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On 7/12/2010 at 4:41 PM, Sheryl said:
in the case of somtam, unless specifically instructed otherwise (and soemtimes even then..) they also put in pieces of a type of small uncooked crab which is a common source of allergy.
if this seems to happen more with somtam than with other foods, might be the actuial culprit rather than the dried shrimp, which are many, many dishes.
Could test it out by telling them not to put in the "pala" and watching carefully that they don't, then see if you recat.
It is puu (crab) and pala (pla ra) is fermented fish.
If he can eat oysters, then try order somtum hoydong,
in which they don't put crab inside. (here, central thai)
Somtum thai, they tend to put in dried shrimps,
and nuts which I have to look out for as my missus can't
eat these.
Another tum which I advice is somtum taew (ถั่ว/long bean-peas )
and or gai keim (ไข่เค็ม/salted egg).
Order with the note (ไม่มี ปลาร้า และ ปู / Mai mee plara lea puu)
the best, watch and when them tend to spoon a crab or the fermented fish
say mai mai krab/ka.
I personally am allergic for some fish (swollen itchy lips)
but I can eat tum plara and fried tilapia without issues.
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10 hours ago, donim said:
Seriously?
Well, why not oldskool instead of printing go to a stationairy shop and buy a inkpad.
Ink your fingers, not too much, and put the side of your finger on the paper and roll it to the other side.
Apply pressure gently.
Practize on another sheet first.
Destroy after use.
Don't go to the police station, believe me.
My dearest apologize.
After reading the other replies, I realize this is then a serious thing.
And not only for illiterate people they can put a thumb print as signature.
I myself, never heard of this at least for 30 years, and was thinking this was just a joke.
I dare to ask, when do someone need to have his/her fingerprints transfered on a document?
Rgds,
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Seriously?
Well, why not oldskool instead of printing go to a stationairy shop and buy a inkpad.
Ink your fingers, not too much, and put the side of your finger on the paper and roll it to the other side.
Apply pressure gently.
Practize on another sheet first.
Destroy after use.
Don't go to the police station, believe me.
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Thai ID Card for "Aliens"
Alien primarily refers to:
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Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth Specifically, intelligent extraterrestrial beings; see List of alleged extraterrestrial beings
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Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country
All Aliens we are, aren't we?
Something that can act a little as an ID, not always but a valid Thai document it is, is the Workpermit and it indeed has the text Alien.
Do you have a Pink Thai ID Card ?
Yes.
Was it easy for you to obtain ?
Yes. After registering in the Yellow Book (tambien baan) and the Blue Book for my girlfriend, so she was able to register for the regional hospital/doctor scheme, and get her ID card renewed.
After seeing her walking to the corner for a photo and five minutes later she had her card. I said ' it is very easy to get a ID for her make one for me too in a joking tone' , they said '555 but you can get one too we think' then they went and came back with a definite 'yes'.
Then I went in the corner for a flash and measurement, and all the other data they already have in their computer.
Waiting 10 minutes for one printer to be changed in the right color, not long after I got my card.
Was told 'Not many we did give out before , and you can use it for yourself. But don't use for show at the police but you can try for other things inside the province but we promisse nothing'
A few month later, when I came back to the district office, I was informed 'now you can use it as a ID everywhere as it is legally accepted, at police too, and the government has pass the memo (to the -mainstream business- ...) to accept these cards as a valid proof of ID.'
Have you found it useful ?
Yes.
What have you used it for ?
As a proof of ID, when I want to register my phone SIM or Shopping Card and at the police station for my personal information when I had to report a lost license.
Used it for accessing the Sanam Luang in the period it was bordered and guarded for the late King, as well for other guarded places.
And I use it for my banking, I only use one ATM card and for other banks I am a walk-in customer.
This card is accepted AT the branch where you did open your account, (which is also the only branch you can go when you lost or damaged your book). Together with the bankbook it is sufficent to take money from your account.
Other branches are not always accepting this card, and I don't blame them, because your account is opened with your passport (and eventually workpermit) so the ID number is NOT the same.
You get more change to access your account with a driving license, and this is where it goes weird your driving license also has a different ID number and in fact mine is not the same as on my passport which was renewed after I had my driving license.
If you are a regular visitor of the other branch, as I am, they accept my Thai ID for non-nationals (pink) as valid ID and they don't bother anymore with copying that as they did in the beginning.
Some branches complain, then I point to the address that is in their system and the address that is printed on the card they then mostly accept it.
In one of the 1000x I visited a branch, only one has the attidude to say angrily 'go away don't come back again, farang only passport!'.
