All In Hua Hin makes me sick!!!

[SuperTonic]

In reply to the previous post suggesting an affiliation with AIHH. I only have an affiliation with my (worryingly expanding by the day) stomach. It demands only the finest and most delicious food, and I must satisfy its cravings else suffer the consequences. AIHH fit the bill.

[Wanderlust]

The issue here now seems to be how any owner of a retail business, but particularly food and beverage, can know if his staff are offering the service their customers expect or demand. As I have already said on this thread, no doubt whenever the owner of AIHH is present everything is tickety boo and the customers are happy or any problems dealt with properly; but when the owner is not there it seems as if standards are not the same. This, i am sure is true of most businesses worldwide, and i can almost guarantee that every single owner would want to know when there was something wrong, which is why, however petty the complaint may seem, they should at least be told. Different people have different standards, and some of the complaints mentioned in this thread would not bother me at all, but that doesn't matter - they bothered those individuals and the owners should know that; how they react to those comments is another matter, and I would be far more interested in their response than the initial complaint, but of course they don't know so how can they do anything about it?

[huahinsimon]

the owners have been in thailand long enough to know of its development status

"explain her olive policy" - oh im sure she weighed you up in a nano, and treated you accordingly. her perogative as is yours to never return (1 nil to her )


sorry, do not mean to sound rude but reading your posts you do appear to be a petty complainer to me

just my opinion, and again, apologies
.

Reading comprehension and keeping score, just for laughs of course

super? joe, you completely missed it. A European objecting to his/her restaurant labeled 3rd world, get it? 1nil to me

"explain her olive policy" subtle humor, you missed it again, super. 2 nil to me.

if you dont mean to be rude, then dont be. you meant to be, so state it with no apologies and can the sorry b.s. lose a point for insincerity 3 nil to me,




Chas wrote:
"I would expect black olives in a Greek salad.. .not the Spanish kind with pimentos. The salad is otherwise misnamed. Its as if you made Waldorf salad with potatoes instead of apples. (I don't much like the green olives at all and love the black olives.)"

super, your opinion on the pettiness of inquiring about the olives in a "Greek" salad rejected by impartial 3rd party, supplying good analogy to a super guy who likes waldorfs. get it? 4 nil

check out G. Gordon Liddy, oh you read my posts carefully, don't you.

ball in your court with no petty apologies

HHS

[Super Joe]

the european has decided to live in a 3rd world country, he bought a restaurant in a 3rd wc, his staff are from, and were educated in a ......., his non-imported foodstuffs are from a ........., his deliveries are dependant upon ........., they'll be mosquitos and smells in there because ..........,
and i miss the point !?!?

you are being far too hard on them, the original posters raw sausage is different imo, a genuine complaint
if you run a business here you'll understand how difficult it is with local staff, they havent been afforded the education that westerners have
its very easy to sit back and rip someones food to bits


yes chas agrees with you, congrats
others have mocked your one-man olive-war, but whos counting


we really shouldnt be hijacking this thread with our petty bickering
so i'll stop
.

[Wanderlust]

huahinsimon,
I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't understand your scoring system in your last post, so can you run some action replays to explain how you are 4 - 0 up? Thanks

[Jockey]

wasn't the black olive an own goal?

[Modesty]

I went to this paze 4 years ago, I went there two times ... And I figure out that this is not the plaze to return to ... I have never gone back due to bad service and policy and probably I would rather starve than go back to that place.

[KelpieKiss]

WOW! I've been on Koh Tao for the last week and had no idea this thread had caused such interest. To the few people claiming that I've got some axe to grind. No I don't. The girl in AIHH was just a complete and utter beeaattchh and should in no way work in the service business. She's a money whore and cares not a jot about her customers.

Another thing I hate about AIHH. They do 'English' Breakfasts. They have English sausages in the fridge. But for some inexplicable reason, you get those horrible wee crappy hot dog things with your breakfast. What's that all about?

Anyway, I'm still on Koh Tao and having a great time. Have to say the general level of competence and politeness from staff here is WAY higher than Hua Hin where I often get served by incompetent, bored, sour faced staff. The food is also WAY WAY WAY better here and cheaper. This I can't understand as it's an Island with less access to ingredients. Maybe it's because it's a beautiful Island and the people are happier but coming from Hua Hin to this place is a real breath of fresh air.

One more thing before I go and this is off topic but why are all Thai menus so similar? It's the same thing in every bloody restaurant! Even the posher more expensive places have the same stuff but maybe just cooked slightly better. Don't get me wrong, I like Thai food but can't just a few Thai people come up with some new creative way of using their ingredients? I've had more interesting Thai food in London than in Thailand because the chefs there actually use their imaginations. Ok, it's not authentic but it's using the same ingredients and it tastes great. Maybe Thais should look to London to learn some new tricks.

Ok, enough. AIHH is shit by the way and I won't ever be going back. I really don't understand why people rate it so highly. Pork chops, mash and pickled cabbage. So what. Why doesn't someone in Hua Hin just start serving the same food and employ some staff with brains. It would put AIHH out of business. This wasn't a rant by the way and I'm actually very relaxed. Just had to grind my axe a bit more on the crap pit that is AIHH.

