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Queen Victoria pub Pattaya

October 24, 2021 by David Herd

Queen Victoria pub Pattaya

Queen Victoria pub Pattaya

Queen Victoria pub Pattaya is one of my favourite breakfast venues. Great value at 99 Baht or $4 AUD. It’s only a five or six minute walk from my condo which is an added bonus.

Excellent breakfast

Queen Victoria pub Pattaya

Soi 6 is one of the seediest streets in Pattaya, and does not look the best in the early morning. If you can get past this image make sure you sample this excellent English breakfast for 99 Baht including tea or coffee. I usually request no tomato. 🙂

Fried egges if you prefer

Queen Victoria pub Pattaya

Whatever floats your boat. 🙂 Currently they serve 2 sausages & my only critisism is one piece of toast is not enough. 

No tomato thank you…

Queen Victoria pub Pattaya

For some strange reason I have never liked eating cooked tomato.

Soi 6 before Covid

Queen Victoria pub Pattaya

Prior to the virus Soi 6 was one of Pattaya’s busiest streets day or night. Reasonably quite during the daylight hours this famous street comes to life after dark. To see more of life before Covid on Soi 6, please follow THIS LINK.

Always something to see

Queen Victoria pub Pattaya

My friend Hamish & I would often grab a roadside seat & watch the passing parade.

Soi 6 is never boring

Queen Victoria pub Pattaya

Check out these great smiles. 🙂 I can spot at least two LadyBoys here which would appeal to my friend John Martin, aka Pothole. 🙂

Back to the food

Queen Victoria pub Pattaya

A very good banana split, and no, it was not ordered for breakfast. 🙂 

Soi 6 is probably Pattaya’s 2nd most famous Street after Walking St.

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Food review Pattaya 2021

September 28, 2021 by David Herd

Food review Pattaya 2021

Food review Pattaya 2021

Food review Pattaya 2021 is simply a record of many of the great dishes I have enjoyed in these uncertain time due to the Coronavirus. Above is a healthy dish at Flow Cafe at the Holiday Inn. Comes with a hot Wasabi sauce. 🙂

Oysters from France

Food review Pattaya 2021

 On special every Tuesday at the Beach Club in the Pullman Hotel in Wangamat. Lots more on THIS LINK.

Also from the Beach Club

Food review Pattaya 2021

Satay chicken skewers.

BJs lodge in Soi 3

Food review Pattaya 2021

 An excellent soup they call Sukiyaki soup. 🙂

Another dish from BJ’s

Food review Pattaya 2021

When restaurants were closed due to Covid BJs remained open as it was a hotel. Please check out THIS LINK for more details.

The Hungry Hippo

Food review Pattaya 2021

An excellent Chowder at this terrific low cost eatery on Soi Buakhao. More on THIS LINK.

Killkenny’s roast lamb

Food review Pattaya 2021

This is their small serving at a cost of B159, or $6.50 AUD, great value.

Pasta from Toscana

Food review Pattaya 2021

It tasted better than it looked. 🙂 For better looking results please follow THIS LINK.

Cheap Charlies

Food review Pattaya 2021

An excellent Chicken Kiev.

Desert at Cheap Charlies

Food review Pattaya 2021

This rum & raisin pancake was fantastic. The total cost for main course & desert was only B200, or $10 AUD.

Mathilda 2nd Rd

Food review Pattaya 2021

Low cost good value food located between Central Festival & Mike shopping mall.

l’auberge French restaurant

Food review Pattaya 2021

Very good upmarket reataurant that serves reasonably priced food. For more examples please check out THIS LINK.

Jasmine’s cafe

Food review Pattaya 2021

A delightfull venue on Pattaya Klang between Beach Rd & 2nd Road.

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Breakfast at Jasmine’s

Food review Pattaya 2021

A very tasty croisant. 

Mae Sri Ruen

Food review Pattaya 2021

Located on Beach Rd next door to Central Festival, very good low cost Thai food.

Finally more oysters from France.

Food review Pattaya 2021

At L’Auberge in Pattaya  fine de claire from France are on special, B570 per dozen, or $23 AUD.

