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Pattaya, friends & food 2022

September 7, 2022 by David Herd

Pattaya, friends & food 2022

Pattaya, friends & food 2022

Pattaya, friends & food 2022 & life is very good. I’m told Australia is getting more expensive every few months as opposed to Thailand which remains very affordable.

This group of reprobates dining at L’Auberge from the right are Bill Edge from Airlie Beach, yours truly, Joergen Ulitza from Melbourne & finally John Martin, aka Pothole Bin Laden.

Beautiful fresh vegetables

Pattaya, last quarter 2022

While we are on the subject of food check out these delicious vegetables from Playa Bistro on the ground floor of my condo at Markland.

Rain damage September 6

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Not unexpected as September is Pattaya’s wettest month.

Impossible to stop this

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The rain pours down from 2nd road, jumps the Beach Rd footpath & carries away the sand. I have lived on Beach Rd for 11 years & it’s always been the same.

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Here’s a smile to brighten your day

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One of the lovely waitresses from Playa Bistro on the ground floor of Markland.

Bye bye Sabai Resort

8th Sept Sabai

Lots of memories from this hoel, my friends & I stayed there for over 12 years from 1998.

Peter Hobbs from Sydney

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 Peter has lived at 72 Wrights rd Drummoyne since 1983, I lived there for 6 years from 1979.

La Boulange Pattaya French Bakery

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Situated on 3rd Rd near Big C extra, they make the best ham & salad rolls in Pattaya.

Four Australian lamb cutlets

Pattaya, last quarter 2022

From Big C extra at a cost of $40 AUD.

At L’Auberge with Brad Robbins from Townsville

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Waiting for our French oysters. 🙂

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Fabulous oysters from France, many thanks to the owner who gave us a 50% discount down to B900 or $36 AUD.

Heavy construction on 2nd rd.

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This used to be a bowling alley, it’s na huge site which may end up as condos.

Drinks at Playa

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A very nice Bistro & bar on the ground floor of my condo Markland, on the corner of Beach Rd & Soi 1.

Dinner at Playa

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Prawn & asparagas.

Derek Pugh, a very old friend.

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Derek & I worked together in the late 60s at MacDougals LTD, an office equipment company in Clarence St Sydney.

Derek, Ian Rich Paul Slaughter

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I’m guessing this was around 2002.

Sadly we lost Richard yesterday, RIP.

Richard Blair is the big fellow in the middle, beside him is Ken Shelly. Here is a post from 2004 showing many more shots of Richard.

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Living in Pattaya 2022

July 11, 2022 by David Herd

Living in Pattaya 2022

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Living in Pattaya 2024, this is my 13th year in this layback seaside city on the gulf of Thailand. Recently things have been much quieter than usual due to the world’s overreaction to the so called Covid-19 crisis.

The excellent photo above is owned by Robert Cameron, I hope he does not mind me using it.

The Space building

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Located on Naklua Rd adjacent to the Dolphin roundabout.

View from Space.

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Looking South.

Looking at Terminal 21

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T21 is featured in the top left hand corner.

Chicken & cashews

Chicken & cashews at Sonja

 $6 AUD at Sonja’s restaurant in Soi 4.

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Living with Covid crisis 2022

May 10, 2022 by David Herd

Living with Covid crisis 2022

Living with Covid crisis 2022

Living with Covid crisis 2022 has really not inconvinienced me at all, in fact I really enjoy the peace & quiet in Pattaya. I’m of the opinion the danger is grossly overrated, after all it’s just another form of influenza.

This photo blog covers the first 6 months of 2022.

North Pattaya beach

Living with Covid crisis 2022April 5th & the work continues.

Playa Bistro

Living with Covid crisis 2022 Located on the ground floor of Markland Condo on the corner of Beach Rd & Soi 1.

Pancake at Playa

Living with Covid crisis 2022Absolutely delicious.

Tacos at Playa

Playa Bistro Lounge PattayaBest I have eaten since Mexico in 1999.

While we are on the subject of food….

Living with Covid crisis 2022It doesn’t get much better than this. Lobster soup from the Longhorn Steakhouse.

Manicure & pedicure

Living with Covid crisis 2022

Total cost including a $4 tip was $16.

Mango & sticky rice

Living with Covid crisis 2022An iconic Thai  delicacy. 

Oysters from France

Living with Covid crisis 2022Fine de Clare & Belon at L’Auberge.

