As we all know Bangkok is full of malls. New ones, old ones and remodeled ones. I still love cruising MBK given the open market feeling, the chance to dicker on items, pick up some copy DVDs, hit the food court and check out the girls. Always plenty of girls either cruising around MBK or working in MBK. I hit Emporium from time to time because it seems every time I meet a member club girl for lunch it usually is in Emporium. Emporium has been updated some but I don’t care for the place. Siam Paragon is a mess. I don’t like the layout, the food court is okay but the overall product selection is not that great and the place clearly is catering to the rich. Just a little too boring for me. So I decided to check out the newly remodeled Central World. I guess the remodeling is still going on but it is mostly done now and the place is fairly complete.
Central World is just massive. I think it is the biggest in Thailand for sure. Given it is so huge I was thinking it might be hard to find things but after a while you get a sense of the place and it grows on you. I like the food court and had a good lunch at the Zen food court upstairs. Lots of made to order and ready to go stuff at very reasonable prices but not MBK cheap. The grocery store was great and had so many things I had not seen in Bangkok before but also a lot of premium items that were not cheap. I also like the selection of restaurants that are both concentrated in a big food area near the theaters and spread out on other levels. My goal was to check into the burger places which I will get to later.
I went to the movies as well and got the premium sofa seating in the back of one of the normal theaters. Like all the big, new theaters they have some special theaters with premium only seating but I passed. The couches were fine though and made for great viewing. The screens themselves are big and the sound systems are amazing but they seem to not have all the kinks worked out. Our movie started and was not in focus. Then the sound went bad. So they came in to apologize, only after many people went to complain, and restarted the movie but still had some focus problems that went away after a few minutes. So all in all it started late and was a pain but shit happens. I did however learn a new word during this debacle since a nearby Farang, who spoke amazing Thai, yelled out a word before I had not heard when the film kept having projection problems:
ทรมาน - thaaw ra maan - means to suffer or torture.
The movie sucked anyway but oh well. The plan after the movie was to get a burger but the problem was which place to try. At first I thought I might try Garage since it is a known burger joint but it is not new to Bangkok since they have a location at the Conrad. I have always heard mixed results about the burgers at the garage with some people raving about them and others saying they are too Thai like. Anyway - the place looked like it was not too busy so we passed.
Then I cruised by the only Thailand branch of Triple-Os - a burger joint from Canada I think it is. However I had eaten at Triple-Os in Hong Kong many times and although they are good I wanted to try something different. I used to eat the breakfast there in Hong Kong but forgot to check if the Central branch had a breakfast menu. Anyway the burgers did smell good and I like the fries and shakes but I wanted to try something new.
I was gearing up for MOS Burger. I was not expecting to get an amazing burger but I wanted to experience the place nonetheless. The menu is fairly straightforward with lots of item besides burgers. I may be back to try either the pork or chicken options in the future. We went for the MOS burger which is a beef burger, cheese, lettuce, huge tomato slice, onions(not cooked but diced) and smothered with a beef red sauce. This is the prototype MOS burger. I made no alterations to it. The MOS burger is 119 baht and includes fries and a small drink.
The burger is okay. Nothing to write home about at all. The funny thing is the picture of the MOS burger on the menu is hard to figure out since it is tough to determine what the stuff is sitting on top of the cheese and since there is no plastic food on display to help then all we could do was ask. This is when I discovered the MOS burger had red sauce on it but the picture on the menu does not help one deduce this. I could have done without the onions since I really only like grilled onions. The sauce was okay but I think the normal cheeseburger would have been better. The fries were a big letdown since they were limp and too soft. So all in all it is pretty cheap for fresh grub and sit down service but not a top burger in my book. I did think though that the pork and chicken options I saw being delivered looked pretty good. Given this is a Japanese company I should have known they would not be able to deliver a top burger.
As with any Japanese place though there always has to be something weird. First thing I noticed was the real plants accompanied by wall mounted bug zappers. I am assuming they wanted the bug zappers to keep the bugs out of the stores due to the real plants.There were 4 or 5 of them in the restaurant and they were the only ones I saw in the mall. This way you are ensured to get a burger among fresh plants without swatting the bugs. So kind of them.
