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Skriven 2014-02-05 23:43:09 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 9435 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: thailand 134
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 02 Feb 14  06:42:00 <=-

 ML>> In the light of day it turns out not to be black but rather
 ML>> an appalling brownish purple. Lilli laughed and said it made
 ML>> me look gay.
 NB>> Will it take to black dye...?  Or maybe a button proclaiming
 NB>> "souvenir of Thailand"...  (G)
 ML> Doesn't much matter; I'm pretty sure that I don't look very
 ML> gay no matter what I wear.

Besides, warmth is the most important thing, eh...?  :)

 ML>> Sounds delicious; I've never seen tom yum with beef, though.
 NB>> Probably a western addition... but quite tasty...  :)
 ML> Actually, looking it up, Col. Philpott posted a tom yum neua
 ML> once or at least said that it's possible to make.

Ok, so it is authentic, probably... ;)  Possibly just not as common a
variety... 
 
 NB>> It's a show, after all...  Isn't it one of the premises, that Batali
 NB>> gets demolished by some amateur...?  Was the dish assigned...?  She
 NB>> should just have called it tom [whatever] goong...  :)
 ML> It was Iron Chef, of which you're probably familiar with the
 ML> format, and she's not really an amateur, having won the James
 ML> Beard award. The show you're thinking of has Bobby Flay, but I
 ML> don't remember what it is exactly: the antagonists aren't
 ML> amateurs, either.

Oh, ok... I don't watch the shows often enough (and haven't at all
recently) to really keep track of them... 
  
 NB>> We were treated to Thai for lunch yesterday... I noticed advertised in
 NB>> the window that Singha beer you mentioned before...  I made a comment
 NB>> to Richard that that was a familar name now, from your travel reports,
 NB>> so he wanted to know the context...  :)  He was wondering if you'd
 NB>> given it a review...  :)   I had to say, no, just as a list of what WAS
 ML> It's a light lager, quite ordinary. When it started being
 ML> imported here, it was a special over-5% brew and was labeled
 ML> "malt liquor"; nowadays, mostly you get the ordinary modestly
 ML> hopped beer designed to quench in very steamy climates.

I'll pass that along.. obviously it wouldn't be anything to my taste,
either way..  ;)

 ML>> I had an extraordinary squid with celery at the one in
 ML>> Chiang Rai, for example.
 NB>> Squid tentacles included...?  That would be a neat thing to find on a
 NB>> breakfast buffet, with or without tentacles, actually...  :)
 ML> No tentacles. I suspect the staff got them.

I hope that they enjoyed them, then...  Probably didn't think that
tourists would be appreciative, not knowing the caliber of some
tourists..  <G>
 
 ML>>> Hall of Opium vs. House of Opium
 ML>> Turns out the latter is said to be more nitty-gritty, plus it
 ML>> costs only $1.50 for entry, whereas the one sponsored by
 ML>> royalty costs $9.00 for a striking building, snazzy presentation,
 ML>> but not so much content.
 NB>> Hmmm...  maybe you got slightly took...  another time (if ever)...
 ML> The building itself was impressive, and it has the cachet
 ML> of the Doi Tung foundation (named after the late princess
 ML> mother's house on Doi Tung mountain). I suspect most of
 ML> the B300 goes to the foundation's projects. The other one
 ML> is a commercial venture, where the B50 goes into the
 ML> proprietors' pockets. (So it has to be more interesting?)

I suppose it would depend on what the nature of the content was... One
would almost have to visit both to be able to determine what the plusses
and minuses were of each...  :)

ttyl       neb

... AHA!!! I've finally got this ficts, fics, fixd...sigh.
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