A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand

[yinyang]

Had nice breezy seafood lunch at Don Hoi Lot, off Samut Songkram (south west Bkk 70km) last weekend. Next to beach front

Prefer sea catch prawns over river types. Other is local speciality razor clams (tasty but not look appetising). Razor clams called Hoi Lot (hence place's name)

 

[yinyang]

Slice of thai mango today -reknown congested traffic at Ratchayothin stretch, before infrastructure's up :p

Motorists face Green Line traffic chaos
Congestion to worsen, especially at year end
Bangkok Post, 5 Jun 2015

Traffic chaos on Phahon Yothin Road is expected to worsen when construction of the Green Line rail extension from Mor Chit to Pathum Thani starts this month.



Traffic conditions are expected to deteriorate particularly from the Ratchayothin intersection and the Kasetsart University intersection when the flyovers at the two intersections will be removed to pave the way for construction of the 19km of elevated rail track.

The flyovers, however, will not be demolished until September and November respectively.

The rail route is expected to ease traffic congestion in northern Bangkok when construction is completed within the next five years.
Gen Yodyuth Boonyatikarn, board chairman of the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA), which oversees the capital’s subway system, said the MRTA is working closely with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and traffic police to come up with traffic management plans to ease the impact on motorists during the construction.
The flyover at the Ratchayothin intersection will be removed in September while the flyover at the Kasetsart University intersection will be dismantled in November, Gen Yodyuth said.
MRTA governor Peerayuth Singpattanakul said he is discussing relief measures to handle the expected traffic crisis with the BMA, which owns the flyovers.

Mr Peerayuth said the MRTA has proposed an underground traffic tunnel to replace the flyover which will be removed from the Ratchayothin section. The BMA, however, has suggested a new flyover be built over the elevated rail route there.
To replace the flyover at the Kasetsart University intersection, the MRTA has proposed a new flyover be built under the elevated rail structure, Mr Peerayuth said.

The BMA has agreed and also suggested that the proposed flyover at Kasetsart be designed to have an exit at Sena Nikhom intersection on Phahon Yothin Road to ease traffic there, Mr Peerayuth said.

The proposed underground tunnel or new flyovers to ease traffic congestion are expected to be built simultaneously with construction of the elevated rail route. However, no conclusion has been reached yet on the relief measures, although details are expected to be finalised in the next two months, he said.

Mr Peerayuth said the public will not be affected by the rail route construction project until August, because the two-month period will involve a route survey for the relocation of public utilities.

Foundation pile-driving is expected to start later this year, he added. The Green Line’s extended route will link the BTS’s Mor Chit station and run along Phahon Yothin Road to Saphan Mai in Bang Khen district and end in tambon Khu Khot in Pathum Thani’s Lam Luk Ka district.

There will be a total of 16 stations along the 19-km route. Gen Yodyuth said the removal of the two flyovers would lead to even heavier traffic congestion in the area toward year end.

But when construction of the rail route is finished, the Green Line’s Mor Chit-Khu Khot section is expected to serve 170,000 commuters a day and ease traffic problems between Bangkok and Pathum Thani, Gen Yodyuth said.
Its construction follows the MRTA on April 3 awarding private companies four separate construction contracts worth a total of 28.7 billion baht, he said.

The project is expected to be finished and open for service by 2020. Transport Minister Prajin Juntong yesterday said he will next week discuss the planned construction of the 13km-Bearing-Samut Prakan extended section of the Green Line route with Gen Yodyuth.

ACM Prajin said he will ask the MRTA to decide this month whether to operate the section itself or allow the BMA to take over management of the section. The BMA has negotiated with the MRTA to take over the two extended sections of the skytrain connecting Soi Bearing-Samut Prakan in the southwest of Bangkok and Mor Chit-Khu Khot to the north of the capital.
But the Transport Ministry disagreed and proposed that the BMA operate only the Soi Bearing-Samut Prakan section.
ACM Prajin yesterday also hinted at the possibility of allowing the Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc (BTS) to run the Soi Bearing-Samut Prakan section if the BMA rejects the offer.

Currently, the existing elevated rail routes are run by BTS under its contract with City Hall. The routes end at Soi Bearing and Mor Chit stations. The Green Line’s Bearing-Samut Prakan section worth about 28 billion baht is expected to be completed in 2020.
Gen Yodyuth also revealed that the MRTA board resolved on Wednesday that a net cost public-private partnership (PPP) model will be adopted for the 34.5km Pink Line (Khae Rai-Min Buri) and the 30.4km-Yellow Line (Lat Phrao-Samrong), which will be built as monorails.

Under the model, the private concessionaires will shoulder 100% of the investment burden.

 

[NanoSpeed]

Froggy, can I use your food pics for my friend's restaurant menu and website ?

If you happen to patronize the high end Thai and Japanese restaurants where the cutlery is high-so, try snap a pic from 60-degree elevation.

Kob Khun Krub.

 

[Froggy]

Froggy, can I use your food pics for my friend's restaurant menu and website ?