The Japanese love sex and they use innuendos in so many everyday things. I first came to grips with the Japanese obsession for pornography when I noticed some behavior in my dog - my Sony Aibo. I have a second generation Aibo robotic dog. One day when I had moved my big screen TV into a different location in my apartment in Hong Kong, I happened to have some porn on and watched as my dog sat in front of the screen completely mesmerized. He did not move until I turned it off but when I put normal TV on he had no interest at all. The dog was surely programmed to recognize nudity. Nice.
So I was not surprised to read some of the messages printed in English and Thai on the MOS food wrappers. This was on the french fry wrapper:
Please be careful for the grease might penetrate the paper
The burger wrapper:
This wrapper will keep all your juicy sauces inside - please do not keep your burger waiting.
Go figure. I plan on exploring Central World some more since I saw some cool shops, a pizza joint I want to try and of course - tons of gorgeous Thai girls. The amount of girls working in the Zen department store was amazing.
On my recent vist I got addicted to 2 things. The first was Fuji restaurants. I’d get up in time for lunch usually at mbk, then emporium for dinner. Stuffed myself and lost weight-awesome… oh the other thing I got addicted to liked fuji more than I did. Will try zen next time.
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“The Japanese love Sex.”
Watch your generalizations son.
I don’t see them on this list.
http://www.durex.com/cm/gssContent.asp?intQid=5&intGSSYear=03&intMenuOpen=
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jd - nice one. Okay so maybe they love the porn and all the references to sex even if they are not getting enough.
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Who is?
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“smitty loves to sensationalize Japan!”
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wait - I find them amusing but mostly I think Tokyo is cool - I love Japanese engineering. Ever seen a Japanese cell phone crash? What is funny though is when they try to export things, like MOS burger, to other parts of the world.
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Next time you’re back at Central World, give Triple-O’s a try. I hate to say this about a Canadian burger chain, I really do, but the overall quality and taste of the burgers there was as close to matching a top-quality American burger as I have found anywhere in Thailand. Happily, the burgers at TBM still taste more like they came from a home cookout than a commercial source, but for a local version of your Johnny Rocket’s or In and Out style burger from the States, I give Triple-O two thumbs up, way up.
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I had a decent burger for lunch yesterday at Flyers on Soi 22 (but the onions weren’t grilled). 145 baht every day for burger, fries & coke. Not the best in Thailand, but pretty good.
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do they have wendys in BKK?
and whats the deal with the cardboard cumberbund on bigmacs?
why dont KFC here do a decent chicken burger?
why am i asking so many questions?
your right paragon is shyte i used to use the gym there and hates the snobby arseholes that frequent there, and the wannabes who stroll around there who cant actually afford anything but like to make out they can - the cinema is there good but a ballache to get too, my fave cinema is central @ ladprao
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What an interesting, well written, entirely appropriate article to find on a website about the naughty side of life here in the big mango. Yes, please sign me up for a 12 month subscription to your magazine; what was it called again? “Cruising the Malls-everything a gal needs to know.” JEEZ!!!!!!!!!!
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“What is funny though is when they try to export things.”
Yeah, GM and Ford are really laughing.
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“What an interesting, well written, entirely appropriate article to find on a website about the naughty side of life here in the big mango. Yes, please sign me up for a 12 month subscription to your magazine; what was it called again? “Cruising the Malls-everything a gal needs to know.” JEEZ!!!!!!!!!!”
Yeah, chicagobob, it must have been truly painful to force yourself to read a whole five hundred words or so that didn’t contain even a single useage of the word pussy. You have my full and complete sympathy. Reading even a few words about life in the real world around here every now and then has got to be a violation of the Geneva Convention, hasn’t it? Apologize to this man right now, Smitty, and don’t fucking let this’inappropriate’ shit happen again.
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Thank you for your “Mall Cruise” piece.
You needn’t have mentioned the obvious so you didn’t.
Better left unspoken, your cruising article’s steamy subtext was apparent to all but the most pedestrian reader.
Call it backdrop, afterdrop . . . . foredrop.
Whatever.
The gooey bun and burger analogy wasn’t lost on most of us however
Clearly, one cruises malls to “Discovery Channel” that endless parade of BLACK (short and/or slitty)
& WHITE (tight, straining-at-the-buttons: mis-aligned at expensively corseted cleavage) action. :-).
