For me my number 1 hate of restaurants in Thailand, is when you arrive they pass you the menu and just stand next to you with pad and pen in hand waiting for you to order...Even when you order a drink they'll wait for your food order.

Look waiter boy stop hovering around and fuck off and get me my drink!!!

Why do western owned restaurants allow this also...Does my nuts in

Dumb ass staff that bring another course before you finish the previous course

Arrggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

When the rice arrives after the other food has been eaten

When they bring you something you didn't order and expect you to eat it,even though they only cooked it because they ran out of what you ordered

Ordering steak and receiving fish instead because they no hab

Mains are always coming before appetizers....

And rice (especially fried) always at the end......

Grrrrrrrrrrrr

They ask you if "everything was ok Sir" and you reply "no" and give your explanation for why, only for them to take your full plate of food away and present you with your bill with a smile

being closed on a day you go, all hungry and visualising the dish you were going to eat

Cheers for that, I forgot too, was just about to send the wench out for a full English

Ah well, beans on toast it is then.

When you complain about something and they just laugh - It is not a joke .

Told a waiter my spoon was dirty , laughed his fuckng head off . Once told Farang Manager his cups were bogging . Full of apologies and put right .

Why is it funny to Thais .?

When they charge you high prices for substandard western food

For me it has to be the hovering of staff. I hate it when they reach across my plate, so they can get my glass. If I want them to fill it, I will ask them to do it and give them the glass.

Going into most fast food gaffs, ie, KFC, BK, McD's where they have the menus on the counter or on a bill board over their heads...100% of the time, even though it is obvious you are looking at the menu, they will ask if they can help you.

Let me read the fookin' menu you fukwit and when I look at you or call you over you'll know I want something....And while I am at it, don't bring my drink and fries over if my main item isn't cooked, b'stards!

Yes I hate the waiting staff hovering over you while you are trying to read the menu and decide.

Then you order something and she turns round and says sorry sir we no hab today. So you order your second choice, and they dont have either.

Whats the point of them having a menu if they dont have half the stuff on it??

So, you order a starter and main mean, drinks etc. Your starter arrives with or after your main meal, and the food gets cold while you eating you first course.

Then you notice out the corner of your eye that the waitress is standing there watching you eat. Fuck off.

Another thing that I have experienced is, that you have ordered your food and drink, whilst waiting, you see a number of other customers arrive, you continue to wait, and then their food arrives before yours

I rarely enjoy the dining experience in Pattaya, thats why I tend to go for quick food quite often, or go to a restaurant where I know the staff, and I know I will get what I have ordered and without having to wait half an hour for it to arrive at the table.

Yep, gotta say that's another that gets my goat...In that scenario I normally place my cutlery down and give them a surly stare till they fuck off

You guys really ought to try a better class of dining establishment where they don't have all these problems. I heard there's a new place on Soi Diana you might want to try

Dine for 99 can stick the grub up their own shit pipe, not for me Ronnie.

When they try to tuck you up because they think you are a tourist and wont realize.

I was in Palmer's one morning and ordered a bacon and egg sandwich with a cup of tea.The bill came they had charged me 100 Baht for a cup of tea.

I refused to pay,eventually a new bill arrived

The hovering bugs me, but what really gets me sometimes is WHEN you get the food.

Many times when you out with a group the food just comes as it will. In the US, they normally serve the whole party at the same time, that way everyone eats to together. I don't know how many times I've been out where some has finished there meal and there are still one or two in the party still waiting to be served.

There's one place the misses and I go (Fuji), and no matter which location in town we go to, it's always the same; the misses orders a seafood platter and I get the steak and chicken dish, order of arrival: Seafood platter, 3-5 mintes later, the steak, 3-5 minutes later, the chicken dish.......can almost set your watch by it!

1) The staff give you the menu, and expect you to order, before you open the fucking thing.
2) Food being plonked down in front of you, or, maybe at the side, cause they must think, if its somewhere on the table, that's near enough.
3) No eye contact, or 'anything else, I can get you?'
3) Staff talking loudly,to each other, as though you are an insignificance, and/or don't exist.
4) You ask for the bill, and when they bring you the folder, with your change, they stand there, waiting to see how much tip you are leaving.

the food either comes up cold or on cold plates they have no fucking idea

once i said your chickens rubbery,he said thanks very much.

When you are with your missus and the two meals arrive 19 minutes apart.

When the waiter pisses in the plant pot next to you

The inconsistency.

You find a good restaurant, rant and rave about it to your mates and then go back the following week with a few friends and have a shit meal topped only by even shittier service.

Some restaurants interracial insensitivity leaves a lot to be be desired too. When you hear the waiter shouting that the fat man wants flench flies and his prostitute wants som tam, you know that the moment has gone............

VERY inconsistant,Usually can't wait to get home for a decent feed.

the diet didnt work then rob Lol, thanks for the drink at the party last night mate ill get you one back tomorrow

Sorry, i'm confused ........... surely we can't be discussing the culinary delights of Pattaya here ....... sounds like were giving the Snooky greasy spoons a going over

Makes a refreshing change to see things aren't always as perfect as people claim

When the resident dog licks its nuts as you're about to eat!

I get aroused when i see that

Because it can.

When anything on the menu which could be fit for a farangs palate costs up to four times Example: Went to a restaurant the other day where the "Special" of the day ( for farang obviously) was spare ribs with chips - 240 baht! On the menu under Thai dishes there were spare ribs with rice for 80 baht Ordered the Thai one and as true as anything, it was the same size portion and type of ribs as advertised for farang, only with rice and not with "flench flies"

On another note, yes I have also given up on "proper dining" in this town. By this I mean, sitting down leisurely, ordering an APERATIF. take my time ordering starter and main course (perhaps with two different wines ). and perhaps after a DIGESTIVE Total confusion would reign

It is available.......

salt that never comes out of the salt shaker ....happens all the time.....
u get Heinz Chilli sauce ...Not Heinz ketchup... and not know untill its to late and your meal is ruined....
grrrrrr

What really tugs at my nutsack are 'wobbly fucking tables' . I can't tell you the amount of times i've been sawing through my steak and the vibration has tipped a drink on the table

I always end up looking like a clumsy

I went to a German restaurant the other day on Pattaya Tai as I'd eaten there before and really enjoyed it, had to ask for a menu and the waitress slapped a laminated card in front of me which listed just the days special which was pork chop I think, I asked her if there was a proper menu I could order from she said no hab, so I got up to leave and she then produced a full menu, I grabbed my gf and left. What the fuck is up with these people?

We've prolly been guilty of some of these complaints some of the time....... not all of 'em all the time nor some of 'em all of the time! But I would sincerely hope that anyone with a gripe would clear it with me or my staff to give us a chance to correct problems before they get so bad you have to mention 'em on a forum. And I do sympathise..... there are some people out there running eateries who shouldn't be allowed to!

Salt not coming out the shaker? Advise the staff..... with a smile..... to put a few grains uncooked rice in the shaker.