Prubangboy

Not too bad writing, but cut it like 60%. And lose the whole blimey bobs your uncle thing and just talk about the green curry and what it was like.

For me, it’s always a red curry. It’s the simplest one and the hardest to make absolutely right. 

Why can’t you just answer this yourself?
 

We have all enjoyed your travels of visiting every place in Issan on a motorcycle. I recall you doing the south too.

Tou describe these places all in the same way: I went to the night market. They had a good band. Me and my girlfriend of the day ate meat on a stick. It was good.

Why even go anywhere if it’s all the same to you?

What was the best meat on a stick you ate out of your many meat on a stick adventures?

Mongolia.

intrepid has two tours that lineup with each other. In the first one, you take the train from Beijing with lots of stops along the way for nature viewing.

In the second one, wild Mongolia, it’s nine hours on the bus every other day with layovers in national parks. Not a lot in Mongolia, you’re there for the astonishing scenery.

So not unlike Bhutan. Probably the most dramatic scenery I’ve ever been driven through, but the food is fairly boring and the culture not that interesting and very much out of reach due to being stuck on a tour.

Only a completist like by myself needs to see both.

Propaganda Bar on Soi 33.

free larb meatballs and Bangkok Pat does meetups there.

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.

On 2/5/2025 at 9:38 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

I like the videos of Bangkok Pat. He knows what he is talking about.

 

Bangkok Pat - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@BangkokPat

 

All the others seem to be idiots who like to hear themselves talking. 

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?

38 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

 

 

Do you think FEMA is well run and cost effective? 

 

 

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.

Just now, Yellowtail said:

So, you made it up, that's what I thought. 

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.

44 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

What is your claim that he wants to gut FEMA based on? 

"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?

11 hours ago, thesetat said:

What really bothers me is do all people who are Biden buddies think the way you do? 

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.

On 1/25/2025 at 2:23 PM, Ben Zioner said:

 

 

 

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.

On 1/25/2025 at 9:34 AM, BritManToo said:

(moat house), that's under 400bht for a decent night out.

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.

Elvis, why would you always have your roadies put your groupies into white cotton panties before sending them up to your room?

And:

What was it like to die taking a crap?

2 hours ago, Kinok Farang said:

 

Found Thailand in 2005 and never had a drink since.

So many people heal here. Good for you.

Just now, Yellowtail said:

Wow, so intellectually superior

Shouldn't you just go back to consoling your pretend internet friend again?

More sputtering, inept, no-game and inchoate rage.

Over sub-Bill Maher level, minor jokes. And your side is always crying like a prison wife over "the left" (oh, how we laugh at that) being "butt hurt".

Look in the mirror. Over your shoulder to really see a hurt butt.

My work is done, another rageholic laughed at and over-reacting. The sushi bar is calling me.

Sushi- it's a lefty thing. You wouldn't like it. No French fries come with it.

Just now, TedG said:

You’re a grabage person.  

"I have no argument game. No insult game either. I have to toss some rice paddy peasant a $20 bill daily to sit on my dopey face".

5 minutes ago, TedG said:

 

Why do you call them Trump trash?   

I lived in Appalachia, the place where the term, white trash, was invented for.

Trump Trash is just updating the term. You'd call them trash where I lived too.

Do you even wear cammo? Or are you just another sissy Trump Trash cosplayer, like most of them here?

I lived among the real Trump Trash and aint none of them who could find either Thailand or their state capitol on a map.

What happened to the big Liberal tears boast? I just see sore winners whining here on the other side of the aisle.