Ok folks, where are the best being sold?

Thinking of staying in this xmas & cooking a bird.

Also after decent brussels.

Brussels in Villa Market but a bit pricey.

Turkeys also in Villa Market - cooked and uncooked. I do not have an oven and the cooked ones look much too big for just me and missus. Lots of other Christmas trimmings there now too as you would expect.

PS...the Villa in my name refers to Aston Villa NOT Villa Market. Lol.

Central Food Hall has a freezer full of nice, fat Butterball turkeys, but at the super-inflated prices we've seen since the turkey import ban was imposed. Expect to pay ~5000 Baht for a 5kg-6kg bird, or close on 1000 Baht/kg.

 

Makro has lots of the scrawny (and not very tasty) Thai turkeys, but even these things are being sold at 350 Baht/kg, which is daylight robbery for a third-class Thai product.

 

Probably the best deal is at Siamburi's, where they're advertising ready-cooked imported turkey for (I think) 350  Baht/kg. That's still around three times the price you'd pay for a frozen bird back in the UK, and I'm sure they're even cheaper in the US, but it's probably the cheapest quality turkey in Pattaya. And, of course, it's perfect for people who don't have an oven.

 

5 hours ago, Villapete said:

PS...the Villa in my name refers to Aston Villa NOT Villa Market. Lol.

Shameless... and there we were collectively thinking it was Aston Martin.

Up in Udon, I have only seen the pre-cooked Butterballs in the freezers at Villa for around 3800 baht.

 

AFAIK, the importation of uncooked whole turkeys and even the crowns from the US is still verboten by the Thai FDA. I doubt it extends to non-US sourced birds but it doesn't appear that any importers have seen that as a lucrative niche market yet.

Have only seen pre-cooked birds in Pattaya Villa Market. In the past 3 years they seem to have flown the coup.

 

Have seen a few live ones running around at Sugar Hut. Tempting to go on a night hunt. lol

 

 

No worries for me, just go into the turkey pen select a good one, catch it, kill it, pluck it, stuff it, cook it, eat it.

Anybody wanting a good laugh, come watch me catch and kill one.

Picture taken last Saturday at Villa Market (Udon).

 

The cost of turkeys is beyond ridiculous!

2 minutes ago, MyTHaiMyKe said:

The cost of turkeys is beyond ridiculous!

And it's dry and too big.  A nice bit of beef, free-range chicken or pork is far more edible and appetising.

On 12/2/2019 at 12:47 PM, colinneil said:

No worries for me, just go into the turkey pen select a good one, catch it, kill it, pluck it, stuff it, cook it, eat it.

Anybody wanting a good laugh, come watch me catch and kill one.

Like wheelchair tennis? ????