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When I was working in Beijing in the 1990s, KFC was hugely popular among Chinese people, young and not so young. For celebrities and wealthy Chinese, it became a trend to have wedding and birthday dinners(!) at KFC. That was a real status symbol in China back then. The staff at my office loved KFC. It was customary for a foreign boss to invite the staff to dinner several times a month and my staff always wanted KFC boxed dinners. Some wouldn't eat theirs but took the dinners home to share with family. My driver had an 8-year-old son and I bought KFC dinners for his school class on his birthday. That gave him huge face in front of his friends. KFC gift cards were the best present I could give him or just about anyone else. I don't know if things have changed in the past 30 years, but KFC was enormously popular in China in the 1990s. It astounded me, but it was indeed a fact. Evil

I can't remember the last time I had KFC in the U.S. I had it a few times in Pattaya, but that was only because a TG regular liked it. Since Popeyes features spicy variations and has rice as a side, I imagine it would do well in Thailand. I only eaten at a Bojangles once - on a road trip in the South two years ago- but it was definitely a notch above most fast food. Evil

I very seldom eat fast food of any description because there are so many better options. However, in some rare instances I will have fast food when I don't have time to cook or eat a sit-down meal in a restaurant. Yesterday was one of those occasions. I much prefer Popeyes to KFC. Popeyes' chicken is crispier and not as greasy. The sides are also better. \

Shaved sirloin beef on toast with avocado. I also had roast eggplant topped with Parmesan cheese. ANd for dessert, mango with sticky rice. I need to improve my plating skills, but the taste was good. I thought I got reasonably close to the Thai original, especially the coconut sauce. I used jasmine rice and palm sugar imported from Thailand. Strange, but the dog went crazy over the palm sugar. She kept trying to grab it in and out of the package. I don't know why, she has never tasted it. Evil

My great-grandfather owned Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He was never the innkeeper, he was just the landlord. Evil

Wasn't me, either. Evil

Chicken adobo, one of the handful of tasty dishes in Filipino cuisine. Of course, it's probably borrowed directly from Chinese cuisine, but it has a good sweet-sour-salty taste. I marinated chicken thighs in soy sauce and rice vinegar overnight, seared them quickly, then braised them with onions for 25 minutes.

Snow in a lot of places, but where I am it's clear and at times sunny.

A fritatta, an Italian egg dish similar to an omelette. Traditionally fritattas are fried, but I baked mine. I sauteed a minced onion, grated zucchini, fresh basil, grape tomatoes and garlic until fragrant and the zucchini soft. I added the vegetables to a mix of beaten eggs, bacon bits. seasoning and grated Parmesan and gruyere cheese. I baked it for 15 minutes then topped it with more Parmesan cheese, spring onions and seasoning. Three more minutes in the oven and ready to eat!

I've heard that can happen, but I lack the gene that's needed to detect the chemical compounds from asparagus that cause urine to smell like perfume. Only 25% of the population has that gene. Evil

A childhood favorite, oven-roasted asparagus on toast: Another variation- roasted asparagus topped with Parmesan cheese and a chicken pot pie, the kind that cost $10 for 10 at the supermarket. Those cheap pot pies actually taste surprisingly good, with a flaky crust and good filling. Parmesan goes perfectly with asparagus! Jambalaya made from a package with added shrimp. sausage, mock crab. grape tomatoes and bacon. Some leftover rice from the mango shrimp the next day on a tortilla with mock crab and cocktail sauce. Hard-shell tacos, two filled with ground beef and the third with some of the leftover jambalaya mixture.

