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Quick answer. Thanks!

I wonder if they will send it back to me or try again? Anyone have any experience?

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You have eaten in this place for years and always have had good food. You get one dish that is poorly cooked and you want someone to tell you some Thai so that you can go and have a confrontation.

Why not keep quiet, go and order your food there again. You never know, you might go another few years without having a poorly prepared dish there.

P.S: If your next dish is poor as well, this is a Thai's way of telling you that they don't want you eating at their place anymore.

I haven't been back yet. I am not looking for a confrontation. I am always very warmly greeted at this place FOR MANY YEARS and there is no possible way the food was cooked super greasy to get me. It is possible they have a new cook or just a mistake. I am not sure most Thais would have seen a problem with the dish, but for me it was a problem. I will probably try again as you suggested (thought of this myself actually) without asking for less oil because I think asking for less oil is a little tricky for a dish cooked in oil, and just see what happens. The other issue is that I already customize the dish three ways as "special large" "very spicy" and egg cooked runnier. Super results with all that (my name there is my order) but a FOURTH customization might just be the tipping point. Rather than making up fantasies that they hate me, which I know isn't true, perhaps the extra oil was a "gift" to a loyal long term and TIPPING customer. If it does happen the next time, actually I still won't believe they want me to go away. THEN I will try to the next time with adding this FOURTH request. If that doesn't work, well, then I'm screwed, because it's surprisingly hard to get good versions of this dish.

I think all your requests are quite normal and a Thai would order in the same way. Saying mai mon is a perfectly polite way of saying no excess oil or not oily. It's a preference, like asking for it spicy or not spicey. Add krap to the end of your sentence and you are as polite as can be.

I've been ordering that way for years, if they don't get mai mon, for some reason, I add nammun nit noy or noy and then a light goes off, it's usually not needed though.

That said, I guess only about 50 percent of the time does it actually make any difference to how much oil they use or the the little they leave out is inconsequential. Sometimes they really do pay attention and it's less oily. Sometimes also I will order with my preferences (perhaps Khao Pad Kung) and then listen as the server yells to the cook to make the farang shrimp fried rice, while leaving everything else I asked for (in Thai) out. Whatever, I'm not whining, it's a complicated world.

The idiomatic way to ask for less oil is to say: Mai mon. (my mon)

They will understand.

Read the above......Think about it.......Read it again,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Think about it..............Then try saying it in a restaurant and see what happens!

I just got a new USA passport. I have 5 months left on my non-B extension in my old passport. Is it a legal requirement that I go to immigration to have the visa and extension transferred into the new passport or can I just wait until my next extension and have them put the new stamp in the new passport? I don't plan on leaving the country before then.

Thanks.

The idiomatic way to ask for less oil is to say: Mai mon. (my mon)

They will understand.

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That's the kind of story you get when a "reporter" is actually a typist.

"Mr. Akekanut Prompunt, spokesperson of the PDRC told the media that the residents residing in the vicinity of the rally sites have responded well to the rally, "

I'm not responding very well to 16 hours a day of moronic angry amplified ranting being blasted into my Rajadamri condo.

I just decided to get out of Bangkok during the upcoming protests. Any suggestions for very new hotels or guesthouses up to about 1500 baht. Cheap and simple would be great but I find anything older than a year that's cheap is usually, but not always, unpleasantly run down. I haven't been to Pattaya this time of year for a while. Is it packed full of Russians?

Thanks!

Dental malpractice is not limited to Thailand. Here is a link to a shocking Reader's Digest article.

http://benemax.go2dental.com/ReaderDigestArticle.pdf

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Harder thing for me is getting used to having the turn signal on the opposite side of the steering wheel. I'm constantly turning on the wipers instead of the turn signal.

All boats stop at siirirat pier. (Also called wang lang). Just take the first one. It's also just as fast to take a taxi from Wong Wian Yai.

It usually takes about an hour from the time you board the bts to getting off at sirrirat pier. Often less. Very rarely ten minutes longer. I do that trip often to get to Thammasat which is across from sirrirat.

Pretty much just like any other day as posted above. In fact, given the miles travelled, the death toll is LOWER than usual!

Calling the True help line usually works great. Competent English speakers who do their best to help.

Calling the True help line usually works great. Competent English speakers who do their best to help.

Most streets in Bangkok will have a few mom and pop hardware stores.

Personally, I'd head to Klong Thom, the cheap tool capitol of Bangkok.

It's not on the BTS/MRT routes. But, it's an easy bus ride: http://goo.gl/maps/Eg8EM

Thanks. I might end up taking that bus trip!

They must carry different stock in inner city stores.

It's a definite mai mee.

I need a cheap ratchet set. Actually just need a 13mm socket, an extension and a ratchet, but I will just buy the whole set. This sort of made in China set would be available in the USA at Walmart/Kmart etc. for 5 bucks or so. Can't find one anywhere here, but I probably just don't know where to look.

So far I've checked at Big C, Tesco and Home Pro on Wittayu.

Any ideas convenient to the BTS? Thanks!

They don't work on commission, do they?

Is that the same as "rent"?

I guess it is.

Just thinking there might be someone going away for the holidays that wants to cover their rent or put their condo to use. I do it myself sometimes.

I'm looking to sublet a condo/apartment/house between 15 December and 15 January in Chiang Mai. Any part of that time period would be OK also.

I'm a long term expat living in Bangkok. Excellent references. Quiet and mature.

Please send me a PM if you know of something.

Thanks.

I stopped by a key copy kiosk in Amarin Plaza in Bangkok today and asked for a copy of my 10 year old Wave key. He said it would be 200 baht. Is it really that much or was he overcharging me? Just curious.

25 year sentence in Thailand means that with royal commutations and good behavior and he will likely be out in 7 years. That is the average length of time a murderer spends in a Thai prison according to a Thammasat criminal justice professor I know.