Quail for dinner December 2021

Italian food Beach Rd

Quite tasty but very fiddly to eat.

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Jasmin’s cafe Pattaya Klang

September 12, 2021 by David Herd

Jasmin’s cafe Pattaya Klang

Jasmin's cafe Pattaya Klang

Jasmin’s cafe Pattaya Klang has a very relaxed atmosphere & good low cost food. I must admit I often go there for breakfast but have not tried anything else other than breakfast. I’m sure however the rest of the menu will be a similar quality.

Jasmin’s cafe is located in Pattaya Klang 200 meters from Beach Road. TripAdvisor rating is #32 of 1,096 Restaurants in Pattaya

Nice casual atmosphere

Jasmin's cafe Pattaya Klang Inside seats around 18 people with a similar number outside.

Standard breakfast

Jasmin's cafe Pattaya KlangThere are quite a few good breakfast choices on the menu.

This is my favourite

Jasmine cafe Pattaya KlangOnly B99 or $5 AUD, I really enjoy the little bit of Chinese sausage in this dish. My other favourite is their omelet.

Excellent croissant

Jasmin's cafe Pattaya KlangAfter breakfast I usually wander along to Starbucks for my morning coffee & the Bangkok Post.

Prawn & Brocolli

Jasmin’s cafe Pattaya Klang This was absolutely delicious. Add 2 glasses of red wine & mango & sticky rive for a total cost of B540 or $24 AUD.

Chicken & cashew nuts

Jasmin’s cafe Pattaya Klang Nice dish with a glass of red & coconut ice cream at a cost of B360, or $15.75 AUD.

Mango & sticky rice

Jasmin's cafe Pattaya Klang A Thai classic, morning, afternoon or night. 🙂

Coconut ice cream

Jasmin’s cafe Pattaya KlangA fantastic surprise, I only ordered after they had no sticky rice & it was delicious. 🙂

Club sandwich

Jasmin’s cafe Pattaya Klang A club sandwich & a coconut ice cream was great value at $12 AUD.

Omelet for breakfast

Jasmin’s cafe Pattaya Klang Good value including coffee or tea at B99 or $4.40 AUD.

Super beef burger

Jasmin’s cafe Pattaya KlangAnother low cost exceptional meal, B189 or $8.00 AUD.

 Followed by a tall mango juice

Jasmin’s cafe Pattaya KlangMore great value at B89, or $3.80 AUD.

Outside or inside

Jasmin’s cafe Pattaya Klang The choice is yours. 🙂

Jasmine cafe Pattaya Klang

Jasmin's cafe Pattaya Klang Halfway between Beach Road & 2nd road.

I go out for breakfast every morning, I find it’s a great way to start the the day. It also gives me some much needed exercise as I always walk for around 25 minutes or so. Other favourite places are StarbucksBon Cafe in Naklua Road, Took lae Dee at Foodland in Terminal 21, & Retox Game On in Soi Honey.

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Nana Plaza Bangkok

September 12, 2021 by David Herd

Sex in the city

 

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza Bangkok sex sin sleaze it’s all there. I have been a frequent visitor for 20 years & have seen the LadyBoy population rise from 10% to around 40% today. This does not suit me at all, give me the sexy young girls any day. 🙂

Was Lollipop, now Suckers

Nana Plaza Bangkok

I prefer the name Lollipop but I guess they are now referring to the people who enter the premises. 🙂

Here is the name a few months ago

Nana Plaza Bangkok

This post is going to show you the old and the new Nana Plaza Bangkok

The more things change the more they stay the same. Can you believe it’s 2018 & Lollipop returns. 🙂

Nana Plaza Bangkok Lollipop just refuses to die.

 Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza Bangkok seems to be forever changing not always for the better. In fact Soi Cowboy is more spectacular and the girls seem friendlier, the downside is that it is more expensive.

December 2014 with friends

Nana Plaza Bangkok

I like to stay at the Dynasty Hotel which happens to be only 40 meters from Nana Plaza so it is a very convenient drinking spot for me. In the photo above is Bow, Matt Harkness and Roland Bonnici.

