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It’s funny... whenever I take a vacation no matter if it’s a weekend getaway or a 2 week trip, I’m always very excited to book, make plans and to get going but once I’m into the trip I’m so ready to get back home and into my own bed, sit on my own toilet, cook in my kitchen, drive my car, watch...

They gotta have something

Not sure, in Vietnam and Malaysia they didn’t, I used an app called Grab

Be careful with taxi rip offs on vacationers, friend of my wife visited us when we were in Thailand, he took a taxi to his hotel which was only 4km away and got took for $30 + a tip, according to my wife it should have been $3 USD. We traveled to Malaysia and Vietnam and I used an app but in...

Father in law trapped a big snakehead fish and a bunch of small shad/bluegill type fish for dinner, they will fry the small fish and make a curry out of the fish head. They have a farm in a small Thailand village and are fully self sufficient. The farm has a huge banana grove that he can...

Mostly non kitchen variety, benchmade, spyderco, bark river, Busse kin

What oil do you use? I picked up some Fractionated Coconut Oil to try out on a couple new boards I just bought

Just a cheapie ESEE set that I’ve used the heck out of for the past 6 years, I think I paid $50 for the 4 piece set, German stainless steel that holds a really good edge. They’ve been discontinued now or I’d buy a few sets for backup. I’ve assembled a set of Ontario Old Hickory pieces that I’ve...

I picked one of these up a little while back and it’s come in handy a few times for breaking down chicken or ribs

Some knives from Thailand, crude looking but pretty stout hand hammer forged 5160

I think I might of confused the seller by buying so many, he added them up wrong! The ones on the right side were $23 by themselves, so looks like everything on the left side costed me $3

Added a few more pieces for kitchen use

Woke up and had my coffee then another after lunch, water and green tea the rest of the day

Collecting gold and silver, around $300k here

I’ve been in Thailand for the past 3 months and saw some heavy cleavers down at the weekend market, decided to buy one and a chopping block. It’s a super heavy cleaver with a thick 3/16” spine that should easily chop through bone, chopping block is also very heavy and made out of very dense...

new guy here from California, in Thailand at the moment buying up aranyik brand cleavers and heavy duty tamarind wood chopping blocks