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Best coffee I know is Blue Mountain Coffee - different brands. Very unfortunately it is practically not on offer here. Any high Class Coffee Shop in Tokyo offers it. Vietnam is as well a country to survey for coffee.

My German Passport was treated in any way imaginable, and removal of staples and using different ones instead has never been a problem. After all you need to remove a stapled document to scan for a backup for example - and this is not always possible without removing the document (such as as TM30 etc.). After travellling nearly 50 years I have never experienced that this could possibly a problem. What annoys me very much more is that some countries inisist on bank notes in perfect shape in order to be valid, not even a small note on the note is acceptable. Countries I know accept a bank note even if it is torn apart and less then 50% is missing.

Nobody in my Thai family is a bad driver. Even my wife learned to drive quite well after about 3 years practice. One difficulty in the comparison between Thais and Expats might as well be their age. Expats are prone to be more old with worse reaction etc that this will bring with it. On the other side you find these young drivers I see speeding and in general being less less considerate. You have the crazy fraction just begging for their deadly event in every country. I remember when I was driving a motorycle when I was young I only escaped a number of fatal accidents with luck. Now after 49 years of holding a car and motorycle license this is less of a problem.

I know of one, too. He did not die but was severely injured. As well many years ago. In any case more safe than falling from the fully loaded roof of a fully loaded Indian train (or hanging from the side, or riding in between the wagons......).

Depends where you get in and out. 10 Baht is normal, for a ride up to the end (Na Jomtien after Pu Pen) they demand 20 Baht although they should only ask for 10 as well. Where is the problem ? No idea when you come from far from the west - same principle I suppose. 20 Baht max. Quite cheap I would say. It is with everything the same. In 1975 I rented a beach hut for 12 Baht/night at Chaweng and the Songtaew from Bangkok City to the Crocodile Farm was 2 Baht.

My first 4 items in the post are typical for a German breakfast. The other things are more of "my German breakfast". Plese read it carefully. I tried to make my answer as understandable as I can for a non initiate. I have been eating strictly real German breakfasts for years. The eggs are NOT hard completely boiled as such, but the degree to what they are is the secret. A "Bread Roll" is not a "Frühstücksbrötchen". As I said it is wildly unknown. I like dead pig. Even not cooked. It is then called "Mett". Goes well with a Brötchen and in the evening with a beer (Kölsch, Pils etc.). To eat cereals for breakfast is as German as can be. I have a German Passport. If you think you know better then please go ahead.

As with everything else, taste is mostly individual and not totally connected to a nationality. Although I could imagine examples where it is. What makes a German breakfast distinctive from all other breakfasts ? I would say lets start with traditional things which are included most of the time: 1. A Brötchen ("Frühstücksbrötchen", white bread with crispy surface and soft content. The size is maybe a bit smaller then a fist). This kind of bread is rarely seen outside Germany. Never seen any in Thailand. 2. Jam: Germans make phantastic jam, but for orange marmelade I prefer thick cut seville orange english marmelade (Waitrose makes a phantasic orange marmelade) 3. Eggs. The traditional way for a German breakfast would be to cook it in water, put it then in a stand and cut off the upper edge with a knife. It is difficult to cook this kind of egg because you need to achieve the softness you desire. Then there are of course fried eggs as well as well is an omlet. None of these I would regard as "not matching with a German breakfast". 4. Coffee. Traditional is filtered coffee, not espresso. Some prefer tea, but coffee is the preferred choice I think. Some slices of cooked ham are never wrong to go with your Brötchen or Croissant. You mention the "Speck". Indeed there are 3 different kind of bacons. Its the same meat but different in the grade it is cooked (from hard to soft). A classy buffet breakfast offers all three. I prefer more the soft style, sometimes the hard ones are too crispy. Then the standard juices (for a German breakfast it is orangejuice). But I prefer as well infused water or exoctic fruit. Higher class buffets offer as well some champagne which you may as well mix with the juice. Then you might add some milk with cornflakes and sugar. The bread may as well be exchanged for a french croissant or a toast. But the traditional way is the cooked "Frühstücksei". I prefer Egg Bénédict instead. Depending on the offerings I would then opt for a Miso-Soup, some bits of sushi and a small indian curry. Maybe some pieces of fresh fruit. What I experience that Germans would less choose saussages, I would not either . And I have never seen a German tasting what seems indispensalbe for a British brreakfast: Beans. One of the better buffets is offered by the Centara Grand in Hua Hin. The biggest bufffet I have have ever seen in Thailand is found in the Amari Watergate Hotel in BKK - Indian owned and therefore a bit tending to this side.

