Thread: Turkeys in Thailand

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

I hope to be smoking a turkey using hickory pellets this month. Just finished some boneless chicken breasts that I smoked over the weekend and they were delicious. They also made some great smoked chicken sandwiches.

I wish I had a fresh turkey that I could smoke, a pellet feed samoker and great samoked chicken......YOU BASTARD!!!!!

Post up some pictures of your work, please. I'm living vicariously through you at the moment....

Originally Posted by CSFFan

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

I hope to be smoking a turkey using hickory pellets this month. Just finished some boneless chicken breasts that I smoked over the weekend and they were delicious. They also made some great smoked chicken sandwiches.

I wish I had a fresh turkey that I could smoke, a pellet feed samoker and great samoked chicken......YOU BASTARD!!!!!

Post up some pictures of your work, please. I'm living vicariously through you at the moment....

I will have to wait for the next batch since I finished the last two pieces of chicken this evening for dinner. I plan to smoke up something this weekend and can document then.

In the meantime, here is a site of the guy's product I purchased.

http://quik-fire.com/pages/about

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

http://quik-fire.com/pages/about

How do you rate them and which one are you using? Are you smoking on the grill or using a smoker. Where did you get wood pellets from?

So far so good on the smoker. I have the 4 shelf/2 door smoker which was a bit expensive, but well made. The seller has a source for pellets and I purchased a large bag of hickery pellets when I bought the smoker.

https://www.tescolotus.com/turkey

Smoked a smallish turkey I purchased from Tops and it turned out great. Baked potato, salad and fruit salad. It was a nice holiday season meal. Even my Thai wife liked the smoked turkey.

Christmas turkey in Bangkok

Recently ordered. The phone number did not work for me, but he responds to emails pretty quickly.

delivery in BK area.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Recently ordered.

Norbest or Butterball?

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Recently ordered.

Norbest or Butterball?

Norbest.

Nice. Unless it's changed hands Sunrise is owned by an American. Must be getting thr turkeys in through the back door.

Originally Posted by Norton

Nice. Unless it's changed hands Sunrise is owned by an American. Must be getting thr turkeys in through the back door.

I read somewhere that the ban was implemented (again?) some time in the mid year? Some commercial places (hotels etc) already had their Xmas stocks in. As always, long range pre-planning by Thais is usually weak.

Turkeys in Thailand?

There are thousands sitting in bars all over Pattaya

They have large, fresh roasting chickens at Makro. Some of the best I have ever had. Not bothering with turkey this year.

Originally Posted by Humbert

They have large, fresh roasting chickens at Makro

Yep. Very nice those. I'm going with them as well. Will make same stuffing as turkey, mashed taters with chicken gravey and some veggies.

Managed to get a nice smoked ham from Tops. Will honey/pineapple glaze it. Roast potato, sweet potato souffle, and some veggies.

They's fucin cooked!
I/we want one to cook.
Latest news is that Rimping are not stocking them this year so its a very large ham done in orange and ginger..... Salivation

Less than 24 hours to go get that Turkey, that's if you want one.

Originally Posted by wasabi

Less than 24 hours to go get that Turkey, that's if you want one.

Tukem, ham's good.

We have a roast beef lined up.

Originally Posted by wasabi

Less than 24 hours to go get that Turkey, that's if you want one.

Cold Turkey? Could last a couple of weeks...

^ is that your New Year's Eves resolution?

I bought a frozen turkey from Tesco Lotus Extra in Ubon Ratchathani. It was expensive - 1590 baht. After defrosting I went to remove the packaged neck and giblets from the body cavity - there were none there. I then checked the neck cavity where I found two packages - the neck and the giblets. Once I removed them I discovered that the breast meat had been removed and the packages had been inserted to plump out the breast area and make it look like a whole turkey. For my money I received two legs, two wings and the carcass wrapped with skin!! Someone, somewhere is enjoying my breast meat on their turkey club sandwich! A TRUE SCAM!

Had a look at same here at Tesco. Didn't buy because as you say, "a scam" or if not a scam certianly not what I consider a proper Christmas turkey.

Originally Posted by prairieboy

I bought a frozen turkey from Tesco Lotus Extra in Ubon Ratchathani. It was expensive - 1590 baht. After defrosting I went to remove the packaged neck and giblets from the body cavity - there were none there. I then checked the neck cavity where I found two packages - the neck and the giblets. Once I removed them I discovered that the breast meat had been removed and the packages had been inserted to plump out the breast area and make it look like a whole turkey. For my money I received two legs, two wings and the carcass wrapped with skin!! Someone, somewhere is enjoying my breast meat on their turkey club sandwich! A TRUE SCAM!

Did you take it back?
Did you get photos?

I have it on good authority that Tesco Lotus are bound by the money back, no question policies that are applied in the UK. Though you'd never know it in Thailand.

I've taken stuff back to the little store in Chiang Kong and, if persistent and get through to management I've always been refunded.