The Plaza comes alive after 9 pm

Nana Plaza Bangkok

The later it gets the busier it becomes.

Entrance from Soi 4 to Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza Bangkok

The plaza does not look too appealing in daylight.

Spellbound

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza Bangkok is square-shaped, with a single opening on the west side, and consists of a ground floor and two additional floors. It started as a restaurant area in the late 1970s. During the early 1980s, a few go-go bars appeared and gradually replaced the restaurants.

The composition of the bars has changed over the past few years; the last non-go-go bar, the Woodstock Pub, was sold in 2005 to the Rainbow Group and reopened as “Rainbow 4.” A few bars offer a more pub-like or beer bar format without dancing; as of late-2009 only the Cathouse remained. Three short-time hotels operate on the top floor. Short-time hotels rent out rooms by the hour or more to the NEP patrons to take a bargirl (or kathoey) for commercial sex.

Most bar girls working at bars in Nana Plaza are willing to leave with customers upon payment of a bar fine.

Spellbound is now Bangkok Bunnies

Nana Plaza Bangkok

The more things change the more they stay the same. It is a never ending cycle at Nana Plaza, one business goes bust and another steps in. Bangkok Bunnies is one of the largest clubs in the complex. The photo was taken February 20 2016 as was the following YouTube video.

Now in November 2018 there has been a name change.

Big Changes Nana Plaza Plus Soi 4The more things change the more they stay the same. I first came to Nana Plaza in 1996, & here I am again in October 2018 drinking ice cold Tiger beer & listening to the Eagles sing Hotel California, the perfect song for this incredible venue. “You can check out any time you want but you can never leave.”

 

 
Nana Plaza Bangkok at sunset
 
 

 

My favourite Nana plaza girl

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Her name in Phung but to me she will always be Cleopatra. I met her at the Plaza in 2001 and for the next 7 or 8 years each time I would visit Bangkok I would look her up. She left the Plaza 3 or 4 years ago and I believe she now lives with a guy in Europe.

Kathoeys or LadyBoys

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Most bars in Nana Plaza do not employ kathoeys, but several do so exclusively. As of mid-2013, these venues are ObsessionVoodoo (ground floor), CasanovaTemptations (middle floor), Carnival and Cascades (top floor). With the exception of Voodoo which exclusively employs post-op kathoeys, the staff at the remainder are almost all “pre-operation”, in contrast to the kathoey bars in Patpong. A number of post-op kathoeys can be found at other bars managed by the Crown Group, namely Lollipop,Hollywood RockFantasia, and G-Spot as well as the independently run Erotica.

Here is Cleo in June 2006

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Hard to believe 15 years has flashed by.

September 2006

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza Bangkok with some Australian friends in 2006, from the left is Tony Murphy, David Herd (me) John Sinclair & Brian Rawnsley.

Sinclair has a black list.

Nana Plaza Bangkok There are quite a few of us on s black lit so I thought I would design a shirt in appreciation. 🙂

 More friends at Nana in 2008

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Good friends Nick & Sharon from the Gold Coast and Rod Perrin from the NSW central coast who lived in Pattaya. RIP

 

Nana Plaza 1999

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Poor quality photos from the early digital cameras.

Nana Plaza 1999

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Very different now in December 2015.

 Nana Plaza 1997

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nineteen years ago and nothing much has changed.

 Gorgeous girls in Nana Plaza 1997

7Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza in my opinion was much better in the 90s.

My gorgeous Jane

Nana Plaza Bangkok

  I met Jane in Nana Plaza Bangkok in 1999  and I took her to Pattaya and Koh Samui.

Here is beautiful Cleo saying goodbye

Nana Plaza Bangkok

I have great memories of time spent with Cleo.

Hooters arrives in Nana

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Right opposite Nana Plaza Hooters on December 23rd 2015, it may prove to be a little too expensive for the Soi 4 Nana Cheap Charlie’s.

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Hooters Bangkok Nana Plaza
 
 

 

The entrance to Nana Plaza, Hooters and the Hillary bar.

This photo says it all. 🙂

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Quintessential Nana Plaza. Here is the my history over the last 20 years.

