Hold the front page! Thai woman's "krapao" dinner was a "cruel" rip off!

[webfact]

Hold the front page! Thai woman's "krapao" dinner was a "cruel" rip off!

 

 

The Thai national news featured a complaint from a woman in Korat that she was ripped off when buying her dinner to go. 

 

Muay Patamaporn's "Krapao Ruam Mit Khai Dao" (fried basil over rice with the works, including fried egg) cost a whopping 120 baht. 

 

Thai Rath called the price "cruel" after the woman went on Facebook to complain.

 

Muay bought her dinner at a street stall near the Assumption Nakorn Ratchasima school. 

 

She said it was the first time she had been to that stall and there was a sign with the menu on offer but no prices listed. 

 

She said she had paid 50-80 baht for the same thing nearby in the past. 

 

Her dish contained 4 or 5 bits of squid, 2 fish balls, 4 mussels, chopped pork and two small bits of "Pla Dolly" along with carrots and mushroom. 

 

Most irate netizens agreed it was too expensive.

 

Muay called for the authorities to investigate and advised people to ask the price of food before ordering. 

 

"Krapao" is an iconic Thai dish, notes Thaivisa. The cost of 120 baht would represent about a third to a quarter of the Thai minimum daily wage. 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

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[RotBenz8888]

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

cost a whopping 120 baht. 

Falang Price by mistake.

[CelticBhoy]

That Krapao looks Krap, too.

Guess they've done away with dual pricing in Korat already and just sting everyone at the highest level  . . . .  ????

[lom]

4 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Falang Price by mistake.

The disadvantage from whitening cream.

[Dmaxdan]

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

She said it was the first time she had been to that stall and there was a sign with the menu on offer but no prices listed. 

Well personally I'd need to clarify the price of something before I ordered it.  I'm always a bit suspicious when no price is listed.

Edited August 8, 2019 by Dmaxdan

[wgdanson]

Did she pay and eat it or not?

[daoyai]

....and in a polystyrene box ... ????

[JamJar]

8 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Did she pay and eat it or not?

 

If she didn't pay, she would not had the opportunity to take the picture.

[brokenbone]

25 minutes ago, lom said:

The disadvantage from whitening cream.

this should be noted as side effects in the small print of the bottle by law

[PatOngo]

34 minutes ago, webfact said:

Muay Patamaporn's "Krapao Ruam Mit Khai Dao" (fried basil over rice with the works, including fried egg) cost a whopping 120 baht. 

That's enough to make anyone angry, heaven knows what my imported rib eye steak for lunch will cost!

[wgdanson]

4 minutes ago, JamJar said:

 

If she didn't pay, she would not had the opportunity to take the picture.

Why, as she was offered the meal she could have said' how much? No thank you', taken the photo and effed off.

Edited August 8, 2019 by wgdanson

[ezzra]

Obviously many Thia have eaten at the airport of Thailand to complain about a 120 ba0 Krapao dish...

[Razek]

40 minutes ago, lom said:

The disadvantage from whitening cream.

Are all farang  white. ??? 

[Drax]

Pass by soi11 during day time and you will see the same food sold at 400+ baht. I told to myself that day, hell, let’s just go central embassy and eat much better food for the same price... 

Edited August 8, 2019 by Drax

[trainman34014]

Thai 'Investigative Journalism' at it's best !

[Puchaiyank]

I eat krapow and lopmoo with rice and pay 40 - 60 baht...120 is indeed way too much...????

[Misterwhisper]

See what happens when you use whitening agents too profusely, get your nose fixed, hair dyed and wear blue-colored cosmetic contact lenses because you want to look more like a westerner? You get the "farang" price. You should've seen it coming.

Edited August 8, 2019 by Misterwhisper

[ChipButty]

1 hour ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Falang Price by mistake.

Mia Farang also

[brokenbone]

30 minutes ago, Razek said:

Are all farang  white. ??? 

yes, by definition, they have additional prefix for indians/arabs,

like farang kaek.

farang originally referred to french,

i can just imagine the french explaining they were

coming from francee' with a hefty alien accent,

which thais pronounced as the easier on the tongue farang

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, Dmaxdan said:

Well personally I'd need to clarify the price of something before I ordered it.  I'm always a bit suspicious when no price is listed.

I have to admit I don't remember seeing many prices published for street food. Most of the time I assume it's reasonable, especially if many Thais go to that shop. And I was never disappointed.

And if a shop looks like a tourist rip-off then I won't even ask. I don't eat there.

[MRToMRT]

29 minutes ago, brokenbone said:

yes, by definition, they have additional prefix for indians/arabs,

like farang kaek.

farang originally referred to french,

i can just imagine the french explaining they were

coming from francee' with a hefty alien accent,

which thais pronounced as the easier on the tongue farang

Interestingly in Khmer its a very similar "Barang". 

[CharlieH]

Troll comment removed.

[Matzzon]

120 baht for a plate of food. Not anything with that. Looks yummy.

Edited August 8, 2019 by Matzzon

[Lemonltr]

I eat pork kaprao often at 40 baht, but this dish had very much on the plate and seafood too, plus an egg normally 10 baht I believe. Pricey, but not a huge rip off. 

Incidentally it's "kaprao" not krapao, which are things entirely different. 

[ZeVonderBearz]

4 hours ago, Razek said:

Are all farang  white. ??? 

Yep, if you ask Thais a farang is a white foreigner. 

[atyclb]

normally 50-60 baht for that seafood krapao.  not even 120 baht at the mall korat indoor food court aircon and all.

[JimmyJ]

4 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Why, as she was offered the meal she could have said' how much? No thank you', taken the photo and effed off.

I agree. Perhaps she was too nice to stiff the lady after cooking it.

But I also agree with dmaxdan -

"Well personally I'd need to clarify the price of something before I ordered it.  I'm always a bit suspicious when no price is listed".

 

 

[mok199]

As most Countrys try and end plastics ,Thailand runs this story in a Styrofoam container ...absolutely hopeless..

Edited August 8, 2019 by mok199

[ramr]

TV and in particular webfact:

 

Enough clickbait/Daily Sun/National Enquirer/tabloid/b.s. anecdotal/local interest/outrage crap.  Enough misleading and corny headlines.  ("Hold the presses!" Really?  Is it 1932?  Are you wearing a newspaper boy hat and hawking papers on the street?  What's next for you?  "Extra, extra, read all about it?")

 

Stop adding to the noise on this site so we can focus on the signal.  There's already precious little signal in Thai news as it is.

 

Ugh.  

 

P.S.  Waiting for the inevitable idiots to tell me to love it or leave it or that no one's forcing me to read TV news.  You're so missing the point.  Think again about signal and noise.

 

Edited August 8, 2019 by ramr

[hkt83100]

I wish her that it tasted at least better than it looks. ????