Re: Finally took the time

Quoted message said:

Say Hey:

What Craig Sutton may do is file a official complant with Steve
Kramers boss at the Royal Thai Tourist Police for further action.
Won't take long for the loop holes to close and ole Kombat gets the
boot for tarnishing the record of the police.

5555 Yee-Haw !!

What we haven't told you, because it's been such fun seeing you guys
make asses of yourselves, is that I resigned from the Tourist Police TWO
YEARS AGO. We've just let you go on and on looking more and more foolish
with each post. Actually, each CROSS POSTED post, so that ALL the people
in the other groups realize just how ridiculous you are! I haven't had
the time required to do the job properly, giving it the time it needs,
so I had to give it up. My business has simply grown too large. :o)

Steve Kramer
"PhotoEnvisions" Photography
Chiang Mai, Thailand
http://www.photoenvisions.com

Steve Kramer said:

Quoted message said:

Say Hey:

What Craig Sutton may do is file a official complant with Steve
Kramers boss at the Royal Thai Tourist Police for further action.
Won't take long for the loop holes to close and ole Kombat gets the
boot for tarnishing the record of the police.

5555 Yee-Haw !!

What we haven't told you, because it's been such fun seeing you guys
make asses of yourselves, is that I resigned from the Tourist Police
TWO YEARS AGO. We've just let you go on and on looking more and more
foolish with each post. Actually, each CROSS POSTED post, so that ALL
the people in the other groups realize just how ridiculous you are!
I haven't had the time required to do the job properly, giving it the
time it needs, so I had to give it up. My business has simply grown
too large. :o)

Steve Kramer
"PhotoEnvisions" Photography
Chiang Mai, Thailand
http://www.photoenvisions.com

Good for you, Steve! (And thankfully you didn't cross-post heheh). I've
been deleting these idiots with their ridiculous cross-postings right and
left. Too bad they don't post from @gmail; they'd be outta here in one fell
swoop!

My brother had a question which maybe you can answer. I surely can't.
Seems that Thom Kha Gai soup shows up frequently on The Food Network. In
fact, on Iron Chef last week we saw a "deconstructed" version of this, which
of course wasn't soup at all, just the base ingredients cooked and placed on
a platter. (This trend towards "deconstructing" is pretty much stupid, but
I suppose these "new" chefs have to come up with something.)

Thing is, we never saw this soup in the shops when we were in Bangkok. Do
you know if this is some yuppified version of basic Thai chicken soup? What
I remember being served most in the shops and from noodle carts was a pretty
basic chicken noodle soup. It was spicy, but still chicken noodle soup. I
can't spell it.

Jill

jmcquown said:

Steve Kramer said:

Quoted message said:

Say Hey:

What Craig Sutton may do is file a official complant with Steve
Kramers boss at the Royal Thai Tourist Police for further action.
Won't take long for the loop holes to close and ole Kombat gets the
boot for tarnishing the record of the police.

5555 Yee-Haw !!

What we haven't told you, because it's been such fun seeing you guys
make asses of yourselves, is that I resigned from the Tourist Police
TWO YEARS AGO. We've just let you go on and on looking more and more
foolish with each post. Actually, each CROSS POSTED post, so that ALL
the people in the other groups realize just how ridiculous you are!
I haven't had the time required to do the job properly, giving it the
time it needs, so I had to give it up. My business has simply grown
too large. :o)

Steve Kramer
"PhotoEnvisions" Photography
Chiang Mai, Thailand
http://www.photoenvisions.com

Good for you, Steve! (And thankfully you didn't cross-post heheh). I've
been deleting these idiots with their ridiculous cross-postings right and
left. Too bad they don't post from @gmail; they'd be outta here in one fell
swoop!

My brother had a question which maybe you can answer. I surely can't.
Seems that Thom Kha Gai soup shows up frequently on The Food Network. In
fact, on Iron Chef last week we saw a "deconstructed" version of this, which
of course wasn't soup at all, just the base ingredients cooked and placed on
a platter. (This trend towards "deconstructing" is pretty much stupid, but
I suppose these "new" chefs have to come up with something.)