When I’m in Bangkok I like to stay in Sukhumvit Soi 11, here is an excellent budget hotel, if you USE THIS LINK you will get a great rate of around B1100 per night, or $30 USD.

Nana Plaza Bangkok

The best Bangkok budget hotel I have ever stayed in.

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Fusillo Italian food Pattaya

September 8, 2021 by David Herd

Fusillo Italian food Pattaya

Fusillo Italian food Pattaya

Fusillo Italian food Pattaya in Naklua Road near the corner of 18/1 Alley is certainly worth a visit. Very good food at a reasonable price, & a glass of Chianti will set you back B140 or $6.80 AUD.

Indoor or outdoor seating

Fusillo Italian food Pattaya

I can’t imaging why you would want to sit outside with the smokers. 🙂

Fettuccine & mushrooms

Fusillo Italian food Pattaya Delicious & only B250 or $12 AUD.

TripAdvisor rating is #137 of 1,207 Restaurants in Pattaya

You gotta love Parma Ham

Fusillo Italian food Pattaya Plain or on a pizza, either way it’s great. 🙂

Meet Bow Pattaya’s queen of selfies. 🙂

Fusillo Italian food Pattaya Bow loves her food & eats more than I can. 🙂

Fettuccine Al Pesto

Fusillo Italian food PattayaFor those of you who like to cook here is the RECIPE.

Spaghetti seafood

Fusillo Italian food PattayaWhat a fabulous looking dish, such a shame I not a fan of mussels, my apologies to Patrick from Belgium. 🙂

Matt Harkness & Bow

Fusillo Italian food Pattaya I gotta tell you a funny story, Matt runs a factory near Rayong with a staff of around 70 people. Apart from his generous wage he receives a “hardship allowance” for living in Pattaya. What a classic. 🙂 🙂 🙂 

The selfie Queen

Fusillo Italian food Pattaya

It certainly would not be a hardship living with beautiful Bow. 🙂

Pizza anyone?

Fusillo Italian food Pattaya As you can see they are all here.

That’s all for now folks

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Location

Fusillo Italian food Pattaya

Update new location, see above.

Fusillo Italian food Pattaya

Larger than the old place but the location is not as good.

Lunch today on Sepember 8 2021

Fusillo Italian food Pattaya

Quite tasty but too much salad for me, I should have ordered a similar dish with pasta.

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La Ferme North Pattaya Restaurant

September 7, 2021 by David Herd

La Ferme North Pattaya Restaurant

La Ferme North Pattaya

La Ferme North Pattaya Restaurant is an interesting venue which is part of the Woodlands hotel in Naklua Rd near the Dolphin roundabout in North Pattaya.  Upmarket decor and reasonably priced food, they specialize in Chicken which the name suggests. My favourite is the Honey Glazed Chicken with pepper sauce, only 400 Baht or $15.  My only criticism is they overcharge for a glass of house wine, 150 Baht for a half measure. It’s a shame they are so mean with the wine because the food prices are good value. You used to be better off buying a bottle of Chile wine for 1100 Baht, but that was 2013, now the cheapest bottle is 1600 Baht and the average price is 2000, pour it yourself because they will try to push you to finish hoping they can sell you another bottle.

Honey Glazed Chicken

La Ferme North Pattaya

Absolutely delicious, it tastes as good as it looks.

Brad Robbins

La Ferme North Pattaya

Brad is a lawyer from Townsville in Australia, he is with his long time Thai girlfriend Por.

Frank Hawkes

La Ferme North Pattaya

Another Aussie who loves holidaying in Pattaya.

Lets keep introducing the Aussies. 🙂

La Ferme North Pattaya

This is Alan Kendall from Sydney who felt totally at home in Pattaya.

What is this dish?

La Ferme North Pattaya

I just can’t remember, after all it was 2013. 🙂

Another shot of the mob.

La Ferme North Pattaya

On the right is Pothole aka John Martin, the pretty girl beside him is his neice. The other guy is Joergen from Melbourne, but I don’t remember the Thai girl’s name. 🙂

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Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

September 5, 2021 by David Herd

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao is a very popular low cost restaurant with a huge selection of meals both eat in or take away. Very highly rated by TripAdvisor at #235 of 1,103 Restaurants in Pattaya.

