BANGKOK - While holidaying in July in Chiang Rai, Thailand, a Singaporean and her family ordered a "very nice bowl" of noodle soup during dinner at the hotel restaurant.
The housewife, who was travelling with her husband, elderly mother-in-law and two young children, enjoyed the dish so much that she ordered it again for breakfast.
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