rohitsuk

Thainomics - if volume falls just increase margin and you will make even more money !

What is so amazing about that? You obviously don't know anything about economics do you?

It is a very possible situation depending on the goods or service and location.

Not a lot, just a First from Oxford in PPE and a Havard MBA. You a Cambridge and Yale man are you ?

I would be fascinated to read a parallel case study to the present Thai Tourism situation, which shows a corresponding fall in volume produced greater revenue from increased margin. Let me know if you find one.

No, you are erecting a straw man.

Your original statement implied the usual practice for Thai business is to raise prices when volume falls. This is incorrect, although it may be true that SOME business do indeed do just that.

If you don't understand why it may be beneficial for SOME business to do that then I don't think you were paying attention during the "E" part of your degree.

Also, if you believe that the majority of Thai business raise their prices when volume falls, you are just disillusioned. That is why your comments relating to case studies of the entire tourism situation are irrelevant.

Dearie me but you are a sad fellow madjbs. Your comments seem entirely focused on what you perceive to be my abilities or the lack of them, through which you want to invalidate my observation and divert my challenge to produce the proof - a parallel case study. According to you I am not just wrong but actually, "disillusioned" and so in a much worse state than ever I realised. Thank you for that. Do at least learn to attack the issue and not the individual with whom you may disagree.

Quite what drum you are beating I am not sure but were your attempts to lecture me not quite so absurd, they might almost be faintly amusing. It requires no more than native wit to realise that my original remarks were not entirely serous and most certainly did not constitute an attempt at academic analysis of the Thai economy. I get paid to do that.

It is the common proof of experience with many foreign residents of Thailand that the frequent response to falling number of customers, is simply to increase prices and this may well extend from the corner noodle seller to Thai Airways. Even you admit that "some" Thai businesses do this, whereas I made no mention of quantities merely quipped, "Thainomics". Did that not alert you to at least the possibility that I may not have been entirely serious ? No, obviously not.

I am extremely reluctant to offer advice to anyone whom I do not know very well but I will break that rule for you. Do try to take this forum, any given issue and yourself somewhat less seriously dear boy and you may yet find it more beneficial, even enjoyable.

You fly away now madjbs and insult someone else, I have taken my share.

Thainomics - if volume falls just increase margin and you will make even more money !

What is so amazing about that? You obviously don't know anything about economics do you?

It is a very possible situation depending on the goods or service and location.

Not a lot, just a First from Oxford in PPE and a Havard MBA. You a Cambridge and Yale man are you ?

I would be fascinated to read a parallel case study to the present Thai Tourism situation, which shows a corresponding fall in volume produced greater revenue from increased margin. Let me know if you find one.

I wonder if this means it will be a good time to visit Thailand in January, or if I am about to jump into a pool of hungry piranhas.

Well you know the Thai business philosophy - Whoops, a drop of 34% in the number of customers so we will have to charge the remaining 66% an extra 34% to make it up.

Thainomics - if volume falls just increase margin and you will make even more money !

And the national business mottos:

"Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" and "Wishing will make it so".

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Its all there in the City of Angles and The Land of Wiles - Well-kaaaarm !

I most certainly don't get upset.

I live in Thailand, where -thank god- common human interaction is still allowed.

That said, no situation is alike, and while I appreciate some kinds words meant in a kind way, there are also people that I prefer to keep my daughter away from. And they're not necessarily all Thai either.

The voice of reason

Totally agree

I have two half Thai children a boy and a girl they both are singled out [in a nice way] for the colour of there skin.

I don't believe this incident with the Thai man is anything to do with gender but all to do with the Thai's rather shallow infatuation with beauty.

And for the poster who wrote;

'Nearly every farang (obviously exceptions) knows not to even so much as look at prebusecent girls, FOR THE VERY reason that they don't want to alarm the parent'

I find this very sad , to me looking at happy young children is like viewing some breath taking countryside or snorkelling in a coral reef, it's a joy and there is nothing sordid about it.

