Do you like cheese? where do you buy your favoured cheese in Chiang Mai? 

Thai normally do not know what is cheese. If you want the real thing(s), there are imported cheese in many places, including Tops and Rimping, but they usually cost a lot. Why Not (restaurant) doubles as food import shop and you can find many kinds of italian, spanish, french cheese which you can buy by the weight you want. Again not very cheap, given that they are imported, but at least you buy direct so less expensive. To be fair, there is another italian import shop near the BigC supercenter, but I haven't been there in a long time and forget the name. They also have direct sale of imported food incl. cheese.

Recently I found that GO Wholesale offers some Thai-made, actually CM-made, very decent cheese at a decent price. I won't name the brand, but it will be easy to find.

If I'm here for a while I bring a good bit with me. Normally a bit of strong English cheddar and a bit of Parmesan. As arithai12 said, rimping other side of the iron bridge has a good selection, but it can be eye wateringly expensive.

 

I normally stay in a hotel near suvarnabhumi for a night before my onward journey. The large supermarket at paseo shopping mall (not sure if it is a Villa Mart) has a good range and sometimes some bargains (reduced or buy 1 get one free)

GREEN'S Food & Drink opposite Kad Farang has supplies of English Cheddar.

I had to come to Thailand to find and eat the best cheese I ever had eaten: The Mainland Vintage Tasty Cheddar Cheese (a Australian Cheese???). I eat it every morning on a dark  bread from an excellent German bakery (Canal Road about 7 km south of the Samoeng intersection).

 

We ask a man in our village to buy the cheese in a Rimping Shop in CM or in the Supermarket of MAKRO in Mae Rim in the North of CM.

 

Dutchcheese4you in Hua Hin has several kinds of really good cheese products.. sausages and other .. Only online orders but quick deliveries. I am happy with them as Makro Hua Hin has got rid of all the cheeses except Mozarella and Parmasan

There's "like", and "appreciate"

I buy strong-flavoured commodity cheese, which I think is based on Cheddar.

 

I live on my own, and my thoughts of soldiering my way through a whole round of camembert, over a few weeks from "fresh and tasty" to "more tasty" to "really quite ripe" and "only a tiny morsel remaining" - well, I think I have thought them too much already.

 

Maybe I have a Tiger left in the fridge to wash those thoughts away

 

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1 hour ago, arithai12 said:

Thai normally do not know what is cheese. .

Thai know more about  cheese and food with cheese now, than before, and I guess it is a matter who you frequently socialize with. 

 

 

yes, do you have some cheese for me?

12 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Thai know more about  cheese and food with cheese now, than before, and I guess it is a matter who you frequently socialize with. 

 

 

At works nights' out, I frequently meet colleagues who are far more familiar with whisky then I am.  I generally don't drink whisky, and I do not feel that a failing on my part, nor a strength on theirs. 

I do not envy people who can enthuse over different cheeses, or whiskies, or tripes.

 

Like haggis, shark's fin is an acquired taste, and like whisky, I do not think that I would be any the better for acquiring a taste for shark's fin, and I am sure that the world would be worse.    

35 minutes ago, puck2 said:

I had to come to Thailand to find and eat the best cheese I ever had eaten: The Mainland Vintage Tasty Cheddar Cheese (a Australian Cheese???). I eat it every morning on a dark  bread from an excellent German bakery (Canal Road about 7 km south of the Samoeng intersection).

 

We ask a man in our village to buy the cheese in a Rimping Shop in CM or in the Supermarket of MAKRO in Mae Rim in the North of CM.

 

If you think Australian cheese is the best you have had then I am lost for words. There may be the odd local producer who can muster something half decent but the majority of it is like melted ceiling tiles. One thing the Aussies are not renowned for is their cheese (not the edible kind anyway).

 

Perhaps the excellent bread is detracting from the taste of the cheese.

13 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Thai know more about  cheese and food with cheese now, than before, and I guess it is a matter who you frequently socialize with. 

 

 

I agree, but I would prefer if they were kept in the dark about cheese. I often find bogof deals in Big C when cheeses are nearing their "sell by" date.

 

IMO these cheeses are even better tasting than when they were fresh on the shelves, but the locals are not buying them.

 

I love me a ripe Brie or Camembert, especially at half price. 

Makro NZ Cheddar no rennet 2kilo pack. 

40 minutes ago, Keeps said:

If you think Australian cheese is the best you have had then I am lost for words. There may be the odd local producer who can muster something half decent but the majority of it is like melted ceiling tiles. One thing the Aussies are not renowned for is their cheese (not the edible kind anyway).

