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    Reviews Of Chefsxp Restaurants

    in Bangkok

    Posted

    hrmm sounds like a cry for help from someone with binge eating disorder to me! :o but thanks for the input.

    Whew! I thought it was going to sound like a cry for more Dunkin' Donuts. Turns out a cry for help is cheaper and less fattening!!

    All kidding aside, thank you for your post. I reread what I wrote and you were spot on to nail me with your analysis. I just hope that I don't deter others from contributing to this thread....because the idea of the thread (reviewing only the restaurants that deliver) is a good one!

    Bring on the reviews!

    CHEERS!

    D

    Reviews Of Chefsxp Restaurants

    in Bangkok

    Posted

    Hi!

    The saying in the West is, "your mileage may vary".....and it means that one person's experience with something (like Chef'sXP) may differ wildly from another's.

    With that in mind....I'll just express my own personal experiences....although, "your mileage may vary". :-)

    I lived in Bangkok for more than a year before ever ordering "delivery" food. Then, I went on about a 2 week binge.....insane, actually in terms of sheer quantity of food I ate. I'd post a real copy of an order here....but I guarantee you'd only accuse me of faking the order.

    I used both ChefsXP and FoodByPhone.....sometimes both of them within an hour of each other for separate orders. True story. :-)

    I never had a single problem with either of them....and this was for at least 15 orders between them. (Note: I also ordered from "1121" for Swensen's ice cream cakes and ice cream containers....and had only wonderful experiences with them, too. Their delivery service and the quality of their ice cream was top notch!). Both ChefsXP and FoodByPhone.....I used internet ordering for both......got every single order right, they properly executed every special request I made (there is a box under each item you order from either service....and you can make special requests there....like, "no potatoes", "not too much oil and butter", etc.), and they delivered every order well within the time limit that was given. Heck, even the ice creams were brought still frozen (perfect!)....achieved by using the special containers and dry ice that they utilize. And the hot items always were still hot when they arrived.

    I'm not "pimping" anyone's food or service. I'm just telling you that both delivery services (and a third one......"1121") got it all right, every time for me.....for at least 15 orders in a row.

    Ahhhhhhhh......one note. I only ordered from the Indian food places offered by both delivery services, and one order that included food from Beirut restaurant. So perhaps I should qualify my statements here by being clear that what I've said really only applies to the Indian food places, Swensen's delivery (1121), and the "mini mart" items offered by ChefsXP (which included Dunkin' Donuts!!!!! YUM!!).

    I'm not in any way doubting the credibility of some of the statements others have made that suggest problems with the delivery services. It just seems that....."their mileage varied".....from mine....lol!!!

    CHEERS!

    D

    Sponsor: Nana Pasta Sauce

    in Western Food in Thailand

    Posted

    Hey CHEFHEAT.......your passion for seeking customer feedback, and then using that feedback as the basis for product improvements is inspiring!!

    What is the total sugar (or other added sweeteners) content in each of your current products.....i.e....what % by weight in the bottle?

    Any plans (fingers crossed) to offer a sugar free version?

    CHEERS!

    D

    My Friend Is Dark Skinned Indian....will He Be Treated Well At A Certain "adult Only" Business?

    in Bangkok

    Posted

    Hi! My friend is coming to town for a first visit to Bangkok. He is dark skinned....Indian.....and he wants to go to a certain business on Sukhumvit Soi 8....the name of the business starts with "L". It is....well....for "adults only".

    I have read 100's of reports of how "well serviced" people felt upon leaving this business. My question is.....will the place accept my friend or is there a problem there for Indian folks?

    If at all possible....please feel free to bring on the crazy one liners, etc.......but just hold off on doing so until someone answers the question here, k? :-) :-)

    CHEERS!

    D

    A Friend With A Serious Allergy To Seafood....can You Help?

    in Thai Language

    Posted

    Here's what he wrote me in advance of his first trip to Bangkok.

    I am highly allergic to seafood ...even a little shrimp paste in a soup can land me in the hospital ... Can you please let me know from your thai friends what would be the thai sentence to say "No seafood of any type in my food pls , thank you"

    Can you help with a translation (in Thai) and also an English version of how the Thai words sound in English?

    He's going to be here Friday.....so no rush. You guys are always so darn helpful!!

    CHEERS!

    D

    Coconut Burfi.....where Can You Buy It On Lower Sukhumvit?

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Hi!

    There was a place on Soi 12 that sold wonderful coconut burfi....but it closed down and has now been replaced by a full on restaurant.

    There's also many places to buy Indian Punjab sweets in "Little India" (I finally went there.....wonderful area.....China Town is, too!!).

    Do you know where......in the lower Sukhumvit area.....you can buy reeeeeeeally high quality coconut burfi?

    CHEERS!

    D

    Question About Thailand Mobile Phone From My Friend In India

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Greetings! :-)

    Here's his question. On both his behalf and mine......thank you for any help you can provide.

    Hello D,

    I require inputs from u on this . In India when backpackers visit our country they buy a mobile phone connection for like rs 400 and some identity proof documents and top it up with a calling card which credits ur connection with calling money and one can recharge when money is goes nil

    It is called a PRE PAID CARD. i guess u had a prepaid connection in INDIA . Key players Vodafone (then orange/hutch) , Airtel,BPL etc.

    Can u please let me know if it is as easy to get a sim connection in Bangkok that we can use for roaming as well and the procedure / documents to get one in thailand.

    CHEERS!

    D

    Where Is India Town?

    in Bangkok

    Posted

    I'd like to ask a different question.....I promise, it's not more about directions! Lol!

    I've been to Little Arabia quite often....I love it. Everything about it. The vibe, the shops, the food, etc.