I'd agree that approaching an unaccompanied child is a completer NO and I teach my kids not to talk to or go anywhere with strangers

Spot on chaps and there is not much more to say so I will shut up !

Everything would depend on the behaviour of the 2 year old.

Interesting question. I've flown business class maybe 100 times and not often seen kids, and never had a problem with kids, except one which I'll explain later.

I guess there's two sides to the 'argument':

- Some businessmen like to work on serious stuff (me included) during the flight and would therefore like some peace and quiet.

- On the other hand, unless the specific airline has a policy of no kids in business class, then the businessmen have to put up with whoever sits next to them, or within the business class section,

My own problem was not with small children, it was my 18 year old son who was traveling with me many times and had done many business class flights.

He politely asked the TG hostess for some Coca Cola. The reply was "Go and ask in economy class".

I objected and asked why he had been given the said reply. Answer was "It's not appropriate for children (he was 18 years old) to ask seniors (puuyai) for service.

I objected further and the purser eventually came, she was quite aloof and claimed there had been a misunderstanding, which was not true. I demanded he be served his drink, which was eventually delivered by another hostess.

Later another hostess again approached me and asked "Why were you so rude to my friend, she comes from a famous family".

What a pity her, "famous family" did not teach its pig-ignorant daughter common courtesy to say nothing of a little nolesse oblige. If she is too "good" to serve the coke fine, leave the job to someone who's head is not too far up their own backside to do it.

Even if I had been considering flying Thai, which I most certainly am not since the outfit has turned itself into a pathetic joke in recent years, this would most definitely have convinced me not to do so.

Thai - smooth as flint !

I vote for Life for 60 70 years old farangs with underage bar girls also

But then Pattaya would be a ghost town.

...and wouldn't that be a vast improvement ? Good bye Cess Pit City.

how about banning the most stupid rolemodel soaps in Thailand where.....

Women? the falser the better

man? wimps

How about banning ALL Thai songs where the song is of no importance but the butt shaking and poledancing girls at the background is what thai people want to hear and see.

How about educating chhildren about the (most) importent thing in life?

Family as the cornerstone of thai society?

how about reducing the Fatherless familys where the women "has" to go and "work" in pattaya or phuket and leave the children behind without any decent upbringing opporrtunitys?

How about??????????????? Love!

Here, here ! The most sense I have seen written on this forum for a long time. So, how about it ???

I attended the parents' briefing last weekend when the Principal, Madame Varee herself, explained the two options of the English Programme for next academic year. The first is an enhancement of the present programme, which will take it to 50% taught in English, although some of that, as now, will be taught by Thai teachers, who vary between extremely capable and barely adequate. Surprise, surprise the fees are to increase to fund the cost of the anticipated enhancement.

The second option is for an all English programme, except for Thai language of course, that will all be taught by native speaking teachers, leading to the Cambridge IGCSE exams. Success in these exams will greatly facilitate access to UK and other western universities and the International Programmes of Thailand's premier universities, such as the Medical Faculty at Mahidol. However, for children to succeed in this programme they will need to be at or very near native speaker level as they enter it, the texts used having been written for native speakers and have the ability to study towards UK GCSE level. It is, therefore, clearly not for all children which is why our own two will be continuing in the ordinary English programme, where they are very happy and do reasonably well. Whilst we all want our children to achieve the very best of which they are capable, there is no greater mistake than allowing your own ambition to push them beyond their ability level, where they will be doomed to misery and failure.

I understand that the IGCSE programme is to cost about Baht 150k a year, more than double the 50/50 English programme and substantially more than the native speaker taught English Programme at Montfort College, although I am not sure if that leads to IGCSE.

Well at the very least it is another option for parents in Chiang Mai to consider but I would suggest that it needs to be considered very carefully to ensure that it does, in fact, fit with and fulfil the needs of your child.

"Has anyone checked the beer bars? He might have disguised himself in there."

Oh I don't think that he would need much of a disguise in some of those joints - he would blend in perfectly !

