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Thailand where the customer is always wrong? "Needle in pork" experience stuns diners

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10 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

Fine for not eating the food they bought, what next fine for not finishing your beer?

that's normal at buffet places where you cook your own food. Too many people, especially farnags, have eyes bigger than their bellies and leave lots of uncooked/uneaten food on their tables. The restaurant can't recycle the food so they charge the customer to cover the cost of the wasted food.  I think that's a great idea.

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  • OneMoreFarang
    OneMoreFarang

    In many all-you-can-eat restaurants they have signs, or at least small print, that customers get charged if they put lots of extra food on their table which they don't eat. I.e. it's no problem i

  • colinneil
    colinneil

    No matter how hard you tried, you would have great difficulty coming on with something better than being asked to pay a fine for not finishing your contaminated food. T.I.T. Amazing.????

  • ThailandRyan
    ThailandRyan

    It must be a leftover from the Wholesaler who injected extra water weight into the pork to make more money....Just never thought the syringe needle would break.

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12 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

It must be a leftover from the Wholesaler who injected extra water weight into the pork to make more money....Just never thought the syringe needle would break.

It does if you hit the bone hard with the syringe. Been there, done that when curing a christmas ham.

If they dared to fine me too after that I would have thrown the food at the staff. Treat me like a dog, get dog behaviour too.

Edited by ChaiyaTH

In Phuket I've seen up to 200 Baht for un eaten food 

20 hours ago, faraday said:

That would needle too many people.

 

????

Sew what would you suggest?

1 minute ago, mikebell said:

Sew what would you suggest?

Darn(ed) if I know.

I once refused to pay the service charge at an Italian-run Na-Jomtien Beach restaurant on the grounds that my farang food arrived one HOUR after the Thai food and my second G & T didn't arrive at all.  A succession of Italian managers said I had to pay - it was the LAW!  I refused & told them to call the police.  They compromised by deleting a dish equivalent to the 10% Service charge.  I now NEVER dine at places that operate this iniquitous ++ regime.

Just now, faraday said:

Darn(ed) if I know.

This had me in stitches.

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I've seen the needle and the damage done..........????

Those "you didn't finish you food" rules need modifications that work for everyone. 

 

If you try a "unit" of say some fish or whatever, if it tastes like an 80 year old female dogs ass, you should not have to finish it. If you took 10 units, i can see the point. 

 

The rule has to make sure the restaurant does not just put out dog <deleted> into the buffet. 

Is there not the concept in Thailand for what is euphemistically called a ''doggy bag''. 

 

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