Bangkok Blogs

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 […]

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 […]

As part of the Thailand: Grand Invitation series of events and openings, the theatre at Siam Niramit was opened to welcome audiences (both Thai and Western) to view cultural heritage shows and related spectacles.
I went along to the PTT shareholders conference today which was held at Siam Niramit. I’ll let you in on a secret […]

Well, what hasn’t been said about Khao San Road? I’d hate to simply regurgitate the information already plainly available out here on the web.
I quite like it. It’s not fashionable to say so, if I want to be taken seriously by anyone who has spent real time in Thailand, but I still do. I wouldn’t […]

There are many popular misconceptions that the average farang in Thailand will hold regarding the Thais living around him. Perhaps the most popular of these is the idea that Thai people are simple to please or perhaps just ’simple.’
This most irritating of misconceptions occurs, I think, because the average farang in Thailand spends an inordinately […]