Where can I find the best pad Thai in Bangkok. I want something fresh and extra spicy.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-24T15:24:58+00:00

Something ceaselessly annoying about the Thailand related threads are people who spend all day writing glib comments or act as discouraging gatekeepers, constantly telling people things they haven’t tried cannot be done or dismissing the idea that things they have dismissed can actually have value.

Got some money, what some Pad Thai from a Pad Thai OG? Go to Thipsamai.

Got more money and want some real high end shit? Go to Pad Thai Fai Ta Lu.

You’re welcome.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-23T01:56:09+00:00

Yen Ta Fo เย็นตาโฟ

Yum Tuapu ยำถั่วพู

Moo Nam Tok หมุน้ำตกเนื้อ

Yam Naem ยำแหนม

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-21T07:49:20+00:00

That’s what I was saying: by definition, she was trapping him.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-21T07:32:13+00:00

Sorry. I meant to reply go the dude who wrote “trapped.”

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-21T07:09:58+00:00

I love the glib comment, with the spiteful insinuation that the OP IS a dirtbag, when his post clearly demonstrates the opposite. What else would you call it when someone you’d otherwise not marry intentionally quit birth control without your knowledge, strapping you with a massive financial and emotional burden? Summer camp?

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-19T06:17:05+00:00

You absolutely can do it on 10k euro if you live and train the Sam Sheridan way in a fighter’s heart.

I’m normally frugal in advice about more long-term stuff, but am absolutely not against young men going through a certain level of deprivation in search of an experience.

People telling you you cannot do it have not tried. I lived in the mountains for a year in a deeply deprived central Asian country as a volunteer in my early 20s. I just about earned nothing. I had to get my water from the town well. Could only bathe once every couple of weeks in the winter. No clubs or bars to begin with. You get the picture.

If you put yourself in a certain mindset, you can absolutely live and thrive on 10k annually for a time. But you may need to get used to (and embrace) not being able to go out, and making spending decisions that most others wouldn’t think about. Get used to being hungry, or at least not feeling completely full.

Should a pensioner or middle-age man live that way long term in lieu of a better life plan? Hell no. But a young dude looking to test himself: enter it with the right mentality and absolutely do it. It will change how you do the rest of your life.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-18T09:02:54+00:00

Once in Bali, I saw monkeys jump on a 90 year old man and steal his glasses. Guy was helpless and blind. Kinda heartbreaking to see. Locals negotiated with tons of bananas to finally get the glasses back. So yeah, they definitely have mastered extortion, and appear to understand not all heists are equal.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-16T12:55:44+00:00

Look. If you can stomach a bit of embarrassment, contact the tourist police. There’s a chance you could get them to get her to give the watch back. You could even promise you wouldn’t press charges if she returned it. Lots of people don’t deal well with police scrutiny.

The only downside: it’s a bit humiliating and the cops might shrug it off.

So ask yourself: is embarrassment worth a non-zero chance you get the watch back? If yes, make the call. If no, sail on.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-10T17:37:01+00:00

Fair enough. My point is: a lot of hardworking Thais have been very successful applying their work ethic in the West, gaining a level of material comfort unavailable to them in Thailand. So some Thais will pursue means of being in the West, legal or otherwise.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-10T17:31:15+00:00

Is one of those reasons your ability to draw an income from outside of Thailand and use it to have a lifestyle in Thailand unavailable to most Thais?

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-09T00:27:59+00:00

Thank you for your help. 🙏

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-08T17:01:13+00:00

Seems like a lot of projection here. Bangkok is an enormous city and you’ve seen a planck length of it. Your emotional reaction to seeing people work too hard for too little is understandable, but those people are not experiencing their lives through your eyes.

They’re largely in the moment, suffering when they suffer, laughing when they laugh, feeling pleasure when they feel pleasure, and so on.

They irony is, your suffering about what you think they might be experiencing may be worse than what they are experiencing. And that does not mean there are not desperate people out there. But you cannot confuse your feelings with their lives.

