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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.

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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 !

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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.

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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.