Now Ban Chang is like 50km from Jomtien, this is where a lot of golfers go after playing golf, I must admit to going there as well although i vehemently deny playing golf, golf is a game for men with small balls, so you ask me why do they go there? well it just so happens if you turn left at the second set of traffic lights there are about 12 short time bars there, one of which will have one gal kissing you while the other is sucking your knob, this for the princely sum of 200 baht per gal, its quite obvious why it's so popular, although i have often wondered whether the gals do this on rotation and you're kissing the gal that was last doing the sucking, but Ban Chang is the home to the miracle....
Ahhh, The miracle is what you wonder, well the miracle is a fruit that originates from africa that will make anything taste sweet for about 30 minutes, yep after eating one of these which is about as big as a cherry, limes and vinegar taste sweet, so does sperm i assume.
The miracle Fruit
Now I believe there is only the one place here in Thailand that grows it, but this guy has been on tv and in all the gardening mags, so we went there today, now the main reason i was interested was because of his aussie mangoes, these foks weigh like over a kilo each and have really nice colours and he sells the baby trees, saplings for us that are in the know.
a nice link about miracle fruit
now look at this bugger of a mango and it ain't ready for picking yet.
Here we have some baby miracle trees, this guy thinks he is gonna make his fortune out of them, but nobody else seems to accept these as a fruit, IE nobody else in the world, still he is Thai.
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Anyway, off we go to to see his nursery, there we are, the whole family wandering around, and basically all he has is 5 of these super duper genetically modified mango trees and several million miracle trees and saplings, signs all over the place not to pick the fruit off the miracle trees both in english and thai, now i respect that in a man, so i only nicked a few, obviously i didn't tell my galfriend and son as i dont expect them to do that sort of thing as it is wrong, well obviously once we were out of the place and i saw all the stuff they had nicked i didn't mention the stuff i had got and told them off quite soundly, bloody thieving thai people, well i hope they realise how angry i was and when they plant the seeds i shall just chuck mine in there as well, got to keep up the english reputation.
here's a nice pic of his bridge.
anyway it was then we went to the seaside and then had a meal.
Well this weekend is a bank holiday so the seaside was full of thai ppl, yes i know they ain't that bad but do you really want to associate with the lowest of the low on labour day weekend? now i reckon normally the beach we went to, Had Nam Rin, is extremely quiet, it's actually quite nice and the water is cleanish, AND THERE WERE NO VENDORS, things do not get better than that, here's a couple of pics, the first i have been told are statues of dolphins, i assume the thais are chucking nuclear waste in the sea to make dolphins evolve like that.
and heres the rock, well a rock.
The main restuarant at had nam rin, it's at the turning on the beach road, it seats about 200 ppl and really ain't that good, ok the menu is extensive, but if the food is pretty crap it makes it a pretty crap menu, but they had a novel idea for the rice.
I mean ain't that romantic? well it foking would have been if we didn't have to wait 20 minutes for the stuff to go with the foking rice, i mean can you imagine getting your rice 20 minutes before you get anything to go with it, are these ppl foking morons?? of course they are, so that steaming hot rice that they had served to us was now just a sticky pile of cold rice, jees these fokwits, anyway here's a pic of their restaurant so you know not to go there, it's the only one on the entrance to the beach so you won't miss it.
although, i have to admit i was impressed by their BBQ but i assume this they were selling to like other ppl and not for the restaurant.
here's their BBQ.
Bars in Ban Chang Here