Now starting: Chiang Mai Expats Dining Group

[novacova]

3 hours ago, roo860 said:

He was eating nan bread or roti, which is eaten with your fingers, it actually used to scoop the food up with.

Savages scarfing food with their grubby fingers…I get enough of that unsightly primitive dining with my hairy wife.

[JimTripper]

3 minutes ago, novacova said:

Savages scarfing food with their grubby fingers…I get enough of that unsightly primitive dining with my hairy wife.

So you eat bread with a fork? 🤣

[novacova]

2 minutes ago, JimTripper said:

So you eat bread with a fork? 🤣

No, knife and chopsticks 

[JimTripper]

9 hours ago, novacova said:

No, knife and chopsticks 

There's a noodle cart on the corner, mate.

[JBChiangRai]

9 hours ago, novacova said:

Savages scarfing food with their grubby fingers…I get enough of that unsightly primitive dining with my hairy wife.

It was an Indian restaurant, it’s polite to eat following their cultural norms, with the correct hand. The gentleman diner is both Thai and Canadian.

 

This was the Chiang Rai dining group in its eighth year and open to everybody not the gentlemen who may be invited to the OP’s “billy-no-mates” event.

[Dante99]

4 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

“billy-no-mates”

good one, 😀

[novacova]

7 hours ago, JimTripper said:

There's a noodle cart on the corner, mate.

No, there are no noodle carts in the neighborhood, for at least 4km

[JimTripper]

7 minutes ago, novacova said:

No, there are no noodle carts in the neighborhood, for at least 4km

We will still require payment for your meal before you're excused. Seperate checks.

[novacova]

7 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

It was an Indian restaurant, it’s polite to eat following their cultural norms, with the correct hand. The gentleman diner is both Thai and Canadian.

The correct hand is the right hand, we all know what Hindis use their left hand for so don’t even think about Hindi dining if they’re left hand is part of any food handling.

[novacova]

5 minutes ago, JimTripper said:

We will still require payment for your meal before you're excused. Seperate checks.

Ain’t attending.

[roo860]

8 minutes ago, novacova said:

The correct hand is the right hand, we all know what Hindis use their left hand for so don’t even think about Hindi dining if they’re left hand is part of any food handling.

What's a Hindo?-------- Lays eggs.

[JimTripper]

23 minutes ago, novacova said:

Ain’t attending.

I distain when people show up uninvited. No wonder the Op wants to limit membership.

 

In the future you are to arrive with long trousers and closed toe shoes, not shorts and flip flops. Also, no beer branded t-shirts. We also require you wear deodorant as a courtesy to the other diners.

Edited 1 hour ago by JimTripper

[xylophone]

On 11/18/2024 at 1:54 PM, Old Curmudgeon said:

I will continue inviting a few other expats to small group lunches in Chiang Mai.

But any new attendees will come only from word-of-mouth recommendations, not from posts on social media.

Yes, do keep on trying and maybe think about a dinner get-together, which might be more suitable for some people??

 

A group of us here in Phuket had a dinner get-together every Tuesday at a selected Italian restaurant, and it was called IFAWAS (Italian food and wine appreciation society) and I contacted the restaurants we were aiming to dine in and asked if we could bring our own wine and they were okay with that, which was good because part of the evening was meant to be about discussing the pros and cons of the wine we had brought along.

 

There were around 6 to 8 people who attended on a regular basis, sometimes more when friends were in town, and new guests were always welcomed provided they were invited by existing diners.

 

This went on for quite a few years before it fizzled out due to one thing or another, but at the time it was enjoyable.