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Was that the restaurant that was always in trouble for overcharging tourists? The price might say something like "from 1,000 to 4,000 baht". If you were Thai, you'd be charged 1,000, Farangs 2,000, and Japanese probably 4,000.

 

The Bangkok law says you have to mark your prices clearly - not deliberately vague. :)

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It was expensive but was the biggest seafood place around. You could have gone to the Pratunam corner but less ambience. The roller skate restaurant Tum Nak Thai was also just around the corner. Anyone remember NASA spacedrome near Ramkamphaeng? (the locals pronounced it as 'spae cee drome')

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Was that the restaurant that was always in trouble for overcharging tourists? The price might say something like "from 1,000 to 4,000 baht". If you were Thai, you'd be charged 1,000, Farangs 2,000, and Japanese probably 4,000.

 

The Bangkok law says you have to mark your prices clearly - not deliberately vague. :)

 

It was the same restaurant that moved to Suk Soi 24 ( http://www.seafood.co.th/ ) - "If It Swims We Have It". I never went to the Soi24 outlet after going once to old place and getting the bill.

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The roller skate restaurant Tum Nak Thai was also just around the corner.

 

As I recall it was on Rachadaphisek Rd near where all the soapies are now? Used to be full of garden resuarants on stilts over watery swampland and Tum Nak Thai was the biggest. They moved out to BangNa Trat highway when the swamps on Rachadaphisek Rd got concreted over.

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Some Thai colleagues took me there once. You could call in your meal and it would be delivered on skate. Long gone now, though some websites stir insist on listing it.

 

http://www.efootage.com/clip_list.php?query=tamnak-thai+restaurant

 

The NASA Spacedrome was where the coloured whirling light ball came loose one day and killed a few people on the dance floor. They paid the victims' families and tried to keep it as quiet as possible.

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