Farang Food Prices in Udon Thani

Being purely objective here, are the food prices at the BH&R not a bit on the steep side?

petemcc wrote:Being purely objective here, are the food prices at the BH&R not a bit on the steep side?

NOPE; NOT IN THE SLIGHTEST

Thanks, so people are prepared to pay western prices in UT, that's all I wanted to know.

Four quid for a Sunday Roast including an alcholic beverage.

Where, pray tell, can I buy that in the UK? That's all I want to know

5 quid anywhere in the North of England now, or at least it was last year. The other stuff is expensive, including toasties. I am a keen price watcher and I think the prices charged are expensive, but if people are prepared to pay those prices, great. Have you tried Burger King or Maccas in Australia recently? 10 bucks- 290 Baht buys 4 massive burgers, 4 chips, 4 large cokes. That's 50 Baht for burger and chips and coke.

Yes, expensive.

patriot wrote:Four quid for a Sunday Roast including an alcholic beverage.

Where, pray tell, can I buy that in the UK? That's all I want to know

For us uneducated falangs what is a "quid", as I did not see that price on the menu.

$6.10 for a roast dinner in the US would be hard to find, especially including a beer.

But then again, perhaps the prices limit the clientiele a bit. We all have to decide our priorities and what things are worth to us.

Going to Australia for burgers is beyond my means.

I am not trying to be antagonistic here, I will be living in UT in the future and I don't want to upset you guys,but I am checking things out. Overheads in the west are much more than in Thailand, yet prices for some things are not that different. I recently worked out the differential between Thai wages and wages in Oz and it works out a 7 -9 times. Now if things were 7-9 times cheaper in Thailand it would be great, but they aren't, at the most it is 3 times.

I am trying to work out a way to live there as I am **********, and I want to know what I can expect to charge anyone for anything. I go to supermarkets and know how cheap the raw product is, so I wonder what I can get away with.

pete perhaps you could post the data that leads you to the conclusion that food prices (raw materials) in Thailand (Udon) are only 1/3 of Oz (at most - according to your post).

Last time I was in the UK April-May 2010 Wetherspoons, the value pub chain charged £6.49 for Sunday Roast.


I have a place near Newquay in Cornwall, you'd be lucky to get change from a tenner for Sunday lunch from the St Austell Brewery pubs. £9.95.


If you just eat Thai food it is cheaper,me and the wife had a blow out lunchtime in the TOPS food hall, for 200 baht.

You'll find imported foods expensive.

Unfortunately I did not keep receipts from my last visit 3 days ago. Now I did not say the raw product was only 3 times cheaper, if you read my post again you will find I said or implied things were only 3 times cheaper. I am sorry if I implied raw products were only 3 times cheaper, they really are loads cheaper, maybe up to 5-6 times for some, 10 times for others, however, what is charged for the end product is not far from western prices.
I maintain many consumables, especially food, are as cheap in Oz or the UK as the final outlet in LOS.

Prenders88 wrote:Last time I was in the UK April-May 2010 Wetherspoons, the value pub chain charged £6.49 for Sunday Roast.


I have a place near Newquay in Cornwall, you'd be lucky to get change from a tenner for Sunday lunch from the St Austell Brewery pubs. £9.95.


If you just eat Thai food it is cheaper,me and the wife had a blow out lunchtime in the TOPS food hall, for 200 baht.

You'll find imported foods expensive.

Try the NW around Bolton.

Petemcc claims raw ingredients are much cheaper in Thailand, 3-10 times cheaper. Now, my wife runs a Thai restaurant, and i have been shopping with her in the market and in supermarkets. Either the food Petemcc buys in Australia is hideously expensive or he is mistaken. Differentials vary, but generally fruit, veg, meat is between 50% and 100% of UK price; fish maybe 30-50% (but depends on the fish). Most processed foods cost more in Thailand. Also harder to get same quality in Thailand. If PeteMCC can provide me with pork at 30% uk price (say 60 baht a kilo) and good rice at 20 baht a kilo, please let me know, so i can tell the wife.

Now, cooking at home in UK i would be hard pressed to do a Sunday Lunch like bookhouse for under £1.50 (75 baht); and that does not include overheads of gas and electricity, or premises, or staff because it is your own home. Anything under 150 baht in a cafe/restaurant in Thailand and you will probably loose money, in my opinion.

Put it this way petecc, I, like many others, didn't come here for cheap european grub. I am more than happy to pay BH&C's prices and more than happy to eat 900 baht steak sets in the Japanese chain outlets. Therefore if I were living in Nong Samrong and the quality of your food was anywhere near as good as Jeremy's then you'd have a regular customer.

I am sorry,I did not realise that I could not post replies on a certain thread, and unfortunately my response to Jeremy's post has been lost now.
With everything being so disjointed it is hard to reply.
I will be living in UT in the next 5 years, so I need some of you guys as allies, not enemies.
I tried to tell Jeremy that if his food prices were what he can charge, then fair enough, but that I also understand quality food, I am also not in competition.
I am a bit pissed off that admin has messed around with my topics and certainally lost my last one while moving things.

***Mod Note - Petermcc, Admin did not mess around with any of your posts until after 06.30am this morning (5th), so you must have lost them yourself ***