Election time. Vote now - vote often. Also, don’t drink and vote. However - this is not the important news of the day. What is really important right now is sorting out if McDonald’s has really ceased their recently kicked off breakfast menu. Yes. Only 4 months ago we broke the lead that McDonald’s was beginning to serve a limited but real breakfast menu. Not the Big Breakfast. Not the coveted Bacon, Egg and Cheese Biscuit but at least a proper Sausage McMuffin with Egg. A tasty morsel that when timed with the onset of a proper hangover can help make life here in Thailand just a little more perfect than it already is. I can’t confirm if the destruction is citywide but based on early morning spot checks it seems that coupled with the ushering in of democracy, Thailand has bid farewell to breakfast the Golden Arches way.
The signs are gone in front of the Robinson McDonald’s and as well as Silom. So I went in to check and the breakfast menu is gone but there is the breakfast burger set. Which is like a Sausage McMuffin with Egg but minus the McMuffin. Basically the all important part of the McMuffin set that makes it a real McDonald’s breakfast. The burger bun sucks. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe it is a logistical supply glitch. Anyone else have better information? I could not even finish my non-mcmuffin, McMuffin set this morning. Tragic.
What’s the difference between coyote dancing and gogo dancing?
Is it that gogo dancing has a pole?
Are the coyote dancers freelancers?
Is the dance floor different?
Or is it a license thing? Limited number of gogo licenses available,
so they build it as a coyote club?
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go-go is like a half english breakfast
coyote club is like a full english breakfast
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So coyote clubs are better?
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one costs more. takes longer to eat and is a more complete meal. really depends on your goals.
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An egg McMuffin without the muffin is like a Burger King breakfast.
On the dry days, could you still get a beer with your BJ at L?
What about the breakfast burrito?
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Is the Subway near Soi Nana really gone?
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a - not as of yet but the rumor is they did not renew their newly jacked up lease.
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As Nana continues to go downhill, the entire intra-structure around it will suffer.
As they say, “There goes the neighborhood.”
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Presumably McDs would have dropped the breakfast due to lack of demand.
Democracy AND Capitalism! This country sucks. Pretty soon people will be demanding freedom of speech.
@ArtTV: a lot of what is disappearing near Soi 1,3,4 seems to be simply re-locating further east on Sukhumvit (Soi 22, 23, 33, 36).
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ww - could be. tried to ask but not of the counter people knew. Still a bummer.
Correct. relocating but hard to say if it is for a better shot at trade or just rents going nutty. or both. funny how soi 4 was kind of a cheap charlie corridor but with the rents going the way they are I doubt that will sustain. will see how it all turns out. I have been stunned to watch some of the apartment rentals going up 25%-50% over just a few years.
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And BTW, the Topps underneath Nana Square is history. That place sure is a white elephant. Shows you the importance of ingress egress I guess (that’s just a brutal intersection).
Damn, could never got out of the house early enough to get the Micky D hash browns.
Anyone know why this high season has been so much more pleasant and survivable (i.e., steady supply of punani) versus, say, last year?
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jd - when did that blow out? it did not even last a year I don’t think. I remember chatting with some thais whilst they were constructing that dud and they all talked about the upscaling of soi 4. I was like - good luck. People come to soi 4 for the bars and girls - not the shopping complexes. Of course they build them anyway. I notice the food court is dead now at the top of that place. The book store on the ground level closed recently as well. Seems the whole building is a disaster but I am sure that won’t sway anyone from trying to upscale soi 4 in hopes of putting in another hotel or apartment. I always found it was tough to walk over there given u have to cross 2 gnarly intersections. Hence your brutal intersection reference. I can cross one and be in villa or foodland and get any of the same food or goods. Too much work to get over there.
Is it because the high season is not very high? Ample supply.
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JD must be in the Christmas mood, he wrote more than one line and used words as survivable and pleasant.
I think that the shopping mall on the corner of soi 4 was a disaster from the start.
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RIP, Mayor McMuff
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I wish I would have read these comments an hour earlier. I just came back from a “search for brussell sprouts for the Duke” run. When I walked down the back stairs of Nana Square and opened the doors to Tops Market it was totally cleared out. Crazy. BTW, Villa Soi 2 and Foodland Soi 5 were both out, Villa Soi 33 had boatloads. I guess the supply of Brussel Sprouts further supports werewolf’s theory.
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Thanks for the Brussell Sprouts report.
(I gotta say, if I had to go to Topps, Soi 2, 5 and 33 I might have just 86-ed the sprouts at the Duke over in Silom. Especially since it is closed today.)
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ww: just to clarify what I thought might have been obvious, the Brussel Sprouts were not for today.
Brussel Sprouts are the truth.
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Keep us posted on the sprouts.
- I didn’t see them on the menu…
10/10 for shamlessly plugging the Duke on 2 different threads though.
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yes, and I also trade on the Thai Commodities Market. Bought some futures on Brussel Sprouts this morning which is why I’m sneaking in the Brussel Sprouts plug.
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I note that a reader in Stickman’s mailbag today was recommending to go short on the US dollar… with you recommending a going long on Brussel Sprouts the Bangkok Blog scene may need to come under investigation for giving financial advice without a license.
Am I off topic yet?
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What’s this about the Nana Subway?! (back on topic
)
The foot long with meatballs was always a fave.
- Never had one of the sandwiches though.
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While we’re on the subject of the Duke, can I just warn people who might not know to buy some toilet paper on the way into the gents if they’re planning on taking a dump? Dumbass that I am, I breezed right past the dispenser, locked myself into a cubicle and settled down to release a flock of starlings before realising there’s no paper, and no bum gun. It was like one of those “how the fuck do I get out of this?” games, only deadly serious. How I managed to clean up without paper (or ripping up my clothes) or bum gun is something there just isn’t the bandwidth to go into right now.
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Remember kids - clean bum with left hand, eat quesadillas with right hand.
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pe: Hilarious! and apologies of course.
How come you didn’t call in a girl from your harem? There’s usually big opportunity in negative circumstances. You could have had her sneak into the stall with you and bingo you join the Golden Toilet Club.
Either that or just sit there for about an hour until it dries and crackles off.
and just to stay on topic, I will miss the McDonald’s breakfast.
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Im guessing you wiped your filthy crease on your socks? No great science to it!
I only ever wear socks for 1 reason…….. and that was to wank into them….. make that 2 reasons now!
Anyone who tells me they havent wanked into a sock is a liar, because they are telling lies!
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I love McDonald’s breakfast.
I’ll eat one for you,
and you can shag a TG for me.
Happy holidays.
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who gets the best end of that deal, i wonder?!
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ww - I would short the thai stock market though given we should see another coup sometime in 08 given the election outcome. Unless the generals somehow manage to void a view votes to bring the PPP margin of win down a bit.
pe - my humblest apologies. we keep tissues at the back door. There is a tissue machine right outside the bathrooms as well. Unfortunately we don’t own the toilets. After 6 we put tissue in all the loos as well. Problem is they thai that come of the street will take anything not nailed down. I saw them once trying to remove the duke itself. kind of like when someone backs a truck up to an atm and drives away. They soon realized the duke was connected to a 50+ story office tower and figured they needed more than a tuk-tuk. thank god.
p - I admit. I have used a sock. my bad.
a - so I send u money for your daily big breakfast run and u send me money for my nightly lumpini run? Nice. Where do I sign up?
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@Penfold: “Im guessing you wiped your filthy crease on your socks?” - and you’d be guessing wrong. I don’t wear socks, but like I said, no clothing (or paper) was used to restore my sphincter and the surrounding blast zone to pristