Guess Bar review at The FARANG Speaks 2 Much (tfs2m)

Guess Bar review

Published by Bangkok Bad Boy on July 1st, 2007 in Main. 38 Comments

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1 Pants Elk Jul 1st, 2007 at 10:00 pm

Well done, 3B! I will be happy to boldly go where you, uh, draw back, on my next visit, and supply you with the complete consumer report your otherwise penetrating piece lacks. Call me old-fashioned, but I just like the graphics.
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2 gavinmac Jul 2nd, 2007 at 8:41 am

Did you go there by yourself? That's pretty daring. By "daring" I mean gay.
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3 Bangkok Bad Boy Jul 2nd, 2007 at 9:22 am

@Pants: Feel free. Rather you than me…

@gavinmac: Thanks for your hilarious contribution.
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4 MSB Jul 2nd, 2007 at 12:24 pm

Yes congrats indeed but really your report lacked, how can i put it, a happy ending?

Next time take a "lady" for a test spin pls.
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5 ArtTv Jul 2nd, 2007 at 1:15 pm

Did you recognize any of them from any of the Nana clubs?
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6 Bangkok Bad Boy Jul 2nd, 2007 at 7:34 pm

@ArtTv: I didn't, but I don't spend much time in the Nana bars - at least not those ones…
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7 Pants Elk Jul 2nd, 2007 at 10:40 pm

I'm rather interested in this seedy old complex. Once had a cursory glance inside and ducked out again, feeling strangely soiled. A year ago you wrote: "Every single one of them is populated with ugly, pushy girls who consistently tried to physically drag us into their desolate, overpriced bars." Have things changed? Or is the Guess Bar an - ulp - oasis of good taste and (I'm inferring) slightly less ugly "girls"?
Who owns this place? How does it manage to generate enough turnover to not warrant being bulldozed? It's a pretty prime site, I'd have thought. And one bulldozer - even a tuktuk with a spade strapped to the front - would be enough to reduce it to low-grade rubble overnight. Stranger things have happened.
Any background information available?
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8 Combover Jul 3rd, 2007 at 9:04 am

If Suk 1 Plaza is as dingy and underpopulated as you say, I would suggest it is a prefect location for a ladyboy bar.

What better than a location which enables those who wish to be less public about their proclivities avoid a potentially embarrassing exposition inside or at the entrance to Nana?
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9 soi4rulz Jul 3rd, 2007 at 9:52 am

So surfing the waves of BKK's Floating World has washed you into a katoey joint. I hate it when they grope because they tend to grab hard.

Had one block my path on a dark stretch of Suk once. After I politely declined his offer, he/she slammed my crotch with such velocity that, could I have spoken, I would have been speaking several octaves higher.

Foolishly and without thinking, I knocked the skinny little SOB out of his high heels with a right hook. His buddies came out of the shadows pulling knives from their purses, so I did the only smart thing and ran like hell.

Please, no katoey tart of the day pictures!
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10 Bangkok Bad Boy Jul 3rd, 2007 at 10:28 am

I visited the Plaza for the overall review in August 2006. Back then, it was all "regular" beer/pool bars.

Guess bar opened in November 2006. The manager is apparently a rather tasty-looking katoey (according to those in the know). The rest of the Plaza hasn't changed much. There was an after-hours disco up on the top floor ("Black and White"), but it's closed down now.

I don't think the location's too great, personally. It's about half-way between two Skytrain stations, and those getting off at Nana are far better off hitting Nana Plaza. You have to be a determined customer to walk that far down, it's just not quite visible from the Sukhumvit Soi 4/Soi 3 intersection.

Still, I wish them luck…
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11 Pants Elk Jul 3rd, 2007 at 12:42 pm

I really meant it's a great real estate location, for yet another corporate HQ or office block or whatever. Even a 7-Eleven would show more return on the investment, I'd have thought.