But surely this must be a desperate attempt at a publicity stunt by TAT:

Join The Great Chiang Mai Hippo Hunt 2009. First Prize a Baby Hippo; Second Prize a redundant Security Guard and Third Prize - TAT.

Hippo-hippo hurray ! (sorry)

Well I hardly dare comment in such prolific, august and witty company but thanks gents, it is all very amusing and here's to more of the same.

...and why ever not? Nice to see you rohitsuk, did you manage to get that problem with your septic sorted out? Never heard if you managed to install the drains.

Thank you MM indeed I did.  We installed a pump which we turn on now and again to drain off the excess water and thanks again for your advice.

Well I hardly dare comment in such prolific, august and witty company but thanks gents, it is all very amusing and here's to more of the same.

My deepest sympathies, it sounds like a living nightmare but short of borrowing a rocket launcher from the army, there may be no solution.

The world gets noisier by the minute and the means of making a noise are cheap and widely available, including to those without the brains and decency to use them sensibly and with due consideration for others. Thailand possibly seems nosier to westerners because so much more goes on outside or with the windows wide open, than in chillier climes.  Would it be worth giving up electricity to achieve quiet ?  Probably not but it's quite a thought.

I dream of a device the size of my mobile phone, which when pointed in the direction of excessive electrically produced noise fries the circuits of the amplifier, something like the bombs the Yanks used in Iraq to fry the communication systems. Oh please Santa Baby !

And a collar that progressively tightens as the dog continues to bark. But I want it put round the owner's neck not the dogs as I love dogs and hate owners who are too lazy and selfish to care for, train and properly control their poor unfortunate pets.  

Ah well, it's all waiting in heaven or somewhere.

pjclark was certainly right with don't buy anything you are not prepared to (or cannot afford to) walk away from in Thailand. I would go further when it comes to property and say, don't buy anything just rent.  We bought a house in a quiet and secluded little backwater of AM nearly two years ago and whilst there is currently virtual silence  for about 80% of the time, that could change any day should, Under the Brit, decide to open a branch in one of the several empty houses behind us. Unlikely for sure but there are many reason why peace and quiet might be irretrievably lost and we are surrounded by vacant land.

Next year we plan to move a little out of the city to a house with a larger garden and so plan to let our own house and with the proceeds rent another.  Should Under the Brit decide to go rural, or a karaoke bar, welding workshop or heavy industrial building site drop from heaven beside us, we would just move out so soon as we could find another suitable house to rent.  The loss of the two months security deposit would be a small price to pay for getting the hel_l out from, Under the Brit, although the hope is that it will not happen as one moves further from the madding crowd. Renting another house would be easy but selling because of excessive noise, difficult at the best of times, would be impossible in the present market.

Incidentally, long term rents at typically 3-5% of estimated resale price are terrific value in CM and there are lots to choose from and many are, or can be, unfurnished.

Isn't it significant that the only people talking it up are those in whose interest it is to talk it up ? Much like the Estate Agents when the market is at rock bottom, insisting that we are in, yet another, boom. No surprise really it is a well worn, if slightly pathetic, tactic.

However, for the sake of all those businesses in Phuket and their employees who depend on the tourist trade, let us hope that it is not entirely fantasy since self-destruction, despite the Thai propensity to peruse it, in is nobody's interest really.

Pattaya = CPC - Cess Pit City: Oh sorry, make that Cess Pit City on Sea).  The worst possible kind of Thais and farangs mixed together in an open sewer - lovely.  Well long may they stay there because at least they are not spoiling anywhere else in Thailand.

Public execution - off with their heads or better yet their nuts, followed by their heads.

Is it my overactive imagination or is this year's LK going on forever ?

Did I miss something or when you have heard one bang, have you not really rather heard them all ? We have been "banging" for a month or so already and the last week it has been almost continuous both night and day. The hope that it might have been over after the second parade on Tuesday seems forlorn as here at Don Chan 11am Friday morning, there has just been the most colossal explosion like an artillery shell landing. I hate to be a killjoy but I am beginning to feel shell shocked.  

