What Do You Miss

[Blackandwhite]

As one day soon I hope to be moving to LOS what is that you residents miss from home, I think I would miss roast lamb, roast spuds ect.

What about you ????????

[davethailand]

you can get it all here

[taxexile]

proper fish and chips, digestive biscuits,rowntrees fruit pastilles.

[Basher]

I miss walking into Sainsburys and spending 25 quid on what costs me 3 quid in LOS......

Not

Bash

[davethailand]

i miss the real tesco's, 24 hr gallows corner, romford essex, 1 time it was voted busiest in the uk.

ps

i've never seen real fruit pastels

[chokrai]

All the great Thai food i had in Canada,still looking for some here.

[p1p]

All the great Thai food i had in Canada,still looking for some here.

Can find such food in most hotels specialising in package tourists - no spice or flavour.

Although I must admit the generalstandard of Thai food is not high. One needs to spend a bit of time hunting for the really good places.

What do I miss...

Good cheeses and charcuterie.

Quality flavoured oils & vinegars.

Soft roe.

Herrings & smoked halibut.

Fresh turbot & even cod fish.

Quality Scottish Beef with freshly grated horse radish.

Sitting in front of a roaring log fire while the snow piles up outside.

Pimms cup on a summer's afternoon.

Wadworths 6X beer from the wood.

Morning chorus

Could keep going on, but the list is more than balanced by:

Speed & traffic light cameras

Muggings

Racial problems

Cost of living

etc...

[chokrai]

The food i enjoyed in Canada had plenty of spice and flavour. 90 % of all resturants i vist here i never go back to,food served cold no flavour just a lot of chile peppers. The fancier the resturant the worse the food. Luckily i have a good resturant five minute walk from my house where the women takes some pride in what she cooks and since i did up the menu for her in english she always serves me farang portions Anyway i dont want to bitch to much,i love living in Thailand and dont think i could ever go back to living in Canada. One thing i do miss is walks in the rain forest and beaches on the west coast of BC. I used to miss farang food till i went back to vist last year and everything tasted so bland i had to eat at thai resturants the whole time! I miss my family some times but my brother won a million $ in the lottery last week and as he is married to a Thai women he will be coming to live here full time soon! Chokdee for chokrai!

[Doisaketmoobaan]

I missed Turkey Breast till I was going through rimping and found a whole cooked jeni-o turkey breast- wow was i lucky or maybe unlucky only 1750 baht!!

Thats a lot of deli turkey sandwiches-

Yum!!

[Ajarn]

I missed Turkey Breast till I was going through rimping and found a whole cooked jeni-o turkey breast- wow was i lucky or maybe unlucky only 1750 baht!!

Thats a lot of deli turkey sandwiches-

Yum!!

I remember my mom in California telling me a couple of years ago that turkey was as low as 25 cents a pound.

It was 190 baht per kilo here, that year. Now it's over 200 baht....For frozen American turkeys

I'm just happy I can finally afford to buy cranberry sauce here @ 145 baht per can..

[Georgie-Porgie]

you can get it all here

Yeah? Where do you get good Mexican food like the kind that you can find everywhere in LA and San Francisco?

[Pink Mist]

you can get it all here

Yeah? Where do you get good Mexican food like the kind that you can find everywhere in LA and San Francisco?

there was a place up the top of one of the hills in SF where you could get a good beer and a feed called Tommy's Joynt

vanness and geary know it?

[davethailand]

you can get it all here

Yeah? Where do you get good Mexican food like the kind that you can find everywhere in LA and San Francisco?

never tried it in sf or la but theres 2 mexican places in pattaya but there are average.

[Ajarn]

you can get it all here

Yeah? Where do you get good Mexican food like the kind that you can find everywhere in LA and San Francisco?

that's easy. Make it at home from fresh ingredients. Everything is available, even most of the peppers...Tortillas in any super market or Kasem's. Corn meal, too, if you want to make your own tortillas from scratch.

Here's a recipe for the Salsa Mexicana that I make every week and use as a dip, or in cooking- like a western stirfry with hamburger, potatoes and salsa...Yum

Larry's Salsa Mexicana Bap Chiang Mai

Half cup of tomatoes, diced very small ( but not pulverized)

Half cup of onions (or, optional, 1/4 cup onions, 1/4 cup of spring onions)

6 table spoons of white vinegar (this gives any hot sauce the 'bite', but overdone, makes it taste like vinegar..) If you don't have vinegar, the salsa still tastes great.

Fair amount of salt....It helps to tweak the flavors, and is the main reason for it tasting better the next day....

A bit of chopped cilantro (coriander) for color and taste.

2 prik kii nuu's (or, to taste), pounded into paste ( no chunks) and mixed in well..

Mix together. Store in fridge. Lasts a week.