Thing is, we never saw this soup in the shops when we were in Bangkok. Do
you know if this is some yuppified version of basic Thai chicken soup? What
I remember being served most in the shops and from noodle carts was a pretty
basic chicken noodle soup. It was spicy, but still chicken noodle soup. I
can't spell it.

Tom Kha Gai is a very popular dish, one of my personal favorites and it
not spicy. It's got a long and distinguished history in Thailand,
definitely not a yuppfied version of something else. You would NEVER
confuse it with chicken soup. I think what you are remembering from the
vendors carts was kwae teo gai. (sp?) That's basic chicken noodle soup
of Asia.

Tom Kha Gai is served with rice, not noodles, and the rice is on the
side. Kwae Teo can be found anywhere from S'pore to Vietnam and China
under the same name. Only the (chicken, pork, shrimp, fishballs, crab,
etc.,) part of the name changes. When I eat Kwea Teo I always add
crushed red pepper, salt, and soy sauce. Many Brits here add
vinegar/pepper as well.

There are LOTS of ingredients in Tom Kha Gai ('gai' meaning chicken)
that are NOT eaten, only added for flavor, such as slices of galangal,
1" lengths of lemon grass bases, kaffir lime leaves, etc., and many
foreigners find that having to remove things from their mouths while
eating to be 'declasse...' Besides, it's no fun biting into a piece of
something that has the consistency of rock maple... Tom Kha Gai ( or
T.K. mu [pork] kung [shrimp]) is always a coconut stock soup, rather
than a clear broth like kwae teo, so thick and white. It's a great dish
to introduce to people who have never eaten Thai foods before and
believe all Thai foods to be very spicy. Tom Kha Gai isn't spicy
although many people do add some spices to it. Absolutely delicious
soup!! In fact, I think I just decided that we shall have it for lunch
today! By the way, need more melon seeds? I still have the address.

Steve Kramer
"PhotoEnvisions" Photography
Chiang Mai, Thailand
http://www.photoenvisions.com
Nine years, one month, two weeks, five days, 4 hours, 10 minutes and 20
seconds. 100115 cigarettes not smoked, saving $25,028.80. Time used for
a better purpose: 49 weeks, 4 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes.

Steve Kramer said:

My business has simply grown too large. :o)

Good to hear that, Steve!

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Steve Kramer said:

jmcquown said:

Steve Kramer said:

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Good for you, Steve! (And thankfully you didn't cross-post heheh).
I've been deleting these idiots with their ridiculous cross-postings
right and left. Too bad they don't post from @gmail; they'd be
outta here in one fell swoop!

My brother had a question which maybe you can answer. I surely
can't. Seems that Thom Kha Gai soup shows up frequently on The Food
Network. In fact, on Iron Chef last week we saw a "deconstructed"
version of this, which of course wasn't soup at all, just the base
ingredients cooked and placed on a platter. (This trend towards
"deconstructing" is pretty much stupid, but I suppose these "new"
chefs have to come up with something.)

Thing is, we never saw this soup in the shops when we were in
Bangkok. Do you know if this is some yuppified version of basic
Thai chicken soup? What I remember being served most in the shops
and from noodle carts was a pretty basic chicken noodle soup. It
was spicy, but still chicken noodle soup. I can't spell it.

Tom Kha Gai is a very popular dish, one of my personal favorites and
it not spicy. It's got a long and distinguished history in Thailand,
definitely not a yuppfied version of something else. You would NEVER
confuse it with chicken soup. I think what you are remembering from
the vendors carts was kwae teo gai. (sp?) That's basic chicken noodle
soup of Asia.

Tom Kha Gai is served with rice, not noodles, and the rice is on the
side. Kwae Teo can be found anywhere from S'pore to Vietnam and China
under the same name. Only the (chicken, pork, shrimp, fishballs, crab,
etc.,) part of the name changes. When I eat Kwea Teo I always add
crushed red pepper, salt, and soy sauce. Many Brits here add
vinegar/pepper as well.

