Expat Business Owners LIFE IN THAILAND

Expat Business Owners LIFE IN THAILAND

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music welcome to today's video with another weekly  Vlog from Phuket Thailand a wet Phuket Thailand   it's raining very heavy not the best start to  the week Tuesday heavy rain but we're going to   share just a weekly Vlog of our life living in  Phuket and running a business here in Phuket   a very damp business at the moment Maybelle  it was raining yesterday not the best start   to the week but we share the reality here on this  channel don't we maybe so let's roll the intro and   then we're going to take a look around the new  and improved maybell's Coffee Garden okay right   oh before we do that one thing this one here  has started her own YouTube channel I'm gonna   link it in the description show some love and  support to the amazing maybell And subscribe   to her Channel yesterday yeah your first video  yesterday well done mobile roll the intro baby   if you're new here I'm Richie and My Belle we're  here sharing our journey starting a new life and   a new business here in Phuket Thailand yes  so if you're interested in Phuket Thailand   and all it has to offer Please Subscribe  and follow our journey and enjoy the show 12 o'clock in the morning we have three turbo  oh yeah even though it was hammering down my   room uh three tables yes and we also get ordered  online grab grab order so thank you to the people   that came even if there was raining shout out USA  and New Zealand in the house this morning foreign y Mobile's Coffee Garden and then another day this  week I'll show you the the difference it is when   it's beautifully sunny uh I can't remember the  last time I did a little tour of the garden but   here the pink tree has seen better days we're  gonna have to do some work on that soon and   here the flooding is back not  as bad as before but it's here   we have one casualty down one cherry blossom tree  had to go because it collapsed and we've replaced   it with a Bougainville and we're hopefully  going to grow that bad boy nice and big   let's turn the camera around  and I'll show you the garden   so the garden is coming on very nicely indeed  doesn't look the best in the rain but stuff   grows so fast here and obviously I've shown this  before we've got this uh bamboo roof just in time   we've moved some Cottages here all  in line and put some Stone down   my idea for having someone a  little stage in the middle here and put more Stone down here because  it looks a bit bad when it gets so wet so yeah Garland's coming on  nicely still a few things to   do before the high season redo the  love part uh we planted more stuff   this is a usual site in Mobile's Coffee  Garden huge butterflies I mean huge foreign let's get into the dryness so that's that's  a little look around the Garden today   we have coming in the process I think I mentioned  it before menus so we're going to go to the menu   shop well we're not so busy because of the  weather and check on the process of the menu   I'm hoping by the end of this video we can  show the new menus which have been quite a   long job taking all the pictures of every dish and  deciding what stays and what goes but let me just   show something else we have new product  line I think I showed this before butcher kombucha mushroom kombucha drink  healthy this has been a good seller   and we now have some products  from the high Supply Company these are infused cookies chocolates sweets  yes infused is the word we're going to use here   we now have a new man them added to the menu here  maybe I was Coffee Garden you know if you if you   want to try you can if you don't that's it this  is there it's it's there like what's the word   it's available if you would like it simple as  that up to you I think is the best word to use   yeah is there anything else I think that's it  for now I want to show around the garden again   the flowers and Etc how it's coming on on a  sunny day you know the contrast is huge from   a wet rainy day to a sunny day ah so now we  are on the way to print shop yeah like menu   you have to get the menu done we've been there  a couple times already and then they said like   the quality of the pizza is not right we used  canva I said the quality is not good enough for   printing and I know also sending it all by email  has been we're just trying to do it ourselves   to save some costs yeah hey if we get it all  done we should be able to get 10 menus for 11   000 Baht yeah we'll show you the menus what  what kind we want in a minute yeah yeah see you in the shop I don't know okay we're here let's go and  check on the menu it's about rain on the screen   okay tell us how you feel now uh stressed  this has been a hard job next time I think   I'll probably get them to do it all what do  you think yeah we've been doing this for ages   things aren't right and then now we've got still  need to rework a couple of pages but it will be   done by the end of this video what do you  think okay yeah okay let's go next go next great weather that's Tuesday coming to  an end we're just chilling and looking   at the beautiful ocean the very rough here  between big old waves over there yeah uh   today has been completely consumed by  menu business right what have we learned   just get someone else to do it for you like  professional yeah yeah yeah but can cost you like   a lot of money like yeah I did not expect that  it's gonna cost you that much you know using your   iPhone and stuff obviously the images look good  but when you blow it up into a menu it's not good   it needs to be top quality so you would need a  photographer and then they need to keep coming to   get every dish yeah and then the design so we've  we just worked it out it costs probably around   anything up 70 to 100 000 Baht maybe more for  some places that have got enough cash we've   got hours done it's in the print shop now  11 000 Baht hey let's see how it turns out   and it won't be in this video I don't think anyway  we've nudged him a bit so next Friday but we'll   see you never know keep watching we might just  surprise you with our new menu somewhere along   thank you okay Tuesday's  done see ya tomorrow see you good morning no rain today good no rain is  always good happy don't sound a more moaning   [ __ ] about