This year I though there were far fewer lanterns and khrathongs but a lot more bangs and over a much longer period.   I used to love LK but have always laid low for Songkran and it is, of course, much more difficult to avoid LK or at least the noise of it.

Please don't tell me I am just a miserable old fart but really is LK never going to be over this year or are we "banging" for something else now ???

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Hitler is a fairly boring subject,

He tried to do a bit of 'ethnic cleansing' on the Jewish community and failed miserably.

Time to move on and let the past rest in peace. - "move on"? "let the past rest in peace"? Isnt remembering, what history is all about? I also find what you said offensive as we should remember the damage caused in war, and those who were lost to it. Its more than trying to do a bit of "ethnic cleansing" as you put it, and even that was HORRIFIC in itself. "Failed miserably"?..sorry but words fail really. However, i am biased, for although many people were affected in WW2, try telling my father and his sister to not remember that the grew up without their father because he served and died in it. Then again, maybe he was one of the lucky ones, he wasnt a Jew and subjected to the treatment they were put through. How you can possibly talk of it in such a blase' way seems beyond me.

Why does nobody ever bother mentioning the successful evil people who actually succeeded in wiping out races. So we should "move on" with regards to WW2, but remember other "successful evil people"? I believe all history is important and should be remembered. Not a 'oh im fed up hearing about that one, give me a new one instead'...

For example

The Romans destroying the Celt people and the druids. - As a Scot, there was me thinking i am a Celt. Thank you for informing me that my race was wiped out. I must have missed that one growing up

The Americans wiping out the native tribes of America. - well i dont know much about native tribes of America. But, i was under the impression that at least some native tribes are still in America. Maybe someone can better inform me (sorry, but at this point i dont quite trust your historical accuracy).

The Australian people wiping out the Aboriginals. - Erm..wiped out the Aboriginals. Has anyone told them yet?

All did a far better job than Hitler! ????????????

Probably best, dear friends, to assume that in no matter how deplorably bad taste, OP "eek" is seeking to be un agent provocateur and  is not entirely serious and certainly not factual in his comments.  The alternative would involve believing that it is possible for someone to truly be as utterly crass and inane as he seems to want to portray himself.  However, should that be the case then it would be best to treat it with the contempt it so richly deserves, not rise to the bait and totally ignore it.

Best weapons here are eyes, ears and brain. If you don't think those are sufficient to keep you safe here, you may find yourself happier elsewhere.

couldnt have said it better

Absolutely right !

are you sure everything is fine as youve posted the reply 3 times

but seriously, thats the main reason why i havent gone to another ISP. Ive heard mixed reports about TOT as well, so i will hold till theres some clearer results

im just wondering if CAT is available in my area

in the meantime, my speeds are back to some sort of normalcy as i watched the latest episodes of Big trouble in Thailand without any stoppages, except for part 4, in which theres a problem with the upload on Youtube

Oh that's probably me being a clutz !  It didn't seem to have gone so I clicked away.  Mustn't kick the CAT for that ! 

I like to read Winston Churchill's insights into Gandhi's character, but no school is going to go into that. Reading widely is the only way to true education.

Sadly, Thai people know precious little of their own history, much less anybody else's. I have taught in Thailand on and off over 25 years at various levels but most university. Initially I was stunned when my fellow Thai ajarns at the nation's leading universities would ask me why I knew so much about Thai history, when they freely confessed to knowing little or nothing of it.

Reading, as OPs have already commented, is of course the answer. I "read" history for my first degree in the UK and read it exactly what I did for three years, anything and everything I could get hold of relevant to my subject so naturally before I first came to Thailand I read some Thai history. My Thai colleagues at the various universities also read but I was astounded to see that what many of them read was, cartoons !

