5 hours ago, bradiston said:

Huh? Tucked away behind one small stall between meat and veg? The meat stalls turn my stomach. The stench is terrible. I'm usually there about 2-3am getting veg and herbs. Always sweet basil  (ho la pa), dill if I have some salmon. I buy a whole side and cut it into portions and freeze. Maybe an avocado or two, maybe an apple or two. I got 3 granny smiths for 20 THB there recently. They were good, too. Amongst the kiwi gala and Chinese imports.

 

What has any of that to do with coconut milk? 😊

20 minutes ago, NowNow said:

What's the Use By date? Do you take it from a fridge?

No. It's off the shelf. 100s of litres in Makro. Different brands. Never seen it?

24 minutes ago, NowNow said:

 

What has any of that to do with coconut milk? 😊

You seemed to suggest I was too blind to see it. Truth is, I've never looked for it either. My mind's elsewhere when shopping in Ratanakorn. I sometimes buy a bottle of fresh coconut water. Great for rehydrating.

11 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

but yet street good vendors leave raw meat on display no problem

do you eat those meat raw? 

 

FDA is only concerned with packaged foods on shelves, if it's served on stall or behind counter, in restaurant settings, that's fine, the rationale is that there's someone to explain the ingredients if need be, but random pies and pastry cooked by some farang in their kitchen wrapped in foil or plastic on shelves? Cooked food with someone on market stall means at least someone's responsible for serving them

 

Sure you can sell directly to your customers, to restaurant to serve to customers without FDA approval, but the moment you leave them in fridge for customers to pick themselves, that's when you need FDA

 

Cut/Sliced/grated cheese you can sell behingd the counter no problem, go to Big C or any supermarket and you'll see them packed in store, no fda numbers either, same with sausages like bologna, but usually the sliced ones are behind the counter and served from a staff, and pre-sliced packaged from the factory woutd have FDA numbers on them

 

I think issue with the business in question is lots of random foodstuff like pies from local guy not having any labelling at all

 

And once the FDA visited the premise, they took issue with everything from the cut cheese, which even big supermarket might be in breach of too

10 minutes ago, bradiston said:

No. It's off the shelf. 100s of litres in Makro. Different brands. Never seen it?

 

Yes, all heat treated.

 

11 minutes ago, NowNow said:

 

Yes, all heat treated.

 

Have to concede. But they don't display any UHT labelling. But buried in the Thai description, decipherable with Lens, it mentions UHT packaging. It has FDA approval, a blue logo, and halal, an Arabic script logo. Why don't they put UHT labelling on it?

With all this going on you lot will have to pay more for everything, lets see if they can get cheese up to 899 a kg for cheddar 

20 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Siambury has high quality cheese for very inexpensive prices.....

 

Has anyone seen the price of cheese at lets say Big C......Its crazy crazy expensive.....Some one did not like Siamburys cheap cheese prices....

Agreed.... Foodland not bad for Edam/ Gouda. Tops looked pricey too last time I went in. 

Has anyone been over to Siamburi's today?

23 hours ago, mahjongguy said:

Has anyone been over to Siamburi's today?

Went yesterday (Sunday) a lot of the stock like cheese is covered over, but can still buy it apparently. Bought a big block (500grm) of NZ Mainland Tasty Cheddar for 299 baht.

On 9/27/2024 at 10:54 PM, bradiston said:

Have to concede. But they don't display any UHT labelling. But buried in the Thai description, decipherable with Lens, it mentions UHT packaging. It has FDA approval, a blue logo, and halal, an Arabic script logo. Why don't they put UHT labelling on it?

 

Becaust it's in a UHT milk carton, sitting unrefridgerated on shelf the expectation that it is UHT stuff 

in some markets UHT milks are just known as 'long life milk' only and UHT is obscure term used by people in industies only 

2 hours ago, digbeth said:

 

Becaust it's in a UHT milk carton, sitting unrefridgerated on shelf the expectation that it is UHT stuff 

in some markets UHT milks are just known as 'long life milk' only and UHT is obscure term used by people in industies only 

I guess so. I just bought 2 1 litre cartons of Aussie milk. It actually states UHT on the outside, which is helpful. I'm in Philippines right now. Maybe the term isn't used in Thailand. I don't have the Thai cartons to hand so I can't say.

2 hours ago, digbeth said:

 

Becaust it's in a UHT milk carton, sitting unrefridgerated on shelf the expectation that it is UHT stuff 

in some markets UHT milks are just known as 'long life milk' only and UHT is obscure term used by people in industies only 

 

Someone in my house buys this stuff.

UHT Milk, 100% Fresh Milk, Natural source.

 

 

32 minutes ago, bradiston said:

I guess so. I just bought 2 1 litre cartons of Aussie milk. It actually states UHT on the outside, which is helpful. I'm in Philippines right now. Maybe the term isn't used in Thailand. I don't have the Thai cartons to hand so I can't say.

In the UK I was more familiar with the term 'Sterilized'....that was the stuff for those folks too lazy to put the milk back into the fridge. (Or didn't have one maybe).

4 hours ago, jacko45k said:

In the UK I was more familiar with the term 'Sterilized'....that was the stuff for those folks too lazy to put the milk back into the fridge. (Or didn't have one maybe).

 

Once opened, they must be placed into the fridge.