Just wondering what would you bring if you had a container with some spare

room, i.e food & beer, that you just can't get there.

Irn Bru and haggis suppers.

Depends what you like and where you are coming from, in BKK and the tourist areas you can get most things at a price. I usually get people to bring me over Branston Pickle, beef stock cubes cant think of much else. A lot of people bring their own tea bags and for me a real treat would be some nice selection of cheeses and cooked meats , chocolate and cookies might be good as well and I sometimes fancy some pickled beetroot but no ones been brave enough to bring any

Wheres the squash, i dont like fizzy drinks much,when i want something cold and you cant drink beer all day long The only squash you seem to be able to buy that even closely resembles say robinsons or ribena is sun quick, a very highly concentrated squash that isnt that great Anybody know if you can buy robinsons or similar in Thailand because i have never seen it in tesco,carefour,jusco

Couple good chainsaws!

Couple good chainsaws!

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Carefull, there's a gentleman chain saw operator, who would scamper over to your place, given half the chance.

Only you can decide whether his arrival would be a luxury or not.

Edited June 7, 200521 yr by Thomas_Merton

Twinings fruit tea bags

Decent champagne.

Avent brand baby toiletries.

A complete woodworking shop.

A library of engineering, science, and math books.

A complete set of long drills.

Pneumatic tools.

Large galvanized casing nails and other styles of galvanized nails.

The latest Hewlett-Packard calculator.

A pickup that has a manual I can read or an English manual for the pickup I have.

A good pizza.

A vcr.

Some foam earplugs and earphone style hearing protector.

Some good vapor quality face masks.

An automatically darkening welders mask and a Miller tig welder.

Two turtle doves

and a partridge in a pear tree.

Couple good chainsaws!

Carefull, there's a gentleman chain saw operator, who would scamper over to your place, given half the chance.

Only you can decide whether his arrival would be a luxury or not.

It'd be tough to find me!

On topic: Tools, all kinds of tools...

I usually get people to bring me over Branston Pickle, beef stock cubes cant think of much else. A lot of people bring their own tea bags and for me a real treat would be some

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Strange you should say that I have just had a conversation with a guy just in from the UK and he asked me what I needed. I said ''Branston Pickle and beef stock cubes'' You can get or make most things. Good bread I miss too, but this forum helped me solve that problem. I now get fresh bread in the morning.

I had my dad post me some Garam Massala. I do like my curry's.....

Edited June 7, 200521 yr by mpdkorat

A complete woodworking shop.

A library of engineering, science, and math books.

A complete set of long drills.

Pneumatic tools.

Large galvanized casing nails and other styles of galvanized nails.

The latest Hewlett-Packard calculator.

A pickup that has a manual I can read or an English manual for the pickup I have.

A good pizza.

A vcr.

Some foam earplugs and earphone style hearing protector.

Some good vapor quality face masks.

An automatically darkening welders mask and a Miller tig welder.

Two turtle doves

and a partridge in a pear tree.

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Only 3 things i struggle to get: VIMTO, good Bacon and good Sausages. Almost everything else, as said before can be bought, at a price. Although my friend always gets me to bring him one of them huge Mowberry(spelling) Meat Pies !

Bassett's Wine Gums

Basetts's Assorted

Well, my skidoo (snow machine) and other winter related items would be pretty much useless.

I would like my cordless drill set though, once I found a power converter.

Most everything I would like I can already acquire here. I guess the only thing I would bring would be my

HOCKEY GEAR ! Woohoo ! Skating rinks in Bkk and CM ? Bring on the pucks !

Couple good chainsaws!

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Only you can decide whether his arrival would be a luxury or not.

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It'd be tough to find me!

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...and not fools, all kinds of fools...

my kitchen

my bedroom

my bathroom

my living room

Last time I packed 600 PG Tips Pyramid Tea Bags. A friend of mine from Holland always brings two or three big slabs of cheese.

I'm bringing a bread machine next time..

totster

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Only you can decide whether his arrival would be a luxury or not.

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It'd be tough to find me!

On topic:  Tools, all kinds of tools...

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Branston Pickle (currently on its way from Pakistan, I hope)

Already got this stuff from Pakistan:

Crumpets (hot, toasted, with butter and maple syrup)

North Landing Shiraz (Aussie red wine)

Boags Export lager (Aussie again )

Shreddies breakfast cereal (&lt;deleted&gt; do they stock all that other crap)

PG Tips pyramid tea bags

Farrows Marrowfat Peas

Fray Bentos Steak and Kiddley pie

Cadbury's Cream Eggs

Tunnock's Caramel Wafers

Sarsons Vinegar

Pickled beetroot (in the above)

Twiglets

Beef flavoured crisps

My Cannon gas cooker

The Nepalese restaurant from North Camp, Aldershot...

