webfact Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Neighbors thought smell of rotting copse was just Thai food! Picture: Daily News BANGKOK: -- Neighbors at a block of flats in Samut Prakan thought the foul smell in the building was fermented fish. It was in fact the stench emanating from the body of a 58 year old man who had been dead a month already. Fermented fish - or pla raa - is a common ingredient in Thai foods like Som Tam (papaya salad). It has a strong and distinctive odor. Bang Sao Thong police were called to the flats and found the body of 58 year old Koson Khemcharoen in an advanced state of decomposition. The room on the second floor was locked from the inside and there were no suspicious circumstances. He had been dead at least a month, reported Daily News. Neighbors said that the smell of pla raa was often detected in the building but after it didn't go away for some time they finally became suspicious and tried knocking on the door of their neighbor. Then they realized it wasn't fermented fish but the smell of a decaying human body. They said their neighbor had quit his job some time ago and was renting the room and selling amulets. Source: Daily News -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-06-09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven100 Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 now I know why I don't like some thai foods ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckamuck Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Understandable mistake, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trogers Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 That's why Thai food is world renowned... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kotsak Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Somestimes it doesn't make a difference if you are standing next to a cesspool or a kitchen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace of Pop Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 A Pefecly reasonable assumption.Durian can mask a festering Whale.[emoji85][emoji85]Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Rather sad that the guy was gone for a month and nobody missed him. But not hard to see how someone could get into that situation, even easier for a lot of expats with no local family or close friends... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Note to myself: Cover your nose and go and check if your neighbors are still alive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artisi Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 understood but on a side note - didn't the magic amulets offer protection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirasan Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 2 minutes ago, Artisi said: understood but on a side note - didn't the magic amulets offer protection? He must have walked under a clothesline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonjelly Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 1 minute ago, akirasan said: He must have walked under a clothesline Lol, I always laugh at this one, Thai guys refusing to walk underneath my clothesline because it will damage the power of their amulets that they rely on rather than seat belts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuktuktuk Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 I drew a similar conclusion once. I couldn't understand how Thai food could have been left in my toolbox. It turned out to be a dead rat. Smells just like my mother-in-law's fish sauce only you have to get pretty close to the rat before you can smell it. I told her and my wife, but they didn't laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johncat1 Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 If pla raa ( or baddak ) has such a distinctive smell why did they think that the smell was pla raa and not a rotting body ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbbooboo Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 hmmmm....... there's only 2 things that smell like fish.... and one of those is fish... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonewolf99 Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 At last.....My nasal receptors have been vindicated. From day one of being in LoS I have been unable to understand why a mush of vegetables and a long dead pickled land crab cannot be described as disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AhFarangJa Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 So Sad, only 58 years old, and no family to miss him. One month is a long time for nobody at all to notice you missing...... R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofarnorth Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Several months ago my wife made crab jelly. I was found wandering around in the dark with a torch trying to find what had died. It is now made over the road by a neighbour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 1 hour ago, johncat1 said: If pla raa ( or baddak ) has such a distinctive smell why did they think that the smell was pla raa and not a rotting body ? Apparently the distinctive odour is shared by rotting corpses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artisi Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 1 hour ago, Bluespunk said: Apparently the distinctive odour is shared by rotting corpses. Probably not much difference in taste either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauGR1 Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 I am glad that i am not alone at finding some Thai food absolutely disgusting... 1 month to find out it was not food OMG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakeupplease Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 8 hours ago, trogers said: That's why Thai food is world renowned... Never understood why T Food is rated so high, wife loves it as she is a local but it appears the worse it smells the more they like it, a bit like Durian that reeks like no tomorrow. Hate waking up to some of the smells that come from our kitchen makes me feel so ill. Thank god she has many other good points, so worth the trade off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansnl Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 5 hours ago, bbbbooboo said: hmmmm....... there's only 2 things that smell like fish.... and one of those is fish... Pray enlighten me what the other thing might be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlakey Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 6 hours ago, AhFarangJa said: So Sad, only 58 years old, and no family to miss him. One month is a long time for nobody at all to notice you missing...... R.I.P. obviously didn't owe money, well not to the neighbors anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiWai Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 10 hours ago, Lupatria said: Note to myself: Cover your nose and go and check if your neighbors are still alive... Note to self: Hide bodies here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiWai Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 3 hours ago, hansnl said: Pray enlighten me what the other thing might be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George FmplesdaCosteedback Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Crikey! There must be half a dozen dead people on my floor at the moment! And I thought someone had dropped a case of nam pla in the corridor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargeezr Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 When my Thai family cooks certain foods, I have to get out of the building as the smell is terrible. I am like that othe commenter, in that there are just some foods that I avoid completely. I find that I eat more and more western when I stay in Thailand, guess it is the food I am used to. I uess this guy was not very sociable to be dead a month and no one noticed. Sad ending. Geezer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffggi Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 But Thais say that Pla Raa smells lovely...???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 3 hours ago, Geoffggi said: But Thais say that Pla Raa smells lovely...???? The ones that rub it in their armpit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Na Lee Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 hmmmm....... there's only 2 things that smell like fish.... and one of those is fish...Enlighten me whats the second one?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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