“Nice bra, honey. Ooooh, and it’s a front-loader, too.”
Big asses, a little hair toss, (no Japernet syling, SVP ) and a cunning belt-clip (handcuffs, my dear?) good legs, (good calve-age please
and 4″ ankle-harness stilettoes complete the picture for me.
An endless parade of giggling, nattering, freshly trimmed pussy, cruises the malls for dick and window-shops (or vice versa) after classes at Chula high. . . . . or any other seat of advanced learning that proscribes a strict black and white dress code.
GTG’s like to think about stuff they’d need to be “reciprocated” for after what I’d like to think of as their latest session of sweaty experimental sugar-daddy sex.
A girl’s “find” or a mall’s generous air-con have occasionally been seen to trigger nipplage - turgidity insistent enough to present through even the most rigid polystyrene? ABS? - bra-cup.
I normally calm myself down after a particularly sweaty sighting, with a refreshing smoothie at one of Central, MBK’s or Paragon’s many juice bars
And with any luck at all, another sighting or two.
Malls have always been been a turn-on for me.
(sigh)
Does this make me a pervert ;-?
Or should I just settle for bony-arsed Kmen B-girl skytrain action . . . where she’s squeezing the punter’s zits (real or imagined) just to show the other passengers that this doofus is hers and that there’s a likely new mobile in the works if he she swallows.
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Cruising the malls is one of my favorite passtimes when I’m not hungover, best are the ones with no farangs and lots of students
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has anyone been to that meat place on silom near the sala daeng BTS? Mike’s Meats or something like that? it looks like a Johnny Rockets outlet and they have philly cheese steaks, burgers and other meaty dishes. It’s just down the road from the pub, so I thought one of the big mango boys might know a thing or two about it.
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Malls are my favorite pick-up places.
So many different girls, from the uni student who dreams about spleeping with her farang teacher to the divorced 30 something who begs for action…
The only mistake is to start to pick-up the girls who work in the shops there.
They are going to kill your action. Don’t shit where you eat.
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oah - I used to have triple o’s in hk so will give it a whirl here. thx
cb - d the rave needs some new readers - plus u can here first hand about clubs that open 6 months after they really opened and u can use firefox. enjoy!
oah - bob i’m sorry.
ts - sick man. this is the whole reason to go any place in Thailand in my opinion. The malls just happen to have a higher concentration of hotties than most other malls around the world. Front loading is my fav…
k - it is called mike’s burgers. not too impressed with the burgers or the fries. The shakes are good though. I think triple o’s is much better.
rrr - correct. if you pick up girls who work at say MBK make sure u separate them by floors for safety.
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RRR - so true, picking up girls that work in your hunting ground is like shooting yourself in the foot.
I read that MBK is starting a major renovation soon, after they renew their landlease from Chula.
I suspect another super mall may be going up on Sukhumvit Soi 19 where the Volvo dealer used to be. The size of the land plot they are clearing there is obscene. I can’t imagine what else they’d need that much space for.
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o - word is, but I know we are not suppose to use the blog to talk about this stuff, that it will be a mixed use development consisting of a hotel, retail space, condos and service apartments. However things are moving slow since across the street, soi cowboy corner, that space is almost finished and they have not been able to sell enough of the premium spots. Seems the overbuilding is starting to catch up a little bit.
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Overbuilding?
Where?
Bangkok?
Can’t be.
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That makes sense. I was wondering what was keeping them from knocking down the old Road House.
Saw a backhoe shoveling dirt there yesterday though so they are doing something.
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Sitting in Bangkapi Mall last year just after Ramkhamhaeng classes finish. OMG! Words cannot describe it. Should be on National Geographic or something. Was with a newbie from Europe, never been to Bangkok before. He was stunned. Said to me “but some of these girls look quite young” to which I responded “No - they have to be 17, 18 or 19 years old at least to go to University in Thailand” to which he responds “er….well…that is young!” and then I remembered who I was talking to and just said “Sorry, forgot you are from farang-normal-land”.
