Everyman

5 hours ago, gargamon said:

Coconut milk comes as a liquid in cans or boxes. Try and get your facts straight.

For crissake put the box in the fridge and see what happens.  

Curries are made from coconut milk which is a solid when it is cold. That’s it. 

Regarding the scientific paper somebody posted, it does not support their claim at all, at least not in the abstract.  

I will do nothing different, but I’ve been traveling a lot for unrelated reasons and don’t expect to be in Thailand for 180 days this year. 

I only bring in enough to live on for myself anyway, so I’m the smallest fish they could go after. If they do anything, they’ll make an example of a bigger fish, then we will see. 

But I think that a year from now exactly nothing will have happened and everyone will still be back and forth with the speculating. 

As far as “following the laws of the kingdom,” I don’t think most people realize just how many things are illegal in Thailand and how many laws everyone routinely violates. But that doesn’t matter, what matters is enforcement of laws, which is also the case with this tax business. 

1 minute ago, OneMoreFarang said:

"Some Like it Hot"

 

Yes, but the chicken with cashew nuts (at least that is what I think it is) in the picture is not hot. Those chilies are harmless.

 

It’s sichuan chicken, and it also had sichuan chilis. 

14 minutes ago, Upnotover said:

That looks nice, which restaurant in Pattaya did you take that photo?

Fu Man Lo Chinese restaurant next to soi 6/1. 

I did have to explain that I wanted it as spicy as it would normally be. 

18 minutes ago, SingAPorn said:

Chinese will only spend in venues owned by their own people who send back the money to the family in China through various underground methods of money laundering. That is a main chinese speciality.

I’m a westerner, and I can’t read Chinese so I don’t know if there was some secret phrase scrawled on the sign that let Chinese people know that all the money would be sent back to China. I just like Chinese food. 

With the return of Chinese tourists to Pattaya there are a huge number of new Chinese restaurants, including Sichuan restaurants. If you like spicy, this is cuisine to try!

This is probably not of much consequence or interest to many of you, except Thailand based expats like me that also go to China and like their cashless payment system.

Anyway, despite rumor to the contrary (I think I read the rumor here) WeChat (Weixin) Pay still only works outside China if you have a Chinese ID card. Which I think you have to be Chinese to get. Still it looks like WeChat is setup to take payment in Thai baht if a Thai WeChat pay QR code is scanned. 

Anyway, since my WeChat pay is linked to my “farang” credit card, it would have let me spend on my CC in more places. But oh well. 

On 5/25/2024 at 2:06 PM, J Branche said:

You live in Thailand.  Thai culture and customs.  They don't accept foreign credit card, No problem, pay with Cash, Bank App.

No a big deal for Thai People, 

This is what living in Harmony and Thailand is about

Accepting foreign credit cards has nothing to do with Thai culture.

Living in Thailand doesn’t mean treating Thai people like they are happy, stupid children. They might talk to you in baby talk but they are capable of having adult reasons for things, and that is what is thread is about. 

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

If you did it the other way around it would have been a good test

I don’t have an account with KBank

I just withdraw money from my Bangkok Bank account from a KBANK ATM and didn’t receive a corresponding message about a fee. I would think that if BBL is going to charge KBANK customers 10 baht to use cardless then KBANK will charge BBL customers the same.

I guess we’ll find out in about a week, anyway. 

19 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

It was on the ATM machine this week when I did a withdrawal, fees per withdrawal are coming

If there is, I hope it’s not for BBL users using BBL ATMs. It’s saved me a lot money since I live in a different province than my account and I make frequent small withdrawals.

On 5/21/2024 at 10:05 AM, scubascuba3 said:

I can't find the more recent thread about this but Bangkok Bank will be charging for cardless withdrawals using Kasikorn app from June

Do you have a link for this news?

I am very surprised on this thread at the number of people that say they’ve never been screamed at. In Pattaya I am screamed at least 50 or 60 times per day, often by deranged people shouting across streets at me like broken robots impersonating humans. It’s so degrading to me and inhuman of them that i don’t understand how anyone can behave that way. 

Then if I go into a bar it’s the above problem. 

What are the consequences for doing absolutely nothing about this supposed new tax issue?

2 hours ago, Pattaya57 said:

Where are they supposed to put your check bin if you're leaning against a wall like you say in OP?

I generally like to pay as I go, which they also hate. Along with never buying lady drinks. Coming think of it I am a nightmare customer from the perspective of a scammy bar that likes docile customers. 

I try not to be an <deleted> about it but the aggression level is high and everything is about them rather than you as a customer. 

6 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Just sit down and stop being difficult!

I damaged my sciatic nerve and there is no way to sit without being in pain. 

6 minutes ago, Trippy said:

In over 30 years of going to bars in Thailand, no one working at the bar has ever screamed at me, so it must be you.

I guess you’ve never walked down soi 7 then

Why do Thai people in Pattaya scream orders at me to sit down when I go into a bar? Then if I don’t, then they want an explanation!!! What is wrong with them? Why are they so pushy and abusive? All they have to do is STFU and let me lean against the bar or a wall. 

15 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

i needed/wanted unlimited for phone data until i got fibre 

16 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Do you really need 100GB per month? I need maybe 10% of that (on my mobile). 

I am a digital nomad so it’s my primary internet. But that is plenty, I usually use about 50GB per month. 

If you tether a laptop you can easily start chewing through data. 

On 4/26/2024 at 6:03 PM, scubascuba3 said:

The data allowances now are poor, the good old days of unlimited year sims seems over on Lazada and Shopee anyway.

 

i still have AIS unlimited 10mbps 150 baht a month + just kicked off 3BB fibre at home

I was able to renew my yearly AIS 1790 baht 100GB per month net marathon package yesterday, months after it had expired while I was out of the country. 

I had to call 1175 but they told me that package is still available if a particular phone number has ever had it. 

Certainly the best mobile phone deal I’ve ever heard of. It doesn’t have 5G, but that’s never the bottleneck anyway. 

I’ll join others who have said that they don’t really care about the increase. I’m already very inefficient about how I transfer money and I use Wise for convenience more than anything else.

These mongrels have bitten me 4 times in the last 3 years. Maybe those kindhearted women will pay for all the rabies shots I’ve needed.