Why Do They Allow The Rats?

[Brewster67]

Me and wifey started using a new restaurant. Very nice food, and cheap too.

It has been open around 2 months and when it first opened, it was full every evening of the week.

Last night we were the only customers in there for the 2 hours we were there. Personally I told the wife I won't be returning ever again. the reason?... Probably the same everyone has abandoned it... The huge rat problem, and the owner and staff's lack of enthusiasm in dealing with it.

I have told the owners many times that it is not good to allow rats to run around their restaurant in plain view of their customers, they just smile at me and shrug their shoulders, they seem completely oblivious to that being their business demise, all I can put it down to is that they are very devout buddhists and simply do not have the desire to kill the rats. The problem can be sorted out with cheap rat poison. God only knows how unhygienic their kitchen is, at night when they are not about I guarantee those rats run all over the tables and food prep surfaces. They carry a multitude of very dangerous bacteria and they urinate while they run around and that urine dries up and your vegetables could by dumped down and prepped on the very same surface.

These people clearly sunk hundreds of thousands of baht into this business. The food is very good, the prices more than reasonable, the setting is very favourable and there is a huge supply of passing trade, the business has all the hallmarks of a booming and thriving success story, yet the place is totally empty now... I did my best to urge them to sort out the rats, now they have lost their last customers.

[slipperylobster]

I understand rat meat is "on the menu" in many households here. Why poison a food source?

[NickJ]

My friend put a bunch of traps at his place on Soi Cowboy....He had a bar that is long gone. Made pizzas and had great steaks. The rats were huge.He poisoned....put traps out. When he caught them he would drown them. If he wasnt careful the girls who lived upstairs would take the traps out back and release them.........

[tonray]

It has nothing to do with Buddhism....for crying out loud they kill everything but cows. It has to do with culture, only foreigners care about that...I have been at street side restaurants and watched silly Thai women laugh when a rat runs over the feet...in the west they would screech and make a scene...same for roaches...they don't get bugged like we do.

[Brewster67]

It has nothing to do with Buddhism....for crying out loud they kill everything but cows. It has to do with culture, only foreigners care about that...I have been at street side restaurants and watched silly Thai women laugh when a rat runs over the feet...in the west they would screech and make a scene...same for roaches...they don't get bugged like we do.

This is exactly what I thought, but my wife is 100% Thai and she does get bugged by them.

This restaurant has a tick in every box, with food, price, location, passing trade and zero competition on that type of food.

Why is it empty? If not for the rats and I am talking about a plague here, probably more than 30 sightings last night alone.

This is in the area where I have lived for 6 years now, and I have not seen a rat in any other bar or restaurant, my garden, house or anywhere else for that matter.... Yet this place is bloody heaving with them.. It's as if the rats know they get protection in that place.

[stoneyboy]

I've experienced the very same issue in a restaurant.

Christ it gets me ratty.

[namatjira]

There are different kinds of rats .... Some are deemed acceptable ..

[Blackheart]

It's possible they are trying to deal with it.

Her smile may be out of embarrassment rather then simply not caring.

[eldragon]

You said it. "Sunk."

[tonray]

There are different kinds of rats .... Some are deemed acceptable ..

Yes but only in banking, law, and Wall Street

[steven100]

I have come across many rats in Thailand ..... don't get scammed !!

[AyG]

It reminds me of a time I went to a basic restaurant on Lat Phrao. I noticed there were three rats frolicking in the corner. I asked my companion about them, and he said they were pets and not to worry. I guess I was rather gullible back in those days.

[tonray]

It reminds me of a time I went to a basic restaurant on Lat Phrao. I noticed there were three rats frolicking in the corner. I asked my companion about them, and he said they were pets and not to worry. I guess I was rather gullible back in those days.

Every wonder why there are so many 'pork' dishes in BKK ? I don't think there are that many pigs in the world.

[kannot]

I can put it down to stupidity/lazyness....recently went to Pattaya and was disgusted at the beach, it was alive with rats at 7pm

[kannot]

It has nothing to do with Buddhism....for crying out loud they kill everything but cows. It has to do with culture, only foreigners care about that...I have been at street side restaurants and watched silly Thai women laugh when a rat runs over the feet...in the west they would screech and make a scene...same for roaches...they don't get bugged like we do.

yes see them laugh at Weils disease ahhahahahahaahhaah oh its so funny......... oh hhahahhahahaahahah

[tonray]

It has nothing to do with Buddhism....for crying out loud they kill everything but cows. It has to do with culture, only foreigners care about that...I have been at street side restaurants and watched silly Thai women laugh when a rat runs over the feet...in the west they would screech and make a scene...same for roaches...they don't get bugged like we do.

yes see them laugh at Weils disease ahhahahahahaahhaah oh its so funny......... oh hhahahhahahaahahah

And what tiny percentage of people contract a disease nobody has ever heard of ? That's why they laugh...