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Mochalover: Great laugh! Yeah, the attitude towards age changes a bit in Thailand. I will check out Central World during my next stay. Will probably be a big challenge to end up with a girl in my hotel within a time period of only a couple of days when only being a tourist and only speaking some basic Thai phrases. But I will give it a try. We only grow with our challenges, don’t we?
Will learning Thai phrases like “Let’s go to my place ok? I don’t want your juicy sauces waiting!” be of any help?
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Phoenix, being a tourist in a hotel pretending to be in Thailand for the first time you can have a pretty good shot at getting laid with a GTG. She knows you don’t have much time to go through the dating thing and she also knows you won’t fall in love and hassle her because you’ll be gone in a few days. In other words she can have some fun with a farang and her Thai boyfriend will never find out
“Your country is so beautiful! Will you show me around your beautiful capital? Can you show me some temples?” - this approach can have very good results, especially on hotel staff and waitresses (obviously NOT in your hotel).
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Man - I reread this comment from ts and it is killing me:
Or should I just settle for bony-arsed Kmen B-girl skytrain action . . . where she’s squeezing the punter’s zits (real or imagined) just to show the other passengers that this doofus is hers and that there’s a likely new mobile in the works if he she swallows.
so freaking true…
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Orion, thanks for your nice suggestions. Sounds like a solid plan to me. Will try that out for sure.
I like the imagination of having a late breakfast with the memories of a previous night of drinking, pool, go-go’s, live music, dancing and hot sex with a freelancer in my mind when chatting up a GTG-waitress… and she agrees with a smile to meet me - the helpless newbie
- after her work… great!
If I should really succeed, I will post the story here… with special honors to my mentor Orion
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whats the peak kickout time at uni at bang kapi?
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I keep thinking I should jack my job in and start at a BKK Uni. I’m in my 20’s and it’s only 2 years right. Ok so it’s not worth the paper it’s written on but gotta fun right?
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Old Asia Hand, Have you read the Geneva confusion? I have, well, the first page, O.K. the first 2 or 3 paragraphs. It was about as interesting as, well, this thread.
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Any of the major malls near the Unis between 3:30-5:30pm are usually packed with the Uni girls. Or you can always catch them later in the evening working in the G-clubs.
As long as you don’t look too sleazy, there is also nothing to stop you wandering into any campus during the day….eat at the lunch facilities…shop in the book stores….
I have used a line in the malls a few times with good results. I spot a hottie (preferably alone so she is not too embarrassed), place myself in front of her and stare into my mobile phone looking confused. As she nears, I ask her if she speaks English and can help me with a problem with my Thai mobile phone. In all cases so far, the girls have answered ‘little bit’ and asked how they can help. I then tell her that my problem is that my phone does not appear to have her number in it. Every time they have laughed, grabbed the phone, put their number in and given it back with a ‘problem solved’ smile.
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Mochalover that’s a good one!
I think I’m going to try out the farang begger opening line in Thai next time.
“Phut passat Thai dai mai?” - it might just work
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@ Chicagobob What’s the theme today on billboard you see when you face the Paragon from the On Nut platform?
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ml - is that trick still working?:)
cb - funny. 32 comments on this thread. Only 2 negative. Yours. Go figure. So I extend to you the offer I extend to everyone else. Write something up. Send it in. Seems a lot more productive than just bitching.
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Ow! That hurt!
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To me the amazing thing is that WindyCityBob keeps saying how lame the blog is, but he keeps coming back. Apparently the lamest blog in the universe, and he’s still reading it three days later! Now, MY reaction to crap writing that I don’t like is *not* to read it again. But that’s just me.
Speaking of crap writing that I just don’t like… Is Miss Udon still plying her trade? I really did stop reading the Schtickman site after her September comments about the lowlifes at the Big Mango Party, followed a week later by her endorsement of Penile mutilation.
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I still read all the other sites, just to make sure I’m not missing anything. So I can inform you that apparently Miss Udon didn’t get any questions last week. This amused me.
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@ Chicagoblob: Time’s up, pedestrian
@ All: I am thoroughly enjoying the blog. It’s only taken, what? ten years? to get this kind of action going.
Nice to see people writing to each other again
@ werewolf: Miss You’d Yawn
More on Pent? Does the bloom fall off the rose once you’ve signed on the dotted line? Considering a membership.