the seasons but actually when you  live here low season or wet season as we call   it it's quite welcoming because it's pretty cool  uh look at the beach busy today busy this morning it's about quarter past seven surf season  baby we're gonna go for a walk around Qatar this place is still closed in Qatar which is  right here on the edge of Qatar Beach awesome spot   when this reopens I mean you could make this  into an awesome business he got a car park for   cattle beach in front of your business it's like  the car Park's full all the time in the evening   you're laughing could be cash rolling in every day  in that place I wonder why they've not reopened it but what's happening for the rest of the week  now we're going to pick up maybell in a minute   and do another thing you have to do when you have  a business here the shopping now we have the car   we do the shopping all the shopping before I was  doing it on the bike and stuff like that it was   a bit awkward now we have the luxury of the car to  go and get the shopping every day we do this now   and oh yeah Friday coming my birthday 46  years old yeah can you tell hello welcome   yeah 46 years old on Friday and we're going to  celebrate you have to celebrate your birthday eh   so we're going to say that's quite profound  being on this Earth sit for 46 years   are probably lucky I've lasted 46 years  the way I've used to be in the past   but yeah I love this I love life and I love being   you know experiencing life in the last couple  of years what I've been doing here in Phuket   it's been amazing awesome other people message  me and asked me about doing business here I'm   going to say look it's not easy but I would never  want to put someone off just have to be prepared   to go the whole hog and put in the work  and survive we did it in the worst time and   I want to experience High season without any sort  of sandbox restriction BS and let's see how it   really is with a proper High season hey if you can  make a business work here where you're five months   of the year pumping you know hard working hard a  bit of hard work is good for you sometimes eh and   then you're in a chill out for the rest of the  year okay that would be a good lifestyle right   work half a year hard the rest chill a  bit and get ready for the next season you can make that work I think that'll be pretty  good I think the only way to make it work for   us we have more than one thing I'd love to do the  business here for six months and then go traveling   for a few months and then relax for a few  months or by making these videos as well anyway   I have to go because someone has  to go shopping that's the reality let's go okay someone wanted to share  this part of our day maybe I think you   actually enjoy this part don't you  yeah I usually wear your gambling   9 or 8 30. yeah now you've been since we got  the car we do all the shopping don't we yeah okay someone's happy she's excited about  doing the food chocolate mobile life's   doing it right happy when I'm happy when  I'm spending money yeah that's what it   is typical women right happy when the money's  getting blown let's go in and buy ingredients this is where we get all of ours like  most of our stuff macro and you don't   have to be a member some people think  you have to be a member here you don't   you can just come in and use it like  any supermarket has everything you need price um I think obviously it's cheaper than Western prices They Don't Really compare the  prices here as to back home I   don't think about it I just buy what we need is actually no when you think about it the  meat prawns shrimp and chicken and stuff like   that when I compare it back to home it's like  much cheaper I'll show you in a minute anyway how could we compare prices  let's have a look at something this is my job just push the  trolley and follow me about granola stuff like granola is expensive  anything that's imported   is expensive brown sauce is very  expensive but you're every day yeah yeah more expensive than the  UK yeah anything that's important   we every every day stuff like  vegetables meat shrimp cheap well do you need milk milk is a good way  to show the price of things of milk in   the UK virtually giving it away guys  here so we get these big milks 91 bar   actually that's probably more expensive than  back home 91 bar for two liters two of them the eggs are good we've got to make sure you get a  nice uh thank you orange yolk there's your shrimp   265 I can't read that all I know is it works out  pretty cheap I'm quite Amazed by the price of   beef was expensive because it's  mostly imported from Australia 110 per kg of chicken how much is that how much is that  so a chicken breast a chicken breast 216 bar now that is cheap I think I work out  and I'll put I work out the exchange rate   what now boss two dozen of eggs I'll tell you another thing that  is expensive cheese any cheese   lovers in the house I'm sorry but  you're quite expensive for cheese 135 Baht for that hide anything in there mascarpone 255 baht parmesan 175. look at that  grated Parmesan cheese 400 baht   I think I think they're expensive everywhere how  much you think it's going to be all the shopping   I have a guess 2 500. 3 000 3 000. Let's see I'll  show you how much it's going to be at the end that's a good trolley for almost and how much was  it I win did you win 2 300 for a lot of shopping   not too bad hey time to go to work and we  spend like that every day don't we if not more   foreign it's coming surf season is here baby  yes that's another day over business   okay A bit slow today on it yeah yeah look beach  is pretty busy yeah a lot of stuff for high tight looking good the park somewhere and get yeah we're gonna  park somewhere Street Food oh look there's a   lot of surfers out there today learning I think  a lot of people learning but we should be doing   mobile when are we going to learn surfing we  live next to this awesome surfing Beach right so that's uh my birthday on the 5th of  August and then Qatar surf beat on the   sixth and seventh of August yeah so we'll have  to go there I want me to check that out yes   and then we tomorrow we're gonna  celebrate yes miss your birthday   getting old getting old but young at heart  we're setting this up for the surf Festival here probably have music in