[kannot]

It has nothing to do with Buddhism....for crying out loud they kill everything but cows. It has to do with culture, only foreigners care about that...I have been at street side restaurants and watched silly Thai women laugh when a rat runs over the feet...in the west they would screech and make a scene...same for roaches...they don't get bugged like we do.

yes see them laugh at Weils disease ahhahahahahaahhaah oh its so funny......... oh hhahahhahahaahahah

And what tiny percentage of people contract a disease nobody has ever heard of ? That's why they laugh...

ignorance is bliss eh

http://www.tm.mahidol.ac.th/seameo/2005_36_2/01-3387.pdf 14000 cases in one year and no "recent" figures but looking at the rat population now.........

Edited January 19, 2016 by kannot

[MAJIC]

Sounds like Weils disease is no laughing matter !

http://www.healthline.com/health/weils-disease#Diagnosis5

[tonray]

Sounds like Weils disease is no laughing matter !

http://www.healthline.com/health/weils-disease#Diagnosis5

Diabetes is a much bigger issue with Thai food......never heard of Weils and likely will never again outside of this forum...if you want to campaign against something..make it something that helps the largest number of people not some orphan disease.

[kannot]

Sounds like Weils disease is no laughing matter !

http://www.healthline.com/health/weils-disease#Diagnosis5

Diabetes is a much bigger issue with Thai food......never heard of Weils and likely will never again outside of this forum...if you want to campaign against something..make it something that helps the largest number of people not some orphan disease.

Suggest you start your own thread "Diabetes in Thailand" or "Road deaths in Thailand"......this is the RATS thread

[kannot]

Sounds like Weils disease is no laughing matter !

http://www.healthline.com/health/weils-disease#Diagnosis5

Diabetes is a much bigger issue with Thai food......never heard of Weils and likely will never again outside of this forum...if you want to campaign against something..make it something that helps the largest number of people not some orphan disease.

I sure bet those 14k people in Thailand know of it now

[MAJIC]

Sounds like Weils disease is no laughing matter !

http://www.healthline.com/health/weils-disease#Diagnosis5

Diabetes is a much bigger issue with Thai food......never heard of Weils and likely will never again outside of this forum...if you want to campaign against something..make it something that helps the largest number of people not some orphan disease.

I'm not campaigning against anything,I knew about Weils disease 30 years ago!

[Rumblecat]

It has nothing to do with Buddhism....for crying out loud they kill everything but cows. It has to do with culture, only foreigners care about that...I have been at street side restaurants and watched silly Thai women laugh when a rat runs over the feet...in the west they would screech and make a scene...same for roaches...they don't get bugged like we do.

Got to say I know plenty of Thai people who don't like rats and don't like seeing them in the street and wouldn't eat in a place where they had them. Same with cockroaches. It might be a class thing, but it's definitely not "only foreigners care about that".

[NoshowJones]

There are different kinds of rats .... Some are deemed acceptable ..

Yes but only in banking, law, and Wall Street

and the British government.

[NoshowJones]

It reminds me of a time I went to a basic restaurant on Lat Phrao. I noticed there were three rats frolicking in the corner. I asked my companion about them, and he said they were pets and not to worry. I guess I was rather gullible back in those days.

I used to keep pet rats when I was a kid, they are very affectionate and lovable creatures.

[maderaroja]

Rats are the source of the fleas that carry Bubonic Plague. if you go where the rats are located, you may be bitten by the fleas. Perhaps, that's okay with you. End of story.

[geisha]

One of the reasons I left Hua Hin was because of the rat population. Pattaya is bad too, the beach is infested. Walking near Mikes Mall on the pavement I watched loads of rats running in and out the small shops !

[MeHere]

I used to live in Melbourne Australia... Most of the CBD is infested with them, with the largest concentration in the Chinatown area... This is probably a problem in many cities around the world though.

I think Asians don't care about rats or cockroaches or, they're just too difficult to get rid of with their limited resources.

[The Deerhunter]

I've experienced the very same issue in a restaurant.

Christ it gets me ratty.

Nothing "NOO" here. Move on!

[Sandy Freckle]

There's more of a problem with 2 legged rats.