A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand

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Seafood night at Italian restaurant

Italian black mussels

So fresh and sweet every single one of them

Juicy

Razor clams cooked over butter

Carabineros Shrimp over angel hair pasta

Simply delicious

Wagyu

Rocket salad with Itallian sausage

Affogato

 

[Charlie99]

Is the lady your spouse?

 

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Is the lady your spouse?

A dinner partner

 

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A dinner partner

High class or upper class dinner partner, wearing a Rolex watch.

 

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Downscale, but great phat thai at this aunty's leafy home (with mango plum trees). You eat at her homely terrace, minus the hordes.
She'll include side vegetables, with banana flowers

 

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Took a walk at the popular night street market of Huai Khwang district of Ratchada Road almost midnight

 

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Huai Khwang street food video and supper. This place opens till 4am.


Bought otah (hormok in Thai)

Duck noodle

 

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Back to square one again knn. This is due to big spike in cases

 

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Back to square one again knn. This is due to big spike in cases

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Toronto and Ontario is worse, under a 28 day lockdown, which started on April 3, 2021.

 

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Chinese lunch alone at HongBao Restaurant in Crystal Park Mall


Pickled turnip

Lunch drink

Bean curd prawn wrap

Steamed pork rib with black beans

Braised tofu and duck

Long bean with Chinese bacon

This is what I came for, the soup

Fish maw

 

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I believe today's numbers will be worse than this. Really bad luck and ill discipline.

 

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Thailand adds 250 Covid cases Tuesday
Bangkok Post PUBLISHED : 6 APR 2021 AT 11:11

FILE PHOTO: Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, wearing a traditional Karen shirt, watches nurses administer the Coronavac vaccine to frontline health workers after he arrived to hand over 2,000 vials of the vaccine and other medical supplies to frontline workers to combat the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, as authorities fear a further influx of Myanmar refugees over the border, at Mae Sariang Hospital in Mae Hong Son province on April 2, 2021. (AFP)

The government on Tuesday recorded 250 new Covid-19 cases, 245 of them locally transmitted and five imported, raising the accumulated total since the start of the pandemic to 29,571.
No new deaths were recorded, leaving the toll at 95.
The Department of Disease Control said 155 new cases were detected via active case finding: 119 in Bangkok, 30 in Narathiwat, three in Chon Buri, two in Sa Kaeo and one in Samut Prakan.

A further 90 cases were reported by hospitals: 37 in Bangkok, 19 in Samut Prakan, 15 in Chon Buri, seven in Samut Sakhon, two each in Chiang Mai and Pathum Thani, and one each in Tak, Ayutthaya, Nonthaburi, Lop Buri, Kanchanaburi, Nakhon Pathom, Chaiyaphum and Prachin Buri.

Bangkok logged almost two-thirds of the new cases across Thailand. The 37 patients reported by hospitals in the capital comprised 32 Thais, two Japanese and one each from Myanmar, Germany and Laos. Of the 119 new cases detected there via mass testing, two were confirmed to be Thai while the remaining 117 were under investigation.
The 20 new cases in Samut Prakan comprised 19 Thais and one Cambodian, while the 18 new cases in Chon Buri consisted of 14 Thais and four Japanese nationals.

Of the 30 new cases found in communities in Narathiwat, 23 were Thais and seven Vietnamese.
The five imported cases were quarantined arrivals from the Czech Republic, Madagascar, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey.
Of the 29,571 total cases in Thailand since the pandemic began, 27,948 (94.51%) have recovered, including 108 discharged over the past 24 hours, leaving 1,528 at hospitals.
Global Covid-19 cases rose by 468,105 in 24 hours to 132.40 million. The worldwide death toll went up by 7,255 to 2.87 million. The United States had the most cases at 31.49 million, up 50,329, and the most deaths at 569,197, up 415.

 

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Terrifying moment oil tanker ship crashes into homes
along river bank in Thailand
Sat, 3 April 2021, 9:00 pm

This is the terrifying moment an oil tanker ship lost control and crashed into homes along a riverbank in Thailand. The vessel, named Chalakarn, suffered a jammed rudder before being pushed off course by the strong estuarine currents in Samut Prakan province on Saturday (April 3). Passing trawlers tried to push the cargo ship away from danger without success. It lost control and began veering dangerously towards nearby homes.

