Hi All,

What kind of food products can you bring to Thailand? the reason why I'am asking this is because a friend of mine living there ask me to fetch some but I am not sure if its allowed or not? neither is he!

Cheers in advance!

Weren't Beef crisps banned a few years ago ? due to the foot & mouth outbreak that we had. Don't know if the ban has been lifted yet.
As for cheese I think it would melt as soon as you got off the plane.

I think the beef crisps were banned because of BSE crisis and not foot and mouth but we have had so many food scares in UK I could be mistaken

As for cheese ..my sister loves it and I regularly take it along with tons of chocolate. Like Mart I have never had any problems with Thai customs officers.

And how much beef goes into beef crisps? 0%

Yes, Barbecue Beef flavour Hula Hoops are suitable for vegetarians!* Oddly, McDonald's strawberry milkshakes are not!*

Strange but true

Also Beef and Tomato and Chicken and Mushroom pot chemicals are suitable, just watch out for the E numbers.

When I worked in Abu Dhabi, I used to take about 8 frozen assorted Indian take-aways in a cool box. I used to pick them up on the way to the Airport from the restaurant and with the flight only being about 6 hours, they were still frozen on arrival. Never had any probs with customs as they were more interested in the electrical stuff we were trying to smuggle in

Not sure about cheese but you are definatley not allowed to take raw meat into Thailand. However in the middle of the foot and mouth outbreak I landed at Phuket with two kilos of bacon in my suitcase.
I went to the Red customs to declare this and the officer said "Too many papers sir go to the green"

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Originally posted by Cliff:
Oddly, McDonald's strawberry milkshakes are not! ... Strange but true

Well, almost true. You'd have to be a fairly fussy veggie to refuse food because it was coloured with cochineal.

Anyway, I'm not sure a McDonalds milkshake would last the journey from the UK for inspection by Thai Customs

A veggie friend won't eat a veggie burger from MacDonalds as it is cooked on the same griddle as the beefburgers. She will eat one from Burger King as she reckons they cook them on a different grill.

I am very fond of quoting from Larry Niven's Ringworld on this. Three protagonists, one human, one from a herbivorous race (Pierson's Puppeteer) and one from a carnivorous race (Kzin). They are discussing the evolution of intelligence, and the Kzin looks in disdain at the Puppeteer and says "How smart do you need to be to sneak up on a leaf?"