Bangkok Blogs

To begin with, please let me introduce myself to you. My name is Sirote, a university student in Bangkok. I’m starting to write articles on Bangkok today and hope to bring the best of my experiences to make a better understanding of the city for everyone. My written English is not perfected but I’m […]

I don’t know about you, but most of the Thai girls around my age who I would call friends are really more like sisters. Young sisters, at that. They are naive, they have more questions than answers, they lack any direct experience of much outside of their own often family controlled environments. There are obviously […]

I’ve had several friends come out here for the first time, some of them never having travelled outside of England before. Their experiences vary, based largely on what type of person they are. For example, some might express an interest in the more seedy areas of Bangkok life, and some might deliberately avoid mentioning it. […]

Some of you may be familiar with the evening entertainment area around soi 8 on Ratchada. We’re talking about Hollywood, Dance Fever, Bali, Zeed and so on. Some of these joints are fairly rough around the edges and some are downright filthy.
Bali, in particular, is known as a hotbed of trouble. As farang, we don’t […]

Last night, in an ever ongoing effort to avoid doing any real work, I decided to venture out to Sukhumvit for a while with a friend. We covered a few new places that neither of us had visited before. Soi 33, marketed to a slightly more well-off clientele, was pretty much dead so we decided […]