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PHUKET: Officials on Friday (Feb 23) arrested a Patong seafood restaurant manager who has been selling overpriced shrimp dishes to Chinese tourists. The arrest of Kanyanat Chookaew, 26, was announced by officials at a press conference held at 2pm yesterday (Feb 25) at the Phuket Tourist Police Station and attended by
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Snake is off the menu at a Bangkok restaurant after a mass raid on Wednesday night sparked by complaints that wildlife was being consumed there. A 20-strong team of police officers and officials from the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department’s “Wild Hawk” task force stormed the restaurant – Luang
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PATTAYA - Some restaurants in Pattaya have been found cheating diners by using steamed vegetable gum in dishes they advertise as expensive swallow nest soup, according to the Department of Special Investigation. The DSI inspection centred on nine Chinese restaurants in the resort beach city on Wednesday, the same day other
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PHUKET: Local fishermen and representatives from fish processing groups yesterday morning gathered at the Damrongdharma Center to ask for help after the Phuket Fisheries Office ordered the closure of the Sarasin Seafood Restaurant in Tah Chat Chai. The group of 30, led by Ronnakorn Hongsa, president of Fish Processing Group Baan
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Technology is seeping into everything, even restaurant tableware. Quince, a Michelin-starred restaurant in San Francisco has recently swapped ol’ fashioned porcelain plates with Apple iPads for a couple of its most popular dishes. Restaurants have been using tablets instead of classic menus for years now, and some have even introduced app-powered
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PATTAYA: — A Russian woman was stabbed in the street in South Pattaya yesterday in an apparent business conflict involving two Russian restaurants. Police were call to rooms above the 7 – 11 in Soi Pattaya Park Sunday where 36 year old Sanna Greenburg was lying on a bed with
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Japan’s first naked restaurant to be opened in Tokyo next month has issued a disclaimer warning that obese clients would be denied service and not admitted in the first place. And no tattoos, please. The Amrita (‘Immortality’ in Sanskrit) restaurant opening July 29 is follows the trend set by other ‘naked’
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Police arrested a Khao Sarn restaurant manager for assault Friday after a British tourist was punched in the face. The tourist had been refused by staff to use the toilets because he was not a customer. He had then ordered cocktails and so was allowed to use the rest room. On
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