[Doisaketmoobaan]

Mexican food in chiang mai! I think ive tried all available

I come from San Diego where taco shops are like noodle shops here everywhere!!

Here is my quick take-

El Toro-Garbage and took too long

Hard rock-Beef tacos-Decent not bad

place in airport mall upsatirs near cowboy bar- prety decent not bad

Fish & chips shop burrittos-they try hard but stick with fish & chips or should i say thai food-very nice lady woking there excellent english

Premaid burrittos at tops-not bad at all when fresh so check dates

I agree wit Ajarn make at home for best results we buy pinto beans at foodland in bkk and add some backon grease -Yum

[jayenram]

As one day soon I hope to be moving to LOS what is that you residents miss from home, I think I would miss roast lamb, roast spuds ect.

What about you ????????

My apologies to the manager of the Farrang Connection in Surin, but I really miss decent Yorkshire fish and chips. And Timothy Taylor's best. And, for no apparent reason - Chop sauce.

[p1p]

Forgot to mention in my previous post here.

I think the thing I miss most over here, apart from family, is the chance to earn good money. It takes a bit of adjustment to drop to under 10% of previous income level!

[Ajarn]

there was a place up the top of one of the hills in SF where you could get a good beer and a feed called Tommy's Joynt

Tommy's Joynt was a great place in the 50's and 60's, but for the last 30 years or so, it's simply been a tourist trap, with few regulars anymore. My cousin has been a bartender there for 25 years, and my father was one of the regulars for more than 20 years.

They do have an extensive selection of beers and spirits, and the food is okay. Buffalo Stew is what the tourists flock in to try. The prices were pretty good, as I remember.

Oh, and it only looks like it's at the top of a hill if you're standing on your head. Actually, it's at the base of a hill.

[Ajarn]

proper fish and chips, digestive biscuits,rowntrees fruit pastilles.

Have you ever tried the fish and chips place across from the Irish Pub? I've eaten there 3 times, and each time it was the worst crap I've ever had in a farang-owned restautrant. Terribly dry and overcooked fish on two occasions, and chips which were clearly fried (not just blanched) at some earlier time (maybe leftovers from an earlier customer?), stored, then fried again... Cold 'hot' food, soggy tortillas...terrible!

3 times is enough of a chance for the food to match the hyperbole printed in their ads. I'll not return again.

[Guest IT Manager]

As one day soon I hope to be moving to LOS what is that you residents miss from home, I think I would miss roast lamb, roast spuds ect.

What about you ????????

Ring or email my son for directions on making roast lamb with all the veges if you don't have a proper stand up oven.

We got one of those round glass things for about 1200 baht from Lotus. Does an excellent job. Takes 3 hours altogether. Rimping supermarket have gravox if you are too lazy to make proper gravy from pan juices (my son uses pan juice).

Can buy legs of lamb and rolled lamb roasts (boneless) from Northern Farm on Huay Kaew Road. Expensive but good. Imported (I think) from NZ, so you need to be careful of STD's.

Potatoes from any tallad (mun falung), carrots (callot), beans (beans), likewise. Also most tallad, somewhere, someone will have multipurpose flour (bang khanom pung). The bags have English on them, and it's called multipurpose flour. (For making proper gravy). Also onions (hom), are available, and there is your roast dinner.

If the tallad is a tad whiffy for you, you can get it it all at any big supermarket. Not sure about the lamb but Northern Farm have always had it when needed.

Tonight..roast pork with an apple sauce I think.

[Georgie-Porgie]

there was a place up the top of one of the hills in SF where you could get a good beer and a feed called Tommy's Joynt

Tommy's Joynt was a great place in the 50's and 60's, but for the last 30 years or so, it's simply been a tourist trap, with few regulars anymore. My cousin has been a bartender there for 25 years, and my father was one of the regulars for more than 20 years.

They do have an extensive selection of beers and spirits, and the food is okay. Buffalo Stew is what the tourists flock in to try. The prices were pretty good, as I remember.

Oh, and it only looks like it's at the top of a hill if you're standing on your head. Actually, it's at the base of a hill.

Tommy's Joint is on Vanness Ave in San Francisco, and there is nothing wrong with it. I used to eat the Buffalo stew on a regular basis and it is much better then ANYTHING found in the Land of Smiles; Supposedly healthy too.

For San Francisco, it is good but nothing special, however, if you moved Tommy's Joint to Bangkok, it would be the best restaurant in the country, without exemption!

[Ajarn]

For San Francisco, it is good but nothing special, however, if you moved Tommy's Joint to Bangkok, it would be the best restaurant in the country, without exemption!

Yeah, that's for sure! The buffaloes in Thailand don't quite compare

I'd almost forgotten about San Fran restaurants, and one favorite in Oakland, Flynts BBQ on San Pablo. Their links, brisket, chicken and potato pies and incredible sauce are things I do miss.

