Daily News Thai Cap: Shock!

 

Daily News reported that Thai social media was in right hubbub over a TikTok post. 

 

A lady who had been eating in a Khao Tom (boiled rice with condiments) shop had the need for the loos.

 

What she found there was a "khan' or scooping up bowl floating in the water.

 

But on closer inspection.

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Two rather nice size fish - a sawai and a sucker it appeared.

 

The poster wondered whether she should order them for dinner. 

 

The rest of PTSM (Planet Thai Social Media) made facetious and amusing comments like "make mine khao tom plaa 1 jaan kha" and "after eating you went back and found they were gone".

 

Maybe ASEAN NOW readers can come up with some fishy puns....

 

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Very common to see fish, although smaller, in the open top water tanks in the house toilets in Indonesia for the simple reason they eat the mosquito eggs and larvae.

Edited July 21, 20224 yr by overherebc

3 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Very common to see fish, although smaller, in the open top water tanks in the house toilets in Indonesia for the simple reason they eat the mosquito eggs and larvae.

Same in Thailand.

Reminds me why I don't read the Daily News.

Just now, Neeranam said:

Same in Thailand.

Usually not mains water supply as the chlorine would surely kill them, probably why I haven't seen it here so much.

Those fish are not in there for the mosquitos .......

regards Worgeordie

3 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Usually not mains water supply as the chlorine would surely kill them, probably why I haven't seen it here so much.

No, I've only seen them in the countryside.

2 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

No, I've only seen them in the countryside.

Reminds me of an english teacher I knew in Indonesia who was climbing in to the tank (mandi) to wash in the morning until it was explained you use the bowl to 'shower' yourself.

????

16 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Those fish are not in there for the mosquitos .......

regards Worgeordie

For big mozzies.

????

Then tanks are completely self contained, and the water is just dipped and

poured into the toilet.  What is the problem?  My Thai family has the same system in their house.

  When I grew up on the farm, we had a 40 gallon barrel that we kept the drinking water in. It was packed from a pond 

in Summer, and we melted blocks of ice, and snow in the Winter.

I guess some people get shocked easily.

9 hours ago, overherebc said:

Reminds me of an english teacher I knew in Indonesia who was climbing in to the tank (mandi) to wash in the morning until it was explained you use the bowl to 'shower' yourself.

????

In my innocence, I did that myself when visiting my wife's auntie/uncle up north for the first time, about 20 years ago. We all had a laugh about it.

A couple of years later her family visited us in Sattahip. I went into the back yard and  her uncle was taking a bath (with my shower gel) in our swimming pool.

And some people think that Thais don't understand irony.

17 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Reminds me why I don't read the Daily News.

Reminds me of why I don't frequent most Thai restaurants.

8 hours ago, Stargeezr said:

Then tanks are completely self contained, and the water is just dipped and

poured into the toilet.  What is the problem?  My Thai family has the same system in their house.

  When I grew up on the farm, we had a 40 gallon barrel that we kept the drinking water in. It was packed from a pond 

in Summer, and we melted blocks of ice, and snow in the Winter.

I guess some people get shocked easily.

Yeah I think its more about the fish than the <deleted> wash tank.

17 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Those fish are not in there for the mosquitos .......

regards Worgeordie

Perhaps they keep down the rats?

I don't see the issue in terms of eating the fish. They put water in those tanks from the mains water supply and then scoop it out to wash themselves. Dirty water doesn't go back in there, the water is kept clean. People aren't putting their hands in there to wash them like they would in a sink full of water.

 

The only health issue is that people are washing their hands in water that the fish have been in. But given the state of the government water a lot of the time, that's probably no worse than washing your hands from the tap water.

11 hours ago, Stargeezr said:

Then tanks are completely self contained, and the water is just dipped and

poured into the toilet.  What is the problem?  My Thai family has the same system in their house.

  When I grew up on the farm, we had a 40 gallon barrel that we kept the drinking water in. It was packed from a pond 

in Summer, and we melted blocks of ice, and snow in the Winter.

I guess some people get shocked easily.

The fish in the tank was the 'shock' not the tank. ????