Makan in Thailand

[steveluv]

Doing my usual rounds paddling my screws. Was driving along the highway and stopped by a rustic shop by the highway for breakfast this morning. Parking area full of trucks big and small.

Truckers dining here

Long trailers too in the background is the highway

Rustic 

Had a simple bowl of boiled rice with minced pork ($1.80 or 40 baht) and an omelette (90 cents or 20 baht)

Nice meal to start the day

[steveluv]

Dinner tonight

 

 

Restaurant near home

Starter

Somtam Thai

Grilled chicken - gaiyang

Vegetables for hotpot

Pork

Hotpot

The meal

[steveluv]

Simple Thai country style lunch

 

Mushroom spicy soup, simply refreshing and delicious

Nam prick kapi, shrimp paste chili sauce

Pork green curry

Chicken wings, goes well with the beer

Pork belly

Mackerel with raw mango salad

Simple nice meal

Only $48 (1,070 baht)

[steveluv]

Did some shopping for the home this Sunday afternoon and drove passed an Isaan restaurant at 4pm decided to stop by for early dinner

Location - https://goo.gl/maps/Gc83Rfu4jLUE11A46

Was attracted to the rustic old design

Isaan food must go with beer of course

Raw vegetables and jeem-jiao spicy and soury chili

Here it comes

Larb moo

Gai yang 

[steveluv]

Spicy prawns in tamarin sauce

Duck beak

Somtam pu

Tam thai

Tum saeb moo

Larb moo thod

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Love this dessert

[steveluv]

Just had brunch at a countryside food stall by a canal

all freshly cooked $7.50 meal

Relaxing place

 

 

[steveluv]

This is what one can expect in a golf course in Thailand

You can have as many caddy as you like to help you

Get special caddy

Drive for you and shade you with an umbrella at all time

Make sure you not thirsty 

Can even have a quick meal and some drinks in between holes

[steveluv]

Pattaya scene

[Freeder]

Wah.. ur caddy or cuddler?

My previous golf trip in Jakarta also got good caddies too..

So good until my customers always OB ..

 

[Shibadog]

18 hours ago, steveluv said:

This is what one can expect in a golf course in Thailand

 

 

the first time I played golf in Thai, I asked the caddy if the distance was in Yards or Meters (as it wasn't mentioned in the scorecard or on the course)

She answered "yes"

so to be safe, I took it to be Yards. And I was right.

[steveluv]

Forst you have a nice home cooked dinner

Next morning leftover chicken abalone soup made into a meesua breakfast

[steveluv]

Simple 3 dishes lunch today at a Chinese restaurant in Bangkok

Crab meat ball

Sea cucumber with Thai basils

Soup

 

 

[Adrianli]

The chinese rstaurant is too cheena looking for me.

[steveluv]

Travelling salesman at a very nice upcountry pad-thai stall

 

Pad-thai with prawns

Fried local mussels with eggs

[steveluv]

Went upcountry for sales was at a roadside bar having a beer at about 11pm came a 3 wheeler selling bugs, cuttle fish and bbq pork jerky

 

hanging pork and beef jerky

roasting cuttlefish

Bugs

Waitress

The bar by the road

My drinks

Orderred a cuttle fish

Stayed in a simple salesman motel costing 1200 baht or $53.

Old and scary lift

Corridor

Simple room

[steveluv]

Has been very busy lately with work and travelling so not been dinner with the mrs for a while. Dinner at Laem Charoen Seafood restaurant in Ramintra Road - https://goo.gl/maps/tuMZcjDBKbMk7ydX9

The restaurant

Big restaurant with outdoor sitting too

Only 5pm but many customers arrived

Ice cold glasses

Chayote leaves stir fry

Water mimosa stir fry

Chilisauce white clams

First 3 dishes

Deep fried seabass in fish sauce

Salted fish fried rice

Crab glass noodle

Dinner costs only 2410baht or $108 (with 3 bottles of Singha)

[Wt_know]

steveluv ... no horse run

[steveluv]

Always nice to start your day with a plate of chicken rice in the morning

Costing 90 baht or $4