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what visa are you planning on getting for mynamar? as not all visa will give you acess to other parts of the country, ie they can be regional depending on where you enter the country, unless you have secured a visa prior to arriving.... And you should be aware of current conflicts inside the country as they frequently change and leave areas inacessable or cut off, staying in the major cities is advisable unless you have local guides / friends. We recently returned from tachilek, and inle lake in the shan state, and all was not well as of a 2 weeks ago with skirmishes bEtween the UWSA, SSA, BGF, USDA ect. food was ok, not really a big suprise, best meals we had were in tachilek and a few grilled fish from inle..heres a good news source from the shan state, located on the lao border. Also if you do go forget travelers checks and atm's theyare totaly useless bring, usd and or thai baht. Im assuming you will be traveling via lao, make sure the border is open before you try as i think the lao border is sealed as we speak.. So you would need to fly or cross fromn china or thailand. shanland.org

strange review they are pretty middle of the road it, reads more like a menu list than a review. He sure didn't come out and say what he was thinking positive or negative

hmm pad thai, been here for 2 years now only had it twice.... ive seen it plenty of times in tourist spots, and eaten it once in nakhon suan supposedly the best in thailand and once at home, its for the tourists as far as i can tell, but what do i know.... peter when was the last time you were served pad thai in the los?

I can think of several instances where the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and 60 Minutes have done that. The Feedbag probably gets some stuff wrong, though no clear examples are coming to mind and none have been cited. But the Feedbag is certainly not a rumor mill. Most of the information is either fact or opinion. ← I know this is bringing up ghosts of the past, but here one example to speak of. Not to say it was done intentional, he may have assumed it was true, but you know the old saying about assumptions .

Has anybody read Ozersky's Alice Waters vs. Per Se story? Funny how most all of the comments are negative and directed to him and his lil tabloid peice. Then he updates that maybe it wasnt even her,,, at least a tabloid would have gotten the identity right, or at the least done little fact checking before posting it up as truth....... http://www.the-feedbag.com/elsewhere/alice...oxious-mischief

We did get to bo.lan and it was quite interesting (I mean that only in a good way). I'll let Peter blog it in sequence, since this is his thread. (Hijack: Tim, could you tell us more about your latest projects? I for one would love to check them out!) ← well we have a bakery that just opened about a month and a half ago, were gonna be in paragon starting tomorrow for a event , runnning for the next week, maybe longer if all goes well,

peter check out bolan restaurant hearing some good stuff about it here in bkk

Of course this is exactly why serious food reviewers wont take comps. That way they cannot be accused of blatant favoritism, How often do you see the bloggers ever put anything bad out about there "favorite" places. Such as I had a bad dish at xxxxx restaurant the other night blah, blah, blah. Never, because if they get a not so hot dish they will let it slide in fear of getting the chef angry and the freebies and vip status no longer exist,

px status will get you comp courses, its pretty much the norm at all nyc fine dining places

lets be honest some of these blogs are simply pay for play. Restaurants use the bloggers for a desired outcome, ie public exposure for a new dish or opening of a restaurant, Its a marketing tactic. The bloggers use the restaurants for food, attention, the ability to tag along at industry parties, ect ect.

I dont think his reviews and/or blurbs about food are much to argue over, they generaly stay fairly positive and tend to not be terribly serious. One can tell the man generaly likes food and the whole restaurant scene for that matter. Yes he has some chefs that he favors, but how different is that from any other of the bloggers/ serious reviewers. Where he tends to go wrong is when he comments or prints "stories" involving restaurant politics and or incidents in the buisness without fact checking i can think of several cases where he has printed false information based upon rumors. If he sticks to food hes fine, anything more than that is questionable.