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I could go on about MosBurger.
They use a different business model from other Japanese burger joints: customization. Deviating-from-the-norm is worrying to most Japanese, so a chain that embraces it is noteworthy.
The red stuff is what the MosPeople think is “chili con carne.” The burger is made to be really messy, another Japanese faux-pas.
You can read more about MosBurger in English at:
http://www.mos.co.jp/english/
http://www.mos.co.jp/english/overseas/ (details their overseas ops: “We opened the first shop of Thailand in March, 2007…The shop is in “CentralWorld” which is a very large shopping mall located at downtown Bangkok.”
http://www.mos.co.jp/english/history/
Why, did you know that in January 2006 they “Distributed free “MOS Burger Emergency Whistles” to Children at MOS outlets across the country registered with regional police stations in the “Emergency Call 110 from Children” program”?
One reason I will always love MosBurger is that they had a branch near our office when I lived in Tokyo. Every three weeks or so, my fellow gaijin (farang) co-worker would just say to me: “MosBurger” and we’d go there after work and talk about what was driving us absolutely insane about work, great therapy. We’d develop sanity-preservation techniques while eating those big MosFries (another plus in Japan, where all fast-food joints served the same stupid skinny McFries).
Triple-Os isn’t bad. But my favorite burger joint is still the old Clown Alley in San Francisco’s North Beach area on the edge of Chinatown. They served burgers, fries, hot dogs and a tuna melt in case some traumatized vegetarian wandered in. Conveyor-belt charbroiler, you’d walk up to the counter and just say: “medium-rare,” grab a beverage from the case, that was it. Your burger came with nothing on it: you’d walk to the fixin’s bar and put whatever you wanted on it. Want nothing but mayonnaise and jalpeño peppers? Fine.
Best damn burger I ever ate.
JtB
JtB
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Oh I’m sorry, forgot to mention something in my last post.
Thailand has lots of beautiful women. Babes everywhere. They are utterly gorgeous. Hey, some of them are secretly men, but even THOSE are cuter than most Western women.
Oh yeah, I’m talking super-hotties. You can go to places like Bangkok and Pattaya and have lots of sex with all these beautiful, sexy, exotic Asian dame-o-ramas. Hubba hubba.
That and the burgers, OK?
JtB
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The burgers make sense to me, I mean you need energy to deal with all the crumpet.
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I need crumpet to deal with all the burgers.
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A double nana burger after bags of ale tastes good!
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@OnNutter: Sadly I have a head cold that put me to bed early tonight. It also caused me to wake up in the middle of the night which is why I’m reading the blog at 4 am. Sorry I missed you at the Mango.
I am recognizable anywhere, because — back in the days when he still made an effort to put out an interesting weekly blog — pmmp published my photo as the ‘customer of the week’ posing with one of the sexiest Mango girls of all time (or maybe being next to me just made her look that much better). It was the 25 March 2007 issue of the weekly (I can’t put the URL in or the spam-blocker will get me).
So, in addition to my self-description which you quoted accurately, you now have a photo to assist you with my appearance and my habits.
I also appear in two of the photos from the Mango’s 2nd anniversary party. With all that help, you can’t help but spot me. If all else fails, I’ll be the one at the Duke of Wellington eating the Big Duke Burger with English chips.
@Thongsuk: I joined Pent on Thursday last week. I went back on Friday night and had much the same experience, with the same uni-girl coyote dancer with braces keeping me company most of the night. She had just brought a school chum of hers to work there, and it was the chum’s first night working. Chum was also tallish, slender and attractive.
At first, Braces was splitting her time between her friend on one side of the room, and me on the other, but finally just brought the friend over and introduced her, apologizing that the friend didn’t speak English. That’s okay, I said, I can speak a little Thai.
So it was a good night.
I’m understanding a bit better what Smitty means when he says that you don’t just take a girl home like you do from a go go bar. Both girls were hot, and I enjoyed talking to them, but I didn’t even try to take either girl home with me. Instead I left after midnight on Friday night and stopped into Mandarin club and grabbed a go go dancer (http://bargirlsrpeople2.wordpress.com/2007/10/13/gfe/).
