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Not super busy down the Plaza but most bars have a few customers. Sat staring across at Noody bar trying to think nice thoughts but in the back of my head I'm struggling. What she did to Saints, member of other fora, was shocking. Glad the lad got home OK.

Strolling around Cardiff city centre getting some rays and snapping a few photos, the missus thought she had found Rambutan growing in the city centre[emoji3], in the last photo. Sent from my SM-A520F using Tapatalk

Love my belly pork, this was cooked satay style and I made an extra spicy peanut sauce.

just donated £40 to a young lady from Rochdale who is suffering from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This was highlighted on Granada news tonight. Poor lass is being crushed to death from inside and needs an operation soon as. never seen anything like it before .hope she reaches her target.

I use a Canon 6d mark II and mostly for the motor cycle shots a Canon EF 70-200 mm F/4.0 L IS USM Lens.

This afternoon's offering. Someone is keeping the passenger awake!!

Maybe gonna go to this one this weekend ? Anyway, considering the location (beach) is 800 m from my place, qnd considering the sound level they play at, I could listen at it from my terrass !

Wonderful. I’m glad you’re doing restaurant reviews here. A few notes from my own recent experiences. Often on Fridays I’ll head over to the Sportsman on soi 13 for their pizza buffet. Their pizza is good, typical thin crust. 249 baht and you must buy one drink. I’m still amazed that I can find good pizza in Thailand. Lately, in Bangkok I’ve used the Eatigo app for up to 50% off on food. For me, it was very worthwhile. Often I’d save over 300 baht on a meal. So now I’m back in Pattaya, last night a friend and I went to S.E.A Restaurant in Hotel Baraquda. It’s still low season, thankfully, so there was no one else there our entire visit. We ordered a fried seafood appetizer and the grilled beef tenderloin. The seafood was good, but the typical fried seafood you can get so many places here. It did have a very nice mayonnaise and horseradish sauce. The steak was the best chunk of beef I’ve had here in Thailand. I was pleasantly surprised, very surprised. I’d given up on finding good beef here. I will definitely go back for that again. The cost was 690 baht for the steak, half off is 345. The seafood was less than 200 after discount, so the total cost of the food was under 600 for two. If anyone else has been there please let me know. The other afternoon I returned to my old standby, Smokin’ Joe’s BBQ. I had a craving for their ribs. I was sad to see that they no longer do the dinner specials. Most of the specials took 100 baht off each dinner. So the rack of ribs for 465 baht used to be 365 on Tuesday. I felt the 365 baht was expensive, but worth it occasionally. At 465 it’s very hard for me to justify going there since there are so many good meals to be had in Pattaya for under 299 baht. A subject near and dear to my heart, eating in Pattaya.

probably the most in depth and honest review of KC that i have seen.. thank you.. brings back a shed load of memories, including the s bends on the roads.... am just working on a promo for KC incl trasnport from Pattaya...the minivans seem the most straight forward. am wondering what its like to be in the last hotel they drop off too, that would annoy me.

Sat with a very old friend of mine. When Mrs Thinkingallowed introduced us 12 years ago I asked what is your name? Bill was the answer. I explained that for a ladyboy maybe Belle was a better name. So she changed it...

I started the "Under 300 Baht ... And Good!" thread several years ago on other Pattaya boards to disprove a particularly idiotic statement by Pattaya's least intelligent and most corrupt Internet poster. That hungry little numpty claimed if you spent less than 300 baht on farang food in Pattaya, you got "garbage." I considered that statement extremely unfair and uninformed, as well as an insult to many restaurant owners. There are dozens of restaurants, probably several hundred, where you can enjoy good Western food under 300 baht. But rather than get involved in a meaningless exchange of opinions, I put my money, my camera and most importantly, my mouth, where my mouth was. I found numerous examples of good farang food that cost less than 300 baht in Pattaya. The "Under 300 Baht ..." thread has run more than two years on four boards and still has a ways to go. There are so many restaurants in town where you can get good food under 300 baht that it's almost impossible to cover them all. To help kick-start the food review section of , I'll carry on with the "Under 300 Baht ..." thread here. I hope others will contribute their suggestions, with or without photos. There are far more restaurants in Pattaya than I'll ever have the opportunity to visit and I'm sure a lot of them offer good options under 300 baht. In central Pattaya, many, many farang-oriented restaurants offer daily specials under 200 baht and virtually all but the most expensive fine-dining places will have a main course on the menu for less than 300 baht. But first, a couple of points of order. Since I'm responding to a statement about Western food, that would by definition exclude Thai, Indian and other Asian food. Moreover, this thread isn't about where you can fill your belly for the least amount of money, but specifically about where you can get good Western food under 300 baht. Also, it doesn't have to be the best food you've ever eaten, especially in comparison to what is available in the West. It should be good, as opposed to mediocre or bad, but not necessarily a peak culinary experience. The biggest test for me is: will I go back and order the same dish again? If I do, then the meal has been good. And the standard disclaimer: if you want to eat cheaply and well, you're best off sticking to Thai food. No doubt about it, you get the most bang for your buck by eating Thai food. However, very few farang visitors or resident ex-pats want to eat Thai food at each and every meal, so most are willing to spend a bit extra for farang food. Enjoy your meal (and this thread)! Evil

