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McLovin

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  1. Evening All,

    I'm not one to normally complain (honest!) I love my life here on Samui. Sure there are crazy things going on, like the state of the roads, idiots driving cement lorries at stupid speeds, shootings, etc. etc. But that is part of living here, it adds a bit of excitement to daily life and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I've never had any trouble here and always found the local Thai's to be pleasant and welcoming.

    Tonight, my girl and I went to Kraochaobaan Restaurant which is just before Hua Thanon on the left-hand side of the ring road. It was very interesting to see that the Thai language menu (given to my girl) had different prices to the English language menu... :D

    Now the difference in price isn't the point here, it's an extra 10-20 baht per dish on the farang menu. My problem is the principal behind it. This is the first time I've come across this here and in my opinion it is kee-kwai of the highest grade. :D

    Anyway, just to give these guys a bit of a test my girl and I ordered the same thing. Now surely they couldn't charge the Thai price to my girl and the Farang price to me. This should fool them... :D

    The bill came and low and behold we were both charged the more expensive price. So my girl enquired as to why in the Thai menu her iced tea was 30 baht, but we'd been charged 50 baht for it. The guy was pretty rude in his reply and said this was the old menu and they hadn't updated the prices on it yet and if she didn't want to pay the difference he would. :o

    I did think this was pretty nice of him, but we declined his offer and paid. I'm thinking of going back tomorrow and when they give me the farang menu I'll politely ask in Thai for the Thai language menu... :wai:

    On another note my friends and I tried Sabiang Lae last night, the food was great and there was one menu with both Thai & English language with the same price for each dish. :D

    We've just moved to the Hua Thanon & HinTa/HinYai area, if anyone could recommend any decent places to eat around there that would be great.

    Matt.

    I know that restaurant well, and I am well aware of the fact that they have two menus. My GF and I haven't been there since she got seriously ill from bad goong. She had the squits for two days, seriously messy stuff. As for Sabaing Lae, now that place is top notch. Highly recommend the King Prawns in Tamarind sauce aroi aroi. I would recommend steering clear of Kraochaobaan Restaurant and not just because of their blatant racism...

  2. As a former travel agent. I would be interested to know if anyone else knows of 'VFR' airfares, and if so, do they think they are blatantly racists? In short VFR stands for "visiting friends and relatives". Thai has VFR fares, and one of the conditions is: "passenger must have a thai surname". If they do, they get the slightly cheaper fare. Whilst it is true that it doesnt stipulate a nationaility, common sense would say more often than not a person with a Thai surname would be aThai national. Also, there VFR fares are sold outside Thailand as well.

  3. i will take your advise

    at the end of the day i tried to say sorry to the girl and she started going crazy i couldnt get a word in

    then this thai guy stormed over man and i knew he was going to crack me one i could see it in his eyes i reacted first

    what else was i supposed to do?...

    3 guys then started on me and did what i was trained to do, i took the biggest one out first i couldn't line the other two up in a straight line to go through them so i bolted - there was other guys coming over at that time to. 3 on to one aint good man.

    apart from that i had a great night, some girl in one of the bars really liked me. she's the cashier as well as doesnt go with guys i want to go back but im scared to go into lamai

    Ark.

  4. i stood on some thai girls foot last night by accident and she went mental i tried to say sorry and some thai guy grabbed me.

    just say sorry and buy them a drink

    i lamped him on the jaw he went straight down

    Big Big Mistake.... never start on a Thai, and esp a Thai in Fusion.....

    count yourself lucky, as i have seen some ferangs in there batterd to nr death from the Thais!

    Best not to go back, as you have made them lose face

    Didnt I recommend Fusion to you when you joined the forums. Same goes as above. the Thais there can be lethal. None of them have jobs, they just live to get drunk every night. Lucky you came out of it. Buy a lottery ticket.

  5. C'mon.... just another english teatcher... :D

    Or a troll... can't wait to read when the reality hit's her or :o

    I emailed her, told her I would giver her McLovins tour of BKK if she was interested :D Will post a reply if I get one.

  6. hello everyone i am new to the forum

    i am on holiday here for 3 months and would like to know where the best night spots are? i am staying in chaweng at the moment but am going to move to lamai shortly as i have a cushdy new place there but cant move in until a few days time

    i have to sayy this is such an amazing place i love it it certainly beats england ha ha

    ark.

    Hi Ark,

    Welcome to the forums. I have just moved to Lamai as well. This place is seriously pumping. Check out the Lamai beach road. Fusion is AWESOME, plenty of hot chicks there. Also the bars around the kick boxing ring ... good place to improve your connect four skills if you know what I mean....

