Prubangboy

6 hours ago, uttradit said:

The best Thai food I had recently was near Nan, halfway to Pua. It put the Michelin Star place to shame at half the price. 

You should be writing detailed reviews on various platforms to support a place you loved eating at. There are so few. That's the foundation that creates a Michelin visit. People in my neighborhood are obsessive about  Ging Grei and Tong Ten Toh. We root for them like they're Bon Jovi still playing in bars. 

In the Nimman1 Mall, there's a couple of 2 star restaurants. They're not super-fancy, they're not super-great. They're a bit innovative and flawlessly executed. A Michelin star means just that: food people love the place and you'll see a new thing or two on the menu.

The diff between a C restaurant and a B is great. The diff between A- and an A is much greater. I've eaten a few hundred pad Thai's, but there's only one place where I ordered it 10 times. Food can be judged semi-objectively, like it is on cooking shows.

I bought the Northern Thai cook book mainly to read about the places. And I did pop into a few BBQ shacks in Phrae. Value for the money for reasonable food. I payed B prices to eat B food.

But it's eating, not dining. Great to dip in at some Khao Soi shrine off the highway, but people who went to cooking school will always make better noodles.

9 minutes ago, captainjackS said:

Thai and Northern Thai food more than 90% of the time.  

I live around the corner from this place, working hard towards getting their Michelin star.

N.Thai food is the most meat-heavy thai food, so I don't eat it a lot. But twice a year, we will wait on line here (there's always a line).

-And where do you have it, and what do you eat?

Me:

-About twice a week

-Ging Grai Restaurant in Chiang Mai, Nimman Khao Soi, food court of Nimman1 mall.

-Pad Thai at Ging Grai îs a must order. With an Issan style petrified crab som tum.

Never wowed by Penang Curry, but I keep ordering it. I think I like Red Curry the best, but I never order it.

Pork leg stew (called Burmese Pork Leg Stew in Chiang Mai) is my food court go-to. Or Duck Noodles.

7 minutes ago, uttradit said:

"Pretty daft to blame Trump for everything"

"I will pretend to be a common sense contrarian. Because I got nothing".

"I lack the empathy of even a cockroach. I am a typical piece of TrumpTrash".

Another thing Trumpism ruined: Bluegrass Music. My wife is going back home to Merle-fest, the prominent festival which also figures big names like Bruce or Willie.

'Used to be half redneck and half latte-sipping liberals. For the bands as well as the audience. Now it's 100% liberals. Trumpism made people abandon the old traditions and just buy into his rageoholic franchise.

Trumpism makes you stupid. We see that here hourly.

$1,500 for my wife to come back from North Carolina. Used to be $800. Get used to it. It's not inflation, it's gouging.

It's been on my re-visit list forever, but the high restaurants are a big step down from Bangkok, and Koh Samui was such an effortless fit. May not ever make it back there.

A million years ago, I unofficially tended bar at the Reggae Bar on Koh Lanta. Many Norwegian single moms get free vacations there if they're depressed. Some of the best, most squalid days of my life.

"I have no game,  no point, and nothing to say".

4 hours ago, uttradit said:

Yes Biden puts me to sleep like him. Trump has a personality. Biden is a door stop.

"Since I am an impotent, wholly irrelevant goofball with no skin in the world politics game, I like to pretend that my opinion is meaningful,"

"Since the republicans would (and do) deny a poor child chemotherapy, and since I would never be for that in my own country, I am also a hypocrite liar who flatters himself as edgy."

4 hours ago, Kwaibill said:

I came to Thailand to experience Thai people and culture, not hang with the same old crowd.

I agree, but old whities are good for a laugh too. My largest ethnic cohort that I hang out with is Chinese potheads.

5 hours ago, Walker88 said:

 

 

"The Man Who Would Be King", based on the Kipling tale.

If you don't want to go there after seeing that film, you're essentially dead.

Must check him out sniffing bread in a Moscow supermarket on X. To convince people that Russia is fine, just fine.

Later on, at Putin's urging, he visited a tractor collective and praised their beet crop.

Yankee imperialists can only dream of such root vegetable production.

2 minutes ago, Jaxxper said:

 

Try it where you are, you might like it. 

 

 

I would love to, but SkipCassidy says I have a better chance of snagging a Taylor Swift ticket.

Just absolutely packed out. Unlike the website pic.

47 minutes ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

one of the best breakfast buffets available anywhere... 

And yet, and yet.....I have my doubts that this is strictly true -that the stalwart New Yorke hotelr is somehow miraculously punching above its 195 baht weight and then into the Four Seasons stratosphere.

But then again: "Tasty" fruit? - how do I get involved?

I was gently kidding your blind hope that the US government would ever willingly forgo the pittance of revenue derived from expat retirees.

39 minutes ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

 

25 minutes ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

the venue is a sellout every time

 

Now you're just comically lying.

Love how Putin mocked him for applying to the CIA.

Waiiiiiit a minute, if Tucker applied to the CIA, then Tucker is deep state, and then some.

What does a Q-anon retard have left to believe in?

"Trump derangement syndrome. And: Orange Man bad, amIright?. Take that, libtards. We had eight years to come with some new jokes, but we never made it past the original first two".

2 minutes ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

please DO NOT attend... we prefer nice people.

As an active member, you should be trying to coax me to come.

'Can't help but notice how evasive you are on the dodgy fruit issue.

Who got to you?

My wife is a letter grade better looking than me.

Hoping for any more is inviting disaster.

-Wrong post, whatever.

If she's too fat, you have to go reverse cowgirl -and you're the cowgirl.

I'd get on a plane too.

4 minutes ago, MangoKorat said:

a lot were lesbians were always on the news.

Would that be like the 1970's, black and white, rented tv from a village shop news?

What about English women being barking mad and wanting to be spanked? Very hard to find Roi Et.

Give me a nutter I can go to town on with my belt over a bland Ka-Starfish type.

3 hours ago, MangoKorat said:

 big wooly jumper wearers

 

I hate English womanhood even more than you do (I'm half-English), but is this sweater-wearing insult your own invention, or is it in common usage? 

Why can't those pub slags wear a sweater on a cold day? This seems to be the most incomprehensible of disses.

If you did indeed average 8 free trips to the Thai well a year, and then amended that with 15 quid pops, what percentage of your sex life was Thai-only? When was the last time had sex against a car in a chavvy car park? Not that I'm reminiscing or anything.

6 minutes ago, uttradit said:

What will you say? Hi I'm Mango I'm old but nice. I want a real woman. Please no hookers. I'm like Romeo. I take care of you. Love you short time.

 

Maybe lead with:

I believe in Adam and Eve.

Not Adam and Steve.

29 minutes ago, BangkokHank said:

 (I have been to Dalat a dozen times during my seven years of working in Vietnam, but I have never been there during April, so I'm not sure how it will be.)

What's the air quality like? We nixed India for April for that reason. 

Last year, we did The Cameron Highlands. Pretty and mellow, but very dull, Just a strip of samey S.Indian chapati joints. But very cool for most of the day.

(I'll be in Borneo and Sulawesi this year).