Mine's a £15 PAYG from Argos that came with £10 credit.😀

Just cracked open my first post work beer.

Sleep. Night night all!

Just back from the gym. Have a pizza in the oven.

I saw Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and Paul Weller at Bristol Downs a few weeks ago. I've seen the Stone twice this year, once in Cardiff and then again at Twickenham. Seeing Dr Feelgood in three weeks of so. Yes, I know none of present players are from the original band. Got tickets to see Blackberry Smoke in the Tramshed in Cardiff in a couple of months. If no one here has ever heard of them, they're brilliant.

Tonights dinner - one dry yellow and one red curry with pumpkin and pork.

Thai crab yellow curry is one of my favorite dishes. The place by Jomtien with the big crab outside it does it lovely.

Been a quiet week but still ticking over nicely. Got 13 girls at the moment. Daytime Cashier off today so spent all day cleaning where the Thais can’t reach.

Great pics thanks. Some of those ladies on scooters look tough cookies.

I parked on the arena itself that day pre-booked it and turned up at 3pm because someone was meant to be buying my ticket off FB he then called me to say he couldn't make it 😭😭😭 I wouldn't mind I turned down £95 on E Bay like a dick. I asked a tout in the end and he offered me £10 so I told him to f*** off and kept it in my pocket still got it to this day lol The concert was good, but not £220 worth haha.

I usually go for a week but i’d suggest 2-3 nights for your first visit to see if you like it.

top quality shots, surely not with a phone? this is as good if not better than the old sateef dayz

Thank you for posting this. I’ve been starting to travel to the Thai islands. So far I’ve only been to Koh Larn and Koh Samet. Koh Chang looks very nice. How long would you recommend staying? At least 2 nights?

Same as Roomark .....Roger Waters in Manchester . My mate has some sort of bone disease and what is normally a 5 minute walk from the car park to the venue entrance took 40 minutes . I had to have my arm around him all the way there and all the way back . We both loved the gig and when I got him home he told me he would take his walking frame next time ! Wtf ! Bit like that character played by Matt Lucas . " yea I know " .

I cleaned the attic out with the wife the other day. Dirty, smelly, covered in cobwebs, but she’s good to the kid. Actually AJSP, it got damp in the garage at our last place and got mouldy and black spots on it. I was all for dumping it, but hey, my wife is Thai and we had to keep it. She chucks nothing out, not even me. 😟

Support it, I'm trying not to plan sending a couple of Thais in there to fill the toilets with expanding foam tomorrow.

Down the Plaza, living it up.

I reviewed this yesterday and was really underwhelmed by it. In fact utterly disappointed. From Lanzalad's description of the position I thought he may be on about La Taverna del Passatore?

Sounds to me like you are describing Pizza Italy. I have reviewed it several times over the years. Some old pics: And a review from July this year: Freshly made gnocchi (potato-filled dumplings) with ground beef sauce at Pizza Italy off Soi Bukhao for 220 baht. This is a hearty dish perhaps better suited for snowy winter evenings than the tropical heat of Thailand, so fresh gnocchi is hard to find in Pattaya. Pizza Italy can also be find hard to find, or at least explain where it is. However, the map is NOT to scale. Pizza Italy is close to Soi 15 and much closer to Soi Diana than Pattaya Tai. Bottom line: Consistently good Italian food by an Italian chef at reasonable prices. Evil

