Pattaya: A Feast For The Nose.

[Nam Plah]

I know Patters probably isn't as bad as Sao Paolo or New Delhi but we can hold our heads high, eye's watering and proclaim,

"Pfffft* Phew!"

[PATTAYAPUNTER]

GF's Morning Som Tam Halitosis LOL

Lucky you if only in morning!...

Honorable mention would be the fried insect cart smell.

I want to mention something about soi 6 but I'll let you guess. :D

[naka]

Brilliant, Nam Plah

Naka.

[Gary A]

I have the perfect solution for your problem. Next time you are in Pattaya just tie a plastic bag around your head. That will totally eliminate your problem.

[britmaveric]

  Gary A said:

I have the perfect solution for your problem. Next time you are in Pattaya just tie a plastic bag around your head. That will totally eliminate your problem.

Another suicide?

[Nam Plah]

  Gary A said:

I have the perfect solution for your problem. Next time you are in Pattaya just tie a plastic bag around your head. That will totally eliminate your problem.

Tried it (Still in Pats) but my stale cigarette/coffee breath temporarily blinded me and I couldn't read TV 4M so I had to unwrap my head.

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Brilliant, Nam Plah

Just a public service.

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I want to mention something about soi 6 but I'll let you guess.

Won't touch it with a ten foot pole. (sigh, if mine only was...)

[mrbojangles]

You know what, after reading all those options, i'm really missing Patters now

[kurgen]

where's the " Au de Frenchman" option

[Artisan]

  Gary A said:

I have the perfect solution for your problem. Next time you are in Pattaya just tie a plastic bag around your head. That will totally eliminate your problem.

............but don't forget to jump also!!

[PhilHarries]

I agree with Pattayapunter, the fried bug carts take some beating.

A mate of mine used to run a beer bar and if a bug cart hove into sight we'd bung the woman 100 Baht just to stay 50 metres away. Still didn't work, the stink still got us plus the bg's would moan that they had to "walk walk long time gin khao".

[monty]

Not a bad smell per se, but quite dangerous is when those street side restaurants are frying the chillies, used for example in Phat khapauw dishes (delicious by the way)...

If the wind is wrong and the cloud drifts in front of your face when driving a motorbike, you get half blinded and get stuck in a sneezing fit.

Not easy navigating your bike through the traffic like that

[Yknot]

How about the moth balls in the urinals? It's hard to believe that the men's room would smell even worse without them.

[PATTAYAPUNTER]

  Yknot said:

How about the moth balls in the urinals? It's hard to believe that the men's room would smell even worse without them.

Sir Yknot, you've got to move up in the world and grab a classy urinal!

When in central Pattaya, the loos at the Marriott hotel are nicer than my condo...the entire condo!

Very honorable mention is the Cabbages and Condoms Hotel/Restaurant toilets in Jomtien. There's a posted sign "Do Not Wash Your Feet in the Toilet."

[Humphrey Bear]

  monty said:

Not a bad smell per se, but quite dangerous is when those street side restaurants are frying the chillies, used for example in Phat khapauw dishes (delicious by the way)...

Ahhhhh - reminds me of the early nineties in Hong Kong. The MTRC (metro / subway / underground) tunnels leading tothe trains were crowded with street venors sellig durian, fried tofu (bean curd) and similar delights. About five o'clock there was a heaving mass of people, plus all these food smells.

Then the government banned the vendors from the tunnels. Ruined my home-from-work trips, so I went to Nigeria instead.

[PhilHarries]

  Yknot said:

How about the moth balls in the urinals? It's hard to believe that the men's room would smell even worse without them.

Aaaahhhhh, bogs. Now we're talking!

Worst I can recall were those in Pattaya soi 2 bar complex opposite Big C. They used to fill the trough with half limes to try and suppress the odours.

We rather hoped these were the limes after squeezing to make nahm manao and not before

They also had the cheek to charge, I think it was 5 Baht, to use the trough which incidentally was open to the bar complex! This was one of my first exposures to the beer bars of Pattaya, luckily I have a strong stomach.

[Jai Dee]

  naka said:

Brilliant, Nam Plah

Naka.

Seconded.

[stiggy]

On my last visit to pattaya

The smell that comes from the water out of the tap during hot season. very very wrong.....

Some gits fungus ridden feet on a poorly mainted but sealed air con minibus during a visa run.

[Phil Conners]

  Nam Plah said:

I know Patters probably isn't as bad as Sao Paolo or New Delhi but we can hold our heads high, eye's watering and proclaim,

"Pfffft* Phew!"

I don't know about Delhi, but I can assure you that Pattaya is A LOT worse than Sao Paulo - at least I never smelled anything as bad as Pattaya during the year I lived there....

[Nam Plah]

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When in central Pattaya, the loos at the Marriott hotel are nicer than my condo...the entire condo!

When I saw the public restrooms inside the Dusit (complete with aromatherapy candles) I wanted to bolt the door and never, ever leave...

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I don't know about Delhi, but I can assure you that Pattaya is A LOT worse than Sao Paulo - at least I never smelled anything as bad as Pattaya during the year I lived there....

No kidding? I was just grasping at straws, maybe I should have picked Kabul or Mogadishu? Apologies to the Sao Paoloans (sp?)

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The smell that comes from the water out of the tap during hot season. very very wrong.....

Yes, what is that rotten egg odor? I thought that it was coming up through the drain but my GF pointed out how intermittent it was.

Since the rains came and filled up the reservoirs and the drought subsided we haven't smelled it, must have been substandard water that was trucked in.

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Brilliant, Nam Plah

Naka.

Seconded.

Y'all are 2 kind. High praise indeed from our intrepid mod.

Just doing my part, sir! (Starship Trooper style!)

[PhilHarries]

  Nam Plah said:

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The smell that comes from the water out of the tap during hot season. very very wrong.....

Yes, what is that rotten egg odor? I thought that it was coming up through the drain but my GF pointed out how intermittent it was.

Since the rains came and filled up the reservoirs and the drought subsided we haven't smelled it, must have been substandard water that was trucked in.

Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) otherwise known as sewer gas. The nose can detect it at around 30 ppb (parts per billion) but at around 300 ppm (parts per million) the olefactory nerves are swamped and you stop smelling it, if you don't get out of the gas cloud you then die. Don't worry, the only place you'll ever encounter such concentration is oil/gas fields, gas treatment plants or refineries or maybe certain establishments in soi Yodsak, Pattaya.

Most likely source is raw sewage contamination of the groundwater pumped up into the truck and delivered to unsuspecting folks. Who the hel_l ever knows where that trucked water comes from anyway?

PS don't quote me on those concentrations, I'm running off memory but they'll be close enough.

[Nam Plah]

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Most likely source is raw sewage contamination of the groundwater pumped up into the truck and delivered to unsuspecting folks

The missus still brushes her teeth with the stuff...