Leaderboard

The bill for two was only 709 baht. Pictures taken earlier this year. Sizzlers is not everyone's cup of tea but if you choose your main course carefully you can get a very good meal overall at a relatively low cost.

Just seeing off the wife at Cardiff airport,she's off to koh Samet for a friend's wedding. Sent from my SM-A520F using Tapatalk

Sabai Rooms Soapy 

Brilliant, hope Wie has a wonderful time Gaz

Feck me you live well where you are. Looks lush

Best Indian in Town. Fantastic beef Bhuna, mixed pakora, chicken chaat, chicken tikka masala, chips, rice. Spiced onion, sauces, Proppodoms.

Mixed grill

I went to Harry's on Soi Diana to see if the 99-baht hamburger with fries was still on offer and to have another of Harry's Swedish dishes. The hamburger special was available, but a waitress urged me to try the 150-baht pizza special. I was surprised because I didn't recall Harry's having pizza on the menu. But then I noticed the pizza didn't come from Harry's but from Pizeria in the ZIP Lounge and Apartments across the street. I abandoned my plans for pyttipanna or biff à la Rydberg and went with the pizza. I ordered what was called capriccosa (sic) on the card. It lacked two of the toppings that go on a classic pizza capricciosa, but I don't imagine you can put artichoke hearts and anchovies on a 150-baht pizza in Thailand and still make money. The tomato sauce, cheese, mushrooms and ham were fine by me, though. I'm not a fan of artichoke hearts on pizza and wouldn't have ordered it if it had been a classic capricciosa. It was amusing to see the waitress, in the era of cell phones and the Internet, go to the top step of Harry's and yell "pizza!" across the street. I don't know what sort of arrangement Harry's has with Pizeria, but there's a Swedish angle. I lived in Stockholm a number of years while married to a Swedish woman and still remember some of variations available in pizzerias there. One of Pizeria's offerings was called "Svenne's special" and it was topped with pork tenderloin and Bearnaise sauce, definitely a Swedish touch. "Kebabpizza" is also a Swedish invention. It's not on the same level as durian pizza- yes, you can get that in Pattaya- but bizarre enough to have Raffaele Esposito spinning in his grave. I got more evidence of a Swedish connection when my pseudo-capricciosa arrived. It was accompanied by a small bowl of what's called pizza salad in Sweden. It was introduced by the Italian chef and restaurateur who opened Sweden's first pizzeria in 1969. He apparently based it on a Croatian cabbage salad. Chopped cabbage is marinated in vinegar and seasoned with oregano and sometimes caraway. It usually contains bits of red pepper and carrot as well. Unfortunately, the bowl of salad I got was inedible: way too much vinegar and what tasted more like cumin than caraway. It resembled pizza salad, but tasted nothing like I remembered it in Stockholm. The pizza itself was good; not great in my estimation, but good enough for 150 baht. It was a bit sparse with cheese, but had plenty of mushrooms and ham. The sauce was OK. The thin crust was good with just the right bottom char and still soft inside. Bottom line: I don't regard pizza as a dinner dish and almost never have it as such. I consider it a party food or snack, especially a late-night snack when out drinking. The pizza I had at Harry's would be fine along those lines. I have to rate it as good, with the horrible side salad an irrelevancy. Evil

Loy Krathong & Yi Peng are on the same day. Loy Krathong falls on Friday, November 23 2018 (festival begins on November 21, ends on November 24) . It is a light festival (or known as Lantern Festival) in Thailand on the full moon day in November. These photographs are from last year.  The last two are were taken in Central Marina. Mid evening on Beach Road and then onto LK Metro  This was our basket Stage Decoration LK Metro If all goes to plan, I will be there for this year's celebration.

My Mrs moaning