Thread: Yorkies is no more!

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

My wife is doing really well with her product

What size did you get her?

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

20 years ago Yorkies was the only pie option in Pattaya and now there are too many to mention.

You'd probably remember Pat's pies on 3rd Road from back then too but yeah, they used the same pastry that was of the pale, dense, and non flaky type. Best we could get back then though until Lady Pie opened in Phuket about 2006 I guess and started shipping pies with the darker and flaky pastry that good meat pies have to supermarkets around Thailand.

I saw lady pies in the minimarts on my recent trip to Laos we used to get them.on the mines items to, good pies

Originally Posted by Headworx

You'd probably remember Pat's pies on 3rd Road from back then too but yeah, they used the same pastry that was of the pale, dense, and non flaky type. Best we could get back then though until Lady Pie opened in Phuket about 2006 I guess and started shipping pies with the darker and flaky pastry that good meat pies have to supermarkets around Thailand.

I have never tried Pat's pies.

The only time I have tried a Lady Pie was at Drifters Bar.

I was asked by the owner to bring a mince beef and onion pie to his bar so we could have a Taste- Off comparison with a Lady Pie.

His wife heated the pies and the taste test began and even he admitted my wife's pie was the best re: pastry and taste.

Sadly we couldn't agree on a price so he is still using Lady Pies.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Sadly we couldn't agree on a price so he is still using Lady Pies.

some people think they are saving money buying cheaper the option in shops etc, there is generally a reason they are cheaper.

^ We have a few English and Aussie guys that visit us regularly to buy pies and all claim my wife's pies are the best.

In fact only yesterday 1 guy told me my wife's pies are as good as Tinnies and at less then half the price they are terrific value.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

some people think they are saving money buying cheaper the option in shops etc, there is generally a reason they are cheaper.

No bar fine?

Originally Posted by malmomike77

some people think they are saving money buying cheaper the option in shops etc

And...umm...they are.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

some people think they are saving money buying cheaper the option in shops etc, there is generally a reason they are cheaper.

More efficient kitchens? Higher turnover? Smaller profit margin? Lower ingredient costs due to bulk purchasing?

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

I have never tried Pat's pies.

If you've tried a Yorkies pie you've also tried one of Pat's pies, they were pretty much identical in every way.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

The only time I have tried a Lady Pie was at Drifters Bar.

Fuck I haven't been down there for years! Lady pies are quite good and when she first opened they were the best I knew of in Thailand. But like all pies, they were way better fresh out of the oven in her shop/factory in Phuket rather than reheated from frozen. Still though, I'd bring a small cooler bag with a dozen of them frozen on the plane back to Pattaya when visiting Phuket, before supermarkets here started to stock them.

Originally Posted by Hugh Cow

Lower ingredient costs due to bulk purchasing?

'Economies of scale'.

Yes, microeconomics obviously wasn't part of Mike's factory floor sweeping apprenticeship 90 odd years ago.

^ I scored a great deal in Saraburi once.

1 curry puff was 5 baht each, but I saw a sign in the corner of her stall where they had a deal informing me I could get 20 for 100 baht.

Uh-ohhhhhh.



The filling was actually okay.

But the cardboard exterior..... not so much.

^ like them 99thb tesco prawn rings, cept they ain't 99thb anymore

Originally Posted by malmomike77

^ like them 99thb tesco prawn rings, cept they ain't 99thb anymore

Yup. Noticed that as the kid loves me 'shrimp Pop' in breadcrumbs, and only those packs will suffice. Not usually one to take note of prices but do recall they're up to 129thb each now.

Bladdy overpaid fisherman!!

Originally Posted by Edmond

fisherman

is harvesting from a pond somewhere around the gulf of Thailand fishing?