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Grandpollo

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Went with the TG to Sugar Hut tonight. You get there by BB to the junction of Thappraya and Pratumnak at the lights. To your left if you are before the lights coming uphill there is a sign that says Sugar Hut and apparently the road is Sugar Hut Road.

 

You walk maybe 500m to the hotel (cabins, really) and restaurant complex in the jungle with a few wild animals about (OK chickens and a squirrel).

 

Eating is under fan, no air-con and there are little Japan style sit on the floor type of seating which we didn't do.

 

Huge Thai menu, almost 100% Thai with a few Western foods added for the true fussy farangs.

 

We had a spicy salad served with a chicken leg and sticky rice, a green curry (hot) served with white rice and as I was determined to avoid the farang favourite Pad Thai I chose noodles with shrimp and chicken. Then menu is in Thai with a description of the food but not a Latinizing of the Thai names. So I asked TG what it was called and she said "Pad Thai" Oh well.

 

They ask farangs how spicy you want things. Luckily. The green curry chicken for TG was not de-spiced and could take off paint so ask for lowering the spice level if you're sensitive.

 

We had one dessert with what looks like peas served with rice dumpling in coconut milk in a coconut. The peas were these gelatinous things that stuck to your teeth and weren't peas.

 

One waitress when she turned around had an animal on her back, which on closer exam was a small white squirrel (or Thai equivalent) who was even wearing a collar and a small bell. Small like maybe 1/8". No idea where you get such small pet accessories. If rodents riding the staff somehow upsets you in a restaurant then be warned.

 

Total bill with service and VAT added was THB1018. I could not eat Thai food this good where I live for 30 bucks.

 

If you want to take a TG who wants real Thai food, this is a good place. She thought it was top drawer.

 

One serving can feed two so one appetizer and two mains (all around 200 or so) and one shared dessert is enough for all but the biggest eaters.

 

They have a golf cart and the guy will give you a lift if he sees you, back to Thappraya. Think two seater Baht bus. Since I am at RG we walked back as it is all downhill and maybe 15 minutes.

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Good review, excellent recommendation. This is an old, and expanded Pattaya restaurant that serves Thai food -- not Thaiglish or Thai-western food or other bastardised slash tourist food. It also has (or had) not all that much Isan food (for example) but is very central Thai-centric. (The main effect of this, if you don't know Thai food well, is that it's not all that hot.)

 

If you like Thai food, or if you want to delve into it, this is an excellent restaurant. If you don't know Thai food, it's best to go with Thais-plural -- the bigger the party, the better the food.

 

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Thanks for the report, Rick. I've heard good things about it, but have never been myself.

 

For those interested, here is a link to a map with their location shown.

 

See that long skinny rectangle on the satellite view starting at the A in the bubble? You'll be walking to the end of it. Just so you know.

 

On the subject of addresses, what's the Moo 10 mean? Their address is 391/18 Moo 10 Thappraya Road.

 

Their "Sugar Hut" road is after Thappraya 15 and well before 10 which is the other side of the road anyway, so what do the Moos mean in Pattaya then?

 

My Bangkok hotel is just #18 Sukhumvit Soi 11 and I go to Sukhumvit, turn on Soi 11 and it is reasonably 18 units down from there.

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The Moo portion of the address is the lowest administrative grouping. After that, in a proper mailing address, there are the tambon, the amphur, the jang wat (province).

 

Addresses in Thailand are not at all useful for locating a building, but are more convenient for locating the right post office. The postal carrier knows where the building is, based on address, but nobody else can find it that way.

 

For more detailed information try some of these links http://www.google.com/m/search?q=What+is+a+moo+postal+thailand&mshr=13&msbs=1&mscq=&mscm=&popt=1&pbx=1&aq=&oq=What+is+a+moo+postal+thailand&aqi=&fkt=1153&fsdt=23036&cqt=21525&rst=13292&htf=&his=&maction=&hl=en&csll=&action=&ltoken=1313e958

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Thanks for reminding me of this place.

I went there a few times when Adam was a lad, and I was staying at the RG.

I remember the long walk, high quality of food and great ambience.

At that time it was up market and came over as expensive, relative to alternatives.

It appears others have caught up, and over-taken price wise.

 

Another thing I recall was covering exposed skin with a bit of mosquito repellant was necessary.

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See that long skinny rectangle on the satellite view starting at the A in the bubble? You'll be walking to the end of it. Just so you know.

 

 

 

You've mentioned the long walk a couple of times, so I went there tonight expecting to see a footpath with no access for vehicles. The entrance is actually a nicely paved two way road, so for those who aren't hopping off a baht bus, it's no walk at all.

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No walkie - drive to the door

 

Gives it a whole new appeal...will give it a looksee

 

 

;)

 

 

And there's a good sized parking area at the end of the road.

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The Moo portion of the address is the lowest administrative grouping. After that, in a proper mailing address, there are the tambon, the amphur, the jang wat (province).

 

Addresses in Thailand are not at all useful for locating a building, but are more convenient for locating the right post office. The postal carrier knows where the building is, based on address, but nobody else can find it that way.

 

For more detailed information try some of these links http://www.google.com/m/search?q=What+is+a+moo+postal+thailand&mshr=13&msbs=1&mscq=&mscm=&popt=1&pbx=1&aq=&oq=What+is+a+moo+postal+thailand&aqi=&fkt=1153&fsdt=23036&cqt=21525&rst=13292&htf=&his=&maction=&hl=en&csll=&action=&ltoken=1313e958

Next time I go somewhere new I am hiring the postman and not Mr. T. then now that I know this.

 

Does a farm have a moo moo address?

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Next time I go somewhere new I am hiring the postman and not Mr. T. then now that I know this.

 

Does a farm have a moo moo address?

 

Actually, that is not a bad idea. I know a guy who had the address of a girl he had known, but whose phone number had changed. She lived up by Chachaengsao. He hired a taxi, drove all around looking for the family home, but gave up. The taxi driver suggested they go to the post office where he hired a postman to lead them to the house.

 

 

 

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Actually, that is not a bad idea. I know a guy who had the address of a girl he had known, but whose phone number had changed. She lived up by Chachaengsao. He hired a taxi, drove all around looking for the family home, but gave up. The taxi driver suggested they go to the post office where he hired a postman to lead them to the house.

When I spent a lot more time in Nicaragua, in Managua specifically, there are no street names, and no addresses. So the postman has to have "the knowledge" big time.

 

You mail (and navigate generally) using landmarks, including many that are no longer there. E.g. from where the Coca Cola plant was go 3 blocks north, two east, one south and it is three houses down from the fallen tree and it is the house that has the red metal door and the blue painted bars on the windows.

 

Mailmen live in the barrios they serve and have delivered in some cases for decades. I sent a birthday card to a girl with this address

 

Villa Venezuela

Barrio Fontana

From the XYZ Hardware Store

three blocks south, two east , one north, one west, house with the green bars on the windows and the red car in the front yard

 

The card got there in 6 days.

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Where is a good Thai restaurant in the Denver area?

Going to Denver next month and would like to take my family out to a nice Thai dinner, any suggestions would be much appreciated!

You're kidding right?

 

Try www.denvertalk.com/forums

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