@drifter Welcome to the forum. 👍🏻

Hi. I’m drifter. I’ve been living in Pattaya for over a year now Edit: like a lot of the other posters, I saw the reborn Stickman site mention here, so came over for a look

In honor of the new forum, I'll start with some restaurants suggestions I haven't posted elsewhere. I'll expand the thread with some reviews from earlier this summer. Oriental Trattoria is a 24/7 restaurant on 2nd Road at the corner of Soi 13/1 (Soi Yamato). It's the front section of the Privi Hotel and up a half-flight of stairs from the street. It's very much an international restaurant with no less than 12 national cuisines represented on its menu. However, most of the dishes are Italian or Thai. The restaurant bills itself as a "fusion tea cafe." I couldn't see any tea angle and the term "fusion" can mean several different things in a culinary sense. I imagine it's called "fusion" because there are so many cuisines under the same roof. There aren't many places in Pattaya where you can find laksa, wood-fired pizza, nasi goreng, hamburgers, Italian pasta and a few French, Russian, Chinese and German dishes on the same menu. I had wanted to try an iconic U.S. dish, clam chowder, but it wasn't available. That made me wonder how many other dishes on the extensive menu weren't available either, but that's just my cynical side. I settled for the weinerschnitzel and it wasn't a bad choice at 150 baht. I had a choice of potato and went with the oven roasted. The pork schnitzel had been pounded thin and properly breaded and fried. The potatoes had been seasoned with rosemary, which was a nice touch. A bottle of SML cost 90 baht and a ditto of water cost 20 baht. Bottom line: If the rest of the menu offerings hold the same standard and can actually be ordered, Oriental Trattoria could become an interesting place to eat. One discouraging factor for me was the loud and off-key music from the Wonder Bar across Soi 13/1. In the future, I'll be visiting Oriental Trattoria during the afternoon. Nice Diner opened recently on Soi Buakhao about 100 meters south of Soi 15 on the east side of the street. It's a small open-front restaurant that centers on U.S. hamburger and hot dog staples. It also offers breakfast, salads, wraps, spaghetti, some Thai dishes and desserts. Customers can sit diner-style at the counter or in booths. The decor is heavily U.S.1950s, but I found the red-tinged lighting to be irritating. I wasn't in a hamburger mood, so I had the mozzarella salad (119 baht) and the chicken wrap (129 baht). The salad was a bit of a disappointment. I wasn't expecting a Caprese salad (fresh mozzarella, tomato slices and basil) for the price, but the rectangular slices of industrial mozzarella were flavorless. On the upside, the lettuce and tomato were very fresh and the oil-and-vinegar dressing good. The chicken wrap was also good with strips of pan-fried chicken, lettuce, tomato and bell pepper in a flatbread. A bottle of water cost 25 baht. Bottom line: On the U.S. academic grading scale, I'd give the meal a B-, the lower end of "Good." Most of the menu was pretty standard and doesn't inspire a return visit. I may, however, give the chicken-and-beef hybrid cheeseburger (259 baht with fries) a try. I've never had that combo in the same burger, so extra points for originality. The pic is from Nice Diner's Facebook page. Prices seem at the high end for the burgers compared with what's available elsewhere in the area. Location, location, location also figures in. That section of Soi Buakhao doesn't get a lot of foot traffic, so the food will have to be good enough for customers to make a special trip. The September menu from Facebook:

hello , my now new forum friends , im Darren 25+ trips, one wife , now EX wife , but were still best friends one ladyboy girlfriend , now EX girlfriend but were still best friends

Hello all,. I'm Dan and married a Thai lady 3years ago. Have a 2 yr old daughter with her, who is the light of my life. Took a full year to get my wife to the States, but life is good. Back when BKK was fun, used to hang in Washington Square with the other geezers. Lived off Soil 81, when the On Nut night market was in full swing, and LOS , I'm, was fun.

Mercedes GLC250 AMG

Only at the weekend 😉

Using this little buggy for getting around site (and occasional play in the sand😎).

Khao Soi, a Lanna curry topped with crispy noodles. 50 baht and delicious

Chinese style chicken thighs,chips & Chinese curry sauce

Breakfast last weekend. She cooked not me Wife is a handy cook and has a little business doing Thai food. Can be quite creative at times. Home made pumpkin ravioli with Thai red curry sauce.