SandwichShoppe

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Sandwich Shoppe Chalong will be closed this coming Monday. We're putting a one-third-height brick wall along the back. That's phase 1. In phase 2, we'll put sound-absorbing panels on top - which should cut down on the echo and reverberating noise very substantially.

I'm still looking for a way to use the back room in that shop - the meeting room. Any suggestions???

Our olde fashioned peanut butter is back in stock - and we have a new package for our tremendous all natural honey.... in a bear squeeze bottle!

I swear the peanut butter and honey are both the best I've ever had - anywhere - which is why I brought them to Phuket.

The Sunday morning informal computer clinics are still going strong - this from last Sunday, at the Sandwich Shoppe in Chalong.

Several of you have asked when we'll get the old mega-clinics back. I'm about three weeks away from finishing the book (looks like it'll hit 1,050 pages, by far the largest book I've ever written). Once that's over, I'm going to take a few days off, and then I'll start looking for a venue...

Ay yay yay! We ran out of peanut butter again.

Really sorry about that. Went back to our supplier, and they've run out of jars. We've found new jars, but they're a different shape, so we had to have new labels printed.

While we're at it, we're going to get foil tops to heat-seal the PB and keep it fresher longer. And the new labels won't pick up the oil from the PB, so they won't get stained as easily.

That's one big disadvantage to real old-fashioned peanut butter: the oil separates and you have to stir it back in. At least it beats all the chemicals and weird emulsifiers the manufacturers put in mainstream peanut butters, to keep the oil inside.

The peanut butter's here in Phuket, still great, sitting in a fridge, waiting for us to get the distribution act together. It'll happen soon.

Just a reminder that, every year, we close for just one day: Songkran. Both shops will be closed on Friday. We'll all be out enjoying the holiday. Hope you can join us!

Punchline Comedy Club is tonight - Whose Line is it Anyway? - at Holiday Inn Patong. Looks like it'll be another great show.

Sandwich Shoppe Chalong is now officially relocated. (In other words, we got the internet hooked up this afternoon.) Everything seems to be working. It's a bit Spartan - no signage, nothing on the walls, still need curtains and some lights - but I really like the open, airy feeling.

Day 1 of the move at Sandwich Shoppe Chalong is behind us, and we have the big stuff moved over. One of the air conditioners isn't working, and MAN the sunlight is bright!

We'll be closed again tomorrow, Friday, but I've been assured that we'll be open on Saturday. A few things might not be working right, but the coffee machine is calibrated and the staff's raring to go.

I had an interesting discussion with several people about how we're furnishing and decorating this shop (and the others, as well). I've been told that I should mimic other shops and go with chrome and glass and "modern" chairs - which are actually made of spun and wrapped plastic, designed to look like wicker, usually strung on a resin or tubular metal frame. Humbug.

I like leather and wood and soft fabric. The new shop has even more leather and wood and soft fabric - and a couple of nice antiques, to boot. We'll also have a big fish tank separating the sections of the shop. My kind of place. It ain't cool. It ain't trendy. But it sure is comfortable...

We just got the electricity hooked up at the new shop, around the corner from our current shop in Chalong. Currently expecting to make the move before the 15th. We're expanding the menu, bringing on a full-time chef, and adding all sorts of new stuff at the same time. Stay tuned!

I'm very happy to say that we're helping to sponsor the Phuket Punchline Comedy Club show, on Wednesday February 29. This time they're bringing in four of the original stars of "Whose Line is it Anyway." Brilliant! I can hardly wait. http://phuketcomedy.com/

Tickets available at all of the Sandwich Shoppes - just B 960 at the Shoppes, vs B 1,200 at the door.

I'm very happy to say that the Sandwich Shoppes will, once again, sponsor the Phuket International Blue Rock Festival. We'll have tickets available at both of the Sandwich Shoppes.

This year the Festival is on the last weekend in February, in a new location at Laguna. http://www.phuketbluesfestival.com/

Phuket International BLUES ROCK festival! - 25-26 February - 2011

For those of you asking about the move at Sandwich Shoppe Chalong - we're basically ready, but still waiting for the electricity meter. It'll take us a couple of days to actually move everything, but the meter's holding us up.