They never saw me again, the other 999 branches smiles and services me.
My passport always stay at home.
Please give details of your experience to help others decide if there is an advantage to having one.
Ask for a card when you get your yellow house registration book. Don't push it if they are busy because it need some time for change the printer, which only IT people (are permitted to ) do.
If you already has a yellow book, take it to the district office and ask gently (or fently..) for the Thai ID card, have your phone ready with a picture of a pink card so they will understand it in a glance.
In tourist areas, or travelling far, take your passport with me you will never know which Big ABC you will meet.
Near home, or anyway in your own province (For me it is Greater Bangkok; includes Samut S&P, Phatum and Nonth) it's no problem to leave your passport at home especially when you also carry your driving license with you.
Rgds
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39 minutes ago, scorecard said:
And I found her female counterpart at an inwards passport desk in Texas a few years back, only needs a few words to describe her attitude: rude, racist insulting.
And so there these who I met at the passport desk at Don Muang immigration, when I queue in the wrong lane as foreigner into the Asean lane and also have a few words to describe her attitude: polite, kind, welcome and warm
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3 hours ago, Pravda said:
24 hours before seems happy, hug, hug, chatty laughing.......
And tommorow she will again.
This reoccurs every month here along with a regular visit to the loo.
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It is not the immigration officer fault and don't blame Don Mueang. Other airports would have done the same action.
You were in out on VOA stamps, and yet you said that you stayed 7 - 8 months in Pattaya.
In the eyes of the Immigration, you are NO tourist but trying to stay in Thailand long term and abusing the tourist visa-on-arrival/visa exempt system.
Consider getting a Tourist Visa, then you can stay 6 months ( 2+1 and again 2+1). Then stay somewhere else before come back as a tourist.
Or find a volunteer job, work a few hours in the week there, and get a non O visa, 90x4 days for a year. And then, you are no tourist and can have all the fun in Pattaya.
Or get a Elite Visa, freedom at all.
Rgds,
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1 hour ago, Sheryl said:
I very much doubt there is any policy that limits 7-11 membership card to Thais.
What there will be, though, is a mandatory field for ID number.
If you have a pink Thai ID card should be no problem and as soon as they see your ID card they'll be fine.
Had the same thought, and at most places this is true.
Unfortunately at the 7eleven they said the computer only accept data from a smartcard with chip.
No manually entering of ID number.
And the pink Thai ID for non-nationals has not a chip.
Not long ago it was possible to enter the ID manually, application was done on paper same as FamiliMart (central group) . But with the new technology and readers at the stores, a chip is needed.
The same obstruction is for Thais with old ID cards, broken chips, driving licenses or trying to register with their house registration.
Time for the government to issue pink Thai ID cards for non-nationals WITH chip. Problem solved.
Rgds,
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1 hour ago, yogavnture said:
7 11 should stop polluting the world with all the plastic.. do you know thier plastic straws are plastic wrapped. save the fish
Of course, otherwise the plastic taste would fall out. ????
I prefer the plastic wrapped, or at least paper wrapped at some places.
No bare naked straws for me, you don't know where the cashiers has put their
fingers in just before servicing you, obviously not in Yoghurt.
The wrappers will eventually end up as ties, so a second purpose for them.
Rgds,
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1 hour ago, MikeN said:
The Central group has a tourist VIP card, where you have to show your passport for discounts. They also have the normal “1 Card” that is the same for Thais and resident expats, my application form was in Thai and English.
Absolutely no problem getting it. Most of the places where you can use the 1 Card do not especially cater for foreigners ....how many foreigners do you see in Officemate, B2S, Thaiwatsadu etc ?
Statiscally counted, the same.
Foreigners in Thailand 1 on 27
Foreigners (except the Lao, Birma, Cambodians) 1 on 88
If two foreigners visit the Tops or Officemate and 100 Thais, then statiscally seen more foreigners then Thais.
????
These numbers are calculated from roughly estimate numbers. 69 million people Thailand (2017) , 2.58mil foreigners of which 1.8mil from neighbouring countries.
1 hour ago, MikeN said:Even when I use it in TOPS most customers are Thai.
In Thailand, most customers are.. Thai ????
1 hour ago, MikeN said:“the card for foreigners has more profits”
huh ? You spend xxx baht, you get x points ....same for everybody.
Redeem xxx points, you get x baht discount, ......again same for everybody. That’s on big signs, in Thai and English.
If memory serves me right it gives 5-50% discount on picked items and some stores gives 7% discount (in form of tax reduction) on where normally an passport need to be shown, this card does it automatic.