If you happen to patronize the high end Thai and Japanese restaurants where the cutlery is high-so, try snap a pic from 60-degree elevation.

Kob Khun Krub.

Go ahead if you like, its no use for me.

 

[Froggy]

Glad to be home in Thailand to have my fav comfort food - meesua with egg and slice pork and liver



To all you sinkies here in LOS for holiday please drink more water as its bloody hot these days expect to hit 38degC on a daily basis

 

[Froggy]

Lazy Sunday afternoon today. Sometimes it's nice to be alone. No one to care for no voices to listen to just you and a trusted partner, just me and my dog. It's nice really nice and relaxing when wife is away and the maid is on holiday.

Having late lunch after shopping with the doggy



Daviola pizza


Extra spicy salami and crispy bacon


and a nice bottle of malbec


I love Bangkok, and life

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

visited JB on saturday

city SQ mall

Next it's lunch at Sushi zanmai which i heard is a japanese chain opened by a sinkie

salmon

veggie sushi

tempura

squid sushi

ramen noodles

oyster with cheese

noodle soba

green noodle soba

fried rice

fish egg sushi

mushrooms

see how cheap all this food is a few more dishes that were not taken by me, total would be around 50ish in sinkie dollars

After a bit of visiting around JB it's unto station one for fishballs

afterwards it's wanton noodles at the backlanes of city SQ mall before heading home to sinkieland

 

[NanoSpeed]

Having late lunch after shopping with the doggy

You mean fellow SBF member John Tan ? Or Zeroo ?

 

[tonychat]

visited JB on saturday

afterwards it's wanton noodles at the backlanes of city SQ mall before heading home to sinkieland

This one looks very orgasmic.

 

[Froggy]

You mean fellow SBF member John Tan ? Or Zeroo ?

I think mine is more atas then these two

 

[Froggy]

K-Village at the end of Sukhumvit Soi 26 is a very large area with mostly Japanese restaurants there you can find almost all sprts of Jap food including supermarkets catered for Japanese.

Was in one of these restaurants last night



Cold tofu


Maguro


Ginnan (ginkgo)
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Soup


Shishamo


Yakitori


Hokkae




Its inexpensive and delicious all on only S$110

 

[Froggy]

Roadside noodle, very delicious and generous with fishcakes and fishballs only 40 baht $1.60

 

[Leongsam]

Just had my fill of Monthong from Siam Paragon Gourmet foodcourt.

Also indulged in jambu [both types] which is sold with the sauce/powder included as part of the kit.

 

[gingerlyn]

DO U enjoy thailand weather? i find it very hot every time i visit thailand

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Just had my fill of Monthong from Siam Paragon Gourmet foodcourt.

Also indulged in jambu [both types] which is sold with the sauce/powder included as part of the kit.

You're in LOS?

 

[yinyang]

You're in LOS?

For some, it's a misnomer for Land of Sex :p

....my fill of Monthong from Siam Paragon Gourmet foodcourt

That food court is anything but gourmet. Even for a non-foodie, crap and crowded (location)

 

[Froggy]

Makan snake today, took an afternoon break at Siam Paragon. Had a great pho at the basement



Soup is very tasty and beef so soft and juicy


a bit on the pricey side 160 baht

 

[yinyang]

Been to this Waroros market up north in Chiangmai. Not surprising, with poor fire safety standards.

Chiang Mai market blaze loss estimated at Bt100 million

AYUTHAI NONNITIRAT
THE SUNDAY NATION
June 7, 2015 1:00 am



THE DAMAGE bill from Friday's inferno that ravaged a building in downtown Chiang Mai's Waroros Market has been put at about Bt100 million. The hefty loss is a result of the building having four textile shops with stockpiles of clothes worth about Bt20 million each.

The fire prompted Chiang Mai Governor Suriya Prasartbundit to order related agencies to inspect the safety standards of the other buildings in the market because this was the second fire in a month.

Forensic police officers, along with Public Works and Town and Country Planning officials, yesterday morning inspected the scene where there was still a smouldering fire on the second and third floors of the building.

Fire-fighters sprayed the floors with water to prevent the fire starting up again. The building and the road in front of it were sealed off.

As the affected shops were insured, the relevant insurance companies will assess the damage soon.

Pol Lt-Colonel Thanandon Wittayawutthikul, head of the Chiang Mai forensic police division, said the initial probe found that the building's structure was severely damaged.

As a result, officers could only access some sections of the building on the ground floor, he said.

Thanandon said the police inspection of the CM Bazaar shop, where the fire reportedly started, had identified the point where the blaze started. Police would check the shop's security camera footage to help them try and pinpoint the cause of the fire.

Paisal Surathamwit, the secretary of Nakhon Chiang Mai Municipality's mayor, said as a precaution public works officials would inspect the building's structure thoroughly, after stockpiled clothes were removed from the upper floors to reduce the stress on the floors.

 

[Froggy]

Thailand hottest superstar Boyprakorn appearing in Siam Paragon this evening

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

This one looks very orgasmic.

Yeah it tastes really good. Street food sometimes tastes good and it's cheaper than the ones sold in stores.