The name of the restaurant is Nam Sing as stated.Originally Posted by cdnmatt
The name of the restaurant is Nam Sing as stated.
There are 'numberous' sea food joints on walking street. Food are OK to good perhaps more pricy as they target tourists.
Nam Sing seems more directly aimed at the Chinese market although the shark-fin issue means I'd never eat there. The Walking Street ones (I've only eaten in a couple and that was sometime ago) appear to be generic falang-Thai places.
Is Nang Nual still going strong? Having started life originally on the landward side of Walking Street, it was the first to invest and expand substantially on to the seaward side, with their huge balcony. The young and efficient waiters in their nautical attire were part of the attraction, along with the sea view and good food, and it was great for groups of friends or romantic dinners.
Seeing it's success others followed in expanding, and moving to the seaward side, but I never felt that they had the flair and ambiance of Nang Nual.
Not quite. Moo is simply short for mooban or village. You'll find that Thais still use the term mooban when talking about where they live even though they live in a townhouse in a swanky housing estate as that's how houses have been traditionally grouped. Indeed it's how life itself was traditionally organised and still is in many parts of the country. I think it might be a little different Bangkok, for example, they use ked or zone there instead of amphur or district.
christianpfc (April 30th, 2018)
" Moo is simply short for mooban or village. You'll find that Thais still use the term mooban when talking about where they live even though they live in a townhouse in a swanky housing estate as that's how houses have been traditionally grouped. Indeed it's how life itself was traditionally organised and still is in many parts of the country. I think it might be a little different Bangkok, for example, they use ked or zone there instead of amphur or district. "
My reply to the original misstatement about "moo" was crafted by my Thai partner, who has lived in a tiny Issan village, in Bangkok, and in Pattaya. Yes, he mentioned that "Moo" is the same word that forms "moo baan" but in addresses it means a sub-division of a sub-district. It does not indicate a neighborhood or area within which there is any commonality. Just a carving out of the map, primarily for postal purposes. Pattaya seems to only have 13 moo.
And yes, as always, size does matter. Bangkok is huge and complicated, so trok is used to clearly indicate a sub-soi. In Pattaya, which doesn't even have many sub-sois, it seems like soi 13 and 13/1 are both just called "soi" by Thai people.
Basically, moo-baan = village.
In the cities, it means sub-division.
It's just in Thailand, sub-divions work a little differently than out West. It's a community, there's some family run mom & pop shops around, everyone knows each other, everyone generally gets along if for no other reason than for the betterment of the "boo-baan" / village / sub0division, and so on.
Little different from the West, where apparently, you have to plan a coffee date with your neighbor or even own brother three days in advance.
The poster asking about "Moo" has certainly brought his enquiry to the right place.
Let's face it - if he's going to get a definitive answer it's bound to come from some old Cow.
Some people here are milking this for all it's worth!
Over to you!
I think a local Thai would be better placed to explain the term "moo."
Regarding restaurants, Indigo, an Indian restaurant on Second Road across from Boyztown, has reopened. Directly next to Indigo is another Indian restaurant and both seemed to share a common interest.
I dined at Indigo last evening and it was very good.
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