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Keeping you in suspenders on that one.....

Just booked Qatar 685€ 14h there and 16h back from Barcelona - minimal stop-over in Doha. 30 kilos BTW. First trip with them - expecting good food, good entertainment and good plane....

But EVERYTHING causes cancer......

Just spotted this thread and thought "I'll give that a look" then realised I started it. Bought a plane ticket yesterday so tastebuds awake again. Eat-out food prices are crazy in France......even for stuff you can make at home. For stuff you can't make double-it. Andy Cap

At first I thought this was going to be about ladies in clumps of bushes......(then I saw Restaurants & Food)

I started reading this thinking it was Evil P writing it, even thinking "oh, MM has let him take Pin out for dinner". Doh! Nice thick slices of salmon there (I might get some, and some tuna, out of the freezer for lunch now!).... I can see how the raw beef cut in chunks might give a problem, thinly sliced carpaccio is about my limit. Did you eat the whole thing in one mouthful? Nice report - about what time did the place empty out (last picture)? Andy

The delivery men HAVE TO take the old one away free of charge nowadays, bloody meddling EU again! http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/weee/legis_en.htm Nice positive thread

Having previously dabbled until my camera broke, I am now a complete devotee of Bite Me Food Porn. On the "discounts" topic, surely better to give frequent faces the odd free starter, or an unexpected "it's on the house" - just my opinion. Any chance of you opening near my home in France??? Drool Andy Cap

If it all tastes as good as it looks (I'm sure it does), I'll be buying a 3 week season ticket on the next trip methinks. I'm sitting in France asking myself "Why can't we have food like this here?" - take that as a compliment! (drool). Andy Cap

If kept cool and moist, oysters survive for a good while outside the water. They only "die" when opened. Flo and I will never forget picking up our cat from Jeddah airport "live animal imports" cargo office when we bumped into a French restaurateur bringing in a palette of oysters (from Bouzigues) for "late December/early January". One of the uniformed guards asked him if his animals were alright so he pulled out his oyster knife, ate one, and said "yes, fine, delicious". The look on the guard's face was priceless - he went down the corridor and gestured to his mate "he just ATE one of

Same thing in France costs 7€ = 280 bht approx. ..... French oysters there or local Thai ones?

Some real LOLs - great! P.S. When your bridge jokes run out, you'll find yourself having to build some bridges I'd wager. Andy Cap

Wow.... hungry, hungry.

I know which sausages I prefer...... the photos are great and the cuisine looks droolworthy.

http://www.pattayamail.com/mailbag/bridging-the-difference-55720 Bridge Too Far? - nice...

Less cards in a French pack...... Excerpt from DM (top quality journalism): "Pattaya, a town on Thailand’s eastern Gulf coast, has long had a reputation for being a haven both for foreign criminals and ex-pat retirees." Guilt by association if I ever saw it.....not funny. BTW, if the video showed the "storming" of the bridge club, the Oxford English Dictionary should be bringing charges....

Wow!

Hi Teelack! I reckon this was a prime example of "Don't look at me, I'm shy". For the first time in their lives these two young ladies weren't the centre of attention on the Patong streets as they would be where they came from and were pissed off at all the attention the Thai girls were getting. Add to that copious alcohol and it was "We'll show THEM!" quite literally. Bet they were mortified when the police traced the car to where they were staying a couple of days later after they had sobered up/forgotten about it.... Andy

I would guess the fish was frozen and breaded in a factory from the looks.....

You're only as good as your next trick post! (Your trumpet playing is typically Murcan if you don't mind me saying....) But seriously.... some excellent reads - keep 'em coming. Here's to the next 5,000! Andy & Flo

Excellent solution. Looking forward to seeing the menu

Thanks Cerberus, I think we once waited for ages on 3rd Road then gave up. Good to know. Not there until August, but will stop by for an ordinary night-out with eats. I take it it's not PforP, barfines etc(?). Any menus to have a look at or links thereto? Maybe nice to come to with one of our LT ladies..... Good luck to Mrs C with her venture. Andy Cap

Do any baht bus routes run past this location? In my mind it's "no", but happy to be corrected. Will be with Flo and she's anti-moto taxis. AC

Great stuff Firth - thanks. Got the answer to the same question on the "medieval" piece of kit too. wacmedia - I remember when Vietnam invaded Cambodia to depose the Khmer Rouge it was a proxy Vietnam-USSR vs Kampuchea-China thing, but I had the same observation. The link below explains the changeover. (Kosygin in 1965) - isn't the interweb great? http://alphahistory.com/vietnam/chinese-and-soviet-involvement/

Our visit with Bushcraft and Happy Knackers in August 2015, even with "new owners" (apparently), did nothing to change the first impression from 5 years earlier with the original owners. People with no food service experience - savoir-faire - or life experience - savoir-vivre - should not open/buy a restaurant on a whim..... Don't overpromise and don't overcharge (£5 for a breakfast? - know your market - even if the B&S was an extra). Soi Buakhao is not an one-horse Essex hamlet where people will be forced to come back to the only restaurant available.... Rant over. Andy Cap