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I havn't thought about the revenge with the blue cheese, but thats a good idea!

whenever i am at the local market with my gf, i have to go away from the vendor

that sells the fish stuff, stinks so bad - the lady there laughs, says no falangs buy

from her.

is that food the smelliest in SE Asia? have been all over, cant recall other coutries

having such stinky sauces!

Any opinions?

Why are some thai foods so smelly? i am especially thinking of the sauces

they use - prala made from small fish, and kapi, made from small prawns?

i really cant stand the smell of them, but the thais seem to be all over these

sauces, have any foreigners here developed a taste for it?

maybe this is the prime reason to having them cook outside in their own kitchen?

At least fast food at KFC, McD, Subway etc is clean.... so is the shop.

How many RATS have you seen in the gutter next to noodle stands? Rats all

over bangkok and chiang mai, especially in the gutters next to many food stalls

and street vendors.

What about the street vendors not using gloves, and touching the friend chicken

or pork with their hands as they cut it on the wooden board, then using their hands

to put it on top of the rice and "squeeze it into place"?

Do they use good quality olive oil in the woks for frying? I think not, probably the

cheapest oil they can get in bulk. And many times it tastes many days old.

Had a rotee the other day, the butter/margarine looked nothing like butter, it was

bright orange! the honey was "imitation honey". I vomited at night later, I am sure it

was the orange "butter".

Saw a kaew teow (noodle) street vendor in CM stomp dead 2 cockroaches while we

were eating.

Saw another girl (maybe 25), very dirty clothes, hands, and period red stain on her shorts

cooking and serving, close to tapae gate in CM, using her hands to put those "doritoes"

style chips in the noodle bowl. (we didnt eat but left, disgusting).

My gf had a small cockroach in her fried rice at another food court. I had hairs in food on several

occasions, one in passeyu (fried noodles), one in fried chicken rice. Both were very long!

Not many vendors wear hair nets.

In all my years of McD, BK, etc, I cannot say I have seen any rats in the shops, or cockroaches

around the table or food, and the people have clean uniforms. Only had one hair 1 time!

Happy eating....

We have one portable soup stall near the house. The lady rents a covered area near some shops. Any how, you can commonly see her laying day on some flattened out card board sleeping with her dog. Pretty nasty sight really.... my wife and I refuse to eat at her facility.

absolutely! the dogs near the food stalls are disgusting, I have also seen the vendors touching the dogs and then touching plates, cutlery, without washing hands.

another one of my favourite is the black plastic bowls they use to was the dishes, they keep them on the ground, then when they dont look, a dog or chicken wanders by to eat scraps. very hygienic!

First I would like to say very good post.

I came to Thailand since 1991 on holidays I loved the country.Everything was well within my comfort zone and cheap. Before Istarted coming here I was a Mexico vacationer. This beat Mexico hands down.

Now I have lived here 3 years and love it even more but cannot stand the foreigners here.

So many come here but donot want to be here I think. They come for cheap lifestyle and to be honest I think sex is the big draw for them.So many losers playing they are big shots.These guys donot want Thailand they just want to use and abuse it.Many want their foreign food, foreign homes,power for being white big nose people,they want to be revered.

Where else can lowlifes go and get such treatment.

Now I donot even give the time of day to most foreigners.

Very true! I live in CM, and dont interact with many westerners here. I have noticed 2 types mostly - the

"falang kii-nok" cheap and dirty variety, here for the sex and booze, and the "wannabee try hards", who have

a little money, but act like god's gift to the world.

The cultures mesh - Thai's and Brit's are both raging alcoholics

So right, what is it with poms? Cant eat a meal without a beer? Always beer

and p*ssy on the mind. I guess they fit right at home here.

At least fast food at KFC, McD, Subway etc is clean.... so is the shop.

How many RATS have you seen in the gutter next to noodle stands? Rats all

over bangkok and chiang mai, especially in the gutters next to many food stalls

and street vendors.

What about the street vendors not using gloves, and touching the friend chicken

or pork with their hands as they cut it on the wooden board, then using their hands

to put it on top of the rice and "squeeze it into place"?