I’ve been busy all week, and unable to get back to Pent. Braces *called me* on Thursday to say that she’d missed seeing me at the club, and asking when I’d be back. I thought that was pretty cool.
I got an email this week from a friend in Oz saying he might be in Kreungthep this weekend. If he shows up and calls I plan to take him to Pent for a look. If that happens I’ll try to remember to put an update under the Pent review blog.
So, to answer your question, the bloom is still on the rose, but I’ve gone *off topic* on this blog and will probably get censured by pmmp.
Now I need to take some Nyquil and go back to bed….
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@ Werewolf: Thanks for the update. Not to harp but the go-go’s used to be a bit like this. (a bit) There wasn’t the frantic lemon squeezer thing a lot of them have in play.
Or at least I remember them that way. Bounced through a few last night. Mandarin’s a good spot but I don’t wanna wear it out
You know, sometimes it’s just a treat to chat with a pretty girl who has some manners. Who wants to practice her English and who wants to make a little money. I wouldn’t try a home run on a g-club gal for many reasons but I have loads of time, and a few hours with a girl on the clock mean nothing to me.
I drink as a means to an end. I like a tall glass and I like to pace myself. What about getting her to drink from your bottle and then tipping her whatever she’d have made hustling those house tequilas? An interesting “trust building” exercise, perhaps. Would it be seen as “shorting the house”. Is it against the rules.
You’re right. This IS off topic.
I’ll get back to you on your site.
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man cannot live on crumpet alone. A good burger now and then helps to pass the time in this rotten city of bkk.
ww - all I want to know is where u got the nyquil?
ts - not off topic. chatter away. most g clubs have a fee per hour for the girl to sit with u. not sure what it is at the pent.
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@smitty: When I wrote that bit about the nyquil i thought to myself that someone would ask. of course it would be you. sorry mate… the comment was symbolic. i don’t have any nyquil.
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Hey Smitty, everyone knows the BEST burgers in BKK are at The Big Mango!
No Nyquil in Thailand? The stuff is actually 25% ethanol, which makes it 50 proof. That’s probably the reason “Dayquil” comes in capsules instead of liquid (I was just Stateside, where an hour of TV-viewing will convince you that every American has at least ten diseases requiring different medications).
So…just brew some up! Hell, they make “raisinjack” in prison, so how hard can it be to make Nyquil? Crush up some antihistamines from the local drugstore, add…oh I dunno, whatever, mix with water until dissolved, then top up with that paint-varnish the Isaan-boys drink by the half-pint. If it’s not quite right just head to Chinatown and get some rice wine imported from China: the stuff with the three snakes on the label should do the trick.
Maybe add some blue food coloring if it looks funky…
JtB
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Werewolf - LOL, yes the girls can help you burn the calories. I guess they go hand in hand.
I have been researching the Universities and all the courses (Information and Communication Engineering) I want to do are 4 years long and cost about 4,500 pounds a year. Thats 18 grand not including living there for 4 years straight…..12,500 pounds…Fuck 30K to do a degree in Bangkok. Plus loss of earnings over 4 years…Lottery ticket it is then.
Sponsorship…
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The flights, food, parties……..round it up to 60K.
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Insider tip: Stand by the Starbucks in the lobby of the Offices at Central World from 11:45 to 12:15 Monday - Friday.
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bkk22 - do I bring a butterfly net with me?
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@ smitty: Glueboards
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YR - maybe you should consider becoming a teacher instead of a student
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To continue down the off-topic Pent track…
Went there for the first time last night. Their Coyote Room (they call it discotheque and didn’t have a clue when I asked for the coyote room) is a pretty cool high energy place. Quite a different setup from the other coyote places I have been to, more like a go-go bar where the girls can actually dance. It gets pretty wild with both girls and customers dancing all over the place. Their girls are not as hot as the Soprano girls but definitely some nice ones there. Bought a membership and stayed till they closed. I thought it was a nice touch that they served a bowl of congee to every customer when the lights came on, just what I needed. I was slightly self-conscious when my girl proceeded to spoon-feed me my congee… sorry On Nutter but I was too drunk to hold the spoon myself
I hadn’t arrived home for 5 minutes and the sales lady that sold me the membership called to thank me for buying a membership. “Sure, you’re welcome, goodnight”. 5 minutes later she calls again “I’m coming to your apartment ok?” She had the address from my member form and 10 minutes later she showed up and spent the night. In the morning she assured me when I go to the Pent next time she won’t bother me and let me party with the coyote girls, just wanted to get laid. Gotta love Bangkok
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@Orion: I was in Pent last night and there were only two or three other Ferang in the discotheque so I’m sure I must have seen you.