 

Perhaps the excellent bread is detracting from the taste of the cheese.

 

1. In my comment I added "???". That means I wasn't sure, if from Australia. I checked the package and could not see, where it comes from.

2. I guess you know better than me, which cheese I like most. It doesn't depend on where it comes from, but only on my OWN taste. Or do I have to ask you, which cheess I like most

 

 

5 minutes ago, puck2 said:

 

1. In my comment I added "???". That means I wasn't sure, if from Australia. I checked the package and could not see, where it comes from.

2. I guess you know better than me, which cheese I like most. It doesn't depend on where it comes from, but only on my OWN taste. Or do I have to ask you, which cheess I like most

 

 

Not at all petal, so don't be so precious. I can't help it if you are not bright enough to even know where the cheese you are eating comes from (or even spell cheese correctly in your above post). I was merely commenting that in my humble opinion, in the main, cheese from Australia isn't generally considered the best. Some Aussies may even agree with this. Your post alluded to the fact that it was Australian cheese. 

 

Is that ok with you?

Yes

 

The best cheese for me is ...STILTON.....

 

And, a very RIPE Stilton, at that ....

 

 

Heavenly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

6 hours ago, puck2 said:

 

1. In my comment I added "???". That means I wasn't sure, if from Australia. I checked the package and could not see, where it comes from.

2. I guess you know better than me, which cheese I like most. It doesn't depend on where it comes from, but only on my OWN taste. Or do I have to ask you, which cheess I like most

 

 

 

It's from New Zealand.

No cheese, No beef.

 

Skip both in Thailand unless you like spending a lot of $$.  Up to you but I try and stick with local and not imported foods.  Never had a problem finding lots of great food in Thailand so save my cheese and beef splurges to west as personally i think it is absurdly overpriced in Thailand.  Sort of like wine which I enjoy in the west and don't drink at all in Thailand. 

 

 I understand that not everyone is willing to forego cheese beef wine while in Thailand...to me just not worth the cost when so much local good food to choose from.  But first thing i do when back in west is buy nice block of cheese and nice wine.

8 hours ago, Keeps said:

If you think Australian cheese is the best you have had then I am lost for words. There may be the odd local producer who can muster something half decent but the majority of it is like melted ceiling tiles. One thing the Aussies are not renowned for is their cheese (not the edible kind anyway).

 

Perhaps the excellent bread is detracting from the taste of the cheese.

Brit here, eaten cheese all my life, and agree Mainland Vintage Cheddar is as good as any I've had.

265 for 500gm in Makro, or 250bht for 250gm everywhere else.

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

Brit here, eaten cheese all my life, and agree Mainland Vintage Cheddar is as good as any I've had.

265 for 500gm in Makro, or 250bht for 250gm everywhere else.

I agree

I buy all ny cheese at Macro, in my area , they have the largest selection and the best prices, 

The Macro I go to is 15 minutes by car, away from my house, The are opening a huge on on Mittraphap road,  5 minutes from my house. Grand opening is the 25th. 

I can't wait! I will live there LOL

I tend to like the varieties of goat and aged manchego cheese, however they're ridiculously overpriced here. I just saw some manchego yesterday at 3,000 baht a kilo, which is insane. So I usually bring my cheese from the US in my carry-on and keep it in the freezer, which does affect the texture a little bit, but it's still good to go. 

9 hours ago, puck2 said:

I had to come to Thailand to find and eat the best cheese I ever had eaten: The Mainland Vintage Tasty Cheddar Cheese (a Australian Cheese???)

New Zealand, yes it is good, but don't tell a Kiwi that!

9 minutes ago, 2baht said:

New Zealand, yes it is good, but don't tell a Kiwi that!

Too late! 

 

There are a few varieties of the Mainland cheese here now. 

 

Vintage is the strongest cheddar followed by Tasty.  Noble has a nutty flavour whereas Edam is tasteless (IMO). 

 

Like everyone has said,  good cheese ain't cheap.  The Mainland cheese is dearer here than NZ but not by much. 

 

In NZ a 1kg block of Tasty is around NZ$18-24 or 395-524 baht so 265 baht for 500gm of Vintage at Makro is pretty good value. 

 

They are great cheeses for toppings to. Either grated or melted on top.  Damn I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.

 

  Off to Makro now... 

Buy most of ours at Gekko Garden, plenty of choice and fair prices.

Sausage and bacons and other meats quite good also.