Thread: Scampy's Restaurant Reviews - The Farang Connection, Surin

Scampy why are you eating English grub in Surin next time your in town visit the Goodview Resturant great food there.

Scamp can't go a week without potatoes.

Originally Posted by MeMock

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Originally Posted by Memock

Scampy, you should head a little further down the road to Ubon and come and eat at my place when you get a chance.

I was in Ubon Ratchathani for two nights and was on a bender the whole time I was there. I would prefer to meet you sober and will be in touch should I be up that way again, thankyou for the offer... I bet your food is NICE.

Bender or no bender it still would have been good to meet you. BTW where do you go on a bender in Ubon?
Well I think that our food is 'nice' and we are getting a lot of good feed back early on and heaps of repeat customers - apart from sabang - so we must be doing something right.

I was with Gordy, he came to visit me from Yassathon??? ...Anyway, we went to the bus station and got some whiskey and got a tuk-tuk to the sticks - it took a lot of work to explain to the driver that he coupld take us wherever he wanted, anyway - we ended up in the sticks and the rest is very good history.

Originally Posted by tijyffol

Scamp can't go a week without potatoes.

How the fuck do you know that... You are right.

Have you been speaking to members of my family?

Originally Posted by Gallowspole

Yes, Peter, the food quality there plummeted when the cook left to start his own business and the owner went to work abroad for almost a year. The owner is now back permanently and we just had a big discussion over what had happened and the quality only 4 days ago. He's in the process of revamping the menu and is most certainly not adverse to hearing criticism - quite the opposite in fact as he's well aware that what once was the most popular place to eat has nose-dived. The P&L accounts don't lie!

Competition in NK has been increased now with Milford's New York Jazz Bistro (excellent Greek/Mediterranean fare) and Beer Belly Billy's (pies and fish'n'chips).

Its a great location but has the look and feel of a place thats unloved, as for criticism, almost everything, only had small bottles of beer available, big ones on the menu but no have. The food is just awful, the owner just needs to try his own muck. The whole place is tatty, needs a cleanup and the staff are clearly untrained. I would never go again, wished I had tried the Jazz place instead, its Seppo owned right ? at least I won't some pom bar owner, banging on my ear about his favorite poof ball team.

From what I understood over on TV is that Martin is suffering from some sort of cancer, so maybe he has left the running of the place over to family members etc. He always seemed to be a nice bloke in his posts there, but perhaps now he has more pressing things on his mind - like his health.

Originally Posted by peterpan

I ate at a Danish restuarant in Nong kai today

Originally Posted by peterpan

As is my wont I ordered pad Grapow Gai

Well, what do you bloody expect? Try ordering the Danish food next time.

Originally Posted by Peterpan

Its a great location but has the look and feel of a place thats unloved, as for criticism, almost everything, only had small bottles of beer available, big ones on the menu but no have. The food is just awful, the owner just needs to try his own muck. The whole place is tatty, needs a cleanup and the staff are clearly untrained. I would never go again

Sounds like a Smeg review of LOS.

Originally Posted by Patsycat

From what I understood over on TV is that Martin is suffering from some sort of cancer, so maybe he has left the running of the place over to family members etc. He always seemed to be a nice bloke in his posts there, but perhaps now he has more pressing things on his mind - like his health.

I want to meet you Patsycat, are you single?

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by peterpan

I ate at a Danish restuarant in Nong kai today

Originally Posted by peterpan

As is my wont I ordered pad Grapow Gai

Well, what do you bloody expect? Try ordering the Danish food next time.

Who rattled your cage?
Only Danish thing on the menu was meatballs,

Spent many evening in the FC...And really hated to see it go..it was a lot more fun than the current "Angelwitch"...One of the serving ladies(who was old when it was FC) is still there and on the few occasions that I stop in there, she will always come over and say Hello and try to mooch a drink...

Stoneman

Originally Posted by aging one

Anybody old enough to remember the original Farung Connnection in Nana Plaza. You have to go back 20 years. American ex army Wayne who passed away years ago and his British mate David who took poor Wayne for everything he had. Took a few people he did.

