TallGuyJohninBKK

I think you might consider the fact that a lot of expats move to Thailand because they have limited funds/savings available for various reasons, and because Thailand can be more affordable than their original home countries... Thus many don't have extra 800,000Ks lying around...

Taco Bell Thailand already imports a lot of their materials from outside of Thailand... So it would be no problem for them to source beans, if they actually wanted to... But beyond that, bags of imported dry pinto beans ARE readily available here in Thailand....at supermarkets such as Villa and Foodland. And have been for many years. Taco Bell, though, in other places/countries, uses a dry beans mix combined with boiling water. They don't make their frijoles/beans from scratch.

All of that assumes, as I know you understand, that the OP has another 400K or 800K baht available to him to cover replinishing his drained Immigration account. For a lot of folks here, if they lost their 800K Immigration account due to a scheming wife, many would not have the funds to replace it. Just a comment for the various posters here trying to excuse the wife's behavior.

A better spouse would have gone to her husband, explained the situation and asked if they could manage the finances as necessary. Not steal his funds behind his back and potentially jeopardize his ability to continue to live in Thailand.

For the OP's wife to pull a stunt like that, and literally endanger her husband's right to remain in Thailand by jeopardizing his Immigration status, is a pretty serious violation of spousal respect and trust. I made no comment here on what the OP should do about his wife... But, if my wife pulled a stunt like that with me (and did so despite plenty of opportunity to discuss or inform me of the situation ahead of time), I'd be pretty seriously considering the state of our future together.

Just for starters, I ended up ordering these burger buns to give them a try... Because they're a kind of special order item, the hamburger buns from Nine Pastry are not available apparently via walk-in or even the Grab delivery app... But you can contact them via LINE or their FB messenger app, place an order, and then pay them for the item(s) and next day delivery via a bank transfer, which is what I did.

Woooops!!! Where did that one come from? " after the ombudsmen decided today to ask the Constitutional Court to consider a petition challenging parliament’s majority vote on July 19th to reject Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat’s renomination as a prime ministerial candidate." "The ombudsman also asked the Charter Court to order parliament to suspend the prime ministerial selection process, until it rules on Pita’s renomination." And further: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-ombudsman-asks-the-charter-court-to-suspend-pm-selection-process/ So he may not be politically dead just yet???

I see Villa Online has the following offering: https://shop.villamarket.com/product/213731

I see Lawson's doing their own homemade bread rolls...but not exactly hamburger buns that I can find with them. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02NCEtnmQoFv8LPAF8RVfFTxSSTZXbPUHdcyuah9hRm1p73TDeDQbuMpfwSi7bR3Y9l&id=100087591307867

Thanks for the suggestion: Soft and light Homemade burger buns, Ideal for burgers and sandwiches. Suitable for Vegans/Vegetarians No artificial flavoring, preservatives or coloring, no trans fats. Lactose free http://www.koratchef.com/product/burger-buns-ขนมปังเบอร์เกอร์/

Ya, you're reminding.... Villa may well have been the last source I used long ago for the last time I went to buy hamburger buns for home... I think I used their off-the-shelf version of one third-party supplier, which were OK, but not ideal... I don't think I ever tried their frozen brioche variety (though I wish I had!)

Aha! Getting closer... I asked Easy Burger, one of my preferred burger places in BKK, if they'd sell their potato flour buns separately...and their answer was no, not yet... But in looking, I saw they're collaborating with a different bakery in BKK called Nine Pastry (Sukhumvit Soi 22)....and when I went to their FB site, I found the following: Now that's a possibility! https://www.facebook.com/nine.pastry/posts/pfbid02CwN2vT8jPhn8pbbaDSyvhsMzKGizzY6x6Csg7s6tSXM9ZezbBdpoWeGiM89QeNAwl

I see Holey's bakery in BKK has what they call an English style hamburger bap bun, whatever that is.... But it looks kind of dense and heavy, which is not what I had in mind. Though to be fair, I haven't tried it as yet.

Around BKK, especially coming out of COVID, there really has been a burgeoning of western / artisanal bakery places around town selling breads, sandwiches, pastries, etc... And I know among those places the quality is good. I guess I've got to figure out if any of them have hamburger buns among their offerings.... which I can't say I've noticed thus far in my perusing.