And the card for expatirates/foreigners discount came with a book with coupons I do remember.
For the points, you are right, both cards the same.
I, like do you as you said, do have the Thai version of the 1card,
for me they only gave me when I told I have a 13digits ID number.
Rgds,
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15 hours ago, Date Masamune said:
Wish I could tip up seven card, used only for convenience. No tottering heaps of small
coins on bills. Now the staff get to count the bags of small coins I bring in to buy snacks and they don’t seem irritated by it.You can top up, that what I do.
But I believe not with the new free ALLmembers card is just for the points, unless anyone confirms it can.
The card for credits, you have to buy, which is not a big issue as you will get gifts and coupons worth more then what you pay for. The same with the plastic cony/brown cups it comes with coupons that 'gives back your money' if you normally buy coffee or slurry every day.
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57 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:
There is no question if it can be done.
But looking at the customers in Central and how many foreigners spend a lot of money in that place and then looking at 7/11 it's obvious why they do it in Central.
Maybe they will even introduce it in 7/11 - after they set it up for their Thai customers and that is successful.
Central has a customer card for foreigners.
They will not easily give you the Thai version.
Alas, the card for foreigners has more profits.
Maybe time for CP to introduce 7card for Expatirates
gives you the right buy alcohol during hours Thai can't buy.
Perfect?
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50 minutes ago, owl sees all said:
Why have we got to be underhanded and cheat in LOS? Sod 'em. Big C is the way. Better quality staff too.
One way to live in a Banana land is to cheat and be underhanded
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14 hours ago, NCC1701A said:
yes that is all they have
You need to go to the 7-11 with no farangs around.
... there they are not sold out.
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1 hour ago, ginjag said:SOMETIMES they not mean it --it's just easier because they need a Thai ID card. BUT they could have a passport or an I.D. driver licence so no excuse really. entrance to National parks double entrants fee ?? they always did it, is the Thai excuse.
At 7eleven it is the chip on the cards that make this an issue.
Only the Thai ID for nationals has these chips. Driving licenses and the pink Thai ID for non-nationals dont bear any chip.
It is not 7eleven to blame, but the CP company for not investing in the right IT system, the computer only accept inserted cards. Even Thais with a old ID card or show up with the house book are denied.
At 7 you cannot register your SIM card, but at the Provider Service Stores it can. So, it is not the product but the computer software.
By the way, it is not only this issue but also Top up mobile for AIS is not available anymore at CP chains.
Thais have to go elsewere too.
I got my 7card years ago, bought it and it came with gifts.
Now the 7card is promotional free, (allmember) but need register along with your phonenumber.
You can just enter your phonenumber, or give the ALLmember card, to get the points/discounts.
The old 7cards had the same, they need to be re-registered to continue use.
(I used a Thai ID card from GF, but my name and phonenumber is still in the system)
Difference between these card is that the old card can carry credits and store points, and the new allmember is just for the points.
Blame the IT system.
Rgds,
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2 hours ago, Crossy said:
It took me a little time to find it, but for those interested the my stonehenge example:-
A nice example but it is a true localized thing for those living near the attractions, I would say that is acceptable. And if that is practized here in Thailand. I will accept that too.
Great for the shepherds and their sheeps, local childrens and schools.
People from London pay the tickets as they are not local to the stones.
The same practize is done everywhere on the world.
Back at home I had a city-discount for the Zoo as I was living in the city of the Zoo, I ended up with a unlimited entry for a year, and visited every day on the way back to home from work.
For other Zoos in other citys I have had to pay the regular price. Fair.
In this thread, it is about nationalism, citizen, non citizen and visitors and the line between them.
If the National Parks has the same fees for both nationals and non-nationals, I even grant the locals ner these parks, free access to the National Parks as it is their area.
And many could even donate to these park if they want and which is really not unthinkable.
Rgds,
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4 hours ago, newnative said:
I don't see a different price structure for citizens and non-citizens as a 'failing'. Common sense to me to charge foreigners more.
I see the grey area between non-citizens and foreign-visitors is wide and many of the non-visitors-noncitizens are feeling more citizens then just visitors.
That is where the shoe wrings.
4 hours ago, newnative said:As far as America goes, here's one example. If you're Canadian, or from some other select countries, the admission charge to America is free. If you are Thai, or from 150 or so other countries, the admission charge is $160. Fair? Debatable.
Debatbale.. indeed.
The people are then visitors, it is the same in a part of Europe (Schengen) and South-East Asia (Asean), from neighbouring countries. Political agreements for a suistainable cooperation between them.