Sounds like a shit hole though.

Originally Posted by peterpan

Only Danish thing on the menu was meatballs

No it wasn't. I ate there about 3 weeks ago and the Danish food was passable. The fish was a bit expensive and the portions small, but the Midget was happy of the opportunity to eat some smoked herring.

Originally Posted by MeMock

heaps of repeat customers - apart from sabang

It's a wee bit far to go right now Memock- we've been housesitting in Pattaya since the 14th June, and don't get back to Ubon til mid September. I s'pose home delivery is out of the question?

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by peterpan

Only Danish thing on the menu was meatballs

No it wasn't. I ate there about 3 weeks ago and the Danish food was passable. The fish was a bit expensive and the portions small, but the Midget was happy of the opportunity to eat some smoked herring.

Fish & chips ain't Danish

Originally Posted by Spin

I beg you to go over to TV and post this. The owner is (or was) a regular over there, possibly even a mod (cant remember).

Also a mod {and major advertiser} at Surinfarang, a growing regional forum. Martin is a bit of a arsehole, to say the least. Surely couldn't why his good Thai wife left him a couple of years back. Farang Connection {annex} 2 went under some time back as did the fvcking badly run pizza place across the plaza that he had a small stake in.....considering all they do is traditional British/European fare, and his recent recovery from major surgery, I really can't see this place open for much longer - rumour has it he has had Farang Connection on the market for about a year now. No takers.

Originally Posted by English Noodles

I think the English owner, ex RAF (Martin I think) was fucked off by his mrs and maybe now is only a Thai run place pretending to be a faranag place, I could be wrong though, I'm sure someone knows.

Nah. Caters to Euro-types. He's still around occasionally to run the show.

Originally Posted by peterpan

Fish & chips ain't Danish

The smoked Herring was.

I can't remember what I had. Probably meatballs with mash.

Originally Posted by peterpan

What interests me is that the Thai owned business wouldn't put up with this crap, we go to pure Thai restaurants on occasion and get smart service and bloody good food. In future I am dodging any Farangs owned businesses.

I always have. Like the plague....

There are two German places in udon, both seem to be way above the English run establishments in quality of service and food, but even the English places seem to be another level higher than the three I have tried in NK.
Looking forward to trying the new jazz / Mediterranean restaurant in NK tho', sounds like my kind a deal, might Organize a bike ride with Marmers and he can buy the food.

Where the fuck is Timba these days?

Norby's food is quite delicious. He makes some mean schnitzel and potato salad. All portions are very large. He also sells various types of smoked meats and sausages, cheeses, bread, wine, and spirits. It's worth a try, Scamp.

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by MeMock

heaps of repeat customers - apart from sabang

It's a wee bit far to go right now Memock- we've been housesitting in Pattaya since the 14th June, and don't get back to Ubon til mid September. I s'pose home delivery is out of the question?

Hehe, yeah I knew you were away but must admit didn't realise it was until September!

Originally Posted by peterpan

Looking forward to trying the new jazz / Mediterranean restaurant in NK tho', sounds like my kind a deal, might Organize a bike ride with Marmers and he can buy the food.

You're on. Can you manage to get one of your bikes ready for the end of August?

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Where the fuck is Timba these days?

Getting married in Romania.

Got the Estralia going, took it to NK yesterday, only does 120KPH but fast enough to keep ahead of you I guess. Yea, will make a trip up and give the jazz club a bash and a bit of a write up.
Will tell the guy we run TD and if we get looked after with free food and drink we will give him a great review.
If we get too pissed can always doss down at GP's place

Originally Posted by peterpan

If we get too pissed can always doss down at GP's place

You'll be joining me in the dog's house (where Marmers slept last time) then - cos that's where I usually end up after being on the pop (the missus bolts the main house from the inside and switches off her phone if I'm out after curfew).

Give me a heads up when you come. Milford makes fantastic savilaka (or something like that) which is a bit like a doner kebab, pork in pita bread.