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Enjoy this dish at home!

Twilight Sky is open for dinner from 5:30pm-midnight

Ingredients

• 100g yellowtail scad fillet
• 100g mashed potato
• 30g corn beer
• 15g capers
• 20g dill
• 15g endives
• 30g crispy seaweed
• 10g lemon basil microgreen
• 50g chopped onion
• 20g kaffir lime leaves
• 30g orange zest
• 100g orange juice

Corn Beer

• 200g sweetcorn
• 1 bottle beer (marinate for 8 hours)

Held from 23rd to 26th November, 2017 at Ocean Marina Yacht Club in Pattaya, the sixth Ocean Marina Pattaya Boat Show offers a cosmopolitan mix of boating and lifestyle products displayed in-water and along the water-front at the marina. The show is open daily from 11:00 – 19:00 (closes 18:00 on Sunday) and entry is free.

Boats for Everyone
Known for catering to all types of boat buyers, the Ocean Marina Pattaya Boat Show's in-water display includes new models and brokerage, day boats from 20 foot up to luxury superyachts over 40 metres. Power and sail are well represented with prices ranging from less than one million baht up to bespoke yachts at over 200 million baht. As well as representation from the biggest global boat brands, a number of Thailand boat builders will be showing their pleasure and commercial vessels.

Superbikes that Turn Heads
Boats and automobiles are a good combination and at the show for the first time us Falcon Motorsports, who will be showcasing the latest models from Husqvarna Motorcycles. Famous for their motocross and road bikes, Husqvarna's raw power and modern design appeal to bike-lovers the world over.

Water Toys
The latest water toys and marine gadgets will be on display and live in-water demos can be viewed from the spectator platform including JetSurf – one of the fastest watersports trends in the world right now – who will also be showing their latest boards and technology.

Marine Essentials
For the boat owner or soon-to-be boat owner, all manner of marine products and chandlery items are available to purchase at the show. From paints to adhesives, marine batteries, engines and more, everything a boat owner needs is available.

Breakfast 6.30-10.30 am
Dinner 6-10.30 pm

We meet in the tile-it showroom at Wana Park in Cherng Talay. I’m early and they’re exceedingly busy: taking calls, checking drafts of quotations, checking samples, arranging schedules. For the sales team, tonight Bangkok, next week Koh Samui. A human dynamo, Sales Director Alan McAllister shuns publicity : he is, by his own admission, a very private person.

A boyish, be-jeaned figure, just graying at the temples, he began his commercial career in Italy in the natural stone business, pioneering the use of diamond-wire technology for the extraction of marble in the quarries of Northern India. He speaks several languages, including Thai – essential, he maintains, for success in business here.

Their clients include the Thai building industry and an impressive list of private clients. More than 80 per cent of the business is concerned with high-end private villas and developments in Phuket, Koh Samui and Krabi.

The business specialises in stocking and supplying the high-end property market with porcelain tiles from Italy, the world’s leading producer of ceramic tiles, and glass and ceramic mosaics. tile-it is the exclusive importer in Thailand for six Italian brands, while also supplying its own brand range of porcelain floor tiles, made to European standards, from China to cater for tighter budgets. Their clients include the Thai building industry and an impressive list of private clients. More than 80 per cent of the business is concerned with high-end private villas and developments in Phuket – amongst them X2 Vibe, Ka Villas, Kata Rocks – and in Koh Samui and Krabi. The capacious showroom in Thalang is the hub for most of this business.

But it would be wrong to characterise tile-it merely as a retail outlet. True, great care is taken to present the impressive range of sample tiles to best advantage, with user-friendly displays set against matt black walls. But Alan is at pains to emphasise the holistic and aesthetic nature of the enterprise.

Service is key, both the tendering of expert pre-sales advice and an impressive after-sales service which includes consultancy at all stages, the supply of accessories, including a unique levelling system involving the use of wedges and clip supports (ensuring quality tile installation) and both grouting and cutting machines. Alan is never satisfied until the customer is happy. “We must have a passion for what we do,” he says.

