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bobl, on 2012-05-26 08:26:23, said:

To clarify:  when you say on the right (southbound side) are you saying that if one continued north past the turn 50m and looked to the right, to the east side of the road, one would see this shop?

Land & Houses Park is 3 km south of Mae Joe.  It is not prone to flooding, though there was flooding last year.  The majority of the water was street only, street and yard in some areas, and into houses on lower land near the front gate.

Most, but not all, of the is flooding  was coming up from the storm drains and then channeled by the street curbs away from ditches and into residential areas.  Since the floods, L&H has taken efforts to clean out the ditches and add more ways the streets can drain directly into them.

Driving in and out of the development was always possible.

I would not automatically discount living here and, in fact,  are now actively helping poor relatives look for a cheap home here.

A location large enough to handle many more people than on the guest list and lots of car parking should be a must.

There are many of us who ( a ) do not live in town and only drive cars or ( b ) have both but will not attending a drinking function at night riding a motorcycle (i.e., will attend only if they can drive their car and find on site parking).

I liked the old Tuskers, but only had to go there once for party to learn not to repeat that mistake.  It took more time to find a place to park and walk to and from than the time I spent there.    The time I spent there was shortened by the fact that it was wall to wall people and just too hard to mix, get a drink, get food.  Add in the band, and it was hard to even converse with the person jammed in next to you.

barefoot1988, on 2012-05-18 21:39:18, said:

I know some of it is (or used to be) eaten.

Back when the Thais still rendered pork fat for frying, I was introduced to deep fried, crispy frog skins.  The in those days equivalent of American potato chips?  I was in Isan working for a week and they tasted so good I, in my non-thinking naive youth, order 1 kilo of the dried skins to take home to fry in Bangkok.

Oooops.....you can imagine how much 1 frog skin weighs.  Needless to say, I had enough to give everyone on the trip more frog skins than they wanted.  Luckily they were too polite to refuse.

Aside:  it may be that the flavor is no longer that good what with everyone using cheap, easy to get vegetable oils.

editorial edit

There used to be a bunch of stores/factories along Wualai Rd which runs off going south west at a 45 degree angle from the Chiangmai Gate, if memory serves me right.  I think I have seen them there recently.