tomster

Has anybody on here ever had a 3 or 12 moth extension to stay on a Non-immigrant visa issued into a temporay passport? In this case, it would be a German 1 year temp passport (full temporary passport, not a travel document to fly out). I find myself in a bit of a tricky situation (to put it mildly) down to a weird quirk of German citizenship law and my full passport renewal, just trying to see what the options are if my full passport can't be renewed in time. I am aware I can ask immigration so no need to reply with that - just looking for real life experiences from anybody that has either done it or not been able to do it, regardless of their nationality. Many thanks in advance.

So how about the medium roasted version of this: https://th.shp.ee/RaQu4Mo

OK so the wife has a small cafe in Pattaya and it seems to be going quite well so far so good. One thing I would like to introduce for her is decent filter coffee, obviously milk based coffee is the go to nowadays but there are a few people that only order Americano or long black, which her machine does not do a great with from what I am told. So I have seen a pretty decent drip machine (Zwilling brand) and I would like to offer black/filter coffee in her place as well as cappuccino etc. Thing is though, I am allergic to coffee so never drink it and have no idea on what beans to buy. She already has a burr grinder and thermal carafe. Need a bean recommendation that will taste good in drip (1 litre per brew) that is easy to get (would prefer to buy locally, but Lazada/Shopee also an option if the price vs quality is good. Something from Makro would be great, as long as they consistently have it in stock. Price wise looking at the 300-600 Baht range which I understand should get us something decent. Thanks in advance.

Huh? Have you ever had a business bank account in Thailand?

One is used for business, the other is used for you personally. Sometimes people use their personal apps for business but from a company accounting point of view, you should really just use your business account to do business transactions.

They are personal apps, not business.

Today Kbank (bless them) finally retired their (very useful) Kbank SME App on Andriod. You are supposed to transition to their new app KBIZ - but only for Thai's and not for us dirty foreigners (even though I have banked with them for 18 years). I run two busy businesses here and being able to make payments on my phone is super useful, so I need to change to bank with a decent mobile phone app. Bangkok Bank doesn't have a phone app (that I am aware of - please correct me if I'm wrong), so even though I have a business account with them they are out of the potential banks to switch to. So looking for a bank that allows foreigners to use their mobile app - a massive bonus would be the ability to scan QR codes to make payments from that app as this was lacking on the KBank app that has just been retired. Thanks in advance.

It's a whopping great hole in the new law - you do now need to register on the Plook Ganja app but any Thai can do it and there are no inspections or similar. Then you can grow however much you want pretty much, it's not possible for anybody to check if you sell it or not. So you now have commercial farms having to get some serious paperwork together for their commercial licenses, but everybody else growing unlimited amounts without any restrictions and in reality able to sell it without any problems. What could possibly go wrong?

After legalisation in June 2022 loads of people gave growing at home ago, but since then most seemed to have stopped because a. it is actually quite hard here if you are not used to growing in high heat & humidty, and b. the price of flower is currently that cheap there is no point. However, the price of flower is about to go North as the low grade growers stop producing low grade weed that nobody wants, the new GACP requirement will knock most of them out of production. So lets say the price went back to 150-250 Baht per gram for even the mid-range, avergage flower (which is very possible) would you consider growing your own at home? It costs about 25-35 Baht per gram to do so, for reference. Cheers.

Are there any clinics on the Darkside that will issue acceptable health certificates for work permit renewals? I know of several on the brightside, just being lazy. Thanks in advance.

Ah sorry, I did not see the first message.

Do you use Lineman or Food Panda at all?

Very helpful, thanks for the insight.

Do you use it over Grab, or is Grab the go to and Food Panda the back up?

Interested to know if any board members use Lineman or Food Panda food delivery apps regularly? I just saw something online saying that Lineman had 44% of the food delivery market in Thailand in early 2024 with Grab at 40% - that really surprised me.