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  1. Evil Penevil
    I sure don't eat them, but a certain Thai girl loves them. I had one raw oyster in Bangkok in 2005 and got very ill, although it could have have been something else that gave me the food poisoning. Since then, I haven't touched a raw oyster anywhere in Thailand. Evil
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    An update from Marine Seafood last night. Not much that I need to say, the pics pretty well speak for themselves. Evil
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    Sizzler isn't the type of restaurant in which I really want to eat in Pattaya. In fact, it wouldn't even rank in my top 100 choices. Not that there's anything wrong with it - I just stopped eating in American-style chain steakhouses many years ago and I find no reason to start again in Pattaya with its wide variety of restaurants. However, a certain young lady I know likes it and really wanted to go there. I'd vetoed her choice of Sizzler on several earlier occasions, so I thought I could give into her for once. It wasn't a bad meal, but certainly wasn't a memorable one. It was roughly
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    Depends on what you mean by "romantic." The Western concept of romantic dining often means candle-lit tables and settings with fancy plates, napkins and silverware, whereas people in Asia much prefer bright lighting and don't care that much about settings. But a lot of Thai girls do enjoy sunset beach-side dining and there are dozens of restaurants that give you the opportunity to eat as you watch the sun go down. You have Mum Aroi and Pupen at opposite ends of the greater Pattaya map and a whole lot in between. If money is not a big consideration, Infiniti at the Sheraton has great vie
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    That was indeed part of it. I'd been told that while the farang food at Sailor should be avoided, the Thai food was decent enough. I planned on trying it eventually, but what prompted me into actionwas a post on another board slamming PBG. That poster, methinks also well known on this board but under a different handle, claimed the food at PBG was three times as expensive as everywhere else. When this was disputed (not by me, by another poster), he replied that fried noodles with squid at PBG cost 150 baht and only 30 baht at Sailor. I decided to compare what you got for your money at each. No
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    The prices at Pupen are reasonable for the meal you get. It's "big ticket" items like crab and rock lobster that have the heaviest effect, but that's true for any restaurant in Pattaya. Once, when we arrived very late at Pupen, crab and other expensive items had already been sold out. We had a steamed fish and four other dishes among three people. The total bill then, including drinks, was just under 1,000 baht. One thing that impresses me most about Pupen, Mum Aroi and similar restaurants is that most of the guests are Thais and other Asians, although Russians are indeed showing up more
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    I don't think the regular baht buses run to Pupen, but I'm not sure where exactly on Jomtien Beach Road the final stop is. Probably you could give the driver some extra money to take you the final stretch. Usually there is a baht bus waiting outside Pupen that you can charter to get back to Pattaya. One night, when we'd gotten there late, there weren't any baht buses when we'd chek binned. We walked about 20 minutes north along Jomtien Beach Road until we could flag down a regular BB. Evl
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    Busloads of Thai, other Asian and Russian tourists probably have the most to do with Pupen being full on occasion. The two giant buses I wrote about in my update disgorged a total of about 150 people. Even without the tour buses it can get pretty busy on weekends and Thai holidays. I heard it meant "live crab." The story was that back in the earliest days, when Pupen consisted of two or three fold-away tables, the old man who did the cooking kept the crabs alive in baskets in the sea. He'd haul in a basket as needed. Evil
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    An update on Pupen: I've been there a number of times since the OP, but the opportunity to experience a sunset didn't present itself until yesterday. It wasn't a particularly impressive sunset, but certainly a nice backdrop to a good meal. We arrived at 6:00 p.m., so there was no problem in getting a seaside table. Catching the sunset: Pupen itself was much like always. It's a good idea to get there earlier rather than later. After we'd ordered, we watched five tour buses arrive over the course of the next 90 minutes, including two giant double-decker coaches full of Th
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    I had reason to revisit the Sailor Restaurant last week to try one dish in particular: the squid with "fat" noodles for 30 baht. Here's what I got: It was a small portion, but one mouthful was enough to tell me I wouldn't eat another bite. The four pieces of squid were like chewing on a rubber band. The vegetables were wilted and soggy, as though they had been soaking in hot liquid for a long time then re-warmed in a wok. The whole portion was very oily and had an extremely salty taste. Clearly, it had been doused with nam pla (fish sauce) once too often. By comparison, he
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    The Hot Pot Buffet is located on the 6th floor of Central Festival Mall and is open between 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. ... The name pretty much says it all- it's a fixed price, all-you-can-eat Thai-style hot pot restaurant. You pick the ingredients you want from the buffet, then cook them in boiling broth in a hot pot at your table. There was a wide variety of meat, seafood and vegetables. ... The buffet includes a limited number of ingredients for Western-style salads as well as sushi and dim sum items; some prepared hot foods (pork, fish, fried r
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    The two meals I had at the Sailor Restaurant were NOT good quality food. The first meal was bad, the second was inedible. I can't say anything about the Thai as I didn't try it. I certainly wasn't anticipating first-class service in a restaurant like the Sailor, but I did have expectations of decent meals. That's not what I got. I don't believe there's anyone who'd been served the plates of food I got would say it was good quality food. Maybe as part of a challenge on "Master Chef" a cook could deliberately make a dish that looks horrible but tastes good. However, in an every
  13. Evil Penevil
    It's Gabor's way of saying he's incapable of writing a meaningful reply to the points I raised. Many times he simply doesn't understand what I've written. Evil
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    Because a restaurant is packed doesn't necessarily mean the food is good. Does anyone really think that food that looks like this tastes good? By looking at it, could anyone tell what this dish was supposed to be? I'm not sure which OP to whom you are referring - me, as the OP of the first post in the thread, or biggles, as per the quote above. But assuming it's me, what agenda could I possibly have? Evil
  15. Evil Penevil
    Fantastic pics, good job! Evil
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    Gong Xi Fa Cai!

