McTavish

Me too.

Kiwis are spoiled for choice of some great craft beers and Vietnam also. It's sad that the good craft brews of Thailand are taxed so heavily and not widely available. I nearly bought some a few weeks back until I checked the date stamp (bottom of can). At least Aussies know how to store beer - in giant coolrooms. Thai's put potatoes and onions in cold stores which spoils them very fast, no such treatment for high yield beer stocks!

During the pandemic I noticed many food products on shelves were past their best-by-date (BBD), although none were as bad as bottled beer. After all, most dry packaged products, even cheeses, are perfectly ok beyond the BBD. Especially cheese, which was often discounted by up to 50%, win win! ☺️ Bottled beer however, goes off, becomes tainted, in about 6 to 8 weeks especially if it's transported and stored in high temperatures. Ever since Covid I've checked beer freshness prior to purchase at various stores and the results are alarming. Whilst my observations relate to Chiang Mai stores the same applies across the country to most stockists. BigC, Makro, Tops, GoWholesale and Rimping all have beer in stock which is well past 6 weeks old. I've bought Beer Laos by the bottle only to discard it before noticing each bottle is marked with a production date. The worst offenders are the major stockists holding many pallets of brew. Singha has either the highest turnover or freshest supply and with a local brewery perhaps the latter. I don't buy any beer unless it's within 4 weeks of production date as marked on the case. GoWholesale takes 1st prize for the oldest beer stocks I've seen since the pandemic with Archa beer at 6 months old! Some of the Chang stock was also 1923 vintage. Hops and alcohol are natural preservatives but AFAIK, Archa has a low hops to rice ratio which would make it susceptible to spoiling much faster.

Warren issued? NOT if you read the full story.

Will he leave on a Boeing or Airbus? 55

Payday coming for Baltimore lawyers? IMO it was the bridges fault🤠

New Zealand also as Asians make up a greater proportion of the population than indigenous folk.

WISE tfr from NZ to Kasikorn a/c in less than 5 seconds. Card use when traveling is simple. For extended visits to say, Vietnam or UK, I buy VND or GBP in advance when the fx rate is in my favour. I even converted Wise USD a/c funds to VND when it suited and won on the fx twice. Love it!

Kiwi's can enter Visa-Exempt for 30 days. Seems like the Thai embassy in Wellington is simply moving to online Visa's and jacked fees to pay the webmaster, among others.😎

I'm with AIS and receive OTP's from Aus and NZ banks no problem. ANZ both sides of the ditch, and WestPac. Likely an Aussie problem, not AIS, IMHO.

Like Chiang Mai, right? 😜

Try here https://www.facebook.com/huayyaicornerstore

The extended 'winter' cool period is a natural fire suppressant. Wait for the hot season to kick in with lightning strikes and squalls.

Sauté function might do it but I only ever do roasts in my bbq or electric oven.

Yes, it is also a pressure cooker. Mine is of a similar design with same functions and although a cheapie, bought 5 years ago, it performs just as well as my son's expensive Breville. The pressure cooking function is quiet (and safe) compared with old-style cookers. EDIT: Despite HomePro labeling as a 'rice' cooker, it is in fact a multi-cooker.

Lazada or Shopee sell 'Multi-cookers' or you might grab one at HomePro > (I have a similar model - fantastic!)

Typical Thaiger trash news. AN should rise above copying from social media clickbait.

You might have simply corrected the error, to read "reserve".

Several underlying causes of road deaths often ignored are:- high powered vehicles in the hands of inexperienced drivers. EV's in particular will be a menace in the wrong hands with frightening acceleration and poor wet weather handling. New cars get quicker and quicker, alas drivers brains haven't kept pace. Phone use whilst driving is so prevalent yet perpetrators hide behind illegal all-round black tint. Even when not using a phone, night vision is dangerously reduced.

50 years of drunk driving has honed my senses and I've never had an accident. It's these young kids you gotta watch out for. Seriously though, yaba/meth/P/Ice or whatever combined with alcohol will only see a rise in deaths. Mainly (~75%) motorbike riders.

"Sawan" appears to be unsuited for open waters of Phang Nga bay. She is narrow in the beam, high wooded and I daresay of fairly shallow draft and with a single engine. High windage, pax all topside on aft deck + poor seamanship would likely cause a high centre of gravity and capsize the vessel. An avoidable accident if Western maritime safety rules and regulations were in place and followed, even loosely.

GoWholesale. Makro meat is poor quality.

GoWholesale in Chiangmai is already competing with Makro .... BUT their meat and poultry is far superior, well priced too!

Very true. Kwan's is 90% consistent with a moderate gravy-like consistency. The flavour of her stock is, IMHO, just perfect.

Exactly. Despite El Nino, the Polar Vortex has collapsed to cause this spread of cold weather across the north.