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leaford
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I once went out to see how much I could get for $1US, which was 45baht at the time. I came back with a barbequed fish, some barbequed pork in a sweet orange sauce with sticky rice, two strings of small sausages, some watermelon and papaya slices, and I still had 5baht left over!
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:17 pm on Dec. 27, 2002
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Ballsburstin
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leaford,
yeah, when in BKK staying with my TGF, we always eat like that, rarely spend more than $1 or $2 USD for dinner, etc. Really economical, and tastes great! Never been sick from the carts, though I do buy cooked stuff, not the raw pork that some of the Isaan pepople really like (don't want to get liver flukes). Nice benefit is that it's a great social scene, my TGF doesn't have to cook in the apartment, and I get to learn about lots of new dishes and local vegetables/fruits.
- Balls
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 5:38 pm on Dec. 27, 2002
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bandit
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Oh, I have good memories to food carts, specially to my first trip when I had my steadie in Karon Center. The food cart there looked so funny with the red lights and the dried sepias moving in the night breeze.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 7:40 pm on Dec. 27, 2002
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saddic
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Thanks to all who responded...
Special commendations to Johnnyc for his detailed post...
I'll be sure to try'em out for a latenight snack... Żanybody interested in joining me send a PM.
<flight leaves in 11 hrs and counting...  >
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 5:29 pm on Dec. 29, 2002
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Whisper
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Can thoroughly recommend the carts and food stalls as well as the temporary setups in car-parks and such. Unbelievably delicious food and ridiculously cheap. Could eat like a King for 3/4 of f_ck-all. Oh, and never experienced any sickness of any description.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 12:35 am on Mar. 25, 2003
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Fritz
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I'm actually a great fan of the carts and I visit them regularly and with enthusiasm. Great food, tasty, cheap and easily digestible.
But I also don't quite trust the Thai's honesty when they tell me it's all Beef or Pork meat on the grill. So let me just switch into cynical mode for a moment, and maybe spoil it all by asking the innocent(?) question:
Why can you so often see these fatted, ugly dogs close to the food stalls, dogs that nobody seems to like or care about?? 
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:48 pm on April 2, 2003
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Whisper
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That's no way to talk about Thai women, Fritz!
Seriously, I doubt that the meat they are cooking is dog - I have sampled many of the different foods on offer and I am quite certain that they are mainly beef and chicken. My Thai friend is very particular about what she eats and there is no way she would buy meat from a cart if she knew it was dog.
As to who owns the dogs - it is very hard to tell. I think they may be old strays who hang around the cart and look for scraps. But all of the ones I saw were always asleep! I wonder where the young dogs are? Maybe they are all pets in someone's homes.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 7:29 pm on April 2, 2003
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Fritz
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> I wonder where the young dogs are?
...on the grill?
Just kidding, Fritz
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:04 am on April 3, 2003
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whitespider
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The dogs are usually stray but pretty well looked after - just look at all the plates of food lying around at night. Afetr all to most Thais they might be their dead grannie or something re-incarnate. Only place i know where "dog" is eaten as a matter of course is up around UdonThani - and I only know that coz an ex gf came from there and told me they ate dog regularly.
Mind you on one trip to the Isaan I saw rats, frogs, and all sorts on food stalls - so who knows
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 3:09 pm on April 9, 2003
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Agamemnon
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After all this positive talk about eating off the carts, does anyone have any bad stories?
I usually eat the local food, and have never had a problem before, but having the trots for two or three days of a week in BKK would really suck.
As I get older, I'm less willing to spend one day completely drunk trying to get over a local bacterial affliction.
Drank the local water in the P.I. one time and had to spend an entire day within ten feet of the crapper.
Aggie
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 3:16 pm on April 9, 2003
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