Pothole & Yogurt

Living with Covid crisis 2022 Aka John Martin & Joergen Ulitza enjoying drinks at the Atlantic bar.

Lots of businesses closed

Living with Covid crisis 2022If you walk north along 2nd Rd from Pattaya Klang to the roundabout you will be shocked by all the business closures. 

Thai people can sleep anywhere

Living with Covid crisis 2022Anywhere & any time. 🙂

New hotel & shopping centre

Living with Covid crisis 2022Just north of the roundabout on Naklua Rd, they have named it Space.

Are these guys crazy or what?

Living with Covid crisis 2022 Workplace health & safety does not exist in Thailand. 🙂

Kites for sale

Living with Covid crisis 2022 I really like this photo of kids & kites. 🙂

Two of my favourite cars

Living with Covid crisis 2022Parked at A–One hotel, a Porsche & a Mercedes.

Here are my cars back in the 90s.

Living with Covid crisis 2022Life was good.

One of my regular breakfast destinations.

Best Pattaya breakfast coffee The Queen Victoria Inn in Soi 6.

It’s all about food

Living with Covid crisis

This delicious satay chicken was created at Sonja’s in Soi 4.

Ira Wettenstein from Connecticut

Living with Covid crisis

Happily now living in my building in Pattaya.

Drinks at Playa

Living with Covid crisisThis place is so convinient on the ground floor of my building.

Covid or no Covid, a girl has to eat. 🙂

Asoke Nana along Sukhumvit Road Bangkok

One of my favourite photos. 

Another fabulous sunset from my balcony

Living with Covid crisis 2022I’m so lucky to see these sunsets from my condo.

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Cherry Bar babes Pattaya

March 4, 2022 by David Herd

Cherry Bar babes Pattaya

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Cherry Bar babes Pattaya, I have been studying them closely for over a decade. This bar on the corner of 2nd Rd & Soi 3 Pattaya has been my local watering hole since 2003.

And so this is Xmas

Sexy Cherry Bar babes Pattaya I have been living in Pattaya since October 2011 but I have been coming here for 34 years. Nothing stays the same & neither does the Cherry Bar, over the years there have been some incredibly beautiful girls pass through here. Sadly not as many in 2015. 🙂

Why do I like it so much?

Sexy Cherry Bar babes Pattaya Well apart from the many beautiful girls that have passed through there, being on a busy corner allows me to watch the passing parade while enjoying an evening drink. At the other end of this complex is another very good bar which has just become 50% larger, the Atlantic Bar.


View from The Cherry Bar

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This was the view from where I sit about 3 years ago, it’s not quite as good now as you will see further on.

OK, back to the sexy girls

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Flashback to 2003, the first year I started drinking at the Cherry Bar. One of the many sexy Cherry Bar girls.

Dah from 2003

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  What a knockout smile.

Mai & Oay in 2012, terrific smiles

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Sexy Cherry Bar babes Pattaya  Mai is a sweet girl who gave up her job a a Honda sales person in Bangkok to work at the Cherry Bar, she has since moved across the road to Honey 2, the soapy massage parlor. Oay on the other hand is a tall glamorous high maintenance girl who is never without a Farang throwing money at her.

Oay is certainly a knockout

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Last I heard she found a sponsor and quit the bar scene.

Happy group in 2012

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 Joergen Ulitza, Barrie Comfort, Dah, Pothole aka John Martin & Pepe Lopez. Sadly Joergen was arrested in Hong Kong last year in July 2014 and is awaiting trial scheduled for November 2015.

All charges dropped

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 On November 6th all charges were dropped and Joergen flew to Pattaya for a couple of weeks before heading home to Melbourne on December 10. He is a very lucky man.

Daryl Evans & Heine from Airlie Beach in Australia, 2004.

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 The bar has always been a great place to meet friends from Australia, this is from February 2004, Daryl on the left now lives in Pattaya at Markland where I also live.

July 2003 , Jan became my favourite girl.

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 Over the next seven years Jan was my number one favourite girl, so beautiful with a smile to die for. When I talk about Sexy Cherry Bar girls, Jan was the best.

Easy to see why

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Absolutely gorgeous.

More of beautiful Jan

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Sexy Cherry Bar babes Pattaya  Top is 2003 & the rest are 2008 & 2009.

Do you agree Jan is absolutely beautiful?

David Herd at Cherry Bar  

This was November 2008, I could publish an entire post on Jan but I guess I have to move along.