Yes, in the English language, dinner has always meant the biggest meal of the day, whether eaten early or late. It's the timing of the main meal that has has changed through the centuries along with people's working and eating habits. Until the 1800s, about 90% of population of Western countries was engaged in agriculture. Farmers had their biggest meal of the day around noon or even earlier so they'd have enough energy to finish the day's work. However, the move to cities and factory, office and service job caused many people to shift to their eating habits to a lighter midday meal. "Lunch" replaced "dinner" as the midday meal and "dinner" pushed out "supper" as the final meal for millions of city dwellers. However, many people use "dinner" and "supper" as interchangeable terms. Whether you call the meal cycle "breakfast-dinner-supper" or "breakfast-lunch-dinner" depends on the usage in the region where you live or grew up, at least in the U.S. Today in the U.S., most people say they have breakfast, lunch and dinner, according to surveys. Afternoon tea is credited to a British noblewoman in 1840. Over the next forty years, the custom became established throughout the British upper classes and then spread to the population as a whole. Evil

I baked some braided bread. Fresh dumplings steamed in the leftover broth from the chicken and dumplings two days ago. The flavors in the broth had melded nicely, really good taste. The chicken had been eaten the first night, so I added some bacon to make it more substantial.

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Mango Shrimp with onion and sweet basil over coconut ginger rice. I used a Mexican spice called tajin which goes really well with seafood. And my beloved cold-weather comfort food, chicken with dumplings. The steps in building my late-night ham and cheese toastie.

I added "shaved beef" (very thin slices of sirloin) to a rice and vegetable mixture, with sauteed spinach on the side. Shaved beef on a tortilla with Dijon mustard and bacon. Roasted eggplant slices topped with Parmesan cheese. A cheese and ham toastie.

He promoted me first to "secretologist head assassin" and then to "secretologist grand master." Lars, Eye Nitnoy and a few others were also grand masters. Did you ever get promoted? Larry was Xenu, a 25-million year-old alien who was head of the secretologist cult. When Larry started working at Baby Dolls, I asked Gabor if there would be a babydollogist cult and who would replace Larry as head of the secretologists, but he refused to answer. I wasn't allowed by the then-Mods on the Pattaya Club to ask Gabor if the cult still existed after he was allowed back. Evil

Thank you much for posting that incident. I was going to do it myself, but it will sit better with some members that you did it. Let's see if anyone writes about what a nice guy he really is after this. Also in that thread on the old Secrets board, Gabor outed Baz' real-life given and family names. That alone would get a poster banned for life on any forum in the world, from the most hard-core punter board to one on keeping parakeets as pets. After Gabor was banned from Secrets, he began posting almost daily hate rants against you, Baz and the Secrets' board. On Talk he wrote about killing Baz' baby with a machete. No one believes he intended any real harm to the child, but he crossed a line that couldn't be excused with, "It's only the Internet, I was joking." Since the earliest days in the 1990s of the granddaddy of all punter boards, the World Sex Guide, it's been a well-established convention that real-life family members are never mentioned in an insulting manner on the boards. I've often wondered what an FBI profiler would make of Gabor's posts on killing Baz' baby. Gabor made dozens of posts attacking Baz on Talk. Just to give one example: The reason he focused so much on Baz' family is that he hoped to provoke a response that would break board rules and get Baz banned. It's a despicable tactic he used with many BMs, myself included. Whenever Gabor was on the losing side of an argument- and that was always- he would lash out at his opponent with personal insults. He was hoping at least to get the thread locked to divert attention from the trouncing he was taking. He was extremely mean-spirited on the boards and in real life, not the harmless eccentric some people have portrayed him to be. Like Harris Black and all other con men, Gabor could be affable when he met some individuals, but that was only because he hoped to use them later for his own warped purposes. What was most irritating was that he was maddeningly simple. He couldn't grasp any concept more complicated than a big bowl of spaghetti. He was stuck in the mindset of the Soviet-era planned economy in Hungary. No matter how often BMs explained it to him, he never fathomed how a free economy functioned. To him, there were correct prices for all goods and services, including P4P in Pattaya. Prices in countries with communist governments had been set by ministries and political commissars. That's how Gabor saw himself, the commissar of P4P in Pattaya. He would go into a white rage whenever anyone told him he was wrong. His tactics were vicious, way out of proportion with any criticism of his crackpot economic ideas. He had also convinced himself he could get his own way by causing trouble or threatening to cause trouble for a board. That was his reasoning behind his hate campaigns against both the Secrets and Addicts boards after they banned him. If they took him back, he would stop making trouble. It's the same principle LBJ referred to in one of his most famous quotes. When he became President, everyone wondered why he didn't fire J Edgar Hoover, then head of the FBI, as it was well known LBJ hated Hoover. He replied, "I would rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in." That is what Gabor was hoping the Admins of Secrets and Addicts would say. It seemed to work with Secrets. Case in point: When Pattaya Secrets became the Pattaya Club, Gabor threatened publicly to report the Secrets Admin to the Thai authorities unless all his posts (around 15,000) were removed from the new board. (I shortened the above screen shot because the remainder only contained registration info about the old and new boards to prove they weren't the same, whatever difference that made in Gabor's paranoid mind). He came in for stinging amount of criticism for threatening to be a snitch and this was his response: Gabor knew very well it would take a huge amount of time and effort to delete his posts and having to deal with Thai authorities would be even worse, so he figured they would be forced to take him back. Is that how a nice guy acts in real life? Because MrDK (Lars- RIP) and I defended Secrets against Gabor's false accusations, he labeled us as "paid secretologist agents" and tried to disrupt our threads. He started this thread about Lars' Web site: He called Lars a liar because he gave a price RANGE for the girls' services Gabor thought was excessive. And this one about me: I was a liar because I had six weeks earlier posted a joke on the Addicts board (not Talk) that Gabor hadn't understood. It turned out to be a howlingly funny thread because Gabor couldn't get the joke. He came in for more ridicule from a string of board members. MM (RIP) asked me if I wanted the thread removed, but I told him to let it remain. Gabor's own words condemned him far more effectively than anything I could write. I'm tempted to continue with more examples, but I will resist that temptation and heed the words of Jesus: "Get thee behind me, Satan." Does anyone recognize where Pattaya's portal to Hell is located? Evil PS- Boy, did I have fun writing this post. It's not always I can say that!

