neilrob

Nakornping is very well situated. It is the tall pinkish building just off Huay Gaew opposite the Shell station which is just north of Kad Suan Gaew. So it is within easy walk of the moat and Kad Suan Gaew, and within longer walking distance to the Nimman area. It is also well run. There are a wide range of sizes of units in it. I suggest going to the condo office and speaking to the condo manager, Khun Montri.about available units.

Agree. Great place. Albeit$$$. Wife had a fit!! You know, can eat for 4 days on that....Yes, but I don't want to live onSomTam and Kai Yang 24/7....But she liked it!!!

Glad to hear your wife (whom I presume is Thai) likes the restaurant. From my observation they have more Thai customers than Western.

Do you have to eat from the set course - or can you order a'la-carte?

You have to eat from the set menu. There is no a la carte menu.

Cuisine de Garden is a very imaginative restaurant well worth trying. It's in Hang Dong between the Canal Road and 108. Difficult to describe how to get there, so I recommend using Google and finding a map. I have eaten there many times and I live nowhere near Hang Dong---it's worth travelling for. They recently started a new menu---see attached copy. This menu changes a bit from time to time. I have eaten there twice with the new menu and found it excellent. Not cheap at 999B plus 10% service, but I still think it is a bargain for the quality of the cooking. You get 8 courses, since you get all three of the prologues (small of course) and a choice of one from each of the next five courses.

I particularly like how they combine flavours. Sunchoke is an example. This is sunchoke (Jerusalem artichoke) chips on a small bed of risotto with hazelnuts and smoked mackerel. It may sound odd, but it is scrumptious!

I have absolutely no relationship with the restaurant, other than being an enthusiastic consumer of their food. I would just like to see an outstanding restaurant thrive as it deserves.

A few years ago, nowhere. Now, all over Chiang Mai. For example, Dhara Dhevi has a shop selling them on the ground floor of the new Central Festival, Promenada has multiple places selling them. The restaurant Le Bistrot on Kampangdin, near the river sells them. And many more places.

No it is not. That is where it used to be. It moved long ago to where I described.

If you were driving along Suthep road, coming from the moat, you would pass Suan Dok/Sripat hospital on your right. Continue on and you pass a Petrones petrol station on your left. Then comes the parking lot for the hospital on the left. Take the next left. I believe the name of the road is Sirorot (or similar). Drive all the way past the long parking area. Then you will see a sign saying Movies or DVDs on your left. This is the shop.

Definitely still open, I'm glad to say. I rented two DVDs from this shop today. Open every day. So you can safely count on them being there, Pat.

I'm planning to go there tomorrow (14th), so I'll let you know tomorrow evening if it was open or not.

Chiang Mai Airport Post Office

Chiang Mai Airport Building,

Chiang Mai

(61 – 053-277382)

Probably open, you can call to be sure.

Unusual for a Thai post office to have an Australian (country code 61) phone number. Just shows how international the service is....

Yes, that's Nakornping.

The Lancet classifies flouride as a neurotoxin. A new report puts it in the same category as mercury, arsenic, lead and some others.

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422%2813%2970278-3/fulltext#article_upsell

Somnambullet

I agree with the last poster.

It is a disservice to good decision making to quote soundbites, ie from an abstract, without the full context.

Your article even cites Manganese as a toxin.

Like everything else no doubt it is in some concentration, but be aware that we are practically swimming in Manganese, it,s the 12th most common element, our bodies have adapted to it for all of evolution including the enormously long pre-human period, and we can never escape it.

By all means filter it if you wish to or drink city water where they worry about it for you, but please don't begin to suggest it's a toxin in the same way we normally think about toxins, you'll scare the life out of everyone.

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Well put. Also, to say that "The Lancet classifies fluoride as a neurotoxin" is simply misleading. The Lancet is a scientific journal. The article is one published in The Lancet and the opinions are those of the authors. That does not make it the opinion of The Lancet, unless there is an editorial endorsing this opinion.

I suggest you try going to the office in Nakornping Condo to ask what they have available for rent. Should meet your requirements if a suitable unit is free at present. NKP is the large pinkish building off Huay Gaew, almost opposite Kad Suan Gaew, so within easy reach of the old city, Kad Suan Gaew shopping mall and the Nimmanhaemin.area.