Jan visits Cherry in 2012 pregnant with 3rd child.

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I’m betting raising 3 children is not as much fun as working at the Cherry bar. 🙂

October 2011

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Anne & Om in October 2011. Sadly about 1 year later Om passed away after a short illness, I really miss her smiling face.

RIP Om.

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I wanted to hang this on the wall at the Cherry bar in memory of Om, but because of Thai tradition & culture they would not let me.

Dressing up for Loi Krathong

Loi Krathong  

Loi Krathong is a festival celebrated annually throughout Thailand and certain parts of Laos and Burma (in Shan State). The name could be translated as “to float a basket”, and comes from the tradition of making krathong or buoyant, decorated baskets, which are then floated on a river. Loi Krathong takes place on the evening of the full moon of the 12th month in the traditional Thai lunar calendar. In the western calendar this usually falls in November. On the night of the full moon, Thais launch their krathong on a river, canal or a pond, making a wish as they do so. The festival may originate from an ancient ritual paying respect to the water spirits.   Government offices, corporations and other organizations bring large decorated krathongs. There are competitions for the best such krathong. A beauty contest is a regular feature and fireworks have become common in recent years.

Street cooking at its best

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For six months or s these guys were doing a roaring trade cooking pigs before the chemist under the Cherry Bar complained to the police about the shop fling up with smoke every night.

Big Simon from the UK

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In January 2013 four English friends from Wiltshire arrived and took over the Cherry bar, I would usually leave them about 10 pm and they would kick on to 2 or 3 am at the sexy Cherry Bar.

Bill Austin & Dave Catchpole from the UK

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We are not in Kansas anymore Toto.

Hmmm feels good.

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Trevor with the tongue & Bobby on the right at the sexy Cherry Bar.
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Boys will be boys, hang on this is Thailand and sometimes boys will be girls, thankfully however not at the sexy Cherry Bar.

 Just to remind you where you are.

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sexy Cherry Bar.

Guess what? It is October 2004

sweet girl I can’t remember her name, but I do remember that she was a very sweet girl.

2004 was a good year for Cherry Bar girls

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Can’t remember her name but she was a very sweet lady.

Street view from Cherry bar in 2005

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View has now changed in 2016.

Party time May 2005

  Sexy Cherry Bar babes Pattaya  The Thai girls love to dress up for a party.

2009 Anne & Jaeb

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Two long time employees at the Sexy Cherry Bar babes Pattaya.

Here is Jaeb 6 years later in February 2015

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I last saw her around Xmas 2015.

This is what I call “attitude”.

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Do you like what you see mister?

August 2013

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 Bob & Greg from the Gold Coast in Australia.

Lenny, Merv, Kukta & Warren at Cherry bar.

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This was March 2013, my brother Warren & his friend Lenny were here again in May 2014. Sadly our good mate Lenny passed away after a short battle with cancer early in 2016, RIP. 

Aoy is another favourite of mine.

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Aoy is a very sweet girl who left the Cherry Bar when she found a guy to take care of her, I miss her & wish her luck.

 The green roof is the Cherry bar.

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Not much to look at, but thousands of great memories have happened under that green roof. 🙂

Bath time in Soi 3

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While Grandfather does the cooking the little one decides it is time for her bath. A great example of observing Thai life from the Cherry Bar.

I ordered a double Jack Daniels.

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 I have been in a long term relationship with Jack. 🙂

I have to bring Jan back, can’t help it.

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 Jaeb, Jan & Anne.


Xmas Eve 2013

Xmas Eve Cherry barMerry Xmas everyone.

 New Years Eve 2013

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Dan from Airlie Beach Australia at the Sexy Cherry Bar babes Pattaya .

Sabai Wing Soi 1 North Pattaya

 

Sabai Wing Soi 1, 3 swimming pools and nice rooms, 100 meters from BigC, great value at only $23 usd per night as of August 15. I live in the high-rise in the background, Markland. For a great room rate book here.

For a more upmarket hotel on Beach Rd

Hello welcome Pattaya Beach Rd Thailand Just use THIS LINK for a terrific rate at the Wave Hotel.

  November 2014 and she is only 16.

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She was only around for 2 weeks then disappeared.

 My niece Laura hits the pole

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 Is it wrong to force your lovely niece to be a pole dancer in Pattaya, surely not? 🙂  I guess my niece can now be described as one of the Sexy Cherry Bar girls.

