Thai Army Canteen Bans Basil Fried Rice
By Khaosod Online



BANGKOK: -- The Royal Thai Army has finally met its mortal enemy - basil fried rice.

Numerous patrons were surprised to find a sign reading "Attention All Customers - No Basil Fried Rice" at the canteen of Office of the Army Secretary in Bangkok.

The owners of the stalls told our correspondent that the Thai staple dish had been banned after the pungent smell of the stir-fried chili, garlic and holy basil leaves had drifted into the offices of Army staff, causing much disturbance to the senior officers and preventing them from performing their duties in the finest manner.

According to one of the stall owners, the canteen had unsuccessfully tried to get rid of the smell by installing cooker hoods to every stall. Yet, the smell still leaked into the offices.

"The Army had spent so much money on dealing with the smell, including the renovation of the building and the installation of the cooker hoods," the vendor said, "But they weren′t very effective".

The Army staff eventually announced a ban on cooking the dish, but allowed the vendors to sell the dish if it had been prepared elsewhere.

Source: http://www.khaosod.co.th/en/view_newsonline.php?newsid=TVRNNE1ERXhOelU0TkE9PQ==

-- KHAOSOD English 2013-09-26

If you've ever been in a kitchen when the chef throws the krapow leaves into the pan then you'll know what this is about! It's like mustard gas!

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" Preventing them from performing their duties in the finest manner ", does this mean the smell of cooking prevents due attention to arranging plumb postings, involvement in politics and general corruption ?

If you've ever been in a kitchen when the chef throws the krapow leaves into the pan then you'll know what this is about! It's like mustard gas!

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That smell should be banned under the International Convention on Chemical Weapons.

Along with durian

Edited September 26, 201312 yr by rennie45

Muppets. Man up for goodness sake.

By the way, why was the work substandard?

I wonder if General Somchai farmed out the contract to his own company, give or take 30% for additional, unforeseen expenses.

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My driver leaves enough pungent gas in my car during his lunchtime nap no matter what he eats.

The nation's military brought to its knees by fried rice. TiT.

Obviously a WMD.

And they think the poor Syrians have it bad! Why didn't they just knock out the cooks with drones?

"... causing much disturbance to the senior officers and preventing them from performing their duties in the finest manner."

Khaosod's funny today.

"But they weren′t very effective".

Very funny.

Couldn't organize a cook up in a canteen !

" Preventing them from performing their duties in the finest manner ", does this mean the smell of cooking prevents due attention to arranging plumb postings, involvement in politics and general corruption ?

More likely it shows that contrary to popular opinion, some Thai journos are possessed of a sense of humour.

So now we have it........................... for any aspiring countries that want to invade Thailand, here are your top tips :

1.. Invade when it's raining. (all cadet training is cancelled in my school if it's raining)

2. Set up Somtam tables at the side of the battle field, then just pick em off with snipers when they come to buy.

3. Start frying up basil leaves and let the resulting wind drift towards their lines.

4. Don't worry about their fighter jets as they have no guns on them.

5. If you see an airship, don't panic, it doesn't work.

6. Just ask if you can invade (sorry visit) and then get em to sign a pact with you. (please note, you have to be winning, otherwise they will sign for the other team)

Easy, peesy.

We shall defend our offices, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

" Preventing them from performing their duties in the finest manner ", does this mean the smell of cooking prevents due attention to arranging plumb postings, involvement in politics and general corruption ?

More likely it shows that contrary to popular opinion, some Thai journos are possessed of a sense of humour.

As do lots of tv contributors.

So...they can't even fight smell???

So...they can't even fight smell???

Not good to let the enemy know your weakness........who needs chemical weapons, when they can lob pad grapow at them?

"I dunno sarge, i just frew em in and they went" KAPOW" !!

Hilarious! ...

The reporter missed a major opportunity to use the word "Crackdown" in the headline. What a shame.

Holy Basil or hot basil doesn't smell that bad when cooking, it must be the chilies and garlic that are causing the strong odor(which is close in strength to a chemical weapon). Thank God LOS has so many of the finest generals to solve these problems!

my favorite dish in Thailand with chicken and fried egg (ki dow). more fragrant than the finest Jasmine! fyi sign translation= children buyers (customers) please know DOn'T!!! order making fried basil. ps fried chili peppers very similar to tear gas jeeng jeeng..

Edited September 26, 201312 yr by 123thaibourbon

much disturbance to the senior officers and preventing them from performing their duties in the finest manner.

Its about time it was banned it will be to late to discuss banning it when the North Korean troops are storming up the beaches in Pattaya, and our top boys are not performing at 100% look what happened when the Japs invaded in the last war.

much disturbance to the senior officers and preventing them from performing their duties in the finest manner.

Its about time it was banned it will be to late to discuss banning it when the North Korean troops are storming up the beaches in Pattaya, and our top boys are not performing at 100% look what happened when the Japs invaded in the last war.

To go down in the annals as the Three Minute Kimchi-Basil Conflict.

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Don't forget they were doing their besrt work when they planed it.

The reporter missed a major opportunity to use the word "Crackdown" in the headline. What a shame.

A good Thai reporter would have been in the phrase of Thailand the hub of.

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Edited September 26, 201312 yr by hellodolly

(ki dow)

Fried shit ?

totster

Wow.. that is one BIG problem.....

So now we have it........................... for any aspiring countries that want to invade Thailand, here are your top tips :

1.. Invade when it's raining. (all cadet training is cancelled in my school if it's raining)

2. Set up Somtam tables at the side of the battle field, then just pick em off with snipers when they come to buy.

3. Start frying up basil leaves and let the resulting wind drift towards their lines.

4. Don't worry about their fighter jets as they have no guns on them.

5. If you see an airship, don't panic, it doesn't work.

6. Just ask if you can invade (sorry visit) and then get em to sign a pact with you. (please note, you have to be winning, otherwise they will sign for the other team)

Easy, peesy.

Oh and be prepared to be hugged to death by those girly soldier boys!

In the military everybody gets to partake of the gas chamber.

It's a place with locked airtight doors and usually made outta

cement with no ventillation. One dons the gas mask, goes

inside, sings a song perhaps and while singing...removes

said gas mask. The teargas is colourless & odourless and

slaps you in the face quite hard...guys even puke up either

breakfast or lunch or empty stomach contents. The exercise

is to make you aware of what teargas is like and how good

the gas masks are... I guess.

Anyway I've had the basil fried rice in question...it's really

good and the "gas" from cooking it really isn't that bad.

I reckon the smell is what's causing the problem because

it's not that bad either...pretty darn good in fact.

Now if one wants to smell something that would be considered

a WMD they should head to Seoul, S. Korea and order up

some kimchi fried rice. The "gas" from that stuff being cooked

up has been known to make people pass out. BTW the kimchi

fried rice tastes like...Kimchi...no matter what else is put

in it...white hot kimchi to be more precise. However...just

stay upwind and you'll be fine...maybe.