I'm still reeling from this one...
The Mrs' family came down from Buriram to meet us, and hang out in Bangkok for a few days. Thinking about dinner arrangements last night, everyone was insistent on eating here at the hotel, but I pushed for seafood. We found a place near Phya Thai station that had a pretty nice selection. Everything was priced in grams on the menu, so I wasn't paying much attention to price. We ordered three fish dishes, two orders of prawns, three beers, and several sides, (noodles, rice, etc..) There were ten of us, but only 5 adults, and two of the kids were under 2, so I figured the bill would be pricey, (maybe 3-4 grand)
The bill came to 12,000 baht!! 2,000 of that was for service!
I was fucking floored!
4 more years!
Fucking hell.
"Take this, brother; may it serve you well."
Let's hope you haven't set a precedent with the family.
Next time it's MK or the local BBQ Gowlee.
We could all sit outside on banana lounges discussing the best way to rebuild a 4WD transmission and agree, through shared stories of conquests supporting our assertions, that there is no basis to the proposition that those least assured of their persuasions are the first to condemn others for theirs.
whenever pricing is done in weight youre gonna pay
bet those plates of rice ran 80 thb a piece. hopefully they used the good rice.
I've been known to carry 5k Bt with me but never 12,000. How did you come up with the money?
Well there being 5 adults he obviously only paid 1/5th.Originally Posted by centermid7
Unless he was tight and didn't pay the share for the kids who weren't his.
2,500thb isn't that bad for a good feed.
Guy Manpoof sux nuts for $$.
Tomcat trained. Satisfaction guaranteed.
You've obviously never been to Buriram.
Take me down to the paranormal city where the girls are green and they have three titties...
Oh, won't you please take me home?
You should have come to Buriram instead.
"While Jim is milking the Russian Boar, I'm in the shade of a Baobab tree being served a cool drink by a beautiful young indigenous girl. "
Marlin Perkins
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Yeah, no one does seafood like the Isaanese.
And with good reason.
Oh I've Phanom Rung'ed a few Bullilamese mate, don't worry about that.
No, it was all on me. I'd just stopped at an atm, and withdrew 20,000 baht. As the bill was being "explained", things started to get heated. Even my wife, who is probably the most greng jai woman on the planet was fuming. The added service was actually printed on the menu, albeit in tiny print (in Thai) at the bottom of one page. I still refused to pay the grat, threw 10,000 baht down, told the manager to go fuck himself, and left. As we were walking out, my 7-year-old daughter said, "Daddy, did you just say a bad word?" "Sorry, honey. Sometimes there's no way around it."
Live and learn. In the 16+ years I've been living in/coming to Thailand, I've never even been in a situation even remotely like that.
I guess it's noodles and rice for a few weeks.
---Update---
Unless it was gold-fucking-inlay rice, I wasn't worth what I paid.
---Update---
Thanks, Don. Where were you last night when I was getting screwed?
...what was the name of the restaurant?...or was it a roadside cart?...
...majestically enthroned amid the vulgar herd...
Ten grand still seems steep; even for sea food. Hell, that's 2 grand per adult. Wow!
Last edited by THX 1133; 6th July 2012 at 16:20.
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and you have found out the exact measure of injustice
and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these
will continue till they are resisted with either
words or blows, or with both.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn;
“Don’t believe them, don’t fear them, don’t ask
anything of them.”
TC, I actually forgot. When I was walking out, I was so pissed, I forgot to look back for the name. It was right at Phya Thai sky-train station, about 20 meters off the road, next to the new line. If you see any zombie-like Farang, walking aimlessly along the street, staring into their empty wallets, you're in the right vicinity.
Yeah, that would be a good thing to know.
---Update---
A friend took me to a "very famous" sea food restaurant in Samut Prakhon. The two of us had 2 different kinds of fish, prawns, fried rice, a side dish I can't remember, 2 or 3 bottles of beer and almost the same order to go; total price was ฿2500. That was the most expensive lunch I ever had.
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