rental receipt and you're on your way, if your license is in order. I see tourists doing this all the time at the Soi 9 checkpoint. Yawn.

 

 

Why would that change anything? Seems we're just dreaming up shit to throw on the wall to see if any sticks. Your question implies the stupidity of handing over your passport, rather than a copy, to a vendor, however.

 

 

A receipt for renting a motorbike?   Never heard of one!  Do share if you have a copy of one.  LOL

Stupidity is pasting together a bunch of posts, changing the meaning of them and trying to make a point. 

My question was specifically regarding how a renter without a green book would fare?  Is that simple enough for you, or would you like to copy and paste 3 or 4 different posts to not respond correctly and twist the meaning?

13 hours ago, Gruff said:

There are a couple in Earls Court, London which are predominantly frequented by Filipinos. Do the US (burgers) or Australia (meat pies) have a proper cuisine?  Tell me a US or Aussie  dish that is a patch on Adobo or Calereta .

How about Texmex or turkey dinner....basically anything on this list which isn;t even haute cuisine topes anything from {Phils

http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/american-food-dishes/index.html

13 hours ago, tryasimight said:

Who would have thunk..... A pizza snob thread. 

LOL....having a preference for a certain type of food is hardly snobbery, but maybe you are a bread and butter or cup noodles kind of person.  Even then, there are many types/brands.

Thanks to others for the many interesting responses, never realized there was even an official certification!

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Like I said, egg rolls are technically dim sum.

Look it up.

It's not a matter of opinion. They really are. 

Yes, I have noticed MK has half decent dim sum.

I don't consider that Thai dim sum. It's OK actual Chinese dim sum. 

If you were talking only about MK, why didn't you bloody say say so?

I was talking about those cheap shop house places and the total crap dim sum they serve there that no self respecting actual Chinese person would consider acceptable. 

 

No need to swear, let's keep the discussion civil.

I looked up egg rolls per your recommendation and here is what I found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_roll

Egg rolls are a variety of deep-fried appetizers served in American Chinese restaurants.

Egg rolls are a ubiquitous feature of American Chinese cuisine and are often served as free additions to American Chinese lunch special take-out combination platters throughout the United States,[5][6] along with fried rice and fortune cookies.

Maybe you also consider fortune cookies to be dim sum...LOL.

MK is most definitely a Thai resto,  offering great Thai  food

33 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I will add an exception to my general dissing of Thai style dim sum. Egg rolls / spring rolls are technically a classic Chinese dim sum item. They have become very popular globally and there are good localized egg roll versions in the west, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philipines, and I'm sure elsewhere as well. So Thai style egg rolls would be an exception. They can be quite good. I was really referring to the typical Thai dim sum shop house restaurant serving cheap imitations of Chinese dim sum, basically inferior to the real thing by definition. There is at least one major Thai chain that is branded as Chinese serving the same low level of dim sum so it's not only shop houses either. They used to be in Pattaya but closed. 

I don't consider egg rolls to be dim sum, more American style chinese take away kind of like chop suey or moo goo gai pan.

MK offers some excellent dimsum-style choices, though not a huge selection.  Try it some time, you might like it.

Thanks for responses

1 hour ago, Aussieroaming said:

Without getting too in depth Southern PI is very similar to Indonesian Food. I worked on an Island just off of the Southern Tip of Mindanao and we quite regularly ate Fish or Duck baked in Chilli (not for the faint hearted), Salty baked Fish, satay, spicy curry with coconut.  

 

In Manila you can eat from any ethic group in the world. The only dish I really dislike is rice, which comes as an addition to any meal. As for Balut, I declined to eat it.

 

When i worked in Manila its a bit like Bangkok, multitudes of food courts, restaurants and street food. I don't think that I ever ate the same meal twice in a week. Quite often those food courts are in the CBD skyscrapers catering to the office workers and you wouldn't be aware of them if you didn't live and work in the area, so we would go to a different food court or restaurant everyday. I can't imagine a food dish that you couldn't get there if you look hard enough.

 

So i don't know if i would classify the food as better than Thailand but there is certainly a varied food choice. And if you want to cook your own food there's plenty of supermarkets that stock fresh imported products (fresh and processed)Try this link if you want to see the food diversity.

http://filipinofoodaficionado.blogspot.com/2011/10/philippine-regional-specialties.html

good response and link

1 hour ago, stanleycoin said:

i'm sorry i can't help you.

Best of luck. 

so you didn't answer the question...why bother posting?  Best of luck!

9 minutes ago, stanleycoin said:

Not a lot.

But i can't be held responsible for peoples bad negotiation skills.

If you just remember,   Money Number One.

In this instance it will work in your favor, i'm sure.

or just walk to the next shop house renting bikes out.

and try again.  

 

 

not following, how does this affect the green book or not?

19 minutes ago, stanleycoin said:

well put it this way,  they take a copy of your passport when you hire 

a bike, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,   I will let you work out the rest.

But i own my cars and bikes , so i don't have a problem. 

 

what if they take a cash deposit instead of passport...how does that change things?