Good site, because it shows a wide range of information. Thanks, Mapguy (or should it be Graphguy).

You can buy a cheap backgammon set in Thailand, but for a good quality one we have bought them abroad. There is a backgammon club in CM which plays regularly. Gambling is illegal of course, but playing backgammon is not. If you are interested in the CM backgammon group, please PM me.

To get around taxes. It certainly used (I have not looked at a Mont Clair label recently) to be on the label along with pineapple juice being added to the white wine, but only in Thai, not in English.

Don't know about hospitalization the two cases I knew of never were hospitalized.

I was in hospital for several days---the first time I had been hospitalized in more than sixty years. My partner's nephew had it so severely that he spent days in intensive care.

I had shingles two years ago and am still suffering from the after effects (and probably will the rest of my life). Definitely not nice and well worth getting the vaccine if available.

I just drove past it again. It is on the left shortly before the Home Mart. The coordinates I gave should be pretty close. There is a big Phillips Panasonic sign on the upper story.

It is in the vicinity of N18.809111, E99.014070.

There is a Phillips store in CM. I recently got a new set of blades there for my razor. It is called Future Electronic and the phone number is 053 240 117. Assuming you were driving along the Superhighway from the Rincome junction towards the new Central Festival. Exit from the Superhighway on to the frontage road after crossing the Ping and pass Theppanya Hospital on your left. It is on your left either just before or just after (I cannot remember) the big Home Mart. It is just a single frontage shop, so I missed it the first time I drove by and had to park and walk back.

The point of the post is that this particular OP likes to make zero-meaning posts. Who knows why it amuses him.

My experience has long been that the best value use for UA (and other airlines) FF miles is to get upgrades to business class. There normally is no copay and the cost difference between economy and business, if you were to actually pay for a business class ticket, is large.

The taxes and import duties combined are indeed now well beyond 400%. If you do the backwards calculation on a 500 Baht bottle you will find out that the bottle costs you more than the content. To get a half way decent wine you have to shell out about 800 Baht up, for qualities like DOC or Auslese (a German denomination) also 1,200 Baht and more.

The wines sold until recently at a fairly low price were most likely old stock as the taxes are imposed upon import. Once sold, they are gone and can only be replaced at a higher price for the same product.

At least 400%, as we used to get bottles of Penfoils [bin#??] for 400thb up at Tachelek Myanmar duty free and the very same bottle at Rimping retailed at 1,600THB.

Never understood the logic in over taxing a relatively low % alcohol, when they let 40%alcohol imported hard spirits into the country for small taxes.

Tax is high, but not as bad as all that! Maybe that particular wine is subject to a lot of profiteering.

I have attached a table from the Thai Excise Tax Dept., which explains the tax rates after the recent tax rise. As you can see, tax rates vary substantially according to whether the wine has a wholesale price above or below 600B. For a wine below 600B wholesale, with 14% alcohol, I calculate that excise tax will be 169B. Import duty is 60% + 7% VAT (or maybe less in the case it comes from a country with a customs treaty?) Assuming a bottle with wholesale value (excluding all taxes) of 200B, this means just over 300B of tax.

Before the recent tax rise you could even find wines in Thailand which were cheaper in Thailand than in Europe. Now, this is not the case, but the multiple is not that great. A Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon which I am fond of sold in Rimping at 333B six months ago (it was a great deal and sold out fast whenever it was in stock!). You could find that same wine sold by an online seller in Europe at 360B. Now it costs 499B in Rimping.

"According to Fedex (the courier selected by eBay)"

Almost always a mistake to use FEDEX or UPS or DHL. In their attempt to appear to comply with every law known to mankind and to be as PC as possible, you will definitely end up paying customs duty on anything and everything ... or at least they'll be sure you pay them for it.

You are absolutely right. And they will charge a fee for clearing it through Customs. Last time DHL made a mistake which caused considerable trouble and delay. In spite of the fact that it was clearly their error, they tried to charge me a storage fee for the delay. Except for documents, I will never use one of the express companies.