  7. This is obviously a thread aimed at dissing Thai people, as the OP knows that is a Farang based forum, he poses a question that will obviously lead to the usual suspects dissing the whole Thai population from the safety of their seat behing their computer.

    I just wonder how many of these internet warriors are so brave in reality ? Should we start a new Topic ?

    Topic : How many posters here who continuously put Thai people down apply for Visas to stay in Thailand , which has 65 Million Thais, the very people they slag off at every opportunity ?

    And how many of them will confront Thai people with their problems with Thai people ?

    Answers on the back of a postage stamp..... :o

    Dude stop being such an apologist for the Thai people. If they took a long hard look at themselves and tried to fix the many problems here, then perhaps this country might rise up the failed state that it is ... until then I am enjoying my 50baht Chang in paradise..

  8. A bar girl once tried to put in on me, "I want to go to New Zealand so much, you take me"... I asked her to show me where it was on the Thai Airways inflight magazine map... Well, I certainly had no idea that NZ was slap in the middle of the Phillipines .. I do now though.

    And did her lack of education make you feel educated, educated enough to ridicle those less educated than youself ?

    Maybe you need educating in other fields. :o

    What part of my post suggested that I ridiculed her??? Why have you got such a big chip on your shoulder... Let me guess your wife is geographically challenged as well?

  9. Andy you have had mixed responses but I think you know the answer 20,000THB seems well over the norm.

    I would ask to see her monthly pay check (salary) it would be interesting to hear her explain how she was able to send twently thousand a month previously. Thai's seem to be able to justify white lies without thinking about the consequences, she could loose someone that can provide a good life for her if she is faithful, caring and trueful.

    CMS very good point indeed. For most part Thais only live for the day, they are not long term thinkers. Its all about what they can get today, and bugger the consequences. Andy should dump this thing ASAP.

  10. One person claims they are charging "darker skinned gentlemen" 200 baht and everyone assumes it's true. Obviously if Tiger Woods or Will Smith tried to get in they'd be falling over themselves to get him inside and keep him inside. But there is obviously a big problem with Nigerian scammers in the area who might frequent a bar not to buy drinks but to scam the gullible white folk too scared of being seen as "racist" to tell them to get lost. So they have a very sensible policy to try to keep such people out of the bar. Relax, we're not in politically correct little old England anymore.

    I am half African American and I frequent Gullivers and have never been charged except on new years eve when they were really crowded and I saw everyone getting charged. I have never been approached by a nigerian trying to scam me and I havent noticed anyone around me being bothered.

    Your only a 100baht then....

  11. I'm running out of space in my Australian passport, so I've been wondering which pages can still be used for future visa stickers and stamps, and at what stage I should actually go and get a new passport.

    !

    This post is joke right??

    An in depth post of the entire pages of someone passport.. Common sense dude, look at your passport. If it looks full or is getting full, get a new one. SIMPLE AS THAT

  12. this has been brought up a few times here on TV

    also note it is possible to drive a car directly on to the runway at Samui Airport ( at depatures )

    hard to take off in a car :P

    :o:D:D:D:D:wai:

    anyway everywhere in Thailand it would be easy, there are much more fragile targets then this airport in LOS. There on this airport I can imagine, we are quite safe ;-)

    How about any one of the large overcrowded ferries going from Samui to Koh Phangan any full moon. No life jackets and jam packed with Israelis....

    Even more great ideas! Any hints on bomb making etc. you would like to import while you're on? What a tool !

    dude get a grip ..... if I have thought about it, thousand of others have as well....

  13. this has been brought up a few times here on TV

    also note it is possible to drive a car directly on to the runway at Samui Airport ( at depatures )

    hard to take off in a car :P

    :o:D:D:D:D:wai:

    anyway everywhere in Thailand it would be easy, there are much more fragile targets then this airport in LOS. There on this airport I can imagine, we are quite safe ;-)

    How about any one of the large overcrowded ferries going from Samui to Koh Phangan any full moon. No life jackets and jam packed with Israelis....

  14. We would all really like to thank you for pointing that out to all terrorists that did not realise that already! Cheers! I strongly suggest a moderator deletes this intelligent thread as soon as possible.

    Cheers.

    BREAKING NEWS - Terrorist Organisation gets idea from Thai Visa .....

    What a tool ........ I think any terrorist organization has far better intelligence than info gathered from Thai Visa posts...

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