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...question is how much market is there? According to Chew, Thais eat pizza an average of once every 50 days. "If they come in once a month or every five weeks, then we have 50% growth,'' he says . That might be a Pollyannaish projection for Thailand where pizza isn't a bargain meal. A large Super Supreme, Pizza Hut's best seller, goes for about $6.25. A bowl of noodles at a street stall costs about 70. "I can get 10 Thai meals for the price of one pizza,'' says Fon Janyasathien, a school counselor...
...makes the best pizza in Thailand? To gauge who may be the victor in the Pizza Hut vs. Pizza Company war, TIME picked seven pizza-loving Thais for an admittedly unscientific taste test. The panelists sampled Hawaiian pizzas from the Pizza Company, Pizza Hut and Narai Pizza, the third-largest chain with 22 outlets. They also tucked into Pizza Hut's Super Supreme and the Pizza Company's Super Deluxe. Here are their ratings, rants and raves...
...will soon get hotter. The final scene in the production schedule is a sybaritic consummation of furtive desire between two female characters. That has created anticipation, apprehension, curiosity and some plain old sauciness that one suspects was the intention from the start of 40-year-old director/co-producer Nonzee Nimibutr, Thailand's auteur of the moment?and a sly yet appealing character in just about every...
...Dara is the most anticipated Thai film in years for a couple of reasons. It will be Nonzee's third movie, and his first two, Dan Bireley and the Young Gangsters and Nang Nak, both broke box office records in Thailand. Nang Nak went on to tour the European festival circuit, where Nonzee was proclaimed something of a wing-collar art house director, giving Thailand a seat at the ongoing banquet of honor being served up to Asian filmmakers. Indeed, the new movie is being produced by Hong Kong's Peter Ho-Sun Chan, who directed The Love Letter...
...other cause for excitement is that Jan Dara is the filmed version of a 1966 literary novel known intimately to almost all in Thailand, or at least most of the males. "Jan Dara was where sex education started for most of us," says 39-year-old hipster director Pen-ek Ratanaruang (6ixtynin9). While the dramatic content is key, the flesh quotient in the movie is generous. Nonzee estimates that 20% of screen time features some nudity, and that includes voyeurism, four rapes and, of course, the lesbian scene Nonzee has held for the final day of shooting. "In my first...