Posted on 10/19/2016 7:41:10 AM PDT by dware
Not now but after the last mine closed on me, we moved to Chiang Mai for several years and bought craft items to import (mostly into San Francisco and Seattle Chinatowns). My wife long ago taught at Payap U. In Chiang Mai. However most of the crafts came from Phrae or Nan provinces.
What mine? Where is Chiang Mai? Some of us barely own a passport as you know if you read The Guardian!!!
Seriously, your posts fascinate me as a first term culinary student.
The mine that closed was here in southern Oregon. It was mostly a smelter when I was there and we brought in nickel oxide ore from New Caledonia, an island northeast of Australia. I was never there. Teck (a Canadian mining company) tried its hand at a nickel mine but couldn’t compete with the 1990s dumping of Russian nickel.
My wife is from Thailand so we had a go at importing Thai handicrafts. Chiang Mai is in the North of Thailand so we did some buying of popular crafts like wood carvings and lacquer ware. We did pretty well but came back when our daughter got out of college.
Southern Oregon, huh?
Me too. You ever eaten at Thai BBQ on 6th in Grants Pass? Really, really good food. I love their Chicken Curry with extra hot sauce.
Ed
Interesting enough, the mother of the current owner went to school at Payap U in Chiang Mai with my wife. Really good food.
Interesting!
Yeah, I really love that place.
See ya’,
Ed
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