Lorry

The same happened to me once, too.

No, that still happened around 2005 or 2010

Sodium means salt (= sodium chloride), so the test is "does it taste salty"? Thai food tastes very salty compared to Chinese food, which is always too bland if you are used to Thai food. The salty liquids mentioned in the article are consumed by the gallon. That they are unhealthy is obvious to anyone who still has some remnants of natural feelings for nutrition (not to Americans and Brits). They are tasty, though, I like them a lot.

If OP resides in Pattaya, there many Ugandans working there. Easily recognizable as they look quite different from the usual Russians and Chinese. I would talk to them. I was told by one of them that it was easy to get a 3-months-visa in Uganda. But OP didn't even tell us whether his fiancé (that is a man, BTW, not a girlfriend as someone erroneously wrote) right now is in Uganda, or in the US, or In Ushuaia. He also didn't tell us whether 3 months would satisfy his needs.

Yes, Finnair cheated me out of 600 €. They canceled my ticket and that was it. No reason given. (Actually, the reason was quite obvious: I had bought the ticket during covid. Later they realized they could still sell these tickets for 1200€, so they raised prices and canceled my existing ticket and my reservation) They don't have an email address, on the phone they just told me the ticket would be canceled with no refund (they offered a voucher in which I wasn't interested), I sent them a registered letter to their physical address and didn't get an answer. My insurance reimbursed 500€, so I didn't pursue the issue.

It's between Soi 13 and Soi 15

Yes, you can

There is a good place near km 175 of Sukhumvit Rd, OP can PM me for details

Hatari is good because it is one of the very few brands where you can easily get replacement filters. Xiaomi is another one. It is very difficult, to say the least, to get replacement filters for the Japanese brands. In a thread from the time PM 2.5 started, like 5 or 6 years ago, somebody posted his experiences looking for replacement filters for, I think it was Sharp. You don't want to go through the same ordeal.

The Chinese will populate it again

You shouldn't wai back to the cashier in BigC or the waitress in Pizza Company, neither the staff at the door or the information counter of a hotel or hospital. Neither a 10 y.o. child. Older people (meaning over 18) may remember the times when a cashier in a supermarket wasn't required by his employer to wai the customers. Not all Thais were happy when companies started this - it devaluated the wai.

I have the cheapest model from Hatari. No app required. I also have the cheapest model from Xiaomi. No app required.

That's not foolish, that's smart.

For suspected skin cancer it's Dr Anna and no-one else. It's a rare condition in Thailand and Thai skin doctors aren't familiar with it. Sheryl has written this a hundred times. Dr Anna only works at Bangkok Pattaya Hospital. Actually, be happy that she hasn't retired yet.

The lady in Bangkok Bank figures an anti-masker is an irresponsible and unhygienic person who doesn't care if he infects others. I avoid to deal with this kind of person, but her job forces her to speak with you. So obviously, she doesn't take off her mask. She isn't stupid. But what exactly do the American culture wars have to do with the health forum of Thai Visa?

Yesterday I wanted to ask whether you are blind (seriously). But today I guess SSH is right:

? Plenty of songthaews all over town. Even on Sathorn Rd. Very strange comment.

Yes. Eat only stuff that your grandma would recognize as food. Don't buy anything that comes packaged. That rules out 90% of what an American style supermarket sells.

You conveniently forget Pratadbu. I invite you to come and have a couple of glasses of the yellow tap water of Pratadbu.

In Bangkok, yes. But tap water is not safe for human consumption in Pratadbu, for example. Even in the city center of Udon Thani I got diarrhea from the tap water I was stupid enough to drink.

Half a million donated doses of bivalent vaccines are arriving today. Another 500,000 have arrived already, and 500,000 more will be donated by France. This has been reported by English language print media.

The UK has been free of rabies for 20 years. So they handle dog bites differently from countries like Thailand where rabies is endemic.

In the whole world, out of tens of thousands of rabies deaths, there are a handful of survivors. So it's only 99.999% deadly.

As this has been brought up by various posters: Current guidelines (WHO, American CDC, Thai Red Cross) don't care about this. Neither do they care if the dog never leaves the garden. (Reason: rabies is 100% deadly, vaccine is very well tolerated) So these posters are right: You should get post exposure prophylaxis: 4 shots of vaccine plus 1 shot of immunoglobulin if you have never had rabies vaccine. If you were vaccinated before, only 2 shots of vaccine. (There are other vaccination schedules, too)

I second Dr Petcharat, for the same reasons as Sheryl. BTW Bumrungrad is not more expensive than Samitivej