Doug from Newcastle and Geoff from Gosford

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These guys love Thailand and visit many times each year.

A bunch of Aussies in April 2015

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The names shall be withheld to protect the innocent.                     
December 2015

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 Larry Krausz moves from the Gold Coast Australia to Pattaya November 28 2015.  Sadly one year later in December 2016 after spending 6 weeks in ICU due to a major stroke, he was flown back to Australia by the insurance company. The cost for the Leer Jet was $185,000 aud and the hospital over $300,000.

New friends December 28 2015

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On the right is Jeff who is a friend of my cousin Vickie in Calgary, the other guy James saw me outside my condo in soi 1 and said “hi David” I know you from your Cape Town blog. Amazing that he recognised me in the street, so I now have another new friend, James from Pretoria. My fame is obviously spreading. 🙂

And the beat goes on

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Here is Katie August 2016

Katie Cherry Bar A happy new addition at the Cherry Bar.

Shock horror

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Shock horror, September 1st 2016 and my beloved Cherry bar is no more. Purchased by the people who own Billabong in LK Metro they will rebuild a bigger and hopefully better bar. You can take away the bar but you will never be able to take away my wonderful memories.

Shock horror has turned into “you bloody beauty”. 🙂

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Billabong 2 Pattaya It’s a new era as they say in the classics, today is Sunday September 25th and Billabong 2 opens it’s doors. Doors! what doors? I don’t see any doors.

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Gather Ground Payaa Hotel

March 2, 2022 by David Herd

Gather Ground Payaa Hotel

Gather Ground Payaa Hotel

Gather Ground Payaa Hotel situated in Soi 2 North Pattaya is ony 5 minutes walk from my condo. It offers very good food & excellent coffee.

Entrance from Soi 2

Gather Ground Payaa Hotel

Located halfway between Beach Rd & 2nd Rd.

Coffee was excellent

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I visit Starbucks once or twice every day, but I must admit this coffee was far better. It’s a shame they don’t give the choice of a large mug as well as a cup.

Interesting wall prints

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In fact they have included a lot of interesting prints & furniture.

Interesting coffee tables. 🙂

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It’s nice to see some unusual objects. 🙂

Chandeliers

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Lot’s of different areas to sit in peace & quiet. 🙂

Outdoor seating

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Must be catering for the smokers, why else would you sit out in the heat?

Lunch was excellent

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Hong Kong noodles were as good as I have had anywhere. In fact the food impressed me so much I dined 2 days in a row. 🙂

Breakfast is B450 or $19 AUD, I’ll stick with the Queen Victoria in Soi 6, breakfast is B99. 🙂 

Feels like a library

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A lot of thought has gone into the decor as you can clearly see.

Lunch two days in a row

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Chicken teriyaki was excellent, as was the coffee afterwards. The service is also very good, the waiter continually tops up my glass of water. 🙂

Coffee grinder

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Every home should have one, don’t you agree? 🙂 You can see my reflection lurking in the background.

Location

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Easy to find & close to the Baht bus route. Luckily it’s only five minutes walk from my condo in Markland on Beach Road. 🙂

Many thanks for visiting my Gather Ground Payaa Hotel photo blog, make sure you visit as the food & coffee is exceptional.

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Atlantic-bar-Pattaya

February 28, 2022
by David Herd
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Atlantic Bar Pattaya

Atlantic Bar North Pattaya Atlantic Bar North Pattaya Atlantic Bar North Pattaya for last 18 years has been one of my regular watering holes. Here are many of the interesting people & staff who have enjoyed it with me. The … Continue reading

Food review Pattaya 2022

February 20, 2022 by David Herd

Food review Pattaya 2022

Food review Pattaya 2022

Food review Pattaya 2022 featuring my favourite restaurants in this city on the gulf of Thailand. The dish above was only $3 AUD at one of the local food courts.

This photo blog covers the first 6 months of 2022.

It’s all about oysters

Food review Pattaya 2022

Flown in fresh from France every week. These are Fine de Clare No 2. These oysters are finished for several weeks in shallow clay ponds where they acquire a superior quality shell to oysters grown in the open sea.

Belon oysters

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 The true Belon Oyster is culitivated in the Belon River, France and has the AOC protected name. Technically, only oysters from this region in France can be called Belon Oysters.