Hitler, if known at all by Thai people, is rather in the same category as Dracula being a scary ghost like character, which is probably why the Pattaya museum had put him in the chamber of horrors, where he certainly belongs. It is difficult for many groups not to see this as offensive because of the pervasive effects of the evils for which Hitler was responsible. If it is excusable in Thailand then it would be on the grounds of ignorance in the normative and most literal sense of the word - a genuine lack of knowledge. This does not mean, of course, that it should go unchallenged and uncorrected which, is the light of independently acquired knowledge that reading brings. Remember the Olympic style torch which used to be the UK road sign for an approaching school ? Apposite indeed, but sadly degraded into a political ping-pong ball.

My grandsons attend one of the city's prominent Thai schools and study in the bilingual programme so mostly with foreign teachers. However, they know no more Thai history at M2 & M3 than did my ajarn colleagues, revealed a few weeks ago when I did one of my little instant check tests with them. I am ashamed to say that they did not know the names of the King's mother and father or that Prince Mahidol was a doctor and this at the end of a day when they had watched a video at school about the King's life and work. They know now and they won't be forgetting in a hurry because they read it in a book for themselves.

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I went to the Maxnet office last week to pay my bill and was also directed to the Bank. I paid at tesco Lotus - and for some reason got a 35Baht discount (money back on the receipt).

For the last 2 months, my Indy Internet speeds has been fantastic.

Yesterday the connection suddenly went down for almost 5 hours. I phoned my friend who lives nearby and his Maxnet Internet was also down. So this confirmed it had nothing to do with my computer.

The Internet came back at about 6.00pm yesterday evening. Since than, all has turned to crap and now I`m struggling to download anything and even creating this post is a struggle.

And yes, you can pay your Maxnet bills at Tesco Lotus.

Not sure what is happening with TT&T and it appears, neither do they. I do know that they`re whole system has gone to pot.

I dumped Maxnet a couple of months ago because of appalling service and attitude having tried upgrading, at their suggestion, from Indy to Premier which was slow to nearly-as-slow NARROW band next to useless disconnected every few minutes. But also because of persistent rumours that the company was about to go under.

A move to TOT, however, was right out of the frying pan into the fire since although  it was fine for the first couple of weeks at about 1.5mgs and almost no disconnections, it then went totally pathetic at .05 megs until a few days ago, when it went to a barely adequate 1meg but probably as good as it gets.

In the meantime I have moved to CAT who have so far well exceeded their promise of 80% reliability of connection and speed.  At their suggestion I signed up for their cheapest package 2/1 for 799 a month with the option to upgrade if that proved stable.  It has and so I shall be upgrading the speed in the hope of retaining the stability.  At all but the heaviest usage times it runs Youtube and other video streaming well and in the low volume hours, I can get two to three times the Imeg ex-Thailand speed I am paying for.  

So far, so good but will it be constant and consistent, very elusive qualities in Thailand ?  I will report again to this forum.

I went to the Maxnet office last week to pay my bill and was also directed to the Bank. I paid at tesco Lotus - and for some reason got a 35Baht discount (money back on the receipt).

For the last 2 months, my Indy Internet speeds has been fantastic.

Yesterday the connection suddenly went down for almost 5 hours. I phoned my friend who lives nearby and his Maxnet Internet was also down. So this confirmed it had nothing to do with my computer.

The Internet came back at about 6.00pm yesterday evening. Since than, all has turned to crap and now I`m struggling to download anything and even creating this post is a struggle.

And yes, you can pay your Maxnet bills at Tesco Lotus.

Not sure what is happening with TT&T and it appears, neither do they. I do know that they`re whole system has gone to pot.

I dumped Maxnet a couple of months ago because of appalling service and attitude having tried upgrading, at their suggestion, from Indy to Premier which was slow to nearly-as-slow NARROW band next to useless disconnected every few minutes. But also because of persistent rumours that the company was about to go under.

A move to TOT, however, was right out of the frying pan into the fire since although  it was fine for the first couple of weeks at about 1.5mgs and almost no disconnections, it then went totally pathetic at .05 megs until a few days ago, when it went to a barely adequate 1meg but probably as good as it gets.