  17. Evil Penevil
    Among the many intellectual traits you lack is a sense of perspective. I'm talking about the PAST 45 years (1969-2014), as I said in my post. Many U.S. military veterans believe P4P in Thailand reached its peak in 1969 and it's all been downhill since then. Others would say it peaked in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, or as you say, 2000. Generally the peak year coincides with the punter's first visit to Thailand. And both Pattaya and Thailand were famous as "sex tourist" destinations long before the Internet. The movie Emmmanuelle, which came out in 1974, was set in Bangkok and seen by 300 mill
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    You've got it backwards, Gabor. The Thai economy has been advancing for the past 45 years, much to the benefit of the Thai people. Some mongers might want Thailand to revert to as wretched a state as in 1979, but no Thais would, especially not the girls who work in P4P. Evil
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    Yup, I remember a poster on a U.S. board moaning in 2002 about how much better Thailand had been for mongers in 1996-2001. He was urging everyone to visit other countries because the prices in BKK and Pattaya had increased and the girls no longer had good attitudes. During my first visit to Thailand in 1979, I remember guys wailing on the same note. One guy in the coffee shop of the Grace Hotel was angry because some of the girls were expecting cash payment, whereas in the past they had been content with a meal and a bed for the night. Evil
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    I've found that the Multi Quote button works on IE (11) but not the Quote function. So even if you're quoting only one post, try using the Multi Quote. I quoted the above post from MM that way using IE (11) on Windows 8. Not a problem for me in any case, as I don't usually use IE as my browser. Evil
  21. Evil Penevil
    I invited three of the FLB hostesses and two former hostesses (Nong and Bow) to Marine Seafood in the wee hours for a "last supper." Again, fast batch processing and low resolution so the quality of the photos is bad. Evil
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    Marine is an full-scale open-air restaurant and I wasn't any way suggesting it was a street eatery, aka pop-up restaurant. They are restaurants that don't have permanent facilities, but set up on the street or sidewalk, usually at night. One of my favorites is Govit Seafood that sets up on Soi 15 off Walking Street. We ate there last night. Stir-fried shrimp: Green curry with shrimp (kaeng khiao wan): And my beloved fried morning glory with garlic: There are a lot of street eateries on a stretch of Pattaya Tai at night.
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    Yes, I should have mentioned the hours. It opens at 5 p.m. and doesn't close until 5 a.m. or so. I have also eaten at the restaurant across the street from Marine Seafood, especially if I'm on my own. It's a good option, too. I should take some pics there as well. Evil
  24. Evil Penevil
    Marine Seafood on Soi Marine (or Soi Lucky Star) just off Walking Street has been in operation for over 20 years. It's still a decent seafood option in the WS area. It has a massive menu with just about every sort of seafood served up in dozens of variations. It's an open-air restaurant and certainly not a fancy place, but prices are reasonable compared with some of the water-front seafood restaurants on WS. I've had many, many BGs ask to go Marine. The service staff is attentive and the food came quickly. We had to wait a minute or two for the tiger prawns to cool down as they'd come str
  25. Evil Penevil
    I'll post some pics of her in a different thread; I'm planning to do a report on a recent trip with her to Chiang Rai. Also some pics of her in the Oriental Residence thread. And pics of her in the various "donation visit" threads. Evil
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