Cost Of Living Bangkok

[Coss]

I just came across this interesting page that lists costs in Bangkok for the living there, you know...

 

https://www.numbeo.c...ving/in/Bangkok

 

a sample

 

Restaurants

 

• Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant 60.00 ฿ .
  
• Meal for 2 People, Mid-range Restaurant, Three-course 800.00 ฿ .
  
• McMeal at McDonalds (or Equivalent Combo Meal) 160.96 ฿ .
  
• Domestic Beer (0.5 liter draught) 70.00 ฿ .
  
• Imported Beer (0.33 liter bottle) 130.00 ฿ .
  
• Cappuccino (regular) 71.71 ฿ .
  
• Coke/Pepsi (0.33 liter bottle) 18.11 ฿ .
  
• Water (0.33 liter bottle) 9.83 ฿ .
  

[Flashermac]

Prices are creeping up, but you can do better than that, provided you don't hang out in the tourist areas.

 

McDungald's is more expensive than ordinary Thai restaurants, but here are the prices just to give you an idea.

 

https://www.foodpand...y7lz/mcdonald-s

[buffalo_bill]

Flash, one hundred of them fried eggs at a time they would deliver free of charge . Bangkok Central I guess. Well noted .

[Coss]

Good link, certainly a good resource.

 

You know, I've never understood why people are glued to the food of their own country, or non food in the case of McD's. I avoid McD's like the plague and any other of those fast food chains.

 

I once spoke to an English guy, who had lived in NZ for 50 or so years and went on a trip back to England, with his wife to see his relatives. On the return journey he stopped in Rome for a couple of days, wife wanted to. I asked how was Rome? Good food? Italian food -a great cuisine. No, he said couldn't get any good food in Rome only "Foreign Muck". This man could not eat, anything other, than English food. Blinkered chap, he was.

 

If I go to Thailand I look forward to Thai food, to Japan, Japanese food, Vietnam, Viet food, you get the drift...

[radioman]

I used to be like that, until I went to China for the first time. Most depressing, somewhat like I expect Soviet era Russian food might be. I've since found some reasonably okay food in China but it's a rarity.

[Coss]

That surprises me, I would have thought Chinese food was good across the board, mind you there's Philippine food, which cannot be awarded the name cuisine.

 

And Burmese food, I only had lunch once in Tachilek so a small sample, but I know a Kiwi here who's married a Burmese lass and he agrees, Burmese food is not so good.

[Flashermac]

My Mrs was sent to the PRC to study Mandarin I don't remember how many times. She said none of those sent wanted to study in China, but they had no choice. The Ministry of Education picked them. The food was so bad that she always took packages of Mama noodles with her.

[buffalo_bill]

Gentlemen,

 

I wish to contribute to this excellent thread as follows, putting cost of living in BKK into proper perspective:

 

Deep inside Soi 4 on your left you find the Central Thai Competence Center for Diseases of Unspecified Kind. ( CTCCDUK ). Commonly known as Naree Massage. Lovely Pam from Lao is working daytime and I have to do something after breakfast. Once I have made it to Naree Massage I fix a treatment time with one of the doctors on duty and move on to a restaurant next door, name unknown but neighbouring an establishment called Swan Inn. This restaurant charges about 500 Baht as far as I remember for 1 water, 2 Singha and pork sweet and sour . The latter even eatable.

 

2 Singha early in the day makes me feel somewhat dizzy and plus aforementioned treatment within the next two hours I forget all about where I am, who I am and what time it is. Absolutely great feeling gentlemen, I love this.

 

Alltogether we are finally talking about maybe 3000 Baht including meal, medical interaction and motorcycle back to hotel. I very much doubt, gentlemen, that a quality arrangement like this could easily been had anywhere else. Not to forget that Bumrungrad is round the corner should your heart stop working with joy.

 

On a sidenote I swear to brutally kill an unknown person from Australia who has selfishly taken away the absolute jewel of Naree Massage. Name G.... . I still have her Thai mobile number and regularly try to find out if heart broken but so far no reply.

 

This is what I wanted to contribute.