A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand

[Froggy]

Had these for dinner last night -

Live steam garoupa (400g)


Black Pepper Crab (600g)


Fried Large Tiger Prawns with Salted Egg sauce (300g)


Sambal Balacan Kangkong


I like the way they serve the rice


Avocado Juice


Extra Stout


The meal cost exactly S$60, not bad ya?

 

[ypres]

How are things in Jakarta pii joey? Memories of 98 riot still fresh in my mind.

 

[Froggy]

How are things in Jakarta pii joey? Memories of 98 riot still fresh in my mind.

Riot is long over but not forgotten. I heard some horror story from my staff. Also claimed that some condos near my place here haunted because so many killings and rapes happened in that condo. Will this happen again? Not so sure man.

 

[Froggy]

I discovered a new type of food here in Indonesia called Penyet. The restaurant name is Warung Leko.

Penyet food is basically meat served with earthen plate over sambal terasi (Indonesians don't call balacan like how we call balacan its known as terasi in Indonesia). They serve in different degree of spiciness. Here are some example of Penyet

Our lunch


Penyet Tempeh


Penyet Ayam Goreng


Penyet Beef Ribs


Roasted Beef Ribs


See how soft and succulent the meat is when I broke it from the bone


There are two main Penyet chains namely Leko and Tekko. I was told that the Leko chain, the one I went this afternoon, is more delicious - http://warungleko.co.id/ I also found out that Singapore also has one Penyet restaurant - http://waroengpenyet.com/home/sg however looking at the pics in the website its nothing like what I had, the original.

Cheers.

 

[sleaguepunter]

penyet had been selling here in spore for years liao. but mostly of local version of this indon food. the most authentic indon version of penyet i ever ate was in the market/food centre of clementi ave 2. the one that have a shengsiong and ntuc beside it. other than the chicken, they also had 1/4 of a deep fried tougau, a tempay, some lettuce, cucumber and a slice of tomato with indon version of sambal.

 

[ypres]

I discovered a new type of food here in Indonesia called Penyet. The restaurant name is Warung Leko.

Penyet food is basically meat served with earthen plate over sambal terasi (Indonesians don't call balacan like how we call balacan its known as terasi in Indonesia). They serve in different degree of spiciness. Here are some example of Penyet

Our lunch


Penyet Tempeh


Penyet Ayam Goreng


Penyet Beef Ribs


Roasted Beef Ribs


See how soft and succulent the meat is when I broke it from the bone


There are two main Penyet chains namely Leko and Tekko. I was told that the Leko chain, the one I went this afternoon, is more delicious - http://warungleko.co.id/ I also found out that Singapore also has one Penyet restaurant - http://waroengpenyet.com/home/sg however looking at the pics in the website its nothing like what I had, the original.

Cheers.

Pii Joe, ever try Chiangmai kangtok, it is a feast where chicken prepared in a similar fashion as penyet is served with khao niao.

 

[ypres]

Riot is long over but not forgotten. I heard some horror story from my staff. Also claimed that some condos near my place here haunted because so many killings and rapes happened in that condo. Will this happen again? Not so sure man.

Hi Pii Joe. How is the relationship between the the majority and the minority in Jakarta? Yes no one knows for sure when the madness will repeat itself again. Anyway Indonesian history has a long history of pogrom against Chinese dating back to Dutch rule when they were wrestling with Chinese merchants over Indonesian market up to the down fall of Sukarno or Suharto (always mix up the names) during the 60s where Chinese were labelled as reds. Dr Lily Neo who is a Indonesian Chinese narrated how she witnessed the death of her friend during the purging of Chinese when she was little. It is also interesting to note that Thailand under PM Phibun also compared Chinese to Jews before WW2.

Must be scary to stay in that condo with so many raped and murdered females ghosts wandering about.

 

[yinyang]

Yet another slice of thai mango today :p. 2 trillion bht mega projects for infrastructure, shd lift Thailand's GDP a bit.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/362245/government-proud-of-2-trillion-baht-spending-plan

And for a lighter look, on big money tied up in wats :p

http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/362260/truth-about-temple-cash-isn-t-pretty

 

[Froggy]

Hi Pii Joe. How is the relationship between the the majority and the minority in Jakarta? Yes no one knows for sure when the madness will repeat itself again. Anyway Indonesian history has a long history of pogrom against Chinese dating back to Dutch rule when they were wrestling with Chinese merchants over Indonesian market up to the down fall of Sukarno or Suharto (always mix up the names) during the 60s where Chinese were labelled as reds. Dr Lily Neo who is a Indonesian Chinese narrated how she witnessed the death of her friend during the purging of Chinese when she was little. It is also interesting to note that Thailand under PM Phibun also compared Chinese to Jews before WW2.

Must be scary to stay in that condo with so many raped and murdered females ghosts wandering about.

Think status quo la. Chinese will always be discriminated simply because we are just more hard working.

 

[Froggy]

Crap! Flight 12.35noon now is 3.20pm and I 'm still in the lounge. Delayed due to fuel pump problem. Latest is it'll fly at 5pm. Let's see.

 

[yinyang]

Crap! Flight 12.35noon now is 3.20pm and I 'm still in the lounge. Delayed due to fuel pump problem. Latest is it'll fly at 5pm.

Nothing like a few cognacs to ease your wait, you don't have a pump problem:p

 

[Froggy]

Nasi Jinggo, don't worry about the funny name, this is not bad (serve at the lounge)

 

[I_Hate_Pappies]

joetys, how often you check your cholesterol level?

 

[Froggy]

Nothing like a few cognacs to ease your wait, you don't have a pump problem:p

This lounge don't have la only Bintang, naaaaa no beer for me.

 

[Froggy]

joetys, how often you check your cholesterol level?

Once a year but please don't send me the same message you sent WKS ok? :oIo:

 

[Froggy]

Watched a great moving love story movie in flight today, Jab Tak Hai Jaan, long but worth watching.

Here's the music video

[video=youtube;TsEp59EMtOs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsEp59EMtOs[/video]

 

[yinyang]

Oil spill

Update on oil spill near Koh Samet





http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/362440/oil-spill-continues-to-drift-spread

And excessive use of dispersant by PTT?
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/362445/pcd-says-pttgc-used-excessive-amounts-of-dispersant

 

[I_Hate_Pappies]

Once a year but please don't send me the same message you sent WKS ok? :oIo:

Try to make it a quarterly check up. :oIo:

 

[Froggy]

Try to make it a quarterly check up. :oIo:

Thank you, kiss kiss

 

[Froggy]

Haven't been here a month, gosh it's nice to be back

The Frence

The salmon salad

The fresh oyster Thai salad

obviously this ain't no salad

see, not salad right?

And more wine of course