that right street food along here every day let's go  and have a look see if we can see some waves okay look are you budding Surfers out there I don't know   much about surfing we've got  quite a few people out there there's so many surf schools along this beach one and go for it I guess oh he did well to come out of that wave we got some food let's go   come on buddy okay good morning I did say I was going to share uh  a day with the sun's out and it just happens the   last day this is going to be the last day  we're going to round this Vlog up today uh   because it's my birthday and we're gonna celebrate  tonight uh yeah I said I was gonna share a bit   from the garden on a sunny day and hopefully this  is the day a few people have asked me if I have   any regrets moving here would I recommend moving  and setting up business here I recommend moving   here 100 and something made me think the other  day I'm just walking from where we live to the   business uh we couldn't be here the other day we  had an appointment to attend in Phuket town and   for the first time we had to we had to  be there at like 7 30 in the morning so   obviously was traveling to phuketown from here  joining rush hour and everyone's going to work   so that was the first time in a long time  I've done this kind of thing I've been here   two years now so I've been to our own bosses me  and mobile for the last two years and that was   me just coming to work you know it took us like  40 minutes to get into Phuket Town sat in traffic   uh and it just reminded me of back home you know I  worked in London the journey some people make into   work is probably one of the worst parts of the day  my friends were like an hour and a half two hours   sometimes driving to get to the work location  crazy you know that is just Madness couldn't   stand that and yeah just now what I did was me  coming to work took maybe all the 15 seconds so   yeah I definitely recommend anyone thinking  hey can I go and live in Phuket or should I   100 I recommend it it's not for everyone  business-wise there's more failures than   there is success stories but for me no regrets 100  happy I'm here and I'm going nowhere I'm staying   as long as we can continue to be successful  and successful I mean just hey I didn't come   here to be rich or a millionaire it's more of  a lifestyle choice and a nice little business   where you can support yourself and earn money  and just keep you know yeah now my daily activity   work is to sit with customers drink coffee and  make sure everything's running here all right   that's about it it's not that it's  not that shabby it's not that hard   okay and me and greet people  that arrive sun's out Happy Days oh and another added bonus of what we do here  with YouTube and the shop is that we get I get   to meet lots of people every day and when I moved  here I said like you know getting away from the   Rat Race Escaping The Matrix I  think some people are calling it now   good morning Mabel good morning happy birthday  thank you yeah getting away from it all escaping   the rat race The Matrix whatever you want to call  it uh and now over the last two years because   covered and everything else the people coming  are telling me you know like oh wow we really   want to I'm meeting lots of people that are  moving here because they just want to get away   they're like you know everything's going up in  price before it you know when I was there I know   it was hard and it was just a rat race to pay  your bills lucky if you've got a holiday well   now it's even worse you know it's almost  like all the work the all the governments   all I want you to do is just work your ass  off until the end of days and then you die   so yeah time to get away people find a way  out uh who else these are growing in abundance   passion fruit no other way around here  it's grown all the way from just down here it's going up the lower part they're not ready  yet when they are ready I go a bit Browner   delicious passion fruit that's uh papaya  this grows in abundance if I'm showing you   stuff it's growing I bet some of you think I'm  going to show you some other form of plant but   yeah we haven't planted one of them in our  garden as of yet we could do though this is   avocado it's not it's kind of growing more  papaya papaya grows like crazy here I think   I could put a few plants here beginning with m  M here look this here my power cook planted this   not even that long ago yeah like four or  five months maybe look at it it's huge all right foreign right now happy birthday to you happy birthday to you   happy birthday happy birthday  happy birthday to you thank you videos thank you thank you for the cake happy birthday happy birthday cheers this one's okay with people oh  this one's scared but we stopped   moving now trust there's  more like covered in wounds   and this one back here is scared still look he  runs away as soon as we come don't be scared what he's gone oh he looks so scared he's moving slower the dogs that live around  our place one is like a pet the other two well   the old one used to run away didn't it but  then it now he just stays there yeah but   he still won't come near you and the other one  he looks so scared didn't he yeah all the time   and goes and just walks away but yeah it's  about that time Mabel party time time for   someone's birthday celebration yes so we are  going to wrap it up here but if you want to   see what we get up to tonight and the party time  you're going to share maybell's video maybell is   going to be vlogging Rich's birthday party yeah  so my next video on my channel gonna be about   his birthday tonight we're going to a beautiful  restaurant yeah not far away but you'll see   more of that in the video we'll put it on  the screen somewhere here there where yeah   go and check out Mabel's channel the link  under the description yeah yeah we have a   link it and all that yeah you know you're  getting good at this point now and yeah if   you want to see more of maybell talking and less  of me talking because I'm not going to talk in   your video I'm trying my hardest not to talk for  me okay that's it for this one guys thanks a lot   take care bye-bye goodbye see you at  Miss Hannah see you in May Belle's video

2022-08-08 17:28

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