Thai Society/Culture
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Toyota 2000GT Sighting in BKK
Somebody drove their original Toyota 2000GT through Bangkok traffic to a classic car show last week. What a legend! This must be the same car I wrote about being kept in an underground garage a couple years ago: Toyota 2000GT in Thailand Credit goes to Kai Vorra-asd on Facebook: LINK
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Scenes from a Hoi Tod Shop
Hoi Tod is a Thai dish made by frying mussels (or sometimes, other shellfish, squid, or shrimp) in an eggy batter and wrapping up beansprouts and garlic chives with it. Those in the know usually prefer this dish to Pad Thai. It’s often served as street food, especially at night markets, but there are also small shops that specialize in it. This particular joint was crowded when we visited at lunchtime on a weekday in a busy Bangkok district, but I thought it was pretty average — I thought it was too stuffed with undercooked sprouts, but that might just be due to my preferences. I’m used to a greasier…
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PP Pedestal
This is in the refurbished (!) restroom of one of my favorite restaurants in town. After careful observation, I have determined that it’s a MacGyvered pressure plate flushing mechanism that stinks of piss. It looked disgusting, so I just straddled it and stepped on the cleanest part when I was done… So weird.
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WordPress — undefined constant error
I try to follow cardinal rules of data management that were drilled into me since I got into computers at university by (#1) taking backups often and (#2) keeping stuff organized. Well, the first one caused my site to go down today because I didn’t really follow the second one. I try to keep on top of things by doing a full site backup at least once a year, on top of doing periodic database and blog backups. When I finished the full backup today, it stored the tarball (a compressed .tar.gz archive) in my hosted account right next to two other huge ones from last year that I forgot…
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ICS BKK
ICONSIAM is a huge mall and condo development on the banks of the Chao Phraya river that winds through the heart of Bangkok. It is a true testament to Thai consumerism and apparently cost a billion and a half USD. It’s huge and sleek and expensive, and it’s a great place to be a tourist and escape the heat.
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Moo Deng Livecam
Breakfast happens around 8:00 AM. The pen on the far side of the fence houses Papa Deng (Tony). Mama Deng’s name is Jona/Jonah. In typical Thai fashion, some of her siblings/half siblings are also named after pork dishes, Moo Wan (sweet pork) and Moo Toon (stewed pork). The most restful soundtrack via Moo Deng’s new webcam:
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Sushiro End Stack
I remember using QR codes for product tracking (with Keyence printers and scanners) as a salaryman around Y2K at an electronics factory on monster island. The only other place I’d ever seen them used was at kaiten (conveyor) sushi, on the bottom rim of the plastic plates. The codes would be scanned as they went by on the conveyor so old plates of sushi could be pulled – this was more than 20 years ago! Things certainly come full circle (although the new system seems to be RFID-based): There was a boom in QR code usage here in Thailand from around ten years ago specifically for adding friends in the…
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Khaen do.
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Looking Back
This year has been filled with business trips, mainly to Pattaya for some reason. Just looking back on some photos from May.
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Gogi Seki
Max’s auntie took us to a Korean BBQ buffet near her office in Sukhumvit and it’s basically the best yakiniku I’ve had in Thailand. For 500 baht ($15 US), you get the higher tier plan with beef and seafood, and the waitress comes to grill everything for you. This is the second time we’ve been there, and we’ll probably try to make it there whenever we’re on an extended Bangkok trip.