Terrific value

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

Very good selection of dishes at reasonable prices, consequently it is very popular with the locals. 

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

Only a hop step & a jump from Cheap Charlies which is another very good restaurant in Soi Buakhao.

Breakfast 

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

One of the cheapest in Pattaya at B79, or $3.26 AUD.

A very tasty chowder

Hungry Hippo chowder

From memory I think it was around B179.

Home delivery

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

The chowder was so good I had it home delivered. 🙂

Lunch September 4 2021

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

I ordered this ice-cream sunday & was suprised when the waitress said, “today it is on special at B39”. 🙂

Curry chicken

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

Very tasty, too much for me so I took home 1/2 for later. Total cost for the curry & and the ice-cream sunday below was B124, or $5 AUD.

Ice-ceam sunday

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

I’m a sucker for desert, B25 on special.

Excellent hamburger

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

Big & tasty. 🙂

Close to Treetown markets

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

The Hungry Hippo is diagonally opposite Treetown Market.

Easy to find

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

There is no doubt Soi Buakhao is one of the busiest areas in Pattaya, so many places to eat and drink.

Cup of tea included with breakfast

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

Without a doubt this is the largest cup of tea in the whole city. 🙂

Chicken & pasta soup

Hungry Hippo Soi Buakhao

Delicious at B79 or $3 AUD.

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Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand

September 4, 2021 by David Herd

Here are some excellent restaurants

Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand

Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand, even though we were only here 4 days we found some very good restaurants. I hope his photo blog takes away the guesswork for you. 🙂

Aiku 

Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand    Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand

Aiku was right beside our hotel above Starbucks, good Japanese food at a reasonable price.  Our hotel the Dusit Princess was a terrific hotel in the very best location in Chiang Mai, book through THIS LINK for a discounted room rate.

Out of 108 Japanese restaurants in Chiang Mai TripAdvisor rate Aiku number 5.

Whole Earth restaurant

Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand Nestled in a beautiful garden setting this turned out to be a nice surprise, food & service were excellent.

Mushroom soup was delicious

Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand Very filling & a great start to our meal. 

A large menu & you can sit inside or out.

Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand      Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand

The staff were very obliging, the chicken above was very good indeed. Rated 51 out of 1,744 restaurants by TripAdvisor.

The long & the short

Five Aussies Chiang Mai Adventure My friend Patrick is around 200 cms tall, we just had to get a photo with this tiny waitress at Whole Earth restaurant. 🙂

Rabieng Na Maerim

Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand This delightful restaurant is halfway between the city & Wat Ban Den which is the most spectacular Thai Buddhist Temple I have ever seen .

Fresh spring roles to die for. 🙂

Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand My only criticism was the serving was so big. 🙂

Chicken sate & a Thai Omelette. 

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Both excellent.

Beautiful country view from the restaurant.

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Here comes the storm. 🙂

Rock Me Burgers & Bar

Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand Watch the passing parade while enjoying the burgers , hot dogs & beer. Rated 38 out of 1,744 by TripAdvisor. 

I settled for a hotdog

Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand The best I have had in years. 🙂

Fabulous green pea soup

Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand TripAdvisor rate David’s Kitchen the number one Chiang Mai restaurant. I’m not going to argue as the food was very good and the staff excellent.

Lamb shank

Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand Two of us ordered the lamb shank & were surprised when the bill showed a B200 price difference. It turned out there were 2 versions o the menu, my advice to David the very attentive owner is to ensure staff point this out rather have have an argument at the end of an excellent meal.

Talking about he owner

Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand      Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand

He makes an effort to interact with his customers & explained that his wife come in of a morning to make he deserts. Here are two fabulous old photos of them in their younger days. David looks like is stepped out of the role as the artful dodger in Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. 🙂

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Interesting Food Chiang Mai Thailand The staff singing happy birthday to some happy customers.