I'm in BKK, so I suppose another possibility is buying direct from one of the better hamburger retailers... But I don't know that I've seen or heard of any of them selling their buns solo as a side-line... I thought Sloane's used to carry some bakery products to go along with their meats, but I went to their website today, and found nothing in the way of bakery.

Ya, I was thinking of something along the lines of a brioche or potato flour bun... As that seems to be what a lot of the better hamburger outlets around BKK are using these days....AFAIK... I hadn't even considered Lazada as a potential source for this! Thanks for the suggestion.... Though I have noticed a range of bakery sellers beginning to crop up there lately...which is a good thing!

Central's website shows absolutely nothing from the Dockers brand.

Think it's going to be pretty hard to find any 36 inch inseam pants here in Thailand.... though there used to be some farang export-oriented clothing outlets in some out of the way places around BKK.... don't know their status post COVID.... Bizarrely, even the online store King Size in the U.S., which used to sell pants in optional unhemmed versions up to 38 or 40 inches, now seems to mostly top out at 34 in. hemmed inseams. So they seem to have migrated more toward the horizontally "king size" folks instead of the vertically "king size" folks such as myself! In 15+ years of living here, I don't think I've ever bought a pair of long pants here locally in Thailand. Amazon and some of the online tall store sources in the U.S. are do-able, and there are ways to avoid/minimize their shipping/duty costs.

Thanks, but that's not how I want to spend my free time....

Got some upcoming hamburger cooking to do at home, and just realized, I no longer have any idea where to buy some "quality" hamburger buns here.... something that will enhance the home-cooked burgers, not detract from their taste. So asking, what's your hamburger bun of choice here, and where do you buy them from? Thanks much!

Can the two legal posters here clarify a few things on this method: --Can Sap Ing Sith status be inherited prior to the expiration of the holder's original 30-year term, if the original holder passes away? --Can Sap In Sith status be renewed for a 2nd 30 year term if the original acquirer was young enough at the outset, and the conveyor is willing? --How, in practice, is this method typically being used in the RE market here? Just by mixed families with a farang spouse? Or are individual Thai property holders willing to "sell" this way? Or are any housing developers "selling" their properties in this manner? --How are the various Thai province Land Departments treating this method? As a clearly established and allowed right, or one subject to their discretionary, and sometimes arbitrary, whims? Thanks!

Latest weekly COVID update today from the Thai Ministry of Public Health -- a continuing decline in both new COVID hospitalizations (556 - red) and COVID deaths (8 - dark gray). Good news! The latest weekly COVID hospitalizations tally is Thailand's lowest figure since the middle of April prior to Song Kran. The latest weekly COVID deaths tally is Thailand's lowest figure since the week just after Song Kran. Two weeks ago -- July 9-15: Last week -- July 16 - 22: https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/pfbid02b9QVp1YWD2FZ8Eb85ZMBRDEUxHo7zdKsPX9StpSvVvM6URB6r5sr1ZW5DuayigBl Also declines in the numbers of COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition (dark purple) and requiring intubation to breathe (light purple): July 15, 2023: July 22, 2023: https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

I've never signed up for a Thai PromptPay account... But even without it, when I go to transfer funds from one of my Thai bank accounts to a different Thai bank account, or pay a Thai merchant via a Thai bank transfer, I have the option of the transfers being instantaneous and they are free (no per transfer fee charged on the sending or receiving end). I'm hoping that will come to be the standard in the U.S. for U.S. domestic payments/transfers not too far down the road. The U.S. ought to be ahead on such things...not behind.

Just to be clear - consumers won't have direct access to the FedNow network. It will be up to the individual participating banks and credit unions to offer the FedNow capabilities through their current online banking setups... much like those same institutions currently provide payments / fund transfers thru the widely used Automated Clearing House (ACH) system. Except in the case of FedNow based payments, the payments/transfers are supposed to be instantaneous, instead of the current domestic ACH payments/transfers that take anywhere from next-day to several days to settle right now.

Here's the list from the Fed of the participating institutions at the start -- not a lot of household names of widely used banks and credit unions, as yet. Some of the better known / widely used: JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo Bank, US Bank, Salem Five Bank, Veridian Credit Union... https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/organizations