nivram4491

if you haven't been there How can you make a judgement

Maybe all these people who are posting negativity are competitors or friends of competitors or people with agendas. Don't believe what others say. Stop by and make your own judgement.

I have stopped by and made my own judgement: much too expensive for what is being offered. Three or four TV screens would have been sufficient for the location.

I have no agenda apart from getting value for money.

............ after the usual bunch of freeloaders turned up as they do everywhere on the first night for their free food and free drink, you know the ones, they go there once because its free but wont ever go again especially if they have to pay !!!!!

I must have missed the free drink. Won't ever go again, especially if they have to pay 80 Baht plus tax for a can of Sprite.

The pool tables may as well not be there because there is no room to play a lot of the shots one would normally play. How can they spend that much money without proper planning?

 

The proposed new cm>lamphun road should fix that, if it ever goes ahead.  Lot's of opposition from some pretty influential ppl in Ban Wangtan.

 

What route does the proposed CM-Lamphun road follow? Is there a link giving info regarding this proposed new road?

Well, I am sure from the reviews that the food is of decent quality and at a reasonable price--but, we took the trouble to find this place yesterday, Monday, and it was closed--not a brilliant way to capaitalise on all this new found free advertising.

Incidentally--the directions given at the beginning of this thread, I believe by the OP, were not in my opinion the easiest way to find the place--it's quite simple from the 'Somphot Chiang mai 700 Pi Road'--the one from Big C hang Dong to San Kamphaeng.

We will try again when we get the time.

My Kitchen Restaurant is open from 8 am to 8 pm and is closed on Thursdays.

The owner had to close the restaurant a couple of half days because his mother was involved in a fairly serious motor cycle accident.

If you want to check whether the restaurant is open or make a phone order, the mobile number is 081-602-7100

I tried the directions given in the post above. If you are coming from the south of Big C, Hang Dong I agree that is a much better way than the original directions.

Paid THB250 for 18 holes at the (New) SanSai course last week. Has a driving range too. The old San Sai Sai course AKA, Golf Avenue is now gone.  

 

Can you play without a caddy at the new SanSai course?

Quote from OP:

For a while there I thought he might not do it but there has been a late surge of posts and he has come home strong today.

With a week to go till he has a full year on Thaivisa, Northernjohn has romped in with 3651 posts today.......that is a very impressive (more than) 10 posts a day every day for a year....

Definition of satire

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Yaaaaaawn.  I just went to a Thai place and had pad see ew, moo with a cup of soup on the side, and some of the best peppers in fish sauce around.  It was so busy I had to share a table with three young ladies from CMU.  30 THB......

 

Was the Thai place air conditioned and did you have the option of ordering Farang food? Could you read the Bangkok Post or connect to the internet with free WiFi?

If you eat Thai food exclusively there are hundreds of places where you can get cheap Thai food. My reaction to the 30 Baht exclusively Thai food places is similar to yours. Yaaaaawn!

I don't have any info on this but if such a scheme converted the organic waste products into biochar and compost it could be a great success. Smoke pollution would be reduced and the fertility of the soil could be substantially increased without the use of costly chemical fertilizers.

Oh sorry. I guess the "My Kitchen" name confused me. Anyway, if those are really pictures of the restaurant food, it looks promising. 

 I did have a Thai dish there yesterday, Gai Met Mamuang or Cashew Chicken. I did take a photo with my camera phone. Btw the price of the dish is 50 Baht. If you prefer drinking water, like I do, the cost of the meal is still 50 Baht because water plus ice is free.

I will ask the owner if the menu pictures are actual photos of the food he cooked.

Are those really pictures of the food from your restaurant? If so, looks like the real deal for Western food. 

It's not my restaurant. I have no commercial interest in the restaurant. I want to see the Thai owner/chef succeed because the food is delicious and great value. 

The photos are taken from the menu. I have only tried a few dishes but the ones I have tried have all been great.

Is it open for lunch and dinner ?

 

Are there any days when it's closed ?

 

My Kitchen is open from 8 am to 8 pm. It has an extensive menu including breakfast, Italian cheese type and Mexican dishes and some Western and Thai food. The closing time of 8 pm is flexible as the owner/chef lives on the premises so that if there is a group that wants to patronize the restaurant after 8 they will be catered for.

At the moment the restaurant is open 7 days but after it becomes established it will be closed one day per week (yet to be decided which day).

Is it open for lunch and dinner ?

 

Are there any days when it's closed ?

 

I think it is closed on Thursday. I'm not sure about the hours but will find out for you in a few days when I go back to the restaurant.

The Nest Restaurant was reviewed on TV approximately 2 years ago but I can’t locate the page now. The Thai chef who was running the restaurant for the past year or so has moved to new larger premises just down the road from The Nest.

The new restaurant is called My Kitchen. It is quite large as it comfortably seats up to 40 people and is very comfortable inside as it is very clean and has air conditioning. WiFi is available and there are 2 large TV’s. Street parking is easy to find because it is in such a quiet area. All this and the food is still delicious and very, very reasonably priced.

The menu has lots of western food as well as Thai food. The manager is very friendly and speaks English very well.

The only draw back is that the restaurant is a little difficult to find.

To get to the restaurant follow Hang Dong road south past Lotus until you get to the Shell Service Station. Immediately after Shell take the soi on the left. About 200 meters down the soi cross over the small canal and then follow the canal, with the canal on your left. Follow this road for about 1 km till you see a market area on your right. Keep going past the market area and take the first street on the right. The restaurant is about 40 m down this soi on your right.