And San Francisco Sourdough, of course

[taxexile]

Have you ever tried the fish and chips place across from the Irish Pub? I've eaten there 3 times, and each time it was the worst crap I've ever had in a farang-owned restautrant. Terribly dry and overcooked fish on two occasions, and chips which were clearly fried (not just blanched) at some earlier time (maybe leftovers from an earlier customer?), stored, then fried again... Cold 'hot' food, soggy tortillas...terrible!

3 times is enough of a chance for the food to match the hyperbole printed in their ads. I'll not return again.

are you talking about the one near soi cowboy in bangkok ?

that one leaves a lot to be desired too, but definately has the atmosphere of a downmarket backstreet uk chippy, which is not altogether a bad thing as it brings tears of nostalgia to my eyes. the food though brings tears of disappointment.

best fish and chips i've ever had in thailand was at the seafood restaurant on soi 24, a huge place where you take a supermarket trolley around the "store" and purchase the uncooked ingredients for your meal and then get them cooked.

very good quality food, beatifully cooked,unbelievably expensive.

[Georgie-Porgie]

For San Francisco, it is good but nothing special, however, if you moved Tommy's Joint to Bangkok, it would be the best restaurant in the country, without exemption!

Yeah, that's for sure! The buffaloes in Thailand don't quite compare

I'd almost forgotten about San Fran restaurants, and one favorite in Oakland, Flynts BBQ on San Pablo. Their links, brisket, chicken and potato pies and incredible sauce are things I do miss.

And San Francisco Sourdough, of course

Mission Street Burritos, chocolate truffles from Fisherman's Wharf, Chinese food from Clement street, or Chinatown, or just about anywhere, Double Rainbow Ice cream, any desert from Just Deserts, hamburgers from Clown Alley, and on and on and on...

[Ajarn]

For San Francisco, it is good but nothing special, however, if you moved Tommy's Joint to Bangkok, it would be the best restaurant in the country, without exemption!

Yeah, that's for sure! The buffaloes in Thailand don't quite compare

I'd almost forgotten about San Fran restaurants, and one favorite in Oakland, Flynts BBQ on San Pablo. Their links, brisket, chicken and potato pies and incredible sauce are things I do miss.

And San Francisco Sourdough, of course

Mission Street Burritos, chocolate truffles from Fisherman's Wharf, Chinese food from Clement street, or Chinatown, or just about anywhere, Double Rainbow Ice cream, any desert from Just Deserts, hamburgers from Clown Alley, and on and on and on...

sheet man, you're making me hungry!

For a couple of years while in school, I drove SF Yellow Cab at night. The most jam-packed two years of life experience yet

And the best way to eat your way around The City at night.

Still, this Joynt continues to win out for me

[Pink Mist]

there was a place up the top of one of the hills in SF where you could get a good beer and a feed called Tommy's Joynt

Tommy's Joynt was a great place in the 50's and 60's, but for the last 30 years or so, it's simply been a tourist trap, with few regulars anymore. My cousin has been a bartender there for 25 years, and my father was one of the regulars for more than 20 years.

They do have an extensive selection of beers and spirits, and the food is okay. Buffalo Stew is what the tourists flock in to try. The prices were pretty good, as I remember.

Oh, and it only looks like it's at the top of a hill if you're standing on your head. Actually, it's at the base of a hill.

That probably why it was so hard to walk back to hotel!!

[Ajarn]

there was a place up the top of one of the hills in SF where you could get a good beer and a feed called Tommy's Joynt

Tommy's Joynt was a great place in the 50's and 60's, but for the last 30 years or so, it's simply been a tourist trap, with few regulars anymore. My cousin has been a bartender there for 25 years, and my father was one of the regulars for more than 20 years.

They do have an extensive selection of beers and spirits, and the food is okay. Buffalo Stew is what the tourists flock in to try. The prices were pretty good, as I remember.

Oh, and it only looks like it's at the top of a hill if you're standing on your head. Actually, it's at the base of a hill.

That probably why it was so hard to walk back to hotel!!

No kidding, there are some streets in that area that, if you are walking up the street, some sections are so steep that, without bending, you can reach straight out and touch the street in front of you....

[chanchao]

Je ne miss rien!!!!!! ;-)

However the list of things I miss when back in my home country is quite extensive... ;-)

Cheers,

Chanchao

[adjan jb]

I (sometimes) miss charcuterie and real bread.

I also miss decent book and music shops... and snow.

[francois]

snow

you must be kiddin'

ca te manques tant que ca?

{do you miss it that much?} >> translation for non french speaking people here

ok ... good cheese (like we know how to do in the alps ..), nice bread (country-side style)

and a glass of good red french wine

and sometime the sunset on the mountains ...

francois