Kwae teo gai. I know this as Kwae Teo Naam, thanks! It was spicy chicken
noodle soup. It contained lots of salty fish sauce (nam plaa) and yes, thai
chilis in it. This is what we bought from the noodle cart vendors and in
the shops along the streets of Bangkok. Also (we made a big joke of it, but
we were young) Cow Pot (Kao Paht). Thai fried rice.

Quoted message said:

There are LOTS of ingredients in Tom Kha Gai ('gai' meaning chicken)

Yes, I know the Thai word for chicken is 'gai'. The dish is often simply
called Tom Kha. I recently dug up a funny little book my mother bought when
we lived there called "Mai pen rai". You'll understand the meaning of this,
as the Thais often take that attitude with falangs 🙂

Quoted message said:

that are NOT eaten, only added for flavor, such as slices of galangal,
1" lengths of lemon grass bases, kaffir lime leaves, etc., and many
foreigners find that having to remove things from their mouths while
eating to be 'declasse...' Besides, it's no fun biting into a piece of
something that has the consistency of rock maple... Tom Kha Gai ( or
T.K. mu [pork] kung [shrimp]) is always a coconut stock soup, rather
than a clear broth like kwae teo, so thick and white. It's a great
dish to introduce to people who have never eaten Thai foods before and
believe all Thai foods to be very spicy. Tom Kha Gai isn't spicy
although many people do add some spices to it. Absolutely delicious
soup!! In fact, I think I just decided that we shall have it for lunch
today! By the way, need more melon seeds? I still have the address.

I'm still snacking on the watermelon seeds. Might need a winter shipment,
though!

Jill

jmcquown said:

Steve Kramer wrote:

Quoted message said:

Kwae teo gai. I know this as Kwae Teo Naam, thanks!

Actually, you're correct. Although it can be served as a semi-dry noodle
dish like pad thai, it's more often sold as kwae teo nam xxxxx. Oddly
enough, I eat kwae tep NAM mu almost every day for lunch. For some
reason when writing it out I forgot all about the liquid (nam!) I get
laughed at for eating it so often, but damn it, it tastes good, isn't
fattening, and is fast and cheap. Nobuko can pour over a lunch menu for
30 minutes (I'll do that at dinner...) while I simple choose kwae teo
nam mu or khow phat mu or pat. (Pork or Veggi fried rice.)

Quoted message said:

It was spicy chicken
noodle soup. It contained lots of salty fish sauce (nam plaa) and yes, thai
chilis in it. This is what we bought from the noodle cart vendors and in
the shops along the streets of Bangkok.

That's the stuff. If there is one single dish that is ubiquitous to SE
Asia it's kwae teo nam xxxx

Also (we made a big joke of it, but

Quoted message said:

we were young) Cow Pot (Kao Paht). Thai fried rice.

My waiters want to serve me khow phat nuu... Mouse Fried Rice!

Quoted message said:

I recently dug up a funny little book my mother bought when
we lived there called "Mai pen rai". You'll understand the meaning of this,
as the Thais often take that attitude with falangs 🙂

Two linguists, a Mexican and a Thai who met at a conference, were having
lunch together. The Thai linguist says to his friend;
"I don't speak your language, but I have been studying one of your
words. I find it to be wonderful. It's the word "mañana." You use it in
so many ways!"
"Yes" says the Mexican, "we do have so many shades of meaning for it.
But tell me, in your Thai language, do you have such a word?"
The Thai linguist thinks and thinks, then shaking his head replies;
"No.... we really don't have any word that expresses such urgency...."

Quoted message said:

I'm still snacking on the watermelon seeds. Might need a winter shipment,
though!

You know how to find me when you're ready!

Steve Kramer
"PhotoEnvisions" Photography
Chiang Mai, Thailand
http://www.photoenvisions.com
Nine years, one month, two weeks, five days, 16 hours, 11 minutes and 52
seconds. 100130 cigarettes not smoked, saving $25,032.56. Time used for
a better purpose: 49 weeks, 4 days, 16 hours, 10 minutes.