Do they use good quality olive oil in the woks for frying? I think not, probably the

cheapest oil they can get in bulk. And many times it tastes many days old.

Had a rotee the other day, the butter/margarine looked nothing like butter, it was

bright orange! the honey was "imitation honey". I vomited at night later, I am sure it

was the orange "butter".

Saw a kaew teow (noodle) street vendor in CM stomp dead 2 cockroaches while we

were eating.

Saw another girl (maybe 25), very dirty clothes, hands, and period red stain on her shorts

cooking and serving, close to tapae gate in CM, using her hands to put those "doritoes"

style chips in the noodle bowl. (we didnt eat but left, disgusting).

My gf had a small cockroach in her fried rice at another food court. I had hairs in food on several

occasions, one in passeyu (fried noodles), one in fried chicken rice. Both were very long!

Not many vendors wear hair nets.

In all my years of McD, BK, etc, I cannot say I have seen any rats in the shops, or cockroaches

around the table or food, and the people have clean uniforms. Only had one hair 1 time!

Happy eating....

After discussing with a few of my western friends, and a few thai people as well,

two main themes come to mind:

(1) Cost! A Brit, or almost any westerner for that matter, can take all his retirement

funds and retire here like a god - have a big house, a new car, cheap beer, cheap food

(2) Girls! Where else can a 50-60 year old fat, balding man sleep with 17 years old girls,

have girls all over him when he walks past a bar, get massages for $5 from ladies,

have a live in girlfriend and have a few gigs or mia nois on the side, and all for a few hundred

quid a month? Definitely not in the UK, no young girl would ever look at the old fart, but

here westerners are like gods (or so they are made to feel by the bar girls), all because

they have some cash.

Funny & sad at the same time - peace out

If you choose the low girls from the bars, you will pay for the p*ssy, either the nightly,

weekly or monthly rate. If that's what some of the westerners choose, so be it,

there many bar girls who will gladly take their money....

Why not choose a relationship with an educated and employed woman, who has some

culture and can talk and act with decency... how many times have you driven your

bike past bars, pubs & karaoke's and seen the women sitting with legs spread eagle,

shouting like animals with no dignity at every western man who walks by, or very low

behavior of pulling her armpit hairs out, or my favorite - grooming the girl in front of her

(like a baboon).

If that's the girl you choose, say goodbye to your $, €, ¥ or £. There will be a thousand

excuses to steal money...

LPH seems like a nice moobahn, on the canal road, just before the Home in Park.

However, there are 30+ houses for sale there, the small ones seem so expensive

at 3,000,000 baht each, the middle for about 6,000,000 and the large for about

9,000,000.

Home in Park has very few for sale, and so do other moobahns, so wondering if

anyone knows what the deal with LPH?

Yes it seems poisoning the dog is the way some locals get their revenge.

One of our previous neighbors had his 3 dogs poisoned at night because he

had some issues with a neighbor. Not very buddhist, to poison animals, but

you learn something every day here.

Its the "every man and his dog" syndrome...

In the 1990s when desktop PCs were all the rage, there were like

40,000+ pc shops, several per every street, then when the fad died

out, most went out of business (this is in Melb, Aust). Same with

the home delivery pizzas, shop on every corner. Most closed.

Same with the fish, when they realise its not profitable, most will close,

I am surprised there are so many massage parlors, they are all

desperate for 1 westerner to come in, how profitable can that be?

Many people mention that a house needs to have a thai style kitchen?

Why can't thai people cook in a normal kitchen? A decent western style

kitchen (for 300,000+ baht) is very comfortable to work in and has all

the amenities, even a powerful exhaust fan to suck out the smell of the

smelly fish sauce.

I have finally taught my wife to use the kitchen we have, why cook in the

back of the house on a dingy old stove? Progress....

Does anyone know any specialty suppliers for aluminium windows

in Chiang Mai - I am looking for windows about 2m high and 2m

wide, made of white thin aluminium. I have checked Global House

and Home Pro already, they have those specs but are actually

sliding doors, I am after windows (top part slide, bottom part fixed

about 20cm off floor).

Also, carpets for the second floor, can be imported, but a supplier

in CM would be great!

Thanks.