Branston Pickle (currently on its way from Pakistan, I hope)

Already got this stuff from Pakistan:

Crumpets (hot,  toasted, with butter and maple syrup)

North Landing Shiraz (Aussie red wine)

Boags Export lager (Aussie  again )

Shreddies breakfast cereal   (&lt;deleted&gt; do they stock all that other crap)

PG Tips pyramid tea bags

Farrows Marrowfat Peas

Fray Bentos Steak and Kiddley pie

Cadbury's Cream Eggs

Tunnock's Caramel Wafers

Sarsons Vinegar

Pickled beetroot (in the above)

Twiglets

Beef flavoured crisps

My Cannon gas cooker

The Nepalese restaurant from North Camp, Aldershot...

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I will be in Phuket at the end of October..... coming from UKish......

totster

Cocktail sauce!

Thailand has awesome shrimp but they don't have any good cocktail sauce.

Sriracha sauce works in a pinch.

Branston Pickle (currently on its way from Pakistan, I hope)

Already got this stuff from Pakistan:

Crumpets (hot,  toasted, with butter and maple syrup)

North Landing Shiraz (Aussie red wine)

Boags Export lager (Aussie  again )

Shreddies breakfast cereal   (&lt;deleted&gt; do they stock all that other crap)

PG Tips pyramid tea bags

Farrows Marrowfat Peas

Fray Bentos Steak and Kiddley pie

Cadbury's Cream Eggs

Tunnock's Caramel Wafers

Sarsons Vinegar

Pickled beetroot (in the above)

Twiglets

Beef flavoured crisps

My Cannon gas cooker

The Nepalese restaurant from North Camp, Aldershot...

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I will be in Phuket at the end of October..... coming from UKish......

totster

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A big box of Shreddies please!! I'll shout you a few beers for that!

Branston Pickle (currently on its way from Pakistan, I hope)

Already got this stuff from Pakistan:

Crumpets (hot,  toasted, with butter and maple syrup)

North Landing Shiraz (Aussie red wine)

Boags Export lager (Aussie  again )

Shreddies breakfast cereal   (&lt;deleted&gt; do they stock all that other crap)

PG Tips pyramid tea bags

Farrows Marrowfat Peas

Fray Bentos Steak and Kiddley pie

Cadbury's Cream Eggs

Tunnock's Caramel Wafers

Sarsons Vinegar

Pickled beetroot (in the above)

Twiglets

Beef flavoured crisps

My Cannon gas cooker

The Nepalese restaurant from North Camp, Aldershot...

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I will be in Phuket at the end of October..... coming from UKish......

totster

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A big box of Shreddies please!! I'll shout you a few beers for that!

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No promplem.... I'll remind you nearer the time, just in case there is something else you may desperately need..

totster

Couple good chainsaws!

Carefull, there's a gentleman chain saw operator, who would scamper over to your place, given half the chance.

Only you can decide whether his arrival would be a luxury or not.

It'd be tough to find me!

On topic: Tools, all kinds of tools...

...and not fools, all kinds of fools...

Too right, Thomas!

On topic...220/240vac cordless tools: sawzall, skillsaw, drills etc.

Edited June 7, 200521 yr by Boon Mee

Branston Pickle (currently on its way from Pakistan, I hope)

Already got this stuff from Pakistan:

Crumpets (hot,  toasted, with butter and maple syrup)

North Landing Shiraz (Aussie red wine)

Boags Export lager (Aussie  again )

Shreddies breakfast cereal   (&lt;deleted&gt; do they stock all that other crap)

PG Tips pyramid tea bags

Farrows Marrowfat Peas

Fray Bentos Steak and Kiddley pie

Cadbury's Cream Eggs

Tunnock's Caramel Wafers

Sarsons Vinegar

Pickled beetroot (in the above)

Twiglets

Beef flavoured crisps

My Cannon gas cooker

The Nepalese restaurant from North Camp, Aldershot...

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At last someone with a list of things you can't get in thailand, that most of it we don't sell.

All we do on your list is;

Pickled beetroot (tons of it)

PG tips pyramid bags (along with Tetleys,Brooke Bond,Yorkshire,Yorkshire Gold)

Branston ( although mine is imported you can get it in Foodland)

Marmite ( Bovril & Vegamite)

Three things we do that no-one has mentioned;

Oxo cubes

Bisto powder (friendship do six types of bisto granules now)

Birds custard powder.

It's funny that. Two of the only shops in Thailand that do these weird and wonderful English foods are within 30 miles of each other. Mine in Surin and Matty's in Buriram.