Two varieties

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At L’Aberge, 6 Fin De Claire & 6 Belon. Belon Oysters have a world famous name and reputation. They are the European Flat species (Ostrea edulis).

Excellent fried rice

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At Playa, the new restaurant on the ground floor of Markland, my condo building on Beach Road.

Waffles at Playa

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I can’t resist a good desert. 🙂

Satay chicken at the Bistro

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Without a doubt this is the best satay chicken I have ever tasted.

BJs sports bar in Soi 3.

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Sukiyaki soup is excellent. 🙂 

Lobster soup at the longhorn

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 As good as it gets.

MK Restaurants

Food review Pattaya 2022

Very good food at a low price, I am a regular customer at their Central Marina branch. 

Fusillo Italian Restaurant

Food review Pattaya 2022

This is a very good restaurant that I often visited when it was on Naklua Road, sadly they have moved quite a distance down Soi 18 so it really isn’t convinient anymore.

iO Italian Osteria Terminal 21

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A delicious ham & mushroom bruschetta.

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Playa Bistro Lounge Pattaya

February 7, 2022 by David Herd

Playa Bistro Lounge Pattaya

Playa Bistro Lounge Pattaya 

Playa Bistro Lounge Pattaya is a new restaurant on the ground floor of Markland which is my condo building in Beach Road pattaya.

Modern upmarket setting

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Very well put together, however the glamorous decor may scare off some of the Cheap Charlies who live upstairs in Markland. (You know who you are) 🙂

Nice outdoor setting as well.

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A perfect spot to watch the fabulous Pattaya sunsets.

For example

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For more samples of Pattaya sunsets please follow THIS LINK. Photo credit Playa.

What about the food you may well ask?

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The lobster soup rates 10 out of 10. 🙂

Huge pancake

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Excellent quality as well, this should help me maintain my 108 kilo frame. This makes it 2 days in a row for me to have lunch here, the problem is it’s too convinient being in the complex where I live. 🙂 

Lets take a closer look.

Playa Bistro Lounge PattayI wonder how many calories? 🙂

Perhaps you would prefer a waffle?

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Plenty of choices for those of you with a sweet tooth. 🙂 

This was excellent

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Prawn and asparagus with a very tasty sauce. This dish and the waffle for desert came to a total cost of B300, or $12.80 AUD, hows that for value?

Fried rice

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Cooked to perfection. 🙂

Terrific Tacos

Playa Bistro Lounge PattayaIt’s been many years since I tasted a taco, I don’t remember them being this good. 🙂

Spectactular looking soup

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Sadly it was not too my liking, next time I’ll stick to the Lobster soup. 🙂

How hungry are you?

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This is enough for 4 or 5 people.

Playa Bistro Lounge Pattaya

Playa Bistro Lounge Pattaya

I think this new restaurant will succeed where others have failed in this location, the management seem to know what they are doing. Also they have recruited some very nice staff.

Thanks for visiting my Playa Bistro Lounge Pattaya photo blog, please come along and try this new cool establishment. The location is the corner of Beach Road & Soi 1 North Pattaya.

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Clouds sunsets restaurants rain

December 27, 2021 by David Herd

Clouds sunsets restaurants rain

Clouds sunsets restaurants rain

Clouds sunsets restaurants rain are probably my four favourite things while living in Thailand & enjoying life as much as I can. I live in the perfect spot on Beach Road Pattaya where I can enjoy the magnificent view every day.

Clouds rolling in across the bay

Living with Covid-19

In fact the wet season is my favourite time of the year.

And down it comes

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 Sometimes all you can see is a wall of rain moving across the bay.

Houston, we have a problem.

Storm pulverises Pattaya

Pattaya bay rarely gets this rough.

Clouds sunsets restaurants rain & a great view of the city

Unique Pattaya hotel

Pattaya is home to aroung 100,000 residents.

Xmas eve at Peaky Blinders

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A long lunch to celebrate Xmas. See more of Peaky HERE.

Food at Peaky Blinders

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Part of the interesting Tapas food on Xmas Eve.

Fine de clare No 2

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Fresh oysters from France at the Pullman Hotel Beach Club. On special every Tuesday evening. I have eaten oysters all over the world, please check out THIS LINK.

After the oysters

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Satay chicken or pork, another favourite of mine.

The boys are growing very quickly

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  Tiger & Tyrone, sons of Pothole, aka John Martin.