Procrastination did it again. I should more live according to my principles like: If you see a chance, take it - now. Dont't wait. Now I have to comb through all the various inputs "re: Best Burger in Pattaya" again. And I prefer beef in the burger. ts a long time and I feel inclined for a burger although it is difficult to eat

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Its been a long time that I would have liked to try a Big Kahuna - unless I get shot shortly afterwards of course. Can be found on google maps I suppose. Beans and pankakes on the other hand are a sacriledge. ????

In Pattaya: Best beef at Villa or Foodland, Tenderloin. And that's it. Imported Australian if possible. We buy something else only in emergeny cases.

Thank you. This is great. I hope you are healthy again. When implementing the payment function you may not forget two factor authentication. This would make the process more safe.

Unfortunately, you may be right. It becomes critical if an item is really only available using Line somehow. And if you need / want the item urgently. For an emergency I have my stepdaughter who has Line and may step into the breach for me. But in the long run ..... ???? It is the same as cancelling cash - this might happen, too, someday. But until that happens I remain stubborn and I would not become tired to explain the salesman that he just lost my business because his stupid Line or refusal of cash. It will not help, I know. He would not even understand my reasoning. I assume the old age will slowly show its ugly face for me. I remember when Internet just evolved. I said at the time that I would never use it ????. I was as well wrong, very wrong.

Interesting example of how individual tastes differ. Cold eggs with cold bacon. Brrrrr. I always like my food hot (temperature) - which is quite a task in Thailand. They stoically ignore that the food is cold when served. In a European environment such a plate would go back to the kitchen immediately. My favourite eggs are Eggs Benedict - which some breakfast buffets offer. With cocktails it is the other way round. I have seen bars where the drinks - ready to be served chilled - stood in the sun waiting for the waiter while transforming into some lukewarm something. Clearly a thing for immediate return to the kitchen (in a normal case - but this here is not normal). The usual solution is to put ice cubes in it as they do in beer. Terrible. Sandwiches for a journey are of course another matter. They cannot other than be than cold. Here you just have to carefully choose what you put in it that the end result is still tasty when you eat them..

I was talking about that in general. I understand that they are just starting up and I can understand their priorities. I wish them good luck. Once they are established fully and we will have as well some reviews I would like to look again at therir offerings. Until then I might as well know how much a return journey for two plus car (sedan that is????) amounts to. I like travelling by ship. When the ferry to Hua Hin was still alive we had the pleasure to try this one as well (although without car). Now add some culinary delights and a good service and we are a regular.

Call it what you like. It is a very nice car anyway which I would again prefer over any lower class Benz (2xx). It is a different matter if we are talking about the 300 series up. In Switzerland Benz are used a lot as a taxi. Around Paradeplatz in Zurich you would find anything Benz regardless of model up to the very top. You also still see the "real" Maybachs (not as a taxi, though).

Nice that they are that responsive. However, I told them already that not everybody uses social media to communicate with alll the problems that his brings with it. I do not have Line and I do not have Facebook and I will never have either as long I can prevent this. Many companies loose my business in this fashion. There is still email and SMS (for special purposes - like confirmation of banking transactions) and besides - a Facebook page is not a homepage but only an interface into their system, Line is a messaging system. I prefer a real homepage with a .com adress and email. If any company cannot provide that then they better look for other customers - but not me.

1. The German Version of Wikipedia includes our boring kitchen appliance as being a Limousine. But I am too lazy to translate it all for you. Educate yourself otherwise please. 2. Our boring appliance is a pretty nice car, although I assume that I have been driven more exiting cars than you might not even have come close to. With 67 years now I do not need an "exiting" car anymore. The times of my Ferrari 328 GTS are over. I prefer a comfortable and practical car (as you say boring kitchen appliance style)

Our car is a Toyota Camry Hybrid - and indeed I am not driving the car. Why should this result in a double charge of another car ? You're joking, right - thinking of a strech limousine when I say "limousine". Are you from the staff of the ferry ? Then please answer the still open question about the price of a return journey as described in my post above. This would be helpful ! Thanks.

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@Mac Mickmanus is painting an extreme situation. And then you are right, no class involved. But if you have been here long enough you should know that there are situations where respectable, honest, classy people are involved. Not everybody visiting a bar is a lowlife. It is not all the same stereotype.

That sounds like you believe that "certain people" are some sort of low life. Dont you think that this would be a somewhat arrogant opinion ? There is as well a difference between someone visiting once or occasionally and quite a bunch that do that regularily. The OP has visited this place here 17 times so I think I have a good reason to believe that his claim might be questionable. I have been married to a Thai for more than 17 years now, and even we visit sometimes a bar for fun (although VERY occasionally). Otherwise your comment has some truth in it. It could be true for certain people.

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You must either be of a very respectable age or still working as a pastor - otherwise I do not believe you.

Today, for 80 Baht you may hope for a cooked egg if you are lucky I suppose. Coffee not included.