So many people usually come up with these foods they cannot get in Thailand, when it is just as accessable and probably cheaper than back home. Take cheese. So many people cannot get good cheese. Well I stock;

Edam. (holland)

Gouder (holland)

Camenbert (denmark)

Brie (denmark)

Danish Blue (denmark)

White Cheddar ( processed, Thailand)

Yellow cheddar (NZ)

Red cheddar. (NZ)

All of it with exception of the Brie & Camenbert cheaper than you can buy in Europe.

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Couple good chainsaws!

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Carefull, there's a gentleman chain saw operator, who would scamper over to your place, given half the chance.

Only you can decide whether his arrival would be a luxury or not.

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It'd be tough to find me!

On topic: Tools, all kinds of tools...

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I"m interested in this one. When I came to Aus shores from Kiwiland 25 years ago it took Aus about 7 years to get Watties baked beans and took me 20 years to find a good BBQ sausage (from a Chinese butcher). I"m hitting LOS next week and agree with some posts already. My wife tjhought I was weird sending over some of my tools (are tape measures in Thai), a breadmaker (why is all Thai bread sweet?) and my DVD player (cos the books in English).

Agree wiith the Boag beer. Only discovered it last year, but think a good Hunter Valley Merlot is better than Shiraz. Tossing up whether or not to include a bottle of Hardie Sir James in my bag though. If I brought it I would have to share it with my Thai B in Law who thinks wine is for women and I hate to waste it.

Ark

Had the same problem and made mistakes, so now I think I would bring with me:

1) some cases of good vine (about 50 bottles), used for gift, when invited from friends, an important colleague, .....

2) Espresso Automatic Coffe machine, .... but I'm Italian and addicted to coffee

3) a good set of INOX high quality pots/pans, the "imported" ones are very expensive in Thailand, and Thailand has the only INOX steel in the world which can rust!!!

4) Bed blankets (very expensive in Thailand)

5) something for your hobbies, like tools, electronics, ....

6) 12 bottles of whiskey (good one, which is indeed very cheap in the UK), you will realize soon that a bottle of whiskey as gift will open many doors ......

7)

mainly you have to bring things which are very expensive in Thailand and with the highest quaklity, commodities are very cheap in Thailand (beer is a commodity), while good quality stuff are bl oo dy expensive.

ciao and welcome

...It's funny that. Two of the only shops in Thailand that do these weird and wonderful English foods are within 30 miles of each other....

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I'm not laughing! Why don't you live down here!

OK lampard10, you tell me how much you sell Branston for, and I'll tell you how much I paid at the Patong Deli for a 310 gram jar. (You'll be in for a shock ).

Branston Pickle (currently on its way from Pakistan, I hope)

Already got this stuff from Pakistan:

Crumpets (hot,  toasted, with butter and maple syrup)

North Landing Shiraz (Aussie red wine)

Boags Export lager (Aussie  again )

Shreddies breakfast cereal   (&lt;deleted&gt; do they stock all that other crap)

PG Tips pyramid tea bags

Farrows Marrowfat Peas

Fray Bentos Steak and Kiddley pie

Cadbury's Cream Eggs

Tunnock's Caramel Wafers

Sarsons Vinegar

Pickled beetroot (in the above)

Twiglets

Beef flavoured crisps

My Cannon gas cooker

The Nepalese restaurant from North Camp, Aldershot...

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At last someone with a list of things you can't get in thailand, that most of it we don't sell.

All we do on your list is;

Pickled beetroot (tons of it)

PG tips pyramid bags (along with Tetleys,Brooke Bond,Yorkshire,Yorkshire Gold)

Branston ( although mine is imported you can get it in Foodland)

Marmite ( Bovril & Vegamite)

Three things we do that no-one has mentioned;

Oxo cubes

Bisto powder (friendship do six types of bisto granules now)

Birds custard powder.

It's funny that. Two of the only shops in Thailand that do these weird and wonderful English foods are within 30 miles of each other. Mine in Surin and Matty's in Buriram.

So many people usually come up with these foods they cannot get in Thailand, when it is just as accessable and probably cheaper than back home. Take cheese. So many people cannot get good cheese. Well I stock;

Edam. (holland)

Gouder (holland)

Camenbert (denmark)

Brie (denmark)

Danish Blue (denmark)

White Cheddar ( processed, Thailand)

Yellow cheddar (NZ)

Red cheddar. (NZ)

All of it with exception of the Brie & Camenbert cheaper than you can buy in Europe.

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Cant lay your hands on Pascall Jubes or Fry,s choccy,s can you Lampard, my sweet tooth is the only thing I cant satisfy in LoS.