The Robin's Nest is under new management and has become The Nest. It also offers daily specials. Harry's is another dependable restaurant in the LK Metro area. It offers Swedish and international dishes at reasonable prices.

I'm kicking this thread alive again. There's always a need for information about inexpensive restaurants which serve good food. I'm trapped in the U.S. due to Covid, so I can't offer dining experiences more recent than two years ago, but I can help out by posting menus and info on specials from restaurants' Facebook pages and Web sites. I would advise everyone to check the restaurants' social media sites to be sure the information below is still accurate. Things change fast in these strange times! I'll start with the LK Metro area. The Rockhouse has a new menu. Whenever I ate there, the food was good and value for money. I never had a bad meal at Kilkenny. I found the Sunday lamb roast and the weekly porkchop special very tasty and excellent value for money. Kilkenny was one of my "go-to" restaurants while living in Pattaya. I'm posting a list of their most recent specials. As I recall, it's the same daily special(s) every week, but check Kilkenny's Facebook page to be sure.

My one face-to-face encounter with Gabor was somewhat different. Evil

Using up the last of the shrimp with shrimp and Spanish rice on a tortilla, with sour cream and guacamole on the side.

Salad with shrimp. mango, raspberries and baby spinach: I followed that with coconut battered shrimp (oven baked) on cilantro rice with mango dipping sauce: Evil

As far as I know, no one on any of the Pattaya boards has ever met Changfai in person, so it's impossible to say what he is like in real life. But he certainly displayed extreme aggression in his posts on Secrets. I realize there's sometimes a fine and not always clear line between acceptable banter and insults, but Changfai placed himself on the wrong side of that line. There was nothing friendly or funny about his posts aimed at other members; his only intention was to hurt and insult in the hopes of disrupting the board and driving members away. Who knows why? Maybe he's a psycho loner IRL, but most likely it's because disrupting an Internet forum gives him a sense of power. On Secrets, he used to mercilessly stalk the BM who used the handle GoGoLover. It was pathetic. Mega-trolls like Changfai; Budapest Baggins (Pattaya's most evil-minded hobbit); and the Canadian whose hair is black always have numerous handles. Mostly they use them for lurking, but occasionally they'll allow the extra handles out from under their cyber bridges and onto the forums. Nowadays multi-handle trolls get caught by the Mods quickly if they start to post. But as long as they refrain from the type of comments that got them tossed off other boards, I don't see any harm in letting them lurk at the lowest board level. Changfai, Gabor! Evil