Ok guys my gf has a bakery that is having lots of trouble with the cupcakes drying out after a few hours, we have resorted to air tight containers for storage, i know invert helps to retain moisture, any ideas for ratio of invert to add to a batter heres the recipie she is currently using, any other shelf life prolonging / moisture retainer info would be great to hear, oh by the way we live in a tropical environment, 35c minimum most every day... recipie: 1. ไข่ไก่ 2 ใบ 2 eggs 2. น้ำตาล 1½ ถ้วย (360g.) 1.5c sugar 3. นม 1 ถ้วย 1c milk 4. แป้งเค้ก 2⅓ถ้วย (560g.) 2.5c cake flour 5. เนย 120g. 120 g butter 6. B.P 1 ช้อนชา 1 tsp baking powder 7. B.S 1 ช้อนชา 1 tsp baking soda

korea town saam blue ribbon inoteca la isla <cubans sandwiches and other stuff not fancy by any means> st marks <kenka for lots of cheep beer> sushi seki congee village punjabi <vegetarian indian kiosk lots of cabbies> landmark izyaki rikki stanton social sake bar hagi kampucheua <sp? this should be a good start for you

we use cane sugar , for the beef sauce, you can toast uncooked rice until almost burned crush it in a mortar and pestel<sp>? add to the sauce base issan style,

let me know when your in town, always more than glad to do a little eating/ tour guide "day off" if my schedule allows, little update for peter so we have 2 places now and are opening 2 more pastry shops as of jan 16th

any tips for ice cream / sorbet production on 100 gal per day production, as it applies to storage and stabalizer usage to prevent ice from forming while being stored??? i am expanding into wholesale i have plenty of exp with small batch production but always produced on a daily basis or used paco jets, so never needed to really get into the storage of finished product any reading suggestions would help as well

i was part of it last year, you get what you want out of it, if your there to drink and party you wont get much, but if you attend the demos you will leave with plenty new ideas....

Wow I'm inpressed! In Thai even. Er, now give me about 30 minutes to remember how to read Thai (kidding). Wanna translate for all those english speakers out there? ← Chai krub, it goes a little something like this:,,,,,Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit............ its kinda sing song when you pronounce it, please dont ask how or why i know this but cant ever remember alot of useful thai when i seem to need it most,,,, say this out loud and most thais think there is something wrong with the farang, blank stares or laughter are the most common responses

กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลก ภพนพรัตน์ ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์ มหาสถาน อมรพิมาน อวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะ วิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์ how ya like them apples

hey peter you ever been to or tor kor market???? Hit me up if you want to go, im cray busy with 17 days till my place goes live, but i can always squeeze a trip in for "product research"

20 days to go, pacojet came, graphic design all done, wine glasses and water, drink glasses showed up, foh uniforms came yesterday.... getting there, our first pre soft opening opening parties are scheduled for the first but its only 35 ppl for a sit down, and a passed desert event for 300 on the same day but its luckily in the same building as we are in,.

Yeah were standing on the brink of another coup de ta, should be big fun.... oh the new government is only 4 months old,,,,, and already the natives are restless.. power compay is threatening to shut off power to all govt offices, seems the owe 500,000 usd in elect bills, surely not a good sign, but this is amazing thailand .......

oh yeah i left out the bribe money, amazing that a little cash will make liquor, and all other permits just materialize ..... gotta love 3rd world policies

It sounds like you know what you are doing. I think maybe you could tell us how to do it. Maybe do a write up on business plan, contracting the design, development, construction. Layout a timeframe and what hurdles you can expect to cross, licensing, permits, etc.. I'd love to get my own place started but it all seems so daunting and risky. Share your wisdom. Less to do with wisdom, more border line obsessive compulsive behavior, our budget is crazy small 70,000 for large kitchen eq and construction that includes hoods and duct work... 60 for all foh construction and design tables chairs ect. 25,000 for everything else pots, pans, plates, silver, glasses..... Graphic design 1,000. PR 10,000, Opening inventory 3k for a grand total of 169,000... usd of course it will go lot further here than in the us when it comes to labor ect.. But our prices for western equipment are much higher due to our import taxes. Example pacojet ate 7,500 of our 25,000 small wares budget.... hurts, lot when you gotta buy plates and a espresso machine, by the way why in the hell do they need to be so expensive? Its not like they are terribly complicated machines, but whatever.. I will start to post some pics of the place and food/ sample menus if you guys want, as we speak im staring at a custom wood place setting, trying to figure out why it went horribly wrong and how to remedy it by friday......

nope kitchen is done today, 22 days left to test. unpacked with sous chef today and stages start on friday