Shocked residents screamed as the tanker towered over their small homes and smashed into the shore, destroying several properties along the city’s Chao Phraya river. Footage shows how panicked locals fled, with some running to a nearby electrical tower to cut the power in case the ship damaged any cables or electricity boxes. Terrified resident Namthip Phuengsai, 50, said: ‘I heard the noise of metal crushing something and people screaming. ‘When I came out, I saw this giant ship coming.

My first thought was that I had to turn off the circuit breaker of the electricity transmission tower so I did that before running away.’ Wanna Thongsidaeng, 60, added: ‘My mother was bedridden and when I saw the ship coming, I had to carry my mother as far as possible. I left everything there just to save my mother.’ The ship’s captain is understood to have hurled anchors into the river to avoid a disaster. The combination of the anchors and a low tide at the time helped to stop the course of the vessel. Thailand’s Marine Department later sent the officials to investigate the reason behind the incident. They are coordinating with the owners of the vessel to pay for damages.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/terrifying-moment-oil-tanker-ship-140000693.html?guccounter=1

 

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BANGKOK ORDERS BAR CLOSINGS TO STOP VIRUS SPREAD
By
Associated Press
-April 6, 2021 12:00 am

In this April 21, 2020, file photo, a security guard is seen walking a round of patrol in the empty interior of Mulligan's, a popular Irish bar on Khaosan Road. Photo: Sirachai Arunrugstichai

BANGKOK (AP) — Officials in Thailand’s capital on Monday ordered a two-week closure of all entertainment venues in three districts to try to limit the spread of the coronavirus from nightspots there.
Health officials are also trying to cope with a coronavirus outbreak at a prison in the south.
Apisamai Srirangsan, a spokesperson for the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration, said 194 new coronavirus cases nationwide had been confirmed, most from Bangkok entertainment venues and from Narathiwat prison. Thailand has had 29,321 confirmed cases, including 95 deaths.
The center had already ordered affected nightspots closed until they undergo deep cleaning. Entertainment venues in the districts of Klong Toey, Bang Khae and Wattana — the latter with upmarket bars and bistros in the Ekkamai and Thong Lor neighborhoods — must close from April 6 to 19.

Bangkok’s city government have announced the names of the venues involved and urged people who patronized them over the past month to be tested for COVID-19.
The outbreaks come just ahead of the major holiday of Songkran in mid-April, which usually sees an exodus of people from cities to visit relatives in other provinces and is generally celebrated over an entire week. The official holiday was postponed last year because it came right after Thailand’s first wave of the virus.
The possibility of a new upsurge in COVID-19 cases comes as the government is trying to finalize plans to gradually reopen the country to foreign tourists, who stopped coming after scheduled passenger flights into the country were banned in April last year.
Thailand had appeared to be recovering from a COVID-19 wave that originated late last year in a province near Bangkok where thousands of people, mostly migrant workers, were infected.
Also in Bangkok, several international schools decided to suspend in-person classes for several days after at least one school reported a coronavirus case.
In Narathiwat province, the Corrections Department announced a one-month ban on prison visits beginning Monday after 120 inmates and officials at the provincial prison were infected.
Last month, a detention center in Bangkok for undocumented immigrants reported 395 cases of the coronavirus.

 

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Only western restaurant in 15km radius, up country (near Kaeng Krachan). Run by a Thai couple, wife's permanently in kitchen

Had special (reserved) edition Singha alcohol 5.3%

Total price incl a cocktail + 2 capus = thb620 (or S$27)

 

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https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2095915/jobless-pattaya-elephants-begin-500km-walk-home

Jobless Pattaya elephants begin 500km walk home
PUBLISHED : 6 APR 2021 AT 17:33
WRITER: CHAIYOT PUPATTANAPONG

Five unemployed elephants and their owners begin walking from Pattaya to their native province of Surin, in tambon Nong Prue of Bang Lamung district, Chon Buri, on Tuesday. (Photo: Chaiyot Pupattanapong)

CHON BURI: After waiting in vain for tourists near Pattaya for more than a year, five elephants and their owners are heading back to their northeastern home province of Surin – a 500km journey, on foot.

Members of five extended families were walking with their five elephants, with a pickup truck protecting the group in the front and the back, along the road beside the Map Prachan reservoir in tambon Nong Prue of Bang Lamung district on Tuesday.

Napalai Mai-ngam, 26, said five years ago she had brought her relatives and their tamed elephants from Surin to work at an elephant resort in tambon Lam Huay Yai of Bang Lamung. They had made a good living, she said, receiving a monthly salary of 15,000 baht per elephant plus tips from tourists who enjoyed riding their elephants on nature trails.