[Super Joe]

"I really don't understand why people rate it so highly"

to be fair kelpie you did rate it highly yourself before they talked crap to you, as some of us do

you did say in your op: "I've been to AIHH many times and really enjoyed the food, I've never had a complaint and recommended it to lots of people"

its totally understandable why youre not going back, but for those who like the food and havent been dissed yet i guess theyre gonna carry on
.

[richard]

I've never had a problem there. Ok service a bit slack but I always go with the Thai wife in tow and the food always good

One comment a senior member of staff said 'why does nobody smile' My retort was ' because they are German' And I was sat with my Uboat commander friend at the time. He smiled

If you don't smile back your not going to get good service.

Many of these girls are still learning and if you don't smile you make them feel inadequate and scare them, so they ignore you

It pays to smile and be civil

[Korkenzieher]

Kelpie Kiss,

To a substantial extent (based on a minimal sampling of once... ), I agree with you about AIHH. Haven't found a reason to go back after that one time.

WRT Thai food; London is one of the great melting pots of the world. You may have had great food there, but how much of it could be truly called 'British'? French, Italian, Indian and Chinese for sure, but British? Hmm. Thailand has not had a colonial history, and although it has influences (Malay to the south and Chinese to the north), it simply hasn't had the input to develop the kind of fusion dishes that London (and Singapore, perhaps a better example) has.

As an aside, consider the chili. Introduced by the Portuguese, where would the Thais be without it? Papaya salad just wouldn't be the same...

In many respects I agree with the 'olive' argument. My own bugbear is Caesar Salads. Specifically, they contain Romain lettuce (Cos, if you prefer), shaved Parmesan, and a garlic and anchovy sauce. I am just *way fed up* of the places that pump out some non-descript concoction, and justify it with the phrase 'well, that is *our* Caesar salad'. If a plate of chips don't contain potatoes, it ain't a plate of chips, no matter what the advertising or management says... ( rant over)

[huahinsimon]

you are being far too hard on them, the original posters raw sausage is different imo, a genuine complaint

its very easy to sit back and rip someones food to bits


yes chas agrees with you, congrats
others have mocked your one-man olive-war, but whos counting


we really shouldnt be hijacking this thread with our petty bickering
so i'll stop
.

my closing to your closing.
yes, the original poster had a genuine complaint and he started a strongly worded thread entitled "AIHH makes me sick!!" worthy of a genuine complaint.

I started no olive war thread. I "merely" added my experience in AIHH which reflected an attitude similiar.

To set the record straight and upchuck the words you try to put in my mouth, I DID NOT "rip someones food to bits." I made no comment on the quality or lack of the food. I commented on the COMPOSITION of the advertized dish.

You chose to to raise the bar on the olives with your personal attack of
"petty complainer"

You wrote:
but reading your posts you do appear to be a petty complainer to me.

thanks for your observation


the corkpuller wrote this;

In many respects I agree with the 'olive' argument. My own bugbear is Caesar Salads. Specifically, they contain Romain lettuce (Cos, if you prefer), shaved Parmesan, and a garlic and anchovy sauce. I am just *way fed up* of the places that pump out some non-descript concoction, and justify it with the phrase 'well, that is *our* Caesar salad'. If a plate of chips don't contain potatoes, it ain't a plate of chips, no matter what the advertising or management says...

Super Joe, we'll just agree to disagree about the value of an olive in a greek salad, potatoes v apples in a waldorf, or whatever lettuce etc is called a Caesar salad.

Thanks for playing. Your a good sport.
See ya on another thread. where sometimes we do agree. Out!

HHS

[Super Joe]

"To set the record straight and upchuck the words you try to put in my mouth, I DID NOT "rip someones food to bits." "


it was just something you wrote simon:

"was presented with this bowl of what I will call spagetti soup. mostly soggy spagetti pasta (left over from yesterday?) No red beans, no garbonzos, no taste"
"On retrospect my piece of fish at ……, reminds me of Dover sole, thin cut, mushy, and tasteless"
"the fish didn't flake, it mushed, kinda like the mushy peas, and no flavor"
"I got in a hassel with the owner of the ……. because my chicken enchilada was 90% red beans. I insisted there are no beans in a chicken enchi"
i wont mention the olive, i mentioned it once but think i got away with it (2 episodes after waldolf salad)


think its unfair on local businesses, struggling to compete in a very competitive market, to have cheap shots fired at them over what, in some cases, are 'one-off' bad dishes
your repeat visit to buffalo bills proved this
.

[DawnHRD]

"i wont mention the olive, i mentioned it once but think i got away with it (2 episodes after waldolf salad)

OMG! Hilarious! If points could be awarded for making one laugh out loud, I'd award you some for this (Fawlty Towers inspired, for anyone that doesn't know) quote! Very creative & funny!

[huahinsimon]

I had blinders on Joe, while writing on the AIHH post.

Good Job of researching my posts. Those would be my negative comments.

Would it be too much to ask you to be fair and balanced and post my postive restaurant comments?


thanks in advance


HHS