In the meantime I have moved to CAT who have so far well exceeded their promise of 80% reliability of connection and speed.  At their suggestion I signed up for their cheapest package 2/1 for 799 a month with the option to upgrade if that proved stable.  It has and so I shall be upgrading the speed in the hope of retaining the stability.  At all but the heaviest usage times it runs Youtube and other video streaming well and in the low volume hours, I can get two to three times the Imeg ex-Thailand speed I am paying for.  

So far, so good but will it be constant and consistent, very elusive qualities in Thailand ?  I will report again to this forum.

I went to the Maxnet office last week to pay my bill and was also directed to the Bank. I paid at tesco Lotus - and for some reason got a 35Baht discount (money back on the receipt).

For the last 2 months, my Indy Internet speeds has been fantastic.

Yesterday the connection suddenly went down for almost 5 hours. I phoned my friend who lives nearby and his Maxnet Internet was also down. So this confirmed it had nothing to do with my computer.

The Internet came back at about 6.00pm yesterday evening. Since than, all has turned to crap and now I`m struggling to download anything and even creating this post is a struggle.

And yes, you can pay your Maxnet bills at Tesco Lotus.

Not sure what is happening with TT&T and it appears, neither do they. I do know that they`re whole system has gone to pot.

I dumped Maxnet a couple of months ago because of appalling service and attitude having tried upgrading, at their suggestion, from Indy to Premier which was slow to nearly-as-slow NARROW band next to useless disconnected every few minutes. But also because of persistent rumours that the company was about to go under.

A move to TOT, however, was right out of the frying pan into the fire since although  it was fine for the first couple of weeks at about 1.5mgs and almost no disconnections, it then went totally pathetic at .05 megs until a few days ago, when it went to a barely adequate 1meg but probably as good as it gets.

In the meantime I have moved to CAT who have so far well exceeded their promise of 80% reliability of connection and speed.  At their suggestion I signed up for their cheapest package 2/1 for 799 a month with the option to upgrade if that proved stable.  It has and so I shall be upgrading the speed in the hope of retaining the stability.  At all but the heaviest usage times it runs Youtube and other video streaming well and in the low volume hours, I can get two to three times the Imeg ex-Thailand speed I am paying for.  

So far, so good but will it be constant and consistent, very elusive qualities in Thailand ?  I will report again to this forum.

The bank everyone is bashing, BBL, was absolutely the best for me personally in customer service

Just goes to show that every person will have a different experience, based on who you interacted with, and on which day.

I was afraid to jump into the fire, but since you have ... I've had accounts with BBL for over 20 years and their service to me has been exemplary. If I use Internet banking, I promptly get a message notifying me that my account has been accessed. Regarding foreign checks, I have deposited several times US personal checks including just a couple of weeks ago and the charge has always been $10.00 and with conversion rates matching the daily rates listed. Don't know where the 2000 Baht one member mentioned came into play.

Every time I visit, I get chatted up and seem to have my own personal handler or two. They always call me ajarn when talking with me and I return the respect by being polite. Went in a couple of days ago and started to punch the queue button and got waved directly over by my overseer before the ticket came out. Deposited my checks from work and asked about getting a Be1st VISA card and she personally walked me over to the person handling it and kept checking that I was being dealt with properly. Got the card in about 20 minutes with the forms being filled in by the assistant rather then my having to do it. When I was leaving, she called out to me to make sure everything was completed ok.

Lot's more examples like above but I believe you get the idea - I'm very happy with their service. Actually, just got a VIP card from them that whenever I come and need personal attention I get a private room to discuss it with a rep in. Unfortunately that service is in Bangkok only.

Well, this is clearly a speak as you find issue but I have found, as the OP above, with BBL and feel that as an ordinary customer I am given VIP treatment.  I do know how to play the Thai game of course so I respond to the excellent service I receive with a box of kanom, T-shirts from my little trips and thoughtful rather than expensive small gifts on special occasions.  Being based on charm (a desperately scarce commodity in our "grab yourself" world) it works like one and everybody is happy and feels appreciated, including me !