Covid-19 stopped everything in January last year. Their employer suspended paying their salaries when the Chinese tourists who formed the majority of their customers disappeared, she said.

With no immediate return of tourists in sight amid the continuing pandemic, the natives of Surin finally gave up hope and decided to go back to farming in their home province.

Ms Napalai said her group set off early on Tuesday morning when the weather was not too hot. The pachyderms would have to walk the roughly 500 kilometres to Surin because the owners could not afford to hire big trucks to carry them. The owners also hoped their elephants could feed themselvers by grazing along the way.

Ms Napalai estimated that it would take about two weeks for her group to reach their home district of Tha Tum in Surin.

She said she was very grateful to villagers who donated fruit, drinking water and food to them as they passed by.

Ms Napalai said some people asked for their bank account numbers to make cash donations, but her group politely declined the offer for fear of being criticised for trying to cash in on their elephants via a social media story.

They would only receive food and fruit for their elephants, she said. The group could be reached by phone on 093-3357062.

 

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Thai street food - duck noodle by the roadside

Small stall

Owner preparing

Simple

Duck meat and duck head

Rice noodle

 

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The current new outbreak of Covid with new strains and super spreader is very stressful. Took a drive to a club near home to see some greenery to relax.

Freshly brewed coffee

Boiled rice with pork

Still very early restaurant quiet in club

 

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https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Th...0&pub_date=20210408150000&seq_num=14&si=44594

Thai cabinet becomes COVID hot spot as ministers quarantine
Japanese ambassador also infected as contagious UK variant spreads in kingdom

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has tested negative for coronavirus but the transport minister has fallen ill with the disease and several are now in quarantine. © Reuters
MASAYUKI YUDA, Nikkei staff writerApril 7, 2021 19:54 JST

BANGKOK -- Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha's cabinet is becoming the latest hot spot of Thailand's third wave of COVID-19 infections after a minister fell ill with the virus.

Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, after developing a fever and being admitted to a hospital in Buriram, roughly 300 kilometers northeast of Bangkok.

His infection could pose a serious threat to the kingdom's administrative and policymaking capability. The minister is the secretary-general of Bhumjaithai Party, the second largest party in the ruling coalition. The party hosted a merit-making ceremony on Tuesday when the country celebrated Chakri Memorial Day, a national holiday, that commemorates the establishment of the current monarchy.

Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is on a 14-day self-quarantine from Wednesday. All members of the party will be absent from parliamentary sessions until they have tested negative for COVID.

Prayuth revealed that the cabinet was forced to hold its regular weekly meeting on Wednesday over video conference instead of in person. The prime minister has taken a test that proved negative.

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, Tourism and Sport Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Chalermchai Sri-on, and Education Minister Trinuch Thienthong are on leave, according to a government source. They had all had close contact with Saksayam the transport minister.

Thailand is facing another wave of infections as 334 new cases were reported on Wednesday, bringing the country total to 29,905. Clusters were found in Bangkok nightlife establishments which led to the closure of 196 entertainment venues in the Klongtoey, Wattana, and Bangkae districts until April 19.

Thailand reported on Wednesday its first domestic transmission of a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus first found in Britain, Reuters cited Yong Poovorawan, a senior virus expert at Chulalongkorn University, as saying.

The Centre of COVID-19 Situation Administration has proposed that Bangkok and its surrounding provinces such as Pathumthani, Nonthaburi, Samutprakan, and Nakhonpathom be designated high-risk areas. The Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Interior will discuss the proposed classification changes over the next two days.

The diplomatic circle has also been hit in this wave. Japanese ambassador to Thailand Kazuya Nashida tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. On March 25, the ambassador visited a nightclub called Krystal where he most likely caught the virus, the embassy said.

Thais will be on a six-day national holiday from Saturday to celebrate the Thai new year, known as Songkran. There are worries that domestic travel could spread the disease to rural areas.

This wave of infections could hurt Thailand's ambitious plans to open up to foreign tourism, a key pillar of the economy. From this month, the country had shortened the quarantine requirement for travelers from 14 days to 10 days. Those who have been vaccinated only need to isolate for seven days.

The government is also conducting a sandbox experiment for quarantine-free stays for vaccinated visitors to the island of Phuket from July. If this is successful, the kingdom plans to expand it nationwide.