Price comparison FOOD - Hua Hin/U.K

[Lost]

Jacket Potatoes, cheese and beans.

UK - £1.20 Hua Hin - £3.00

Beans on toast

Uk - 40p Hua Hin £1.20

Full English

Uk - 2 of each (we don't play by them rules we have 4 of each...and load it up) £2 Hua Hin (bit of withered bacon, a single sausage, 3 baked beans and and a poorly egg £3.

Tuna and cucumber sandwich

Uk - 50p Hua Hin £1.30

I could go on.

Thailand (Hua Hin especially) is no longer attractive to us financially. Yes, I could eat papaya salad and sticky rice for a pound a pop (a pop fifty if in Hua Hin) but I'm not gonna start living off the land at my age. Hua Hin is pricing itself out the market. Regrettably so.

[Lost]

Just to add also,

Me and the missus went back to UK last year. Bag of rice £1.80. Lasted us 3-4 days. Veg and meat cheaper and better quality though I did miss my 'Paak Boong Fai Deang'. Morning glory just isn't growing like weeds in the UK as it is here.

[buksida]

This one I do totally agree with, having been back to the UK three times over the past three years.

Groceries are a lot cheaper there, half the price in many instances. My monthly food/groceries bill here in Thailand for the household (2 adults, 2 kids) is the stuff of nightmares and we rarely eat out.

[Lost]

This one I do totally agree with, having been back to the UK three times over the past three years.

Groceries are a lot cheaper there, half the price in many instances. My monthly food/groceries bill here in Thailand for the household (2 adults, 2 kids) is the stuff of nightmares and we rarely eat out.

Having not been back for a decade or so, I too was (pleasantly) shocked at the value/bargain you could finish with in the local Supermraket. Difference is, is that we have (and enjoy) healthy competition in the U.K with the German companies Lidl and Aldi gaining most sales over last xmas, for example.

Thai's don't like that 'competition' game. They prefer monopoly. They understand both monopoly and stick. To know your place.

[STEVE G]

With the present exchange rate, the UK is cheap for everything, except for property which is what makes it unattractive as a retirement destination unless you already have a house that you bought years ago and have paid off the mortgage. (And if you ignore the weather!)

[fabman]

we were in Pattaya last week for a few days, food and alcohol so much cheaper there. Great full English breakfast including tea or coffee, orange juice etc only 99 baht. Alcohol in bars ( not that I am a big drinker) on average about a third less than HH. Sure Pattaya has some seedy areas, but there are some decent areas as well. I live in Soi 6 and the bars out this way charge more for a beer or Rum than in anywhere central Pattaya. Hua Hin is way over priced, no wonder there are so many empty houses here. Generally a lot more tourist in Pattaya as well. I came to live in Hua Hin because I preferred it here, but times are changing. Your money will only go so far..

[T.O.M.]

We live in Thailand...!!
How are the food prices in Somalia, Kenya, Sweden or the UK of any relevance to us?

If it is getting too expensive to buy your imported food stuff here....go home. Or eat locally produced food...there is plenty of good and reasonably priced stuff around.

I am sure the Thai's living in the UK find their imported Thai foods equally stupid expensive.

As for the anti-Thai sentiment here.....getting a little boring. And sadly becoming more and more frequent on those pages....Blame anyone but yourself...

[benmo]

I moved permanently to Hua Hin from the uk last year. I own my house here. I eat out all the time, almost always European food. All I know is that overall it is so much cheaper here even with the current exchange rate. No regrets

[Lost]

We live in Thailand...!!
How are the food prices in Somalia, Kenya, Sweden of any relevance to us?

If it is getting too expensive to buy your imported food stuff here....go home.

Feckn hell, alright mate! Calm down. We're talking about the cost of local produce and you start speaking Somalian, Kenyan and Swedish.

Didn't realise Captain Phillips was posting.

We were discussing a potato, some bread, beans, eggs, fish

Da fck you on about T.O.M?

[Lost]

I moved permanently to Hua Hin from the uk last year. I own my house here. I eat out all the time, almost always European food. All I know is that overall it is so much cheaper here even with the current exchange rate. No regrets

Firstly, you don't own your house. Maybe you share ownership with the wife but you DO NOT own it. I touch wood for you....

Yes, eating out is a damn site cheaper here than the UK. To eat out at a chippie, you need the at least 1000 baht in UK. Why bother when you can get such good food for so cheap from the shops.

Much of a muchness

[HHTel]

I am sure the Thai's living in the UK find their imported Thai foods equally stupid expensive.

I have to agree. Comparing British food here with prices in the UK has to be weighed with Thai food in the UK as opposed to here.
My daughter loves Thai food and when she's here she pigs out on it every day. Why? Because she can't afford to eat out at a Thai restaurant in the UK. Even buying Thai produce and cooking at home is expensive.

I'm sure Thais living in the UK have similar gripes to ourselves.

It works both ways!

[Lost]

I am sure the Thai's living in the UK find their imported Thai foods equally stupid expensive.

I have to agree. Comparing British food here with prices in the UK has to be weighed with Thai food in the UK as opposed to here.
My daughter loves Thai food and when she's here she pigs out on it every day. Why? Because she can't afford to eat out at a Thai restaurant in the UK. Even buying Thai produce and cooking at home is expensive.

I'm sure Thais living in the UK have similar gripes to ourselves.

It works both ways!

To buy a plate of fried rice from a restaurant. 6-10 pounds in the uk. To make it yourself £1.50. Pad Thai - make it yourself for 2 quid in the uk. As long as you can manage basic cooking skills you can eat Thai food in the Uk. Laab, Paad Thai, Paad Biew Waan. All very basic and easy.

We obviously cant compete with the price of seafood in the UK. But ONLY seafood. Everything else is cheaper. Even packets of Maa Maa noodles are 25p in Uk now. What are they here 7-8 baht? - not much difference.

[Lost]

We live in Thailand...!!

As for the anti-Thai sentiment here.....getting a little boring. And sadly becoming more and more frequent on those pages....Blame anyone but yourself...

You are getting boring with your continuous blah blah blah about 'anti-Thai'. We're talking spuds and eggs not the bloody Sukothai dynasty you wally. By the by, I'm mixed race. Dad is Thai, mum is English. They are both idiots. Much like you sound.

[joelle]

Here are some prices of thai dishes in a Thai restaurant in England last June 2018
Compare those prices to what you would pay here for the same food !!!

[benmo]

A correction Lost I do own the house but not the land