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Thai food =Super unhealthy food! I read a Post here a few years back about a poster ordering a black coffee no sugar and watched the Thai put a teaspoon of a powder in it.

When he asked what it was ...MSG! amazing Thailand

Ok you may as well tell us how much your selling for. Great ad though very well presented

7 hours ago, Tagged said:

You could say Thailand attracts immature people in all different forms from criminals, never got out of mamas shirts, stupid, no moral, and many social excluded who find their paradise in Thailand. 

 

If you live here for awhile, you will meet them one by one, either in a bar or up north. 

Which one are you? 

Vietnam is getting Thailands rejects, people who failed at life and now at the mercy of currency exchange on meagre pensions and nothing else. How does a person spend a 40 year working life and were not able to save 800k ?

Lucky vietnam !!

If he was wearing a watch the same Price as a new condo then you can bet his loss was just pocket money

2 minutes ago, Rookiescot said:

Several posts on here from guys who seem to be demanding everyone else conforms to their lifestyle choice.

I really dont understand why.

Personally I dont like soi 6. I really find Pattaya in general to be too "in your face" for me but I dont condemn guys who like it. Its up to them.

If you dont like it dont go.

But dont judge people who do like it.

No doubt many of the guys who harrass P4P Players are no longer sexualy active . makes sense

Tm 30, Tm 28 , Tm 47 and 800k I could handle but this is just to much. Veitnam here I come !

57 minutes ago, Kaoboi Bebobp said:

robsamui, that's a pretty fair description of life in Vietnam, having just spent almost two years living in Vung Tau, southeast of 
Saigon, and a much earlier spell on the west side of the Delta.

 

A few remarks: 

 

Viets are very security conscious. The worst times for crimes are after any big sporting event (gambling) in which a lot of people will lose big amounts of money, their motorcycles and cars or even their homes. I know one foreigner whose heavily gated and barred house was broken into and numerous big bikes, cash and other valuables were stolen, despite there being a security guard. He believes it was an inside job, while they were away briefly, because the robbers took the window bars and front door bars apart and no one saw or heard anything.  The robbers needed the money to pay off their debts with the mafia, the victim told me. It was right after a major soccer series. On the other hand, after say the World Cup, there will be lots of almost new expensive motorbikes in the second-hand shops. I'm not joking. 

 

I never had any such crime problems and felt completely safe in Vung Tau. Overall, everyone was nice and friendly. Never felt the shops were ripping me off, except for a couple of minor incidents of over-charging. 

 

Regarding currency. Keep 500,000, 200,000 and 100,000 VND notes separate from the lower value notes. The blue 500,000 and 20,000 notes look very similar, as do the reddish 200,000 and 10,000 notes.

 

In tourist areas, with big weekend influxes, get your money out of the ATM beforehand. Machines often go empty or offline in the weekend onslaught. 

 

I determined I was not going to ride a motorcycle in VN in any way, shape or form. I've ridden scooters for years in Thailand and Cambodia. The Viets are the most unpredictable, brainless riders I've ever seen. In a one-month period, no less than 4 people I know, 3 foreigners and 1 Viet, had serious accidents. Of course, almost no one has a licence or insurance. Victim pays. 

 

There's absolutely nothing like the Thai 7-11s in VN. Although there are a couple now in Saigon. Circle K is the best run convenience chain. Family Mart is not bad either. Vinmart expanding crazily but not well managed and pretty useless from my point of view. All of them are raising their game though, bit by bit. 

 

However, I learned to buy basic supplies only from the chain stores. The mom and pop places, I believe, sell dodgy or counterfeit items like booze and water. A friend had independently decided to do the same. I voiced my suspicions about a mineral water of a well known label and he revealed he came to the same conclusion because he felt sick a number of times. Me too.

 

Last, booze. Lots of counterfeit whiskey, vodka, Jagermeister. Tends to be fake booze in bars that sell it for unbelievably low prices, such as buy one, get one free. Regular headaches led me to suspect contaminated Black Label and Jagermeister. Stopped drinking them, immediately no more headaches. I switched to Jameson, which seemed quite OK, but later someone said he felt they were counterfeiting that too. Felt the same about the cartons of Mevius Wind Blues I was buying at a popular foreigners' market compared to the somewhat better packs I bought  at Circle K in Saigon. But the Thai ones are far superior. 

 

OK, this is starting to get rather negative. It's part and parcel of why I left Vietnam. 

 

 

geez that's just crazy. Thanks for exposing the scaming. I think those running from tm30 form Will be jumping from frying pan in to the fire!

Used to be a no hassle bar 3/4 of the way down that I liked to sit at and watch the madness but it shut and havent been back since.  So what if tourists go there to get laid, Prostitution is hardly unique to Pattaya

Has the president said the thoughts and prayers thingy yet?