Pedicure & foot massage

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During the Covid crisis in Soi Buakhow many of the salons are offering 1/2 price specials of B100, or $4 AUD.

Fresh crab from Naklua fish market

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Five minutes to cook & absolutely delicious. Check out the market HERE.

Fresh from the market

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Lots of delicious crab here for B450, or $18 AUD.

Magnificent sunset

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I think Pattaya has sunsets as spectacular as anywhere else in the world. This was taken from my balcony, how lucky am I?

An iconic Thai delicacy

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Mango & sticky rice for B80, or $3 AUD.

Holiday Inn special

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Served with wasabi sauce, very tasty indeed. 🙂 For more at the Holiday Inn please go to THIS LINK.

Waiting for my Covid jab with Ron Sievers & Daryl Evans.

Living with Covid 2021

Even though Covid has thrown the world into turmoil I have not been overly effected, the worst problem for me has been the lack of travel.

Waiting for food handouts

Living with Covid 2021

Many Thai people have been suffering the side effects of the Covid virus, here they are waiting for help near Bali Hai in Pattaya.

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Pattaya Beach after a storm.

Too many clouds are never enough. 🙂

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Absolutely beautiful from my balcony. For my collection of fabulous clouds just CLICK HERE.

Lobster soup

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If you like the look of this go straight to the Longhorn Steakhouse. 

Talking about soup

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The Hungry Hippo has to be the best value in Pattaya.

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Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

December 12, 2021 by David Herd

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya, Pothole Bin Ladin, aka John David Martin is the leading fashion icon in Pattaya, & perhaps the whole of south east Asia. His “kavorka” which is Latvian meaning “the lure of the animal,” is like a magnet for the Pattaya LadyBoys who constantly chase after him on his daily strolls when he is looking for company down Soi 6/1. Here are more shots of high fashion in Pattaya. There is no doubt he became a much happier person after he abandoned all hope.

He favours bright orange outfits

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

When he walks down Beach Rd Aussie expats often greet him as “The Jaffa”.

Pothole’s Brazilian outfit

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

Is it any wonder the girls all scream “HANDSOME MAN” when he walks by?

Surf & Turf

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

Dining with a bunch of Aussies. I must point out the two guys on the left are well know for being total tightwads, in fact years ago I named the one in the black shirt “Stingy”. 🙂 

I must say Pothole is definately not a tightwad.

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

In fact this shot would have cost him plenty in Soi 6.

Flashback to 50th birthday

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

It was 2001 & I had a couple of days in Sydney before flying to Brazil. That’s our old friend paul Slaughter & Kathy who was Pothole’s girlfriend at the time.

Talking about Brazil…

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

Here is Pothole trying to make a good impression with the mother, on the beach at Salvador on the north east coast of Brazil in December 1999.

Dinner at Toscana in Beach Rd Pattaya, June 20 2020.

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

These are Pothole’s two sons, Tyrone & Tiger. For some weird reason the names of all his all offspring must begin with the letter T. 

Talking about wierd…

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

Here he is, the Dancing Queen. 🙂

Pothole the chameleon

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

He makes a point to blend in with his surroundings. 🙂

Flashback to 2008

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

Lunch in Sydney at Bar Reggio at Crown St, Darlinghurst.

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

 If you are going to impress the ladies, serve champagne & dress accordingly. 🙂

Pretty in pink

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

 Could this trophy be for winning the best dressed man in Pattaya prize?

Three faces of Pothole

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Angry, disappointed & tattooed. 🙂

The hairstyle is rather fetching

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

In front of his apartment in Crows Nest in Sydney in May 2003.

Pattaya 2003

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

Pothole lives by the rule “dress to impress”.

April 27 2019

APRIL 27 2019

A fun day with family & friends & ex missus Dah.

Way back when love was in full bloom

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

Nothing lasts forever. 🙂

Sometimes he drinks to forget…

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

Most of the time he just drinks. 🙂

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

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 Who could argue with this statement?

March 18th 2019

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

At the Beach Club with the family.

Flashback to the mid 70s

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

Pothole fashion icon in the 70s. 🙂

What a classic, Pothole’s 21st.

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

A fabulous photo from 50 years ago.

Ladyboy, what ladyboy?

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

I don’t see a ladyboy. 🙂 

Too much booze in Soi 6

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Pothole never knows when to stop.

October 12 2021

Pothole fashion icon Pattaya

Tiger is as tall as his Dad & Tyrone never shuts up. 🙂

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