Dusit Princess good rooms & great location

Remarkable Temple Chiang Mai Thailand 

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Storm pulverises Pattaya

August 27, 2021 by David Herd

Storm pulverises Pattaya

Storm pulverises Pattaya

Storm pulverises Pattaya on the morning of August 27 2021. Naturally the beach was badly damaged as usual. However the council will roll out the heavy equipment tomow & quickly repair the damage. This photo was taken from my balcony at markland Condo around 11 am.

Due to the wild downpour

Storm pulverises Pattaya

It does not take long for the beach to be damaged.

Tonnes of sand is washed away

Storm pulverises Pattaya

I think this may be a dress rehersal for next month, September of course is Pattaya’s wettest month.

Opposite Markland Condo

Storm pulverises Pattaya

Loacated opposite Soi 2 in north Pattaya.

That’s the A-One Hotel in the foreground

Storm pulverises Pattaya

The damage is the same every 50 or 60 meters along the beach. Usually opposite a Soi, the water floods downhill from 2nd Road.

Soi Diana is flooded

Storm pulverises Pattaya

It seems every part of Pattaya is affected. 

Patrick’s Belgium Steakhouse

Storm pulverises Pattaya

As you can see there is water all along the arcade. However apparantly none acually got to the inside of the restaurant.

Patrick’s

Storm pulverises Pattaya

Looking down the arcade to 2nd Road.

Storm pulverises Pattaya & the arcade is underwater

Storm pulverises Pattaya

Hopefully all the restaurants escaped serious damage.

Many Pattaya roads flooded

Storm pulverises Pattaya

This result is not unusual, it’s a common occurance in the wet season.

Beach Road

Storm pulverises Pattaya

 All this floodwater spills over to the beach and causes lots of damage.

Jomtien Beach

Storm pulverises Pattaya

Imagine the force needed to inflict this amount of damage.

Ok let’s just fix it. 🙂

Storm pulverises Pattaya

They moved fairly quickly to repair the damage.

Have you checked your boat lately?

Storm pulverises Pattaya

This can only end in tears.

The Pattaya weather forecast

Storm pulverises Pattaya

Spot on I would say. 🙂

The last big storm

Storm pulverises Pattaya

The following day the heavey equipment was hard at work reparing the damage, I’m sure they will return again tomorrow.

August 29

Storm pulverises Pattaya

Two days after the big storm it has been raining most of the night causing this damage.

Huge pumps opposite Soi 6

Storm pulverises Pattaya

Even these smart looking pumps can’t cope with the volume of water.

Reinforcments have arrived

Storm pulverises Pattaya

Whoever has the contract for repairing the beach is making a fortune. 🙂

Hopefully this is what awaits.

Storm pulverises Pattaya

 I thought I would include a photo of a beautiful Pattaya day, hopefully this weather will return soon.

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Good Indian Food Pattaya

August 23, 2021 by David Herd

Good Indian Food Pattaya

Good Indian Food Pattaya

Good Indian Food Pattaya located in 2nd Rd just opposite the Royal Gardens shopping mall. I don’t often patronize Indian restaurants however the food at Zaika was very good so in future I will make an effort to visit other similar places.

Fairly mundane decor

Good Indian Food Pattaya In fact the upholstery on the booths looks like it needs a good shampoo. Otherwise it’s comfortable & compact.

Lets check out the food.

Good Indian Food Pattaya

I ordered a chicken curry not too spicy. 

Good Indian Food Pattaya

Good Indian Food Pattaya Lets take a closer look at the Good Indian Food Pattaya. The curry was excellent and the long grain rice exceptional.

 Chicken Biryani

Good Indian Food Pattaya These  two photos I borrowed from TripAdvisor to let you see a couple more food samples.

Fish Tikka with Jasmine rice

Good Indian Food Pattaya

TripAdvisor rating is #27 of 1,091 Places to Eat in Pattaya  which seems a rather high rating, hard for me to judge after only one visit.

Located on 2nd Rd

Good Indian Food Pattaya Right opposite the Royal Gardens shopping mall. Their phone number is 038  488 958.

These prices are very low indeed.

Good Indian Food Pattaya They have a very busy home delivery service.

A huge selection

Good Indian Food Pattaya I certainly will be using the home delivery service.

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