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I have seen these indian families order everything then start complaining and causing problems and then not paying - there were at least 6 of them. Would you have left your children and run away!!! I certainly wouldn't.

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I used to eat in the Plantain Leaf every lunch time so i got to know the waiters quite well over the years.The one time of the year they used to dread, was the annual holidays of the Gujaratis.This was some time in April , i think ? They used to abuse the waiters some thing terrible and the place used to look like it had just suffered a direct hit from a garbage bomb when they had left for beach.Food all over the tables and the floor. You couldn't say anything to them as they travelled in very large families and they abused the waiters verbally and one time physically. I got the feeling that their was caste issues going at times. They would never share a table with a white face though. I used to get quite upset with them staring at you and laughing.Strange people.

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At a guess, rs750 A HEAD would be more realistic for seafood platters including lobsters?

Multiplied by the number in this family could reach rs4700, bet they had a shock!

Serves them right though, have had similar experieces to those PJ describes above...........


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Went to Sher-e-Punjab yesterday (used to be my favouite watering hole in Panjim) - new menus; prices up by around 20% across the board - large Kingfisher now Rs.115/-
Total meal a touch under Rs 800/- same meal was under Rs.500 last year!

AndyD 8-)#

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I would have thought it more of a 'social class' issue than caste issue. I think it possible that some such Indians have never previously seen the sea or met a foreigner. Although also the attitude of 'some' (just some) upper class Indians to waiters is appalling.
Yobbish behaviour on holiday seems to be a common problem, eg. Europeans in Ibiza and Cyprus or even our own dear teenagers in Devon and Cornwall !!

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haven't been up to Baga yet, but in Candolim this year there seems to be quite a large number of young visitors - obviously well off, well educated, and -as far as I've seen - very well behaved.*

AndyD 8-)#

* and spending money - as a local friend said to me a few days ago; middle-India is now spending; this is a new and slightly worrying development - Indians have always saved!

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Which Sher-e-Punjab ? the one opposite Bombay Bazaar or the one around the corner.I always use the one on 18 june road love their Mutton Keema,but at your quoted prices that will be the last time i venture in there.

John

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If they had a lobster each (market value is 900rs a kg)plus other seafood then 4700rs sounds reasonable.

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what is the average cost of a large kingfisher in a resturant or shack this year.=?

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love my Grub in Goa but wouldn't expect to pay anymore than Rs500 and to me thats expensive per person. Don't mind pushing the boat out on special occasions but Rs 800 is a tad expensive....unless you had Lobster of course.

Andy from Rs 500 to Rs 800 is quite a jump in a year.

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http://www.digitalgoa.com/ca_disp.php?id=1647

8,000 violating structures in Goa

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Fake currency printed in Pakistan circulating in Goa

4 Nov: IANS. Fake Indian currency printed in Pakistan has made inroads into Goa, a police official said Thursday ... The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) ... Police were pushing traders to use ultra violet ray machines to detect fake notes in areas frequented by tourists ...

www.goanvoice.org.uk

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“Many counterfeit notes have been tracked back to wads of notes issued by the State Bank of India and Canara Bank, among others,”

Indian banks are issuing them! If they can not tell the difference we do not stand a chance of telling if we are being issued with them.

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Ive herd of raindrops keep falling on my head.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11684382

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Not quite in todays paper, but on TA forum, Stevebenaulim may be interested:


“ Intimidated & Threatened for Money at 2am in Banaulim ”
Nov 05, 2010, 9:06 AM
I just got back from Goa for my wedding and am disgusted at how me and 3 of my friends were treated on sunday evening at 2am whilst walking from Benaulim beach to the Lotus complex.
As me and 3 of my friends were walking back to the Lotus, I was asked by one of the beach shack owners (Pedros') if i had gotten a taxi to north goa on the saturday night. I replied no and carried on walking.
as me and my friends walked on and were on a very dark road near the Lotus, around 12 scooters came up behind us and stopped us. they accused my friends of taking a taxi to north goa and then taking a Different taxi back. Theyby not paying their "colleague" - i asked where this taxi driver was so he could speak to my friends. They guy was very rude , threatened to "break our hotel" and demanded Rs 1,500 (£23 approx). as more of his friends arrived and the situation was getting heated I got out the money and paid him.
I was outraged by this incident and having explained it to the hotel owner nobody seemed bothered. We basically were intimidated (4 of us surrounded by 12-14 scooters) into handing over money.
the next few days I saw this same man and decided to let it slide, even though i had 200 guests. Im disgusted that this is how we were treated when spending thousands in Benaulim , if it wasn't for our tourist trade they wouldn't have an industry.