    I also lived in India for a short while......but I have not been to Little India. What is "Little India" like? Relative to "Little Arabia"....is there as much of an "genuine, positive vibe" in Little India? I never had heard of it before this post....is it "newer"? Why so little talk about it?

    CHEERS!

    D

    How To Test If An Unreachable Website Is Down Everywhere, Or Just For You

    in IT and Computers

    Posted

    Hey Reimar.....not sure we're thinking of the service in the same way. I don't expect it to....and you're right that it wouldn't.....show us a site that is being blocked. What I'll use it for is when I think a site is being blocked here in Thailand....but am not sure if it is indeed being blocked or just "temporarily down for everyone in the world"........by entering in the site address at "downforeveryoneorjustme.com".....and if they say the site is working.....well, then we know it's being blocked here in Thailand.

    Right?

    CHEERS!

    D

    How To Test If An Unreachable Website Is Down Everywhere, Or Just For You

    in IT and Computers

    Posted

    Hi! I thought this might help folks in the future. I've not tried it (currently there are no sites that I can't access...WOOHOO!!)....but it was written up in the New York Times today.

    http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

    Here's the text of the NYT article:

    July 6, 2008

    As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll

    By BRAD STONE

    SAN FRANCISCO — Alex Payne, a 24-year-old Internet engineer here, has devised a way to answer a commonly asked question of the digital age: Is my favorite Web site working today?

    In March, Mr. Payne created downforeveryoneorjustme.com, as in, “Down for everyone, or just me?” It lets visitors type in a Web address and see whether a site is generally inaccessible or whether the problem is with their own connection.

    “I had seen that question posed so often,” said Mr. Payne, who perhaps not coincidentally works at Twitter, a Web messaging and social networking site that is itself known for frequent downtime. “Technology companies have branded the Internet as a place that is always on and where information is always available. People are disappointed and looking for answers when it turns out not to be true.”

    There is plenty of disappointment to go around these days. Such technology stalwarts as Yahoo, Amazon.com and Research in Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry, have all suffered embarrassing technical problems in the last few months.

    About a month ago, a sudden surge of visitors to Mr. Payne’s site began asking about the normally impervious Amazon. That site was ultimately down for several hours over two business days, and Amazon, by some estimates, lost more than a million dollars an hour in sales.

    The Web, like any technology or medium, has always been susceptible to unforeseen hiccups. Particularly in the early days of the Web, sites like eBay and Schwab.com regularly went dark.

    But since fewer people used the Internet back then, the stakes were much lower. Now the Web is an irreplaceable part of daily life, and Internet companies have plans to make us even more dependent on it.

    Companies like Google want us to store not just e-mail online but also spreadsheets, photo albums, sales data and nearly every other piece of personal and professional information. That data is supposed to be more accessible than information tucked away in the office computer or filing cabinet.

    The problem is that this ideal requires Web services to be available around the clock — and even the Internet’s biggest companies sometimes have trouble making that happen.

    Last holiday season, Yahoo’s system for Internet retailers, Yahoo Merchant Solutions, went dark for 14 hours, taking down thousands of e-commerce companies on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. In February, certain Amazon services that power the sites of many Web start-up companies had a day of intermittent failures, knocking many of those companies offline.

    The causes of these problems range widely: it might be system upgrades with unintended consequences, human error (oops, wrong button) or even just old-fashioned electrical failures. Last month, an electrical explosion in a Houston data center of the Planet, a Web hosting company, knocked thousands of Web businesses off the Internet for up to five days.

    “It was prolonged torture,” said Grant Burhans, a Web entrepreneur from Florida whose telecommunications- and real-estate-related Web sites were down for four days, costing him thousands of dollars in lost business.

    Web addicts who find themselves shut out of their favorite Web sites tend to fill blogs and online bulletin boards with angry invective about broken promises and interrupted routines.

    The volatile emotions around Web downtime are perhaps most prevalent in the discussion around Twitter, on which users post updates on who they are with, where they are, and what they are doing.

    According to Pingdom, a Web monitoring firm, Twitter was down for 37 hours this year through April — by far more than any other major social networking Web site.

    Instead of simply dumping the service and moving on with their lives, Twitter users have responded with an endless stream of rancor, creating “Is Twitter Down?” T-shirts, blog rants and YouTube parodies, and posting copies of Twitter’s various artfully designed error messages.

    “This is a free service. It’s not like anyone’s life is depending on Twitter,” said Laura Fitton, a consultant and self-described passionate Twitter user.

    “Twitter is all about the things we discover we have in common, so right there, Twitter failing is a huge thing we have in common,” she said. “It’s fun to complain to each other and commiserate.”

    Twitter has said its downtime is the result of rapidly growing demand and fundamental mistakes in its original architecture.

    Jesse Robbins, a former Amazon executive who was responsible for keeping Amazon online from 2004 to 2006, says the outcries over failures are understandable.

    “When these sites go away, it’s a sudden loss. It’s like you are standing in the middle of Macy’s and the power goes out,” he said. “When the thing you depend on to live your daily life suddenly goes away, it’s trauma.”

    He says Web services should be held to the same standard of reliability as the older services they aim to replace. “These companies have a responsibility to people who rely and depend on them, just as people going over a public bridge expect that the bridge won’t suddenly collapse.”

    By some measures, despite the high-profile failures, the Internet is performing better than ever.

    “There are millions of Web sites and billions of Web pages around the world,” said Umang Gupta, chief executive of Keynote Systems, which monitors companies’ Web performance. “These big high-visibility problems are actually very rare.”

    But perhaps they are not rare enough. One morning last month, Google App Engine, a service that lets people run interactive Web applications, was unavailable for several hours.

    Among those affected was Mr. Payne, who had just shifted downforeveryoneorjustme.com over to Google’s servers. It was inaccessible as well.

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