The Google Map coordinates of the restaurant are 18.751139, 98.977889 or 18°45'04.1"N 98°58'40.4"E

The consensus among most Thailand Expats on Twitter, etc, is that Witopia and Astrill are the two best. I've been using Astrill for several months, with no issues at all.

There is a 7 day free trial on Astrill, which I don't think requires a credit card. One of my Brit friends gave it a try a few weeks ago in order to stream an F1 race from British TV (required a British IP address) and he said it worked flawlessly.

I believe pricing is about the same for both services.

Hope this helps,

-Mestizo

I have used both Witopia and Astrill for more than a year each and in my opinion Astrill is far superior to Witopia,

No need to buy boxes etc, just subscribe to ilikeHD, they have just about

any sports channel you can think of, USA,UK, SKY,ESPN, Golf.Cricket

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those with boxes.

regards Worgeordie

Does ilikeHD have Rugby League from Austalia? TrueVisions has Setanta which shows all the Australian Rugby League and Super League (Rugby Union)

The first Yellow Book is much more difficult to get than any subsequent ones. I got my first Yellow Book when I was married and living in a village. I had to get the PooYaiBan to come to the amphur office and I only managed to get the Yellow Book because I had a Thai wife. After I got a divorce I moved to a different Amphur. I got the second Yellow Book by handing over the first one. I didn't have or need a Thai wife to get the second book.

_{I go to the market next to Royal Floral .. But get there early .. Or else you ll be buying it ant the supermarkets we go to at an outrageous price , but be the same stuff..}

Is this market open everyday? What are the hours? What time is early for this market?

Ignorant question but is it possible to have foreigners on the committee, or a sub committee.

Such as femifan to bridge the divide?

There are usually two non Thais on the committee.

I am not a member any longer but from what I've seen the current committee has done a fantastic job by clearing up some very long standing problems.

I guess you mean a house not condo and how much are you expecting to pay? That will make a difference as to where you look of course.

Looking at the 10 -15 K Baht per month range for a 2 bedroom or larger house.

I am looking for a house to rent near Mae Jo University for my Thai girl friend who is strarting to do her PhD at Mae Jo University. Any suggestions as to area and method of finding good value rental accomodation in that area most appreciated.

The silicone appears to have worked. Of course I won't really know until 6 months or so down the track.

I let the silicone cure for 24 hours before removing the support keeping the two surfaces being bonded together.

Thanks for the advice. I thought clear silicone would work but wasn't completely sure. Silicone wasn't used originally as it was a hard glue with no flex. Perhaps that's why the original glue failed. I'll try clear silicone and see how it goes.

I have a coffee table with a glass top. The glue joining a metal disc about the size of a 10 Baht piece to the glass top has failed. Any suggestions as to the best metal to glass glue available in Chiang Mai.

Quote: As I also explained in post #70, an indoor freezer rearranges the heat distribution inside the living area, and generates heat in the process. An air conditioner takes heat from inside the living area and dumps it outside.

And if your freezer is in an outside kitchen room then the heat generated by the freezer doesn't heat up the inside of the house.

bottom line (?) if you have air con and want to cool the whole apt. or house, use it. If no have air and you are too hot, ice cooler fan box will cool you down for cheap. .... reminds me of an old cliche saying I heard on an indian res. years ago, " the white man builds a big fire and sits far away, the indian builds a small fire and sits close.

It's also interesting to note that there are no comments about the earth's resources being finite and the need to use the remaining resources wisely, sometimes at the cost of a little personal comfort.

Everybody complains about the heavy pollution but nobody seems to make the connection with coal fire electricity generation plants belching out the dirty smoke to keep the personal air conitioners running day and night.

I made one of the contraptions 2 days ago. It works really well but not as a room or house cooling air conditioner. It was very easy to fit a Filtrete filter to the intake. After running 1 day the filter is already turning gray so it cleans the air as well as cools it. As far as the energy required, the fan is 37 watts plus the energy required to freeze the water. I have a large freezer so I don't think there is a huge additional cost to freeze the water in the bottles.

For one person sitting in one spot, say on a computer, watching TV or reading a book, it works really well. I have decided to only use it for a few hours in the late afternoon. For the rest of the day the house is reasonably comfortable using the everything open at night to cool the house down and in the day everything closed method to slow down the heating up of the house during the day.

I have 3 bedrooms with 3 air conditioners, but I rarely ever use any of them. I use 2 fans placed at 2 windows on the opposite sides of my bedroom. One fan pulls the cooler outside air in and the other fan pushes the hotter room air out. This sets up a pleasant circulation of cooler air in the room and over the bed. By the time I am ready to go to bed a few hours after turning the fans on, the room is comfortable for me. I personally find an air conditioner running in a room uncomfortable and find it difficult to sleep.

This is a photo of my personal cooler. Even running it without any ice is better than running a normal fan because you can precisely direct the blown air to the area you want - your chest for example. Also, the air is cleaner due to the filter which removes a lot of the small particles.

Total cost was 380 Baht without the styrofoam box, as I already had one and can't remember what I paid for it.

With 3 one liter frozen ice bottles the air stream temperature is 4 to 5 degrees Celsius coooler than the normal air stream with no cooling.