BillR

^you think the Phuket Post, or any phuket newspaper or magaizine for that matter, independently review restaurants?

^ yeah its blatantly obvious what your suppose to do, The main menu is on the wall, there is a counter with a cash register with the order slips and pens. It would be like walking into starbucks and sitting down and wondering why you got no coffee

the work permit would be the least of your concerns

The Sims: Phuket. That would make for a great video game.

KBB, Im not denying that fact, of course they get commissioned, I was referencing the russian tour guides, where it was reported that they were being told to stay away from the thai guides as they would be (allegedly) ripped off.

I agree a lot of thais speak fluent russian, one of my thai staff is a former tour guide and he confirms this. But the fact remains that people are being told not to use the thai tour guides, because their whole job is to basically shuffle you from place to place where they get the highest commission, which is the rip off part of it. The thais know its a rip off, they know its bad for tourism to do this, but unfortunately they don't know how to do it any other way.

The downfall of this, in my opinion, is tourists and people who live here are pre-conditioned to hold tightly on to their cash and mostly assume that there might be a rip off built in somewhere to whatever they're doing.

well, I have thai staff, albeit not as restaurant servers, and they all understand quite easily the (western I guess) concept of getting appetizers first, food all together same time, more drinks when your finished without having to get up and walk over to the server picking their nose to ask. I won't mention names but they've been said in this thread that have almost too much staff, including kitchen staff and they are all basically brain dead or something. Its a very simple concept.

Just a comment on farang food restaurants in general in Thailand, how fricking hard is it to get the staff to bring the appetizers first, or everyones food at the same time, or drink refills when you're finished. or an offer if you'd like anything else or the check when everyones plates are cleared, etc. etc. etc.

Even the long-standing restaurants can't seem to get this right.

yeah i just missed it, I was coming south on the other side of the road so more focused on not getting killed by a bus. Will try it later tonight or tomorrow.

I think theres some confusion here on the italian place, I just went to the one under mai's guesthouse and its called pizza lovers, and the food was very good and yes free bruschetta. I was looking for the place called "La bella vita", but didn't see it, so amyb if you could clarify a bit better as to where it is I would appreciate it. Always like to try the new places.

edit: Actually, just found their facebook page, it says opposite laguna disco. Is that accurate?

and edit again: here is the map http://www.facebook....100001718363798

Come on Thailand

as a side note, and as maybe an indication of the world's economic woes, Ive had several customers at one of my businesses (not bar, restaurant) ask if we take credit cards, where in years past, never.

Seems the high season is basically over. My 3rd one here and never seen it so bad in the Rawai area as far as restaurants and bars go. Some bars lasted all of 2 months and are now for rent. How is Kata area and patong? Ive heard they were pretty dead too but haven't been to see for myself.

Of course, most business owners won't admit they're hurting but the writing is on the wall.

Thoughts?

burn it

but seriously, if you take it to the trash collection area of your soi im sure it will be gone quickly. someone will take it.

TRUE and CAT have some partnership together, so many people report higher speeds with them. It does not matter if Thailand builds a fiber optic cable to the moon, intl speeds will be not so good until the price of bandwidth comes down. I would post a link to another forum where this is discussed in great detail, but basically incredible intl bandwidth does exist in Thailand the same as the rest of the world but you'll only really get it at uni's, govt offices, and if you lease your own line.

OMG I typed massage table thailand into google and look!

http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/TH/massage-table.html

it is because everyone is sharing the same international bandwidth which CAT is selling for at high prices. You will get different intl speeds with different providers and plans depending on how much intl bandwidth they have paid for which usually isn't much because it would be too expensive. Someone mentioned on this forum before that if they delivered speeds internationally as advertised it would cost the provider upwards of 40,000THB per month per account. So do the math.

50 bucks in quarters is not that much, 5 rolls. If you find a visiting american maybe they would help for a commission or something.

just get to the post office in the morning and you'll be fine for over night delivery via ems most anywhere in Thailand.

^or maybe they like to get all the facts straight first. The other news source has been constantly wrong about even the simplest things.

just use your online banking to pay bills if you have a thai bank account. very easy.

Just watched the video.....I wonder if a game of rock paper scissors decided who got to operate the back hoe?

are you using wordpress? if so install wordpress super cache and that will solve your problem. The other option is to upgrade your hosting to vps or dedicated, a good idea anyway as shared hosting anyone can bring the server down.

You can camp out in front of the local markets with a large bottle of chang, all hours of the day

what does community service in Thailand entail?