The missing item...

Post by **Francois** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:08 pm

Let say you'll get an unexpected visit from friends or relatives coming from outside Asia... and they ask you if there is something they could bring along with them.

What would be your answer ? What's the thing you're "desesperately" looking for ? :-)

Post by **niggle** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:11 pm

A suitcase stuffed with money

Post by **Francois** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:18 pm

niggle wrote:A suitcase stuffed with money

Ok... But you find money in Tha?land... You can maybe hardly get it but it exists:)

I was thinking about an item that does not exist or hard to find in Tha?land.

For instance, the 1st time I went to Mauritania, colleags of mine told me to take lots of toilet paper rolls...

Post by **Kilbirnie** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:42 pm

As many bottles of POL ROGER cuvee Sir Winston Churchill that they can handle

Post by **Francois** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:44 pm

Kilbirnie wrote:As many bottles of POL ROGER cuvee Sir Winston Churchill that they can handle

Good idea... I already said to all my friends and relative (to be honest, my son started with this...) each time you want to visit us, bring a pair of bottles of champaign or of good wine

Post by **sandman67** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:51 pm

PG Tips & Lemsips

I'm doing a home run next week (1 week in hell...travel report to follow

) and, considering the number of requests for PG, am considering setting up a 20 foot container delivery......

maybe a word in the ear of the Tesco manager would be useful.....maybe not carrying 300 sodding varieties of fish sauce, 200 types of soy sauce, and 100 types of vegetable oil and instead carrying stuff those 11,000 farangs in town might buy at tasty profits...

..ah no thats logical....TIT.

Post by **Big Boy** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:02 pm

sandman67 wrote:

I'm doing a home run next week (1 week in hell...travel report to follow ) and, considering the number of requests for PG, am considering setting up a 20 foot container delivery......

JD at Hua Hin Ham & Bacon saved my son's holiday last year when we found that he sold PG. Not so drastic as a trip back to the UK to get some

Post by **T.I.G.R.** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:24 pm

There aren't 11,000 expats in Hua Hin......try 3,000.

What's PG?, I'm American...sorry.....and sorry for Bush too before you say what you're thinking. We didn't all vote for him.

You will be surprised at just how much is available here when you think about it. Yes, there are things you can't get but we have English TV, McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, a huge supermarket and Home Pro......none of which were available in Thailand a few years ago. If you're a Brit you have more choices than those of us from other countries I think.

The only thing I really wish I had here was more Raider football games to watch.......and cheaper golf. The dollar has really been pounded since we decided to move here in '05 and of course prices have gone up as well.

Post by **sandman67** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:03 pm

11,000 includes the tourists and passers through.

PG Tips....a UK brand of strong tea.....nectar of the gods.

the huge supermarket....good for Thai supplies, sod all use for anything else. Like I said, 300 varieties of fish sauce, 2 types of tea. With a significant ex pat market, that allows you to charge premium for "imported foods" you figure....

we don't have English TV....(thank God)...we have some mad hotchpotch of channels. Soon as I saw UBC showed Martha I switched off.

Ive thought of another....motorbike spark plug feeler gauges...motorbike tools in general......cant get em for love nor money.

Post by **T.I.G.R.** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:04 am

Sandman, let me rephrase that.....we have English "speaking" TV, for which I'm eternally grateful. We get tired of the reruns too, but frankly, we had the same thing in America.....we have enjoyed several of the British shows that are on UBC and you guys have a million soccer games on......can't figure out who watched the badminton though. Personally I've really liked the Contender Asia series.....seems like that's sponsored by the Brits, right?

As for food there is the O.K. market in Cha Am on the beach road, and soon you'll have Villa market, plus Ham & Bacon etc. I really think there is a nice selection in the area, you don't ever even have to go to Tesco.....and you can certainly find pretty much anything you want somewhere in Bangkok.....we went to the market at the Emporium last trip and I couldn't believe the selection of great foods.

So as they say in America "dude"......cowboy up, it ain't all that bad, yeah?

Post by **crazy88** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:25 am

Now that hhm&b have lucozade sorted a vesta chow mein and a chicken pot noodle would be nice .I would love to see my girlfriends face when I put that lot on a plate !

I would think .

Crazy 88

Post by **Takiap** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:55 am

No question about it, some South African boerawors sausage and some good South African brandy. Oh, and also some Pecks fish paste. How I miss having that on toast. Could not even find it in the UK during my ten years there:-(

Post by **pfotoguy369** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:33 pm

I've cut my trips back to the US down to once a year. used to go 3 times but just gets to expensive.

When I go back i take 2 suitcases. 1 about 2/3 full and a big duffel type.

I bring back both full. Some clothes I cant get here but mostly food.

70 lbs of it. just stuff I cant get here. Like Hot links, cheeses, spices,
szechwan sauce and marinade, honey nut peanut butter, stuff like that.

I try to look at Villa market and I do buy there BUT somethings are just to expensive, Kraft American cheese. $10.35 for 16 slices. I love grilled cheese sandwiches.

My next trip is in July. starting my list now

Post by **Francois** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:07 pm

pfotoguy369 wrote:70 lbs of it. just stuff I cant get here. Like Hot links, cheeses, spices, szechwan sauce and marinade, honey nut peanut butter, stuff like that.

It brings back a flood of memories...

Post by **The understudy** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:53 pm

Hello there Francois

You remind me of my sudy years back @ Stamford Univ. and almost everytime we had a Semetster break I travel back to Germany and get my self One big arse Samsonite Suitcase full of Goods from good old Berlin!!! Mainly it was Snacks like Potatoe Crisps/Chips, (by that time the Thai Lays Crisps/Chips tasted awrful but now their improved) Instant Cup Noodles (They are just better in Germany) Instant eatable Sausages, Chocolate Bars! ect. when I'm in Bangkok I can now get most of the imported German stuff there too but I still long for something that's exclusuvely found in Beerland.

My advice to you birng some very good and expensive German Riesling Wine with you. Or another rarity in the Land of smiles are Pickled Cucumbers from the Lausitz Region I van tell ya their Excellent.

Your's The understudy!!!