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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 10:17:37 GMT 7
Yes, very good. Try to justify your position by selecting the most notoriously expensive retail outlets in the UK. At the current exchange rate, I had a pint of lager last week in a Scottish four star hotel that cost 130 baht. Recently in Notting Hill, a pint was 180 baht. Yesterday, on Sukhumvit, a pint of Heineken was 170 baht. Scrambled eggs and toast, 220 baht. I couldn't believe it. The difference between most of your good selives and me is that I see the pricing in the UK, In Europe, and recently in Mexico. On a side note - airside shops at British airports are charging 130 baht for two soft drinks. So two bottles of Cola, Oasis. The restaurant in question re OP was 60 baht for a small bottle of soda water. Absurd. Yes, very good. Try to justify your position by selecting the most notoriously overpriced areas in Thailand. I guess we can all play this game. But if you want cheap, don't go somewhere that's obviously going to be more expensive. Sorry to disappoint you old chap. I could take you to places in several Thai towns that are more expensive than Sukhumvit. I fear you are one of those that's ignoring the long predicted Singaporeation of this country. Long since started, give it another ten years and the majority of farang that hang on in BKK will be living in the equivalent of the projects. |
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Post by buhi on Dec 14, 2016 10:20:20 GMT 7
My good mate from Devon, one of the first people I met when I first arrived in CR in 2005, he had a guesthouse in Jet Yod. Cheap rooms, nice dining area, bar, pool table downstairs. He cooked the best English breakfast in CR that I ever tasted and I lived there for four years. He was cheaper than all the Thai-run places around town and his meals were just like Mum used to make. Really nice Cumberland (style) sausages and chips cooked just right. Once word got around he was cooking them all day and into the night, made more money out of cooking than he did out of his rooms. Edit : Just thought of something funny, an experience I had in a restaurant in the main street of CR. opposite the Night Bazaar, when I first arrived in town. Trying to order a bacon sandwich, hilarious. Must start a thread of "funny Thai restaurant experiences", there must be a million out there. Bet buhi has some good ones.  k. Agreed, provide a good service and the money flows in. As an old (very old) timer I know where to eat out. I do every day. It is a pleasure. I can cook and my wife excels, but I like to go out , enjoy the ambience. of being with strangers and friends. I do sometimes treat my wife and myself to an expensive meal. Then no expense is spared or considered. Well, within reason, I know where to get good value. Once having a bad meal or service, simple rule, never go back. It works. Where we go, even if it is just once a year, we are recognized and treated as royalty. |
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Post by thatguy on Dec 14, 2016 10:20:47 GMT 7
We're not all on the bones of our arse, you know.
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Post by buhi on Dec 14, 2016 10:23:48 GMT 7
^^^ I told you I agreed. Back on topic. In my hood as stated most places have free water and ice. I guarantee most people order a drink of their choice. Not expensive, and made from fresh fruit.The water is a top up. Some drink it as an after meal refreshment. As it should be. You're comparing two different places, though. Like I said, their overheads are completely different - as are the expectations of the customers. Most farangs in the tourist/sexpat zone would probably turn their nose up at the jug of free water on the table because they assume it will give them cholera or something. You are in Thailand, experience it. If you are on holiday and want home comforts agreed, pay the price. Go any where and you never went. |
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Post by buhi on Dec 14, 2016 10:32:33 GMT 7
An aside, thousand of years ago, my aunt and uncle visited. Aunt was unwilling to eat anything apart from ham and eggs as I recall. My ex wife spent hours providing a banquet. She is an excellent cook. Aunt took one look and said she could not eat that. Well no surprise, she was my wife, and dear aunt got a tongue lashing better than I could of managed. Never darkened our doors again.
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Post by thatguy on Dec 14, 2016 10:47:17 GMT 7
You're comparing two different places, though. Like I said, their overheads are completely different - as are the expectations of the customers. Most farangs in the tourist/sexpat zone would probably turn their nose up at the jug of free water on the table because they assume it will give them cholera or something. You are in Thailand, experience it. If you are on holiday and want home comforts agreed, pay the price. Go any where and you never went. Those of us that live here often like a little home comfort now and again too - and yes, we do have to be willing to pay the price to get it. |
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Post by buhi on Dec 14, 2016 10:52:08 GMT 7
^^^
Have we reached an agreement?
I hope so.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 10:53:00 GMT 7
Nobody suggested we are all on the bones of our arses. Some people don't seem to comprehend English as well as they think they do. What annoys me is when people base all of Thailand on what they experience in Bangkok, and for some all they seem to know is what goes on in Sukhumvit. Terrible place that, overpriced and crawling with scammers. I remember being abused by the dog-butt ugly hookers who used to congregate on the footpath just down from Tony Romanos. They abused me because although I had walked past them a few times over a period of three or four nights I paid no attention to them. Every time I saw them I thought of that old saying about putting lipstick on a pig. And blether is right about the Singaporeation of Thailand. Something else I have noticed around CM is the price of land is going crazy in some areas. We only bought our block about three years ago and the price of land around us has gone up heaps. Wish now I had bought the two blocks beside us. The block directly next to us is smaller than ours and the lady who bought it a year after we bought ours paid more for it than we did. Friend from Devon who has land outside CR said the same. |
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Post by me on Dec 14, 2016 10:57:39 GMT 7
You are in Thailand, experience it. If you are on holiday and want home comforts agreed, pay the price. Go any where and you never went. Those of us that live here often like a little home comfort now and again too - and yes, we do have to be willing to pay the price to get it. There is a difference between expensive and costing a lot of baht. A really good meal at $100 is not expensive. A poor one at 30 baht is. From what I hear and see many places here are now expensive, especially in the tourist areas. You have to know where the good meals are. |
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Post by buhi on Dec 14, 2016 11:00:25 GMT 7
Second aside. My ex wife's mother received an MBE as top chef. Not surprisingly ex wife knew how to cook.
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Post by me on Dec 14, 2016 11:01:34 GMT 7
My favorite innocuous Thai conspiracy theory: Bangkok could have potable water throughout the entire city via the existing pipes and a little more treatment, but as the water companies (Chang, Singha) have so much influence over the gov't and this is not in their interest, it won't happen. I dunno if that's true, but back at my old school, there was one of those isolated free drinkable water fountains. I drank from it one day after exercising.. I needed to. The worst water I've ever tasted. there is a lot of difference between bad tasting water and not potable water. Potable water is safe to drink, though I have memories of some in Adelaide years ago that were not good to drink. (with the salt content I doubt they would be potable) Government Tap water in Thailand is potable as long as it comes straight from the mains and not some hotel's tank. Some of it is not very nice though and some is. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 11:19:25 GMT 7
Those of us that live here often like a little home comfort now and again too - and yes, we do have to be willing to pay the price to get it. There is a difference between expensive and costing a lot of baht. A really good meal at $100 is not expensive. A poor one at 30 baht is. From what I hear and see many places here are now expensive, especially in the tourist areas. You have to know where the good meals are. Yes, that's a good assessment. It's all about value, not cost. |
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Post by thatguy on Dec 14, 2016 11:20:24 GMT 7
Most of the farang places offer pretty poor value I find.
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Post by buhi on Dec 14, 2016 16:21:43 GMT 7
Where are these farang places?
Give me a hint and I will avoid them.
That was an untruth, as I have no need to avoid them.
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Post by thatguy on Dec 14, 2016 16:27:21 GMT 7
I would, but I think they're all avoiding you.
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