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Thai Food in Fuengirola

Published by Owen Jones on 21 July 2018

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Thai Food in Fuengirola

Thai Food in Fuengirola

Thai Food in Fuengirola

I have been living and eating Thai food in Fuengirola for about a year, so I know the place fairly well. I also love Thai food. In fact, I lived in Thailand for thirteen years with my Thai wife and her family in a small, rice-farming village in the north.

So far, I have discovered four fully or partly Thai restaurants in Fuengirola and Los Boliches.

Mr Noodles: cooks some types of Thai food and Thai noodles from what I have seen, although I have not eaten there yet, because noodles are not my favourite food.

Padthaiwok: is located in the same street, opposite the bus station, as Mr. Noodles. It seems to be mostly noodles again, and so I have not eaten there, but my Thai wife has and she liked it. I did notice that they do not provide pork there and that it is Halal.

Srithai: is about two hundred yards opposite Padthaiwad in ‘Fish Alley’. I have eaten there and loved the food. I can vouch for the fact that it is authentic. The staff are very friendly too.

Thai Lanna: this restaurant is located in Los Boliches. I have eaten here too and it is my favourite in the area. The food is fantastic and the decor made my wife cry one day when she was feeling particularly homesick.

I have been told that there is another in Los Boliches on beach road near the border with Fuengirola. My wife went looking for it one evening, but failed to find it.

The other thing that I want to say about the above restaurants is that the staff are either mostly or completely Thai. The waiters are often local, but the cooks are Thai.

Give them a try. I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.

** Breaking news! There is now a Thai home catering service active in Fuengirola and Los Boliches. I have tried their food too and it is authentic and delicious Thai cuisine cooked by Thai ladies. They will either cook for you in your home or pub for your special occasion or cook in their homes and deliver it. See Thai Home Catering Services in Fuengirola on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThaiCateringInFuengirola/ **

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All the best,

Owen

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Fuengirola and Los Boliches

Published by Owen Jones on 3 July 2017 1
Fuengirola and Los Boliches

Fuengirola and Los Boliches

Fuengirola and Los Boliches

It is my pleasure to introduce to the residents of, and the holidaymakers in, Fuengirola and Los Boliches, Pranom Jones, better known as Neem. Neem is a Thai lady who moved to Fuengirola with her husband in January 2017, and is now keen to take part in the local community.

Neem is offering two separate types of services to the folk in Fuengirola and Los Boliches. They are, in essence, home help and Thai catering, but I will explain them in more detail below.

Fuengirola Home Help Services

Fuengirola Home Help Services is about caring. Neem is learning Spanish, but currently speaks only Thai and English. However, there are many elderly expats and young English-speaking families in Fuengirola and Los Boliches, who might want to use Neem’s home help services.

Neem is offering to cook, clean, shop, walk the dog, push the wheelchair and be a companion, do the gardening and the laundry, or anything else of this nature. She can also babysit, pick up the kids from school or just keep them amused until you get home.

If you would like to talk to her about this sort of thing in complete confidence, please use the button on her Facebook page here:

Fuengirola Home Help Services

Thai Catering Services in Fuengirola

In this business, Neem is offering to cater for private parties in people’s own homes. She is a Thai chef par excellence, and will prepare the Thai food of your choice, with aqdvice from her, if you want, from start to wherever you want. She can do the shopping, prepare and cook the food in her or your own home and leave you to serve it, or she can do that too.

So, if you are looking for a meal with a difference, hot or not so hot, plan it with Neem.

Contact her using the button on her Facebook page here:

Thai Catering in Fuengirola

You will find Neem easy to talk to and very caring. She wants to help – it is one of the first things you will notice about her.

PS: if you own a bar and would like to use Neem’s catering services, that is possible too, just as her babysitting service is available to hoteliers.

Just contact her and ask, she will find a way.

All the best,

Owen

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Fuengirola Home Help Services

Published by Owen Jones on 18 June 2017
Fuengirola Home Help Services

Fuengirola Home Help Services

Fuengirola Home Help Services

There is a new Home Help Service in Fuengirola, called, not surprisingly, the Fuengirola Home Help Services. It is run by Neem Jones, a Thai lady who is living on the Costa del Sol with her British husband of fifteen years, the Welsh writer, Owen Jones.

“I have always had a special interest in helping those who cannot care for themselves”, she said, “People such as children, the sick, the aged and the infirm. After all, they deserve a decent life too, they just need a little help to achieve it”.

“In Thailand, it is quite normal for women of my age to take care of their parents, elderly relatives and their grandchildren”, she added, “and I would like to do the same thing here in the area where I live in Spain on the Costa del Sol”.

When asked whether not speaking Spanish might be a problem, Neem replied, “It can be, if people want it to, but I have been here a year, now and it never has been yet, although we have had a few amusing misunderstandings. That’s all right though, having a laugh is mostly what it’s all about, isn’t it? Life can be so boring when you can’t get out to meet people”.

When asked for further details about her new venture, she supplied the following information:

Neem said that she speaks Thai and English, but is learning Spanish and the services that she is offering at the moment are those to do with running a household. When pressed, she said: cooking, cleaning, laundry; baby-sitting, caring for the house-bound including taking them out; shopping, picking up the kids from school, gardening, running errands and anything else that is considered ‘normal’.

Neem explained that she didn’t want any ‘problems or misunderstandings’ with single gentlemen, so she would prefer not to work for them, unless they came recommended by an existing friend.

“It would be nice if we could set up an on line community so that the house-bound can keep in touch. In, fact, I have started doing that with a closed Facebook Group, which is attached to my business’ page on Facebook. Friends, or clients, if you like, and their friends and family will all be welcome to join and take part”.

“I live near to the border of Fuengirola with Los Boliches very near to the sea,” she added, “and since I don’t have any transport, I know that area the best… well, we have lived from Las Lagunas to where we are now, but often walk in Los Boliches, so that would be where I would like to work, but I am open to any request”, she said cheerfully.

If you want to contact Neem, you can do so through her Facebook page Fuengirola Home Help  Services, which also carries her email address and telephone number.

“I just want to bring a smile to people’s faces as I help them,” said Neem, “but I have to charge for it to be able to live here too”.

When asked what sort of clientele she was expecting, she replied: “Anyone who needs help, but I expect most of them to be retirees… retired ex-pats living or holidaying in Fuengirola and Los Boliches, but it could just as easily be a busy, working family… perhaps with children”.

Click here to contact Neem at Fuengirola Home Help Services:

Fuengirola Home Help Services

All the best,

Owen

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