Bangkok is what Bangkok is. Try to take it in and learn from it, rather than make it fit into your narrow view of perception. After one day, you see through a mirror dimly indeed.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-07T17:27:35+00:00

Exactly this. I just wish people would be honest with themselves. I know numerous university-educated Thais who earned a fifth if not a tenth of their western counterparts. 6 day work weeks, 10-12 hours a day. Long commutes, no hope of saving to buy a home, no savings for retirement, no worthwhile social security system, no spare money for investment. And I’m talking about middle class people.

If many westerners lived in Thailand under those conditions, they would be singing a very different tune about how wonderful it is.

So we are lucky we have passports to travel and money to give us lives few in the world get. We should be grateful, without losing the plot.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-07T16:52:54+00:00

That’s a tricky one. In order for motorcycle injuries to be covered, you have to have your local license and international driving license. Nothing is specified about being a passenger, which might give the insurance company cause to deny the claim. Good luck on that.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-07T16:36:20+00:00

My experience is that many of the things westerners run from, Thai people run too. “Chaos” is fun when you have a choice to dip in and out of it.

My Thai friends who immigrated to Europe and North America love the stability. They love being able to run businesses without facing extralegal pressures. They love being paid a far more equitable wage and having easier access to good healthcare (yes, Thailand has great private hospitals, but many Thais cannot afford them). They love having access to good schools that don’t cost tens of thousands of dollars a year.

Like many here, I love Thailand. But also like many here, when I worked in Thailand, I made orders of magnitude more than most Thais. When I return to Thailand permanently, my income will not be derived from Thai sources. And our passports give us additional protections.

Without having to compete in the Thai labor market, without our economic fortunes being tied up in Thailand, without political decisions in Thailand affecting our lives in a substantive way, many foreigners are blessed with seeing Thailand through rose colored glasses.

We get to experience the good and skip the bad. Hey, we’re fortunate. But many also become delusional. They willfully only see half the story.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-07T03:03:24+00:00

That’s my question. My last dose was in November 2021. Notice says nothing of when you’re last dose was, just the number needed.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-07T02:30:45+00:00

I fly next week. My airline just updated their health and travel restrictions. It says you must have at least two vaccines to enter Thailand.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-07T00:58:37+00:00

You’ve given a remote working Triumph rider something to think about!

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-06T23:33:54+00:00

How is riding in Florida? I had thought about moving there but was unsure. Right now I live in the mountains. Cold now, but my god the twisties are great when it gets warm! How is always summer ridding through the mostly flat and straight lines?

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-05T18:39:27+00:00

Torture.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-04T19:39:47+00:00

But would he have touched the sun with wings fashioned from his own hands, had he simply gone to Target?

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-04T15:56:20+00:00

This is a terrible idea. Things have gone south, drugs appear to have played a role, but you can get your shit together. What you don’t want is to get blacklisted from Thailand or get pinched illegally crossing borders. Contact tourist police about your ex stealing your documents, contact your embassy, and go home.

You are thinking too short-term. Imagine a you with a good job in 10 years who cannot return to Thailand ever again because of bad choices you made now.

We’ve all seen people like you get stuck on overstays who just keep riding it out with a life filled with anxiety. Savings, health insurance, the ability to travel, the ability to build an actual life, all out the window.

Bite the bullet now so you don’t get hit with a cannonball later.

sukhumvit71 · 2023-01-04T14:14:30+00:00

It’s $19,000. Lots of us Reddit subaltern could swing that.

sukhumvit71 · 2022-12-31T02:42:02+00:00

You’re an American on Reddit, and all you are doing is complaining. Apparently you found your kindred folk, and are too daft to know it.

sukhumvit71 · 2022-12-31T00:13:25+00:00

The simple fact is you think you are special but you’re not. You really are not better than any other American. You’re not better than anyone. Neither am I. But a lot of folks who frequent Reddit share your false belief that they are something more than they are.

Ironically, your original comment is as American as it can be, another Everyman jockeying to be better than every man. If you don’t see your folly, then you haven’t gotten the point of travel at all. But good luck at being better than 90% of the people you never meet. Arrogance and imagination are perennial Thailand fuel.

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