MisterClean wrote:Sweep up the street vendors, initiate police state, war on vice, register your business and bow down to corporate vampires. Dont you know that the more corporations that are allowed to operate, they will by nature sue to remove the street vendors who dont contribute to the tax base and suck 50% of their profits?
Wake up THAILAND, Keep Your Street Culture at all costs or suffer a depression such as the one America is enduring now.
Could you remind me of the time period when the USA had any form of vibrant street cooking / eating culture ?
The hot dog guy in time square doesn't exactly fit the description
I never forget a face but in your case I'll make an exception!
For me, the street culture is part of the attraction of LOS and if I understand it correctly was copied from the Chinese not the 'West'. Giving the poor cheap food and the opportunity to incubate small businesses into larger outlets makes good business sense. I like the freedom with which anyone can set up and sell, without taxes and bureaucracy. However, I can see a time when regulation will be required.
I'm with Mr Plum. I love the vibrancy of the street foods scene. Especially in the early morning around 0500 when people are eating breakfast and making merit by giving the monks on their rounds food.
I never forget a face but in your case I'll make an exception!
H2ODunc wrote:I'm with Mr Plum. I love the vibrancy of the street foods scene. Especially in the early morning around 0500 when people are eating breakfast and making merit by giving the monks on their rounds food.
There's a lady who sells a rice dish called 'Jo' outside a local school. 5 baht a bowl. When I asked her why she doesn't charge 10 or more, like the other vendors, she says she wants all the school children to be able to eat and refuses it when I say 'keep the change'.
H2ODunc wrote:I'm with Mr Plum. I love the vibrancy of the street foods scene. Especially in the early morning around 0500 when people are eating breakfast and making merit by giving the monks on their rounds food.
Same same but different really. In the States they go out for breakfast as well don't they? Patronising small diners or street hot dog stands. Only difference I guess is the regulations covering those food outlets in the States which no doubt push up the prices, plus the absence of the monks. Beats me why some people find it difficult to get to grips with the more laid back Thai way of life!
I agree Mags. I really cannot understand many people who choose to come and live in Thailand. They come here on holiday;they fall in love with the place; they move here, and then they want everything to change. And, if all those changes were to take place, they'd no longer want to live here.
I can only hope Thailand stays more or less the same as it is until I die because I really don't want to move elsewhere right now.
Don't try to impress me with your manner of dress cos a monkey himself is a monkey no less - cold fact
sargeant wrote:I see that with your paranoia over street food in hot weather (gawd elp us)
plus your paranoia over washing and drinking water (gawd elp us)
you must be the advance propaganda special forces for this Americanisation approaching
MisterClean wrote:Sweep up the street vendors, initiate police state, war on vice, register your business and bow down to corporate vampires. Dont you know that the more corporations that are allowed to operate, they will by nature sue to remove the street vendors who dont contribute to the tax base and suck 50% of their profits?
Wake up THAILAND, Keep Your Street Culture at all costs or suffer a depression such as the one America is enduring now.
Could you remind me of the time period when the USA had any form of vibrant street cooking / eating culture ?
The hot dog guy in time square doesn't exactly fit the description
Yeah what about Daytona beach 1959? Seriously though I dont mean eggs and dirty water, I mean a culture of "happy go lucky" instead of "happy go regulate-y" such as is the attitude and policy of the US right now.
H2ODunc wrote:I'm with Mr Plum. I love the vibrancy of the street foods scene. Especially in the early morning around 0500 when people are eating breakfast and making merit by giving the monks on their rounds food.
There's a lady who sells a rice dish called 'Jo' outside a local school. 5 baht a bowl. When I asked her why she doesn't charge 10 or more, like the other vendors, she says she wants all the school children to be able to eat and refuses it when I say 'keep the change'.
Nut jobs are the ones who think brown water and rotten eggs are the norm and 7% VAT be damned
You might well be right. After all, it was you that told us that brown water was the norm and you had to spend a small fortune to get a non-brown water supply.
It was also you who told us not to eat at street stalls in the hot season because bad food was the norm.
As for the VAT - What is your complaint about VAT ?
of the US right now.
