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dirtydog

This place I went to last year and it was ok, it is in Jomtien complex on the right about 100 meters before you get to Jomtien beach, yep round the bend past the Hanuman Statue.

Anyway I thought I would treat the family and asked them where they wanted to go but then changed my mind and told them where we were going to go, holiday weekend and all that traffic and that, might have spot checks for drunken drivers and things like that.

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They have an inside and an outside seating area, obviously smokers are scum of the earth and have to sit outside where they seem to have designed a way to stop all the breeze possible so you end up sweating your cods off, inside is for the nice people and you get nice linen napkins, outside you get a box of tissues, outside would be quite nice if there actually was any chance of a breeze geeting thru the trellis work and big signs next door.

the inside has the ambience of,erm,well it doesn't have any ambience at all and is pretty sterile and boring, luckily we came for the food and not the ambience.

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dirtydog

Getting the menu I have to admit to being a bit shocked at the prices, but hell Jomtien is a posh area and aint designed for the likes of me I suppose, but 80baht for a poxy small heiniken sitting by the poxy roadside I thought was a bit steep, most main courses started at the 190baht and upwards range, anyway first up we get a couple of popadoms, now these were good, they came with the green mint sauce which was as spicey as hell, pickled shallots and tamarind sauce.

dirtydog

Anyway, for the main course we ordered the old Mutton Rogan Josh and an Aloo Gobi, tomato based curry with sheep in and a veggie curry for those of the uninitiated of you.

I should add that this place is quite busy and only has one waitress and one cook, so our meal lasted about 1 and a half hours.

The waitress did ask if we wanted it spicey which we did, hmmm, she seems to have forgot that bit, it was nice but nowhere near as spicey as it should have been, some may even say it was bland.

dirtydog

We also had the white rice and pillau rice, the pillau rice at 95baht was just yellow colored rice with a few chopped up onions in, not really what I expected when the white rice is 30baht.

The Nan Breads were great, we had a normal one and a cheese one, the cheese ones are a bit like a pizza and you stick what you like on top, the old minty green spicey stuff was good.

Anyway the whole lot with 3 soft drinks and 2 small beers came to 835baht, money well spent? sod that, I could have nipped off down yodsak.




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Mr Earl

I ate there last night.
It was good. Didn't make me sick.
All the indian food in Patong is crap and makes you sick half the time.

We sat outside as inside was open and no fans.
I noticed they did turn on the A/C later for some customers. And they got nice cloth napkins. Us outside folk only rated the pink toilet tissue. You who think at the prices they charge they would bless everyone with a nice napkin. details details.
The dopey waiter was complaining how biz was slow this year. I didn't have the heart to tell him when that when you spend nearly 800 baht on food for two pink toilet tissue isn't the best idea.
And what would it cost them to run the A/c during peak dinner hours? Probably less than the customers they lose.
I'll go back but I aint going to be in a hurry
Maybe I'll try the tex-mex place tonight.

YellowTrip

there is a real Indian food place on 3rd road across from excite disco.

and I know it is real cause the local stinky Indian tailors chow down there with their grossly overweight and hairy wives.

dirtydog

The Tex Mex place on Thappraya road is pretty good, I went there a few times but the last time wasn't such a good experiance, The Indian Kitchen really does need to do up the place to give it some atmosphere, ok the rents here in Jomtien are bloody expensive so that will reflect in the food price, but hell all they got to do is spend a bit of money on the inside and they could justify their prices, hell may be even put them up a bit, as for the lack of aircon, or the lack of turning on the aircon, most people I know will just walk straight out of a restaurant if the aircon isn't on, so that don't help their busines.

Mr Earl

We gave the Moonshiner place a try. Had the specials, chicken and beef burritos an a side of guacamole.
Service was pleasant. The girls tried hard. Though I started getting nervous when I had to repeat "nam soda " three times and it took one girl to bring out the bottle of soda and few moments later another girl to bring out the glass of ice!(thai efficiency)(sober customers can be very difficult)
The guacamole had an avocado(a small one) in it and that was it! The cook forgot the diced onions, tomatoes, salt and cilantro! It was a real avocado I'll give them that and the chips were ok.
Burritos were edible. I've had worse. The salsa wasn't great either.
But the girls tried hard and the atmosphere pleasant, they played the right kind of US country music. All in all nice for a change from the thai and italian food.

I sure like the little hotel I found! The Pacific Jomtien.
the wireless IT reaches into my room!