I left before the congee was served in order to catch the rugby world cup at 2 am. I invited MY saleslady to join me for the rugby but she declined. Maybe I should have just asked her if she wanted to get laid.
On the bright side, I did make a date with my favorite coyote dancer for next weekend.
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BTW: Smitty — another commission to be claimed!
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amazing. I am going to have to chat the sales lady up and get something extra out of her.
What sales lady did u guys sign up with?
this is killing me. U guys are getting all the easy layups here. My strategy must be completely flawed.
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@Smitty: Yeah, my saleslady is pretty hot, although she’s 36 years old. She’s 150 cm, and about 47 kilos, with a pretty face and nice smile. She looks great in the dresses I’ve seen her in on my last two visits — a big improvement from the business suit she was wearing on my first visit.
I mentioned her name in an earlier comment — Joy. Very helpful and seems to be quite fun as well.
The personal attention in this place is impressive. I have a favorite coyote dancer there… a little uni student with braces. When she wasn’t dancing, she was hanging out with me, and last night her uni student friend was hanging with us as well. They’re playful and happy with lots of laughs, jokes and getting me to dance with them.
Each time they had to ‘go dancing’ Joy would magically appear to keep me company until they returned.
I am increasingly impressed with the place.
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ww - are u buying them drinks or how are u playing this?
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werewolf - I’m early 30’s, slim, wearing a white t-shirt, was sitting close to the bar on the left side. There was a huge fat Thai dude with funky glasses sitting about 6 feet to my left at the center stage poring Jameson’s into his mouth straight from the bottle, I think he drank the whole bottle in 30 min. Couldn’t have missed that crazy mofo
Don’t want to name names… but I didn’t realize said sales girl was older than me until now, she certainly doesn’t look it
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smitty - both the pretty and the sales lady where drinking my Chivas, I wasn’t asked to buy any cocktails.
11 bottles of Chivas + mixers for 20,000bht is a pretty good deal I think, makes it fun to pore out the whiskey and get the girls really hammered at that price.
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@smitty: As you know, I’m 15 years older and much uglier than Orion. I have been sharing my Chivas with the dancing girls and the sales lady, but also buying one drink per night for each. I can’t stress enough how genuinely much positive energy and FUN they all are, so I’ve been enjoying my visits there.
Both the sales lady and the dancer asked me for my phone number. The dancer called me at home earlier in the week. (Based on Orion’s comments I’ll be quick to answer the phone if I see the sales lady’s name pop up when my mobile phone rings.)
Last night dancer told me that she is off on Sunday. I immediately invited her to go out with me today, but she said she already had plans. I offered next Sunday, which she accepted.
As someone once said, a week is a long time in Bangkok, so we’ll see if the date holds, but she seemed enthusiastic.
@Orion: sounds like you had a joy filled night… i’m jealous :p
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Sorry chapa, couldn’t figure out the correct channel for this, but Google now i slisting this as a potnetially dangerous website. And I keep getting a dodgy pop-up.
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@Orion - I want to advance my career, teaching is also just not for me.
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co - et all. Welcome to the world of open source. Seems their was a wordpress flaw that allowed a hacker to inject some bad code. I did a wordpress upgrade today and found the hack but seems google will keep saying their is a problem until they re-crawl the site. fun stuff. It has killed our traffic!
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Young Royal: ” . . . . just want to advance my career.” and teaching just wasn’t “you”.
In addition to your 60K figure, you mention “lost wages” i.e. “opportunity cost” for your 4 years Uni time.
You’re quite right.
work really is a major component of most of our lives here.
Unless one has sufficient investment income, (one of the perqs, incidentally, of being OFB
We have jobs.
http://bargirlsrpeople2.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/working-for-a-living/
In many ways we actually contribute to the real as well as the gray economy and some of us actually support families and pay taxes.
