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Bad Review
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OK. Perhaps its just the fact that I have a cold. Or it might be the fact that swimming at the moment is an extremely painful and arduous experience, which is followed by having to replace the bandages on the open wounds on my legs and feet. This may be making me a little grouchy.
Anyway, I'm going to have to give, at least preliminarily, a bad review to Thailand. First of all, Ko Chang, an island off the East Coast of Thailand, is supposedly one of the less touristy islands--certainly less than Phuket, etc. And its low season, so that should help out too. Well, the tourists are still here, and the Thai are such accepting and nice people, that they have bent over backwards to accomodate tourists, not realizing in the process that they have created a place that sucks.
For instance, you can't get a Thai iced tea on this island. You can get Lipton tea, thrown on ice. I was so amazed by this that I had to ask one of the girls (??) that work at my hotel whether or not the Thai drink "cha yen" (I had to figure out the word for Thai Iced tea). S/he said, "yes, but no farangs order it, so we don't have it." I don't get that, I see plenty of people in Thai restaurants drinking Thai Iced tea in the US. But Thailand is much more a playground for Europeans and Aussies than Americans. I have to say, the hypocrisy of Europeans who, for instance, will make be snooty when somebody asks for cheddar cheese, but then will demand their own luxuries in Asia is really grating on me.
And on and on it goes. Here would be a great resort to open--and a person could do so with about 50,000 capital to start-- (1) have real Thai food--I'm in thailand, its 90 degrees, I don't want a goddamn pizza, unless it has weed on it, which it doesn't, in Thailand. And I don't want Spaghetti Carbonara--it's over a hundred degrees out. (2) There is one western thing I would like, and only one, a toilet that flushes. The Thai toilet consists of a western style toilet, but it has no flushing mechanism. So, you have a big basin of water (can't be good for mosquitos) next to the toilet with a tupperware container floating in it. You fill a tupperware container with water and dump it into the toilet. This "flushes" it, and as long as whatever is in the toilet is liquid, it flushes. If we're not talkin liquid, getting the damn thing to go down using the tupperware method is pretty difficult and involves having to dump water from really up high to get up the proper amount of force.
Anyway, internet is very expensive out here so I'll have to sign off and go back to trying to flush my toilet.
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