Ingredients

• 8-10 raw red prawns
• 250g calamari
• 250g cuttlefish
• 1 large onion chopped
• 1 red bell pepper
• 100g Spanish rice
• 1 garlic clove chopped
• Saffron
• 400g grated red tomatoes
• 300g mussels
• 100g green peas
• Extra virgin olive oil
• monkfish, shrimps and crab

Method
Fry the red prawns, chop the cuttlefish and calamari with the extra virgin olive oil; reserve the prawns. Add chopped onions, garlic and bell pepper and cook until soft. Add grated red tomatoes and cook until brown colour. Add rice, salt, saffron and seafood stock. Cook for 12 minutes, and then add the mussels, green peas and red prawns. Finally cook for 5 minutes until the rice is cooked.

Although I have contributed in the public domain a fair number of articles, covering myriad legal topics, in my eight years in Thailand, my partner has been the primary contributor to this publication over the course of our firm’s operations.

I often find myself admiring my partner’s practical, straight forward, concise and common sense approach to writing legal articles, which tend to resonate the current hot topic ‘du jour’, and often are the catapult for subsequent discussions or evening chats with clients, local friends and professionals in the Phuket community.

That said, when my partner asked me this week if I would like to write a piece for Window on Phuket, I jumped on the opportunity to contribute, as it had been some time since I last wrote an article here.

Over the course of the past week, I pondered what issue I should focus on this time around, and thought to myself, “What should I write about that is currently on the mind of Phuket residents – both locals and tourists alike?”

Thai Real Estate? Nah, not this time, as that has been done and dusted dozens of times, not only by yours truly…

Foreign investment rules, limitations and structuring? No. Too many re-stated statutes, rules and regulations to cite, and I’d rather just talk to people in person about the topic in any event.

Employment Law? Naturally, a topic always on the mind of Phuket business people, but also a topic full of legal jargon and jibberish.

How about legal liability relating to negligent road accidents, in particular accidents caused by “brake-failing” buses and the like? Bingo.

Certainly, the spate of recent well-publicised bus accidents on Patong Hill alone are a cause for serious concern and discussion in the whole of the Phuket community.

However, this serious, potentially life-threatening, issue does not seem to be limited solely to Patong Hill, or even Phuket for that matter.

As I write this article, I have read that yet again an inter-provincial bus located out of Ubon Ratchatani has slammed into a truck stopped in the middle of the road, causing yet another death and at least a dozen more injuries in Nakhon Rachasima. The bus is ostensibly owned by a ‘tour’ company, according to the report.

After the incredible success of the inaugural Kata Rocks Superyacht Rendezvous (KRSR), the 2017 KRSR returns from 8 to 10 December. International yachting giants are queuing up to support Asia’s leading superyacht event.

By invitation only, the Kata Rocks Superyacht Rendezvous is designed to bring like-minded people together from a personally curated guest list. It features Kata Rocks villa owners, superyacht owners, and discerning guests interested in yachting and luxury lifestyle, industry professionals plus an influential mix of international and regional lifestyle, luxury travel and yachting media.

This elegant location serves as an idyllic backdrop for a truly first class three-day programme. The event is open to both sailing and motor yachts measuring over 24 metres in length, visiting or based in Phuket – Southeast Asia’s leading luxury location and superyacht hot spot. The KRSR signals the opening of Phuket’s luxurious charter season offering superyacht owners a prime-time opportunity to showcase their flagship vessels.

Infinite Luxury, the resort developer in collaboration with Kata Rocks is very proud to again host the KRSR and bring back some of the world’s most iconic superyacht brands to Phuket.

Kata Rocks and Infinite Luxury CEO Richard Pope, said: “The KRSR is the most exclusive invitation-only superyacht event in Asia, welcoming superyacht owners, Kata Rocks villa owners and the Asian glitterati. Guests can expect magnificent superyachts, bespoke activities and glamorous parties set in a relaxed and luxurious environment.”