My bi-monthly transfer from the UK is always credited withing 24 hours of my issuing the Internet instruction to my UK bank, which is NOT the useless and arrogant HSBC.  Providing I give the instruction before 11am UK time it is here in my account at BBL by 11am the following day, except weekends when it is credited on Monday.

I have BBL accounts in CM, Bangkok, Jomtien, and Sonkhla and in all these places my experience has been the same excellent and affable service and in 25 yeas they have never "lost" one setang of my money.  I do also have an account with SCB at 89 Nong Hoi and agree with the OP they are also exceptional in their care and attention. They were very helpful indeed when Baht 2k I had sent to Lao would not come out of the ATM there and gave me the documentation which enabled the Lao to pay it.

Banking in the UK has managed to transform itself, in a few short years, from being one of our most solid and respected institutions to, second only to the Inland Revue perhaps, our most loathed, distrusted and despised and it is a status well earned.

Good to see then that from this topic most people's experience of banking in Thailand is, if not perfect, at least for the most part is positive.

Not enough food topics recently so I feel obliged to start one!

In search of the best tasting and best value Fish and chips in town. I think I have the winner - unless you can tell me otherwise...

I've just discovered "Chilli Belle fish and Chips" on the side of the new Rimping Supermarket (the one next to Airport Plaza). To find it just pull into the Rimping car park, walk past the door to go into the supermarket about 20m and there you are. Lucky you!

I've been twice this week and in my, not very humble opinion (as a Brit - and therefore Fish and Chip expert!), it's delicious and ridiculously cheap. It really is better than 80% of the now mostly non-British owned chippies in Blighty; Thai owned I think, but they sure know how to make batter and how to fry British styley...they even have cod if you want to fork out for it. Personally I'm not sure it's worth it: the snapper is delicious, as are the battered shripms and calamari rings. You don't get many chips (unless you buy a seperate large portion) but they are lovely - crispy onthe outside, but fluffy in the middle.

Someone has suggested to me that it is an off-shoot of a restaraunt here in CM. Anyone know anymore about this?

I'm actually from lower Franconia in Germany. I've read that article with a smile in my face....why is that so important where you can buy the best fish and chips? There's much better food around. Tom Yam Plaa...Plaa tabtimm with garlic sauce, It seems that you should go back where they mostly eat fish and chips....you're talking about calamari rings? waht about fresh squid? Plaa muekk sood? May be you're the one who's fluffy in the inside?

Not enough food topics recently so I feel obliged to start one!

In search of the best tasting and best value Fish and chips in town. I think I have the winner - unless you can tell me otherwise...

I've just discovered "Chilli Belle fish and Chips" on the side of the new Rimping Supermarket (the one next to Airport Plaza). To find it just pull into the Rimping car park, walk past the door to go into the supermarket about 20m and there you are. Lucky you!

I've been twice this week and in my, not very humble opinion (as a Brit - and therefore Fish and Chip expert!), it's delicious and ridiculously cheap. It really is better than 80% of the now mostly non-British owned chippies in Blighty; Thai owned I think, but they sure know how to make batter and how to fry British styley...they even have cod if you want to fork out for it. Personally I'm not sure it's worth it: the snapper is delicious, as are the battered shripms and calamari rings. You don't get many chips (unless you buy a seperate large portion) but they are lovely - crispy onthe outside, but fluffy in the middle.

Someone has suggested to me that it is an off-shoot of a restaraunt here in CM. Anyone know anymore about this?

I'm actually from lower Franconia in Germany. I've read that article with a smile in my face....why is that so important where you can buy the best fish and chips? There's much better food around. Tom Yam Plaa...Plaa tabtimm with garlic sauce, It seems that you should go back where they mostly eat fish and chips....you're talking about calamari rings? waht about fresh squid? Plaa muekk sood? May be you're the one who's fluffy in the inside?

Whata sour crowt !