BugJackBaron

Myanmar not on the list?

Just kidding.

Yeah, like the one the Landmark Hotel in Bangkok had(has?) to keep customers outside cool in the heat.

Water is cheap surely? What would it cost to look and feel cool in the hood?

On 8/27/2023 at 6:21 PM, KhunLA said:

I guess you don't know any Yanks that have eating good pizza.  My one chickie friend use to have a pizza & hoagie/sandwich shop ... excellent.  Along with a cousin owning same.   I've rarely had a bad pizza in the USA.  

 

Way too many crap pizzas here.  To the point, I don't roll the dice often, and just make at home.  My pizza bread/rolls at home (when lazy) is better than most pizza here.

 

Cheese is their biggest weak point, and why I usually get pepperoni here, as makes up for the lack of flavorful or amount of cheese they use.

Agreed about the cheese. Though it wasn't by the slice, the last really good pizza I had was years ago in Vientienne. The owner said they used quality cheese like the French did.

3 hours ago, LALes said:

The late, lamented Ronnie's NY Pizza on Soi Nana was great.  Covid killed it.

If you want a slice of real NY Pizza, go to SOHO on Soi 11, up near the top of the soi.

Maybe even better than Ronnie's was.  It's not cheap-120 baht for a slice of cheese-but

its really good.  Pala is OK, if you like the thick, bready, square slice.

 

Great, is it a late night venue?

2 minutes ago, marin said:

It is the best. Also a somewhat upscale restaurant that closes at 11pm. Truthfully not sure what they would think of the drunken Nana crowd. ????

Then there is a  great business opportunity for someone who want to open a later operating venue in Nana or Soi Cowboy.

1 minute ago, Captain Monday said:

Across Suk 11 near ALOFT BKK.

Thanks, is it any good? Not that you care too much if you have the munchies at  2am.

Not really, but in terms of fair summary of information it is way more balanced than the skewed reactionary SEO answers stock google spits out.

On behalf of all late night drinkers who require a slice of Pizza in Nana or other areas after a goof night of imbibing, I would like to know where, where, O where did the slice of Pizza venders go?

I remember there was a good in Nana but it seems to have long gone.

  Inquiring drinkers want to know! I want to know!

18 hours ago, DoneTravelling said:

Try looking at the Ford Everest, some good deals on used ones. Excellent fuel consumption, full 7 seven seater, lots of safety features and my missus who is 5,5 can drive it with ease. 

I would not touch a car going for 250k

Thanks I think the balance seems to be for the Everest so I will look for a cheap one and ask the in-law who knows cars to evaluate it before buying. Just as long as it comes in either red(wife's choice) or bronze(my choice). it should be fine.

Thanks for all the replies. I have some homework to do.

As long as I can get a car/SUV second hand in the 7000 dollar range(I am told that is the minimum u should consider for safety)

I'll be happy.

Totally  self driving AI assisted vehicles will bring safety  in about 30 years time.

Hey, looking for a safe SUV easily affordable and available here.

Fortuner would be my first choice but ideally I'd like something accessible 

to shorter people as well(my wife). Not sure if any SUVs would fit that but some

cars like the Nissan Kick(first google result) would.

  What do you think?

2 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

'Comprehensible thai', probably the best and most extensive out there

 

ขอบคุณสำหรับสิ่งนี้

Title says it all. Before Covid there were some cool ones with no time wasting speaking in English.

It seems easy to find channels  for other languages with conversation just in the target language

but quite  difficult in Thai where many students I suspect are not serious and just want to l

ogle the pretty teacher  There are some good ones like Thai with Mod of course, but they seem  aimed at beginners.

 What's new and good?

Easier plan  , steal a fishing boat!

Would you take your wife and   young son to  a gogo bar? Saw it once!

So this is about high quality cheesecake beyond  the fluff you get in a bakery or Starbucks.

Last month, I really enjoyed the cheesecake in The Wine Connection in Puckett Old Town - as

well as a pretty decent glass of wine! 

 However,  I have very limited knowledge of the fine dining scene in Phukett, so any other

recommendations welcome.

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

I recall the old one at the Beach Rd Thrappaya corner..... wasn't that popular. 

I have heard(maybe here?) that for some reason fast food restaurants suffer from the "curse of Jomtien" and just don't succeed. It is said that even KFC,  arguably the most successful fast food chain  in the world, tried it's hand in Jomtien many many years ago  and flopped. 

On 4/23/2023 at 8:35 AM, actonion said:

I find Thai food as u have described above, lots of cheap re used oil,  and  cooked in very un- hygienic conditions,  & u can digest that

t;s true enough of Asian fast food in general but there are plenty of healthy Thai options that are not fried. Boiled soups, fermented meats...

As a paleo-diet/ketogenic follower I try to eat as little of ANY fried food as possible but if I fry eggs at home I will fry in butter. Keto friendly restaurants iin the West will do this but I am not aware of any that do it here. I recall a Thai restaurant trying to go green in this way in Nonthanburi but it is the lone  voice in the wilderness.

"Well, Mr. Igor?"

"I simply meant Mr. President, that like a low life......."

Goat milk is  far easier on the digestion for many people and no shortage yet.

NaJomtien is a little ambiguous isn't it? It can mean the area between Jomtien and Bang Saray  or it can mean the area north of the Police box in the center of Jomtien beach. I only know about the later, a quiet place full of seafood restaurants .

3 minutes ago, Brewster67 said:

I can't agree...

 

The world is changing fast, the east is rising and the west is declining... Countries like the UK have swept across the world for hundreds of years slaughtering people and stealing their wealth and resources and the UK was at the forefront of it. 

 

The multipolar world is taking off and the unipolar world led by the USA and their European sycophants in tow are in real danger... The multipolar world is made up of all the countries that have at one time or another been victims of the west and they have a huge axe to grind.

 

The BRICS is about to explode with over 40 countries ready to join and another 50 countries interested... The 5 current members of BRICS have a collective GDP that is bigger than the combined G7 countries.... The BRICS countries within the next 2 years will hold up to 80% of the global oil and gas export markets....

 

The multipolar world is where the resources are that the west can't live without.... I see a seperation happening where the west will be cut off by the rest of the world which makes up 85% of the global population and they have a massive axe to grind with the west, they won't forget history... I can see them cutting the west off from trade and that will be the total collapse of the west.

 

Nobody needs the west, they are drenched in debt, they live off the printing press, they are a fading market... 

 

The UK is probably going to take the biggest hit of all.

And of course this is the dawning of the age of Aquarius  Yeah, right. In the meantime, English is what young people(with few exceptions) want to learn - not Chinese or Hindi .

And the movies they want to see are English and culture they want to learn, for better or worse, is Western.

As Ramstein sang , "We're all living in America".

I discovered Vikings and The last Kingdom

History made interesting - yes I know there was some liberty taken.

3 hours ago, Olmate said:

6 inch roast beef at Subway yesterday 199baht!

Outrageous, I never like their bread anyways. 

Good roast beef sandwich in Pattay at about 90Baht in a supermarket.