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Anti Cheating System and Pricing
Final Touch Final Spurt
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The Desolation of Chiang Mai 2009
By admin | September 6, 2009
The desolation of Chiang Mai at the beginning of September 2009
is quite big. Sometimes we think,
we´re living in a ghost town.
While we and our team started the Yum Boi Boi Project,
we´ve been very hopeful.
A lot of people enforced us and promised us their support,
but already at the opening party,
we could figure out what kind of support this people was speaking about.
Many of that loud-mouthed people not even showed up for the party.
Fair enough, the first weeks hasn´t been that bad.
We had figure out, that there is no sense to sell Thai salads (Yum)
or other food, we just had to throw away the fresh ingredients
or eat them by ourselves.
Soon the situation became more and more desolated.
At the beginning of August we had to release half of our staff,
there was just not enough money to even provide them with food.
But the situation got worse and more desolated.
At the beginning of September, we had to release manager Eak
and the remaining staff. Our chief craftsman Eak left Chiang Mai,
even he can´t found any job and his wife is pregnant.
Now there is just a very small group of Lisu hilltribe boys left,
which work with us on other projects.
They asked us to give it a try, just a little bit longer.
There are already people which want to take over the bar
and change it to a Santitham style Karaoke Bar.
How long we can resist their offers,
we honestly don´t know.
From now on until the beginning of October
Yum Boi Boi will be closed on Sundays and Mondays !
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Rainy Season in Chiang Mai Thailand
By admin | July 18, 2009
Businesswise the rainy season is the worst time of the year in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
While dark clouds darkens the sky and sometimes very heavy monsoon showers
are coming down, businesses in Chiang Mai are starving.
Bars, Pubs, Restaurants, Hotels and even the Thai markets are deserted
and many of the businesses getting ruined.
After a very low high season 2009, which was even worse than the rainy season in 2008,
many places are running out of money and have to close down.
People, specially young people can´t find a job nowadays
and decided to leave the city.
If some regular visitors to Chiang Mai will come back in the cold season,
Chiang Mai won´t be the same as before.
Picture: rainy season in Chiang Mai, a heavy monsoon shower
Also Yum Boi Boi Art & Music Pub, Chiang Mai has been hit by the rainy season.
There is just a very few customers and a few of our boys left the city already,
while the hard core of our team has to stand the daily business,
even if it´s heavy raining.
Picture: Young Thai boys are facing the rainy season in Chiang Mai with a smile
For more information on the Chiang Mai weather,
please visit our special service page: Chiang Mai Weather and Weather Forecast
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Santitham Moo Kata MSG Party with Side Effects
By admin | July 8, 2009
As Yum Boi Boi was closed for the Khao Phansa Buddha Days,
we invited our staff to a Korean barbeque restaurant,
in Thai called Moo Kata, just around the corner,
at the Santitham Plaza Komplex, Chiang Mai.
Picture: Santitham Moo Kata Korean Barbeque Restaurant
Chiang Mai – North Thailand
Moo Kata (Korean Barbeque) is very popular with Thai people,
because it is quite cheap.
Most of the Moo Kata restaurants offer an “all You can eat buffet”,
in our case for 109.- Baht per person.
That sounds great, but turned out as a real disaster.
First we had to experience, that half of the trays been empty,
no vegetables and herbs at all.
We asked, when they will refill the missing ingredients.
The answer was clear: Mot leauw (means: finished alread or out of stock)
and that at 21:30 !
Picture: Akha Thaiboy Chai at the half empty buffet
at Santitham Moo Kata, Korean Barbeque restaurant Chiang Mai – North Thailand
Santitham Moo Kata opens at 18:00 until midnight,
that means after just half of the opening time
they run out of stock. Very poor !
Immediatly they forbid our photographer to take pictures,
so we´re sorry, there are just a few pics.
Picture: Thai Boys in a good mood
at Santitham Moo Kata, Korean Barbeque restaurant Chiang Mai
Our boys didn´t bother and enjoyed their meal,
while we figured out that the dip sauces has been spiced up
with a lot of MSG (monosodium glutamate / flavour enhancer / Umami).
We`ve been remembered to a visit to a Moo Kata Restaurant in Chiang Mai
a few years ago, while 8 out of 12 persons been vomiting
and all of us had swollen gums and tongues after the meal,
because of the extensive use or better abuse of MSG.
We told the boys, they should be careful,
but they been in a very good mood and ate a lot.
While we finished the meal,
the first boys complained of a feeling of dizziness,
later on all of them. All got swollen gums and tongues
and a feeling of numbness in the mouth.
Even me got the same side effects,
I just ate 5 pieces of meat and tried just a little bit of the MSG dip sauces.
The meat was also marinated with a overdose of MSG.
Chocolate, one of our Thai boys commented:
In this life I´ll never step in again in that Moo Kata restaurant !
For our poisonous MSG Party with all the negative side effects we had to pay 1195.- Baht.
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