Julian2 Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Kids choosing fireworks for Loy Kratong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 When I came here in the 1970s, the WERE NO FIREWORKS for Loy Krathong. Don't know why the hell that all started. The once quiet holiday for children and lovers now sounds more like a battlefield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specialist Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 UNCLE!!! UNCLE!!! OK, OK, guys, PUH-LEEZE! It is going to be at least a few more months before I can get loose long enough to fly in, and you are REALLY reminding me how much I miss the LOS sometimes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian2 Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 When I came here in the 1970s, the WERE NO FIREWORKS for Loy Krathong. Don't know why the hell that all started. The once quiet holiday for children and lovers now sounds more like a battlefield. Come up to my place next year, you can hide under the kitchen table with the dog. He's a Loy Kratong "bah humbug" Scrooge as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think_too_mut Posted December 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Hua Hin. Want a waterfront restaurant? Hardly gets more "frontal" than this. This farang lady in the background is packing up, too much of waterfront. A menu poll in the back is already a way off in the water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Come up to my place next year, you can hide under the kitchen table with the dog. He's a Loy Kratong "bah humbug" Scrooge as well. My Mrs took me to Loy Krathong by the Mae Nam Ping in Chiang Mai one year. The river looks quite spectacular, covered with krathongs as far as you can see as they float downstream. But the SOBs firing bottle rockets straight into the crowds took a lot of fun out of the night and we went home early. When she told her colleagues the next day, they ask what the police had done about it. She told them the truth - nothing! The cops turned their backs and pretended they didn't see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian2 Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 We never go out, the kids come to our house. I spent it in Vientiane in 2001, I can't even remember any balloons let alone fireworks. M-exLG took me down to the river with our krathong and we launched it into the mighty Mekong but even with the (paid) efforts of young swimmers to push it into the current it was a disastrous voyage. Which probably explains a few things.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 In Phitsanulok the Nan River would have a few kids in the water waiting to ambush krathongs. Since you always put a few baht in, they'd steal the money. The more enterprising would grab the expensive lokking krathongs and try to sell them again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think_too_mut Posted December 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 An average Thai lunch - but made in Japan. All spices and Thai special things are available in most supermarkets, the most exotic ones in specialized for imports from Brazil, Vietnam and Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 Home made? Hard enough to get good Thai dishes in the US. Restaurants cut corners and tone everything down to what folks who have never been to Thailand think Thai food should taste like. I have two great but small restaurants in walking distance of my house. Tourists would look at them and walk right by, but the cooks (one from Phitsanulok and one from Ubon) are fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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