A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand

[winnipegjets]

Well how about next week? Planning for another post-break break to Hokkaido coming Monday for a week I supposed.

Next time, I will do a layover in NRT if I know you are in the vicinity. Can or not?

 

[rotikosong]

Well how about next week? Planning for another post-break break to Hokkaido coming Monday for a week I supposed.

Unfortunately I used up all my Japan quota for the year :( I was in KIX, HND and NRT all in the first 2 weeks of the year.
New Year's week is always fun in Japan with Hatsumode activities. As they say in Japan, all the fun stuff occurs with Shinto rites and all the depressing ones are Buddhist.

 

[yinyang]

 

[yinyang]

 

[yinyang]

 

[Froggy]

 

[kapkia]

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Die lor kapkia how ?

 

[Froggy]

Always love Peppe's cold cuts. I'm a meat person

 

[Dr Christopher Cheok C S]

Always love Peppe's cold cuts. I'm a meat person

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goes very well with beer

 

[yinyang]

Now polls off to Mar?

https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/1612914/wissanu-wants-poll-march-24

 

[yinyang]

Toxic haze to make return this weekend
https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1612918/toxic-haze-to-make-return-this-weekend

Central World

App to check air quality (bilingual)
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1613174

 

[Leongsam]

Always love Peppe's cold cuts. I'm a meat person

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The general consensus is to cut meat consumption, especially red meat, to 14gm or less per day.


diet
Scientists believe people should be eating less meat and more vegetables

Scientists have revealed a new diet that suggests people need to dramatically cut their consumption of meat in a groundbreaking report.

Kate Kelland
ReutersJANUARY 18, 20196:27AM

Flexitarianism: vegetarianism but fun!

Scientists have unveiled what they say is an ideal diet for the health of the planet and its people — including a doubling of consumption of nuts, fruits, vegetables and legumes, and a halving of meat and sugar intake.

If the world followed the Planetary Health diet, the researchers said, more than 11 million premature deaths could be prevented each year, while greenhouse gas emissions would be cut and more land, water and biodiversity would be preserved.

“The food we eat and how we produce it determines the health of people and the planet, and we are currently getting this seriously wrong,” said Tim Lang, a professor at Britain’s University of London who co-led the research.

Feeding a growing population of 10 billion people by 2050 with a healthy, sustainable diet will be impossible without transforming eating habits, improving food production and reducing food waste, he said.

“We need a significant overhaul, changing the global food system on a scale not seen before.” Many life-threatening chronic diseases are linked to poor diets, including obesity, diabetes, malnutrition and several types of cancer.

The researchers said unhealthy diets currently cause more death and disease worldwide than unsafe sex, alcohol, drug and tobacco use combined.
It suggested cutting back meat consumption to 14g a day (pictured below).

Eat less: 14 grams of meat a day. Picture: Justin Lloyd.Source:News Corp Australia

Eat your vegetables instead.Source:Supplied

The proposed planetary diet is the result of a three-year project commissioned by The Lancet health journal and involving 37 specialists from 16 countries.
It says global average consumption of foods such as red meat and sugar should be cut by 50 per cent, while consumption of nuts, fruits, vegetables and legumes should double.

For individual regions, this could mean even more dramatic changes: People in North America, for example, eat almost 6.5 times the recommended amount of red meat, while people in South Asia eat only half the amount suggested by the planetary diet.

Meeting the targets for starchy vegetables such as potatoes and cassava would need big changes in sub-Saharan Africa, where people on average eat 7.5 times the suggested amount.

The researchers said they acknowledged it was very ambitious to hope to get everyone in the world to adopt it, not least because there is vast global inequality of access to food.

“More than 800 million people have insufficient food, while many more consume an unhealthy diet that contributes to premature death and disease,” said Walter Willett of Harvard University.

 

[Froggy]

Away for 2 weeks and this is a must visit restaurant for me

Prosecco

As always Peppe selected the best meats for his restaurant

Burrata

Compliment from the chef, salami from his secret stash

Fav Primitivo

Salad before the heavy stuff

Huge live lobster, simply grilled

Love them rack

Perfect, medium rare

 

[Froggy]

Had a simple breakfast at a gas station noodle stall

A. Mallika is a very popular noodle chain which can be found in many malls and PTT gas station. A. Mallika is well known for pioneering yentafo noodle which is basically noodle soup with red fermented tofu. Most Thais live yentafo.

Typical A. Mallika shop, simple, retro, clean

My breakfast

Broad rice noodle with fishballs, fish dumpling, tofu stuffed with fish meat, fish skin, wood ear fungus. Doesn't come cheap though 95 baht vs 40-50 baht normally

 

[Froggy]

If you've been read g my posts you'll know I'm more of a Thai, Western and Japanese food lover. I guess due to a high number of westerners and Japanese expats here these food is good here in Bangkok. However last night I discovered a very good Korean restaurant, I hardly have Korean food as you can see.

Restaurant is at Sorabol
Sukhumvit Rd, Khwaeng Khlong Tan, Khet Khlong Toei, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10110, Thailand
+66 2 204 1203
https://maps.app.goo.gl/3rAS5

Started with shochu

Then came the beef

Then the cooked food, Korean pizza

Glass noodle

Kimchi soup

Ginseng chicken soup with sticky rice

Fried tofu

Nice spread

Think I'm beginning to like Korean food, will be back for more for sure.

 

[AhMeng]

If you've been read g my posts you'll know I'm more of a Thai, Western and Japanese food lover. I guess due to a high number of westerners and Japanese expats here these food is good here in Bangkok. However last night I discovered a very good Korean restaurant, I hardly have Korean food as you can see.

Restaurant is at Sorabol
Sukhumvit Rd, Khwaeng Khlong Tan, Khet Khlong Toei, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10110, Thailand
+66 2 204 1203
https://maps.app.goo.gl/3rAS5

Started with shochu

Then came the beef

Then the cooked food, Korean pizza

Glass noodle

Kimchi soup

Ginseng chicken soup with sticky rice

Fried tofu

Nice spread

Think I'm beginning to like Korean food, will be back for more for sure.

If you are in sgp, head to Hyang To Go. Authentic.

http://www.hyangtogol.com

 

[NanoSpeed]

How is the air in Bangkok?

 

[Froggy]

If you are in sgp, head to Hyang To Go. Authentic.

http://www.hyangtogol.com

Thank you sir.

 

[AhMeng]

Thank you sir.

If you happen to be there, I will say Hi

 

[Froggy]

How is the air in Bangkok?

https://aqicn.org/city/bangkok/