Bday Prang

I don't think soy sauce could be used very successfully as a replacement for Pla ra ! or even as a substitute for nam pla if that's what you actually meant, even though they are both salty there is a significant difference

I think you are right , For starters I think there's a bit more blood in Larb Luat. Not come across "Goy khua" before, probably as always ask for the raw variety but i might just give it a try next time. On the same track "neua daet deeow" also very nice with a cold beer

So what do you eat here on a day to day basis, ? KFC , Mcdonalds, and 7/11 sandwiches ? that would be the very definition of garbage, regardless of instagram

I think the grilled version is called "larb tort" as you say it's also delicious ! and Larb Ped (duck) is also well worth a try As regards "Goy" which I think is sometimes called "Larb leuat" one needs to be a little bit careful, firstly make sure they are offering beef, (Goy Neua) as raw pork or chicken is obviously not recommended although I have been offered that a few times at wedding / funeral celebrations here in Issan! (naturally i politely declined) Also, as it's not generally available in many "restaurants" and some of the , mainly roadside, places that sell it can look a little bit hygienically "dubious" shall we say, I've never had any issues, but to be honest 80% of the time I eat it at home. The "pia" , an optional addition to Goy that I referred to is often supplied free when buying beef at the roadside, (in the same way that they often include a bit of blood) it is a pale green / yellow liquid usually contained in a bit of tied off intestine, it adds a slightly bitter taste, It is often necessary to specifically ask for it in restaurants as a "farang", because the locals for some reason don't expect that foreigners would eat it, but seem genuinely delighted when we do !

I rarely suffer from a bad stomach either, I actually think chillies are wrongly blamed for this, more likely it is one of the other ingredients being a bit past its best that is responsible for diarrhea. Although I have heard that Papaya itself is a natural laxative

Highly unlikely, It would be very difficult to find a non issan person to even agree to taste it in order to pass judgement. It could actually be used as a task in one of those "I'm a celebrity get me out of here" shows Ants eggs "khai mut daeng" When available. surprisingly nice with a cold beer on a hot day too!

Oh yes nothing wrong with Larb I eat it several times a week although for me it has to be with sticky rice for some reason I just can't eat it with normal rice. Call me weird if you want, but I also find when eating it at home, that it goes quite well with french fries, or a baked potato . If my name was Heston Blumenthal I would probably receive an award for inventing a new "fusion cuisine" Have you ever tried "Goy" another personal favorite of mine, basically raw beef infused with a copious amount of chillies and the optional addition of "Pia" not sure about the spelling, but it's basically a by product of the cows digestion, without going into too much detail lol

No you were not wrong , you were absolutely correct, the "dumbed down" SomTam in the op photo bears absolutely no resemblance to the putrid north eastern version whatsoever. Even the photo of the real thing that you attached seem to be nicer looking than what's usually offered. It is indeed almost comical watching them eat it as you say, with the facial contortions and throat slapping whilst mumbling Phet Phet and the next days after effects can also be somewhat spectacular too! Pla-ra is definitely Thailand's secret weapon of mass destruction and one of the few things here I refuse to eat

"personal enjoyment" well we can't have any of that nonsense can we?

yes I did

I cannot think of anything on this planet that worries me less or bores me more

would that include being scared of ghosts and picking lottery numbers from the registration numbers of vehicles involved in fatal accidents?

They inherited a bit of a mess back in 2010 which seems to have been forgotten about ? Don't you remember the note the treasury guy left for his successor "There's no money left" just about sums Labour up and Gordon"the moron" Browns "prudent fiscal policies"

Oh dear now its time to put your money where your mouth is https://www.taxjournal.com/articles/want-to-pay-more-tax- Although it is referred to in the article as "the worst sort of virtue signalling" and quite rightly too. You certainly didn't look very hard did you, I wonder why ? Lack of sincerity perhaps? anyway no excuses now ! how much are you going to pay? Assuming you still want to, there is absolutely nothing stopping you ,

the chips looked crap too

I prefer it rare but with no messing about, cut its horns off and wipe its <deleted> and its good to go

or colour blind, there again maybe I am ,I can't see blue anywhere on that picture

