Prubangboy

We enjoy every upside of this place with practically no downside -thanks to $$$. And they're perfectly fine with that. Nope, never going home. Counterpoint: Just spent 3 days in Sakanavet. Truly, Chiang Mai 30 years, plus on the Mekong. $100 a month old French houses. Solid pizza and French food options.

It takes more skill to make tempura at the level where people will think about coming back a second time then it does to make yellow curry out of a plastic bag mix. It’s no different than Italian food or Mexican food in Bangkok. It’s not rocket science to make it, but there are a limited number of people who can make it to an international standard.

I eat sushi twice a week. It cost about the same as a small steak in a pub. A bottle of sake is a bargain compared to a similar quality bottle of wine. I will admit that the difference between a small restaurant proprietor down an alley and a top-of-the-line sushi bar in a four star hotel is not much in terms of the quality of the fish. But that’s like complaining that drinks cost more at a rooftop bar

I live on soi 33. Right across from my building, is Trat, the best Thai seafood restaurant I have ever eaten in. A few doors down, is a no name really excellent Thai restaurant with the typical 40 page menu of every regional specialty.. Both places are always full. In between them, is an izakaya and a bento box place. Neither of these places ever fills up. I dispute that Japanese restaurants are putting Thai restaurants out of business All of these restaurants are within two dollars of each other for a meal. I almost never see a Thai person eating in a Japanese restaurant. My building is about 70% Chinese and Japanese tenants. They eat a lot of Thai food, particularly from the carts on the street. Around the corner on Soi 33/1, is a twisty street full of Japanese restaurants and English pubs. They too are priced roughly the same. 500–700 ฿ is what people want to spend for dinner in this part of Bangkok. coming from New York, the ability to eat these kinds of cuisines next to each other for a $20 bill astounds me. May as well give a Japanese Recco: at the end 33/1 is a grilled unagi (rich eel) place. It’s astounding to be filled up to the brim with this classic and very hard to find made freshly dish for $20.

I met him a couple of weeks ago. Check his Facebook page. He does regular meet ups.

Bob– or anyone – recall a very lurid paperback, called off the rails in Phnom Penh: girls, guns, ganja? Was usually popular around the turn of the century and key in establishing Cambodia’s bad reputation I was in Cambodia two years ago and was sad to see the practice of bootlegging. Special interest books has stopped. I bought at least five copies of off the rails for friends, and a lot of books about the crazy Khmer rouge. The year zero, by a French journalist, who was stuck there during the worst of the terror he was the best book on that subject. I read all the Cambodia books. Anyone else have a good one to list?

Yeah, I was an analyst for FEMA. It is the premier agency of its kind, better even than the Red Cross. We are the rightful envy of the world. Red State, White Haiti-like places like Appalachia where I used to live need federal assistance -for every last thing. Your air-headed maybe this/maybe that pointless equivocating does not warrant further discussion. You're not an analyst. you're just another butt hurt disinformation victim. You know nothing at all about FEMA, you just assume that it must be bad because it's Big Government. Some day, we will have to de-program and re-educate you saddo's like the Germans had to after WWII.

Nah, he said just that. You need to form a co-depemdent relationship with a low self esteem lefty who can tediously show you graphs. You're rhetorical aha's crack me up. But I like you. Good film recco's, we had a laugh about Bob's Big Boy.

"Maybe let the states handle it". But I'm debate-lite here. Mostly, due to my social science advanced degree, I am here to document (and make fun of) older low T men in the thralls of retard-level foreign disinformation. More, please, more.

Gamma Globule or BritmanToo - you'd luckier to get BigFoot to meet you.

I didn't say he was responsible for forest fires. I said he wants to gut FEMA. This constant reflexive filling in of blanks to be -as righties say- butt hurt is sad. Why so glum, Chum?

People think a different way and it...it.....bothers you. Please get your blankie and have a lie down.

For health insurance, we used Andy of CNX Insure in Chiang Mai. If I can't recco a biz here, I apologize. An independent agent will explain what they're likely to cover and exclude much more honestly than calling the insurance company directly will. His commission is paid by the insurance company. Me and my ex-wife from America have a fair few health issues. We pay $8,600 a year for the two of us.

Lamb alert: The Tibet Gate restaurant on soi 33 has many lamb dishes, including a lamb hot pot (880B). -Also crispy deep-fried strips with a little honey and chili. Schezuan places always have a few lamb dishes too.

Def recco the Language Exchange Meetup at The Moat House on Tuesday nights at 7:30. No language is exchanged. It draws about 50-70 people, maybe 20% Thai, the rest Chinese, Digital Nomads, and international students. Great mix of ages. Some great meetup groups in Chiang Mai. Also Google Steve's list of events. Tireless Steve lists every event and charity function going on every week. I lived in Nimman:. 4* Apartment behind the mall, eating out very well all day, every day, various massages and drugs, health insurance = about $1,000 a week. I now spend 50% more living in Bangkok (my rent is 65,000K) due to better restaurants and dating.