Quote from deadbroke:
sorry colonel, I missed this post entirely ...
of course you're abs. correct, Bangkok deserves a better score.
impressed that it came out 2nd ahead of chiangmai (4th) for Asia.
jeez I never would have imagined anyone scoring Bangkok better than Chiangmai ...
maybe its time to have both, a condo in Bangkok? You've got me considering it anyway?
remember those sukh, soi 11 veg indian restaurants I posted a while back? Chiangmai doesn't have anythng like that yet. And Ronnie's pizza? Hard to beat.
Sukh, the last time I was there was in a bullmarket in pie.
Yeah bro, I had looked at condos in chiang mai a couple of years ago, hoping for something relatively new near the night bazaar and couldn't find a thing. seems like out by CMU towards Doi Suthep, there were quite a few places going up but uncertain regarding % of Thai ownership, if they would not end up just renting them out, etc. so, any recommendations are greatly appreciated
down here, 80k+ baht per square meter to be in an ok place, good management co., and BTS/subway friendly area. where you prob'ly wanna be, silom or suk. 1 through 45, probably 100k and up. i am waiting for another crash or at least the dollar to creep its way back on up to 35, if not 40...
if it doesn't happen, i am a renter for life, which is really more my style so i can move wherever i want without having to deal with finding responsible tenants, etc.
anyway, have yet to make it to suk.11 dosa king but used to hit it often when i lived on asoke and it was on soi 19. did himali chacha a couple of weeks back and took a friend to the one at the top of the rembrandt hotel on suk.18. the first is reliable indian eats and the second, whilst a little spendy, is well worth it for the view (reserve a table by the window.)
i tell you dude, and i know any italian food connoisseur or even fan would never possibly mention pizza hut as a place to go for such but we treated some kids to whatever they wanted and pizza hut was their choice and, no not the pizza but the spicy spaghetti was too hot for these thai kids to eat and absolutely, for sure, would never be served in the states for its heavy dosage of thai chillis. that said, it is not a recommendation for italian pasta but for a thai version of uber spicy arrabiata, so a thaitalian hybridization of farang pasta admixed with thai spices.
a'ight dude, have a good one.