We are talking about people 'residing' (temporary status) in these countries.
4 hours ago, newnative said:But, if the price is too steep, vote with your feet and visit another country. Same with Thai attractions that have a different price for foreigners--if you think it's too expensive, don't go.
The price is right for visitors, not for those who lives here as a part of the Kingdom.
(either policitial, relational, maternal, paternal, billateral, anything AL)
And , a little offtopic but still related. The UNESCO, UNESCAP and UN agreements. Accesibility and support for the disableds, the UN says there is no border in the agreement but here it is still 'Only for nationals'. And not to forget elder people, and enfants. The only exception now is mostly given to (exchange) students.
This thread is about 'normal' people, not about disableds or older people. Some people did mentoin about western countries gives discounts to these groups and YES that is fair and happens here too for the Thais, but not the subject now.
Rgds,
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13 hours ago, roquefort said:
You're not in Kansas now, Dorothy. BTW when I was a kid parts of the US were still practising apartheid.
Wouldn't it be nice, our childrens in Thailand can say exactly the same?
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12 minutes ago, Joe Mcseismic said:
Maybe you should have actually read the article. He didn't die in IDC and he didn't die from neglect.
Wiki, the article:
" He died on 6 August 2006 of massive organ failure a few days after being imprisoned in Klong Prem Central Prison in Bangkok on charges of suspicion of illegally altering a visa "
A report, not on the wiki but you can find the link in the footer of the wiki page
" he died earlier this month at the hospital unit of the squalid Klongprem Central Prison in Thailand. "
This prision houses the TDC, Thai Department of Corrections.
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39 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:
Try Immigration Detention Center.
I was always thinking about that one in jatuchack or on the ngamwongwan.
And to make the confusion bigger, I didn't think of 'Detention' but 'Depature' and 'Deportage' instead ????
But IDC is a prision located in Sathon.
No futher information is online, no wiki or anything public. Only some news reports.
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15 hours ago, Pdavies99 said:
Makes no difference, Lip reading does not work,
Right. But that is no sign language. It is connected with the vocalbular language.
But you can try kiss the cop, let's see what happens ????
15 hours ago, Pdavies99 said:and Thai signing / writing is completely different to what they use in Europe etc. Thanks.
Nope.
And UK is not Europe. Britisch Sign Language is indeed different, very much with the handalphabeth spelling.
That is like reading chinese for a greek.
The rest of the European countries use a Sign Language family that descent from the French (LSF). The handalphabeth are likely the same, and understood.
Like reading Italian script by an German person, not always understood the meaning but surely you can read the letters.
Relatives of deaf, mostly then, only know the sign language used by the deaf relative(s).
The deaf him/herself is very capable to communicate with other people, even when the vocal and written language is not the same. It is then either International Sign Language or Gestural Sign Language.
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2 hours ago, connda said:
IDC
40 minutes ago, otherstuff1957 said:IDC
8 minutes ago, Pib said:IDC
Wiki "Klong Prem Central Prison": As of 2002 the men's section held 1,158 foreigners from 56 countries out of a total of 7,218 prisoners. It is a part of the Thai Department of Corrections.
TDC
Department of Corrections
DOC
If I do a search on IDC, I get results as Datacenters and Foods.
A further search I indeed do see results with the immigrations.
Is it just a term, generated by the public, instead of being a real abbrevication of names?
Or was it originaly the callname of the 'cells', for which you had to pay for, on the airports, where detainees are held untill departure?
Rgds,
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On 4/15/2019 at 10:10 AM, thaibreaker said:
had been locked up for 14 years
Wondering the ban starts at locking in the IDC (is it international ground or thai soil?) or when you effectively left the Thai space/arriving at the country of deportee.
Normal you left Thai 'space' after the border at the airport, eg. the stamp in your passport says you left on that moment.
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Joined everex to see what it has to offer.
At first glance it looked very nice. And can believe it would be usefull for direct transfer from your wallet to your Thai bank.
The exchange rate for send to thb from eur via evx is 33.46.
Transferwise gives higher rate at 33.47 thb per eur
At 1000 euro the fee is 7.68 eur with Transferwise, so netto with 1000 eur transfer the rate would be around 33.22 thb per eur.
My first opinion, everex seems be usefull and a low transferfee solution.
But not for keeping balance in the wallet as the EVX rate is sinking.
Price$ 0.32 24h-2.63%7d-22.26%30d-38.63%
Rate at everex and transferwise and evx price was on 27th of september at 4pm
I will try deposit and transfer this weekend, and come back here for any follow up news.