I think you are the one who has been brainwashed, presumably by the Guardian and the BBC, You really should not believe all you are fed by the lefty MSM The fact that you consider the BBC in any way right wing tells us all we need to know. The BBC is by anybody's standards "left wing" it's just not left enough for you People pulling their own teeth? for god's sake do you actually believe that rubbish? I recently spent 5 months in the UK, during that time I renewed both my passport and driving licence with no problems whatsoever. I completed some "free" routine dental treatment on the NHS and also was forced to attend the A&E department of a national health hospital as a result of an eye injury sustained at work, again no problems whatsoever, and no people left dying in corridors or anything else of that nature. This is my personal experience and not your second hand cut and pasted tripe from selected lefty news papers. who's sole aim is to bring down any conservative government, The police are now far to busy investigating so called "hate crimes" (another lefty invention), or raiding pubs displaying gollywog dolls and a multitude of other similar ridiculous operations normally as a result of some lefty snowflake becoming "offended" Any breakdown in the efficiency of public services is mainly as a result of uncontrolled immigration, millions of non tax paying illegals working in the black economy, correctly described as an invasion, nobody can say the current government has performed well in that respect but its hardly surprising when any and every attempt at trying to solve this problem is thwarted by whingeing lefty human rights lawyers, most of your precious labour party are in favour of no borders at all and seem unable to accept that the hundreds of thousands of recent arrivals putting services under incredible strain, are in the main nothing more than economic migrants. Likewise Brexit, perfectly thwarted by the remoaners, and not yet allowed to become the success it should and ultimately will be, Kier starmer as usual being no more capable of giving his real opinions on it any more than he is able to define a woman. He certainly like to sit on the fence. His previous position as director of public prosecutions was hardly a success, under his watch , notorious pedophile Jimmy Saville was "mysteriously" able to avoid prosecution, was this just incompetence or something more sinister Jeremy Corbyn, the anti semite. is probably more responsible than anybody for preventing the nightmare scenario of a Labour government, and for that the Uk owes him a huge debt, he should be knighted Boris Johnson has been and gone along with the others you mentioned, although you do seem to have a problem with Rishi Sunak, was it really necessary to mention his ethnicity? No surprise really as racism and prejudice and the like are never far from the surface of the all so tolerant lefties, In case you have forgotten "Mr Personality" Gordon Brown he was also unelected as a replacement for war criminal Tony Blair Your precious "cash starved" NHS ruined by mis guided "socialists" seems to have no problems finding the money to employ hundreds of "diversity consultants" advertising mind boggling salaries of over £200.000 a year plus very generous pensions, more than the prime minister and most doctors could ever hope to earn You should remove the rose tinted spectacles you wear when reminiscing about the 70's they have affected your memory, you have forgotten about the 33% base rate of income tax, 3 day week , the power cuts, the winter of discontent, and the endless strikes. Strikes, that unlike the recent series of strikes, were not a purely politically motivated attempt by lefty dinosaur union executives trying to bring down a conservative government at any cost I am not rich, but I am a damn sight better off than I ever was under a labour government as is everybody else, except of course the work shy benefit claimants who wish for a "labour" government and if you are so keen to pay more tax then don't let me stop you, It's not difficult to voluntarily pay more if you really want to , but you don't really want to at all do you? Although if ,god forbid we ever do end up with a labour government you won't have the choice. They can never be allowed to govern again If you can't understand that things will indeed get worse then your free degree was a complete waste of time , and indeed money,

Thai women may indeed be active in crime, but the fact that they have a high incarceration rate is hardly a testament to their "skill" so clearly not "the best"

But not by being bitten ! It is caught by exposure to their urine, normally from contaminated water

Not a great deal of imagination required to work out why rubbish like this is continually posted on here.

That's the way I see it too, Other than a few self appointed "health and safety officers", who would ban any form of enjoyment as they continue their crusade to change Thailand into a clone of their own miserable "safe " countries. Makes me wonder why they came here in the first place, makes me wonder even more why they choose to remain.

A bit like watching a cricket match,

So not unlike Christmas, Easter, Halloween ,Mothersday, etc. etc,

But did anybody actually have any fun ? of course not