A New Business and Thai food, Thailand.

I went out to see my mate Big John and have a look at his new business he has just set up not far from his house.

He has opened a sewing place, he gets clothes sent to him and they are already cut out and just need to be assembled, easy right? Well, if it was so easy everyone would be doing it. John is setting up his team of workers who are going to be really looked after. He has said that he doesn’t expect to make a fortune out of this business but after a few months enough money coming in to cover all expenses and put some in the bank as well.

Here John strikes a pose with Noot. The other lady is a machinist. The workers will work and stay on the premises. It is three floors plus a roof top area as well. There are two showers and also a kitchen that is nearly complete. The building is brand new. The rent is at a very good price for a month as well. You could buy one for 1.5 million Baht.

They are building a heap of these 3 story walk ups. This is looking out the back of his shop.

And this is looking out the back and to the right. The open walled place with the roof is a market and was up and running for a time until people stopped coming as all the construction was causing a mess and no where to park and so forth. Now it is closed for the time being.

This is the sign that shows what the project is going to look like when completed. The building themselves are really poor quality workmanship; if John was buying and not renting he would have the builder doing a lot of fix up work. The finish quality is typical Thai building. Get it up and slap some paint on it and get out of there.

After visiting John we then headed to brunch. We stopped at a place called "Dook" after the cook on the way home, we had never tried before.

The kitchen is a typical Thai set up and there were plenty of happy faces.

The set up inside was good and it was very clean as well.

Here an employee grills some pork.

This is our deep fried pork with a really yummy oyster sauce. A 9.5 out of 10.

This is oxtail soup and was average. I gave it a 3. The stock was just too bland and there wasn’t much meat on the oxtail.

This is vegetables and pork and was a 10 out of 10. A really good dish.

This is spicy chicken, what is called Larb Gai in Thai and it too wasn’t great but again I am not a big fan of this dish. I like the beef style dish with blood added and boiled into the sauce. All up with a 40 Baht bowl of rice and a big bottle of Pepsi the bill was 250 Baht.

So that was how we killed a few hours on a Sunday, nothing too strenuous.

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The place is very close to Wat Sa Prasan Suk. The temple is the purple marker and the knife and fork are the restaurant.

Brunty