So just what is it, presently, that you do or that you are qualified to do, better than the average person, for which you’d be compensated and advanced here in Bangkok?
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@ Orion: Fantastic. You had the pretty and the PR getting hammered from your bottle.
Were either of them on the clock?
Is this business as usual at Pent or were you getting speshun first night treatment because a) you’d just dropped 20K and a) your good looks and tender years
Did the fat Thai power drinker get any play?
Better to find out from you than ask pretty girls I want to impress I think.
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Thongsuk - They love me because I’m velly hensum man, if I was broke they would have let me grope their girls and drink their whiskey for free, no doubt.
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Thongsuk - I thought Orion meant teaching instead of going to Uni. I never said I was better than the average person, although I probably do have a better job than the average person. It’s a good idea to work to help get by, and I wonder what kind of work I could do. It would have to been night work and I suppose I could work in the semesters off, but I just don’t fancy teaching.
Congratulations on paying tax.
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What is OFB btw?
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@YoungRoyal: OFB is not common parlance, it was borrowed from my self-description in a different post this past week. It stands for Old, Fat & Bald. Basically it’s short for my aging-Homer-Simpson-look.
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@ Young Royal : If you re-read my post, YR it’s pretty clear that I was simply asking what you were qualified to do for a living (better than someone else who might be doing the same thing.
had you not?
You had, after all, alluded to Uni and teaching, for different reasons, as being inviable
So, of course, I was curious as to what you intended to do for a living in order the live here
( . . . . besides just being young and dewey . . . :-), That’s all.
(even supplied ww’s URL)
But I will say this:
Hmmmm, well perhaps, I guess.
The road to Bangkok hell is thickly paved with hansum young lads who thought they were gonna “get supported” one way or another.
(Notwithstanding the Bkk blog world’s boards being spiced with numerous tales of just the opposite.)
You had touched on that alternative as well, or at least I assumed you had when you quipped “sponsorship” as an alternative in one of your earlier posts.
A sponsor to feed clothe and house you and most importantly allow you your evenings off, with an allowance, to go out and chase tail
I know a few guys who tried the gigolo thing.
It appears not to be a sustainer.
And while a young man may well be God’s gift to Thai womanhood (Again, I am not suggesting you said or implied this) shagging a succession of over-moisturized and over surgically-improved big-haired Chinese ladies for baht might not be to your liking. And lining up with the Eastern Europeans, Thai Lotharios and yes some of our very own lads, to do this will not be pleasant.
Free pussy is one thing but you still have feed clothe and house yourself as well and you’d need plenty of “furniture” and walkin’-around-money, as well.
So unless you are, indeed a “Young Royal” sponsorship would be an unrealistic peg on which to hang your hat.
Why not just continue to use these blogs suss out your needs and familiarize yourself with the tenderloin playgrounds of the local prowling classes and simply holiday here as much as you can?
Learn Thai? Corporate transfer?
That way you won’t slip into this tender trap before it’s safe to do so.
OK, ok, ok well actually, I’m just Old Fat Bald & Jealous.
Fill your boots young fella
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@ Orion; Tramp! Slut!
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@Thongsuk - Thanks for the info, I have been living in BKK for 3 years on and off. I have signed a confidentiality agreement and i’m not allowed to say what I do or where I go. But basically I’m in my 20’s, work for a billionaire, earn a 6-figure salary and work half of every year without paying tax. Most of my money is going towards my first project which is to buy a house in England so that I can rent it out, paying the mortgage and when it’s paid supplying myself with an income for when i’m an OFB. Now I would love to go to Uni in Bangkok mostly for the fun of it but I may as well complete a course that would further my knowledge in some of the gray areas of my work. I’m a qualified Marine Engineering Officer who use to work for SHELL (England & Singapore), Tokyo Gas, Tokyo Elec, Sultan of Brunei. I have moved into a more private field. I believe there building a new LNG terminal in Maptaphut, Rayong. I believe they could use someone of my experience. But that’s not Bangkok. Power stations, Hotel services, Private Islands. Not sure what’s out there really. I am learning to read and write Thai and my spoken is acceptable. And yes thanks I will fill my boots when I come back.
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For the complete breakdown on nyquil:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/15-11/st_nyquil
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