@combover - I've never noticed any reticence amongst the ladyboy lovers for picking up take-aways from the NEP, either inside from the - how many? three? - bars specialising in them, or from the herds of freelancers grazing outside. But I suppose there may be sensitive souls who prefer the "anonimity" of the Guess Bar, although they will still have to do the walk of shame to the cab or hotel. Finally, though, if you care about what people think of you, and your sexual tastes, Bangkok is a great destination, because nobody gives a shit what you do. It's your wallet that matters.
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12 Bangkok Bad Boy Jul 3rd, 2007 at 1:26 pm

Four katoey bars at NEP. And yes, they must be losing money overall at Sukhumvit 1 Plaza.

There are short-time rooms inside Sukhumvit 1 Plaza, so the “walk of shame” would only be inside the building, from the door of Guess Bar to the door of the short-time rooms.

Spot on.
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13 kwai mai sabai Jul 3rd, 2007 at 7:28 pm

I'm sorry but katoeys, ladyboys, gender-benders give me the creeps. They have them in Brazil and Cuba but Thailand has by far the most TVs and organ donors of any country I've ever been in.
The freakiest experience I had with these creatures was when I ventured into a small restaurant at the lower end of Petchaburi and all the service "girls" turned out to be ladyboys. I did laugh though when she/it asked me about the fish. "aloi na, ka?" The one wearing a T-shirt with the logo "Girls just want to have fun" made me smile too.
And it's best to avoid a rumble with them. Those high-heel spike shoes can really leave a mark on your skull. Don't ask how I know!
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14 Wombat Jul 3rd, 2007 at 7:48 pm

Having revisited your review of August 2006 I saw no mention of short time rooms. Are you certain this wasn't a more, ahem, recent discovery?
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15 Bangkok Bad Boy Jul 3rd, 2007 at 7:52 pm

Heh, nice try. I didn't ask about short-time rooms in August, and so wasn't told of any.

I didn't ask when I visited Guess Bar either, but was enthusiastically informed of their existence nonetheless.

Love 'em or loathe 'em, ladyboys always seem to be far pushier with the, um, sales pitch.
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16 Pants Elk Jul 4th, 2007 at 4:29 am

Take a look at that yummy line-up of totally female flesh (the fatty farangettes) below. They're women through and through, no troubling Y-chromosome there. No unnecessary tackle making the gusset bulge. Real breasts, real pussy. Now take a look (on the website of your choice) at a gorgeous, curvy, feminine ladyboy. Not the hawkish, gaunt, nightmare ballcrushers of the stereotype, but one of the good ones - they do exist - and ask yourself which body you'd rather have sex with - assuming, as these stupid hypothetical questions always do, that you have to have sex with one or the other. Let's say the Nazis will cut your balls off if you refuse. Always a good incentive. So - do your shut your eyes and pork the sweaty porker? Or do you shag the arse off the willowy creature who looks like a gorgeous girl?
(Remember, that guy in the SS uniform is sharpening his cleaver …)
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17 mmm Jul 4th, 2007 at 5:30 am

Good question. Depends if the she-man was pre op or not. A weener in your direction would be a real turn off and so I would pick the fatty. If post op tho then its the hotty all the way.
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18 ArtTv Jul 4th, 2007 at 11:29 am

The real pretty Katoeys don't last long in the bars. When I was photographing them one and a half years ago at Nana, I returned a year later and the ones I featured for the most part were gone. I asked where they went, and the response is that they were being taken care of, put up in their own apartments, living the katoey dream, I guess.
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19 kwai mai sabai Jul 5th, 2007 at 2:53 am

The Irish film The Crying Game (1992) nominated for Best Picture in the U.S. that year was one of the first movies to address the transgender issue. I was truly shocked when it was revealed that Fergus' girlfriend Dil (Jaye Davidson) actually had a penis.
Almost as shocked as my mate was when we got back to our hotel one night from Patpong and he discovered that the dancer he had picked up was once a male. I had my doubts because "her" breasts were too perfect and even though I felt down there I had the feeling she was tucking it in between her legs (like Jay in Clerks 2).
Imagine my surprise when my buddy phoned me about 30 minutes later and said that the bird he had brought back was a "bloke". Fortunately I have never been drunk enough to have made the same mistake.
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20 Pants Elk Jul 5th, 2007 at 3:42 am

"This friend of mine …" Su-uuure it was!
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21 MSB Jul 6th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

Clearly the ladyboy experience has caused so much shock and awe for poor young BBB that he has remained a hermit all week and not ventured out.

Here's hoping he has a speedy recovery.
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22 Combover Jul 6th, 2007 at 6:38 pm

This post has been here so long perhaps BBB has left the 'Kokosphere for the guilty pleasures of the Cockosphere.
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23 Bangkok Bad Boy Jul 6th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

All right, all right - new piece up now. Give me a break
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24 gavinmac Jul 7th, 2007 at 11:14 pm

I'm glad you're back to writing about girls. I was afraid you were going to change the name of the blog to Bangkok Ball Boy. Or Bangkok Bi-Boy. Or Bangkok Butt Boy.

I would still read it though. It's a very good blog.
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25 Mr Robert Jul 8th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

BBB was not born gay but it seems he may be getting sucked into it.
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26 Pants Elk Jul 8th, 2007 at 10:04 pm

Yeesh! The poor guy visits a katoey bar - so you don't have to - and this is the thanks he gets?
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27 Pants Elk Jul 9th, 2007 at 2:24 pm

Reason for 3B's temporary absence: in a private email, 3B tells me that he's in a Singapore clinic, undergoing "minor cosmetic surgery inspired by my recent visit to the Guess Bar", and that his return will see a "few changes in the blog - the articles will have a more feminine slant, and perhaps feature pictures of flowers and soft furnishings, rather than the tired glamour photos we're used to." It will also undergo a "total redesign, with an accent on pastels and soft terracotta tones." He wishes his regular readers well, and assures them they'll find much of interest in the new "blogette." I'm sure you all join me in wishing him a speedy recovery from his operation, and a safe journey home, perhaps with a nice coloured cocktail on the plane - bottoms up!
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28 Pecker Hunt Jul 9th, 2007 at 7:06 pm

yeah get some sausage in your crevis nothing like sneaking in a bit of meet from a pre op
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29 Combover Jul 10th, 2007 at 9:42 am

Bangkok Butt Boy does have a (ahem) nice ring to it.
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30 Bangkok Bad Boy Jul 10th, 2007 at 10:28 pm

@Pants: Careful, now. My clinic does have internet access. And I was thinking more fuchsia than terracotta…

If you guys get this animated over the katoey bars, just wait until I cover the gay gogo bars.

I am, of course, joking… aren’t I?

@Combover: Top punnage, but no chance!
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31 Stevie G Aug 13th, 2007 at 10:30 pm

whats the music like in here?
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32 LBL Sep 27th, 2007 at 10:06 am

Could you guys tell me how to get to Sukhumvit 1 Plaza from Nana?

Thanks!
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33 Pants Elk Oct 2nd, 2007 at 6:53 pm

@LBL: Turn left at the intersection (heading north), cross to north side of Suk St, and it's on your right after some posh-looking office blocks. About five minutes. You'll have to avoid the pool cue cuties on the way up to the Guess Bar, who will all be calling you the Issan for fag behind your back. I was unimpressed by the Guess Bar. Bunch of mannish whoremone-munchers scowling at me from a couch, and no guesswork required. I went back to Rainbow 4 toot sweet.
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34 Bangkok Bad Boy Dec 5th, 2007 at 6:09 pm

Just a note to point out that the above comments refer to Guess Bar's old location, at Sukhumvit One Plaza. They've now relocated to the Rajah Hotel complex, and the review above has been updated to reflect this.
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35 Pants Elk Dec 7th, 2007 at 10:29 am

So how about updating the comments as well?
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36 eloelo Dec 7th, 2007 at 2:28 pm

i guess its all good then
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37 Johnny Wadd Jan 3rd, 2009 at 1:28 pm

Guess Bar is a rather depressing place.
The ladyboys are way too pushy, the prices (of everything) are way too high, and the whole atmosphere simply lacks anything remotely resembling good vibes.
If you like ladyboys, pass up this bar……….
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38 Phil Evers Jan 22nd, 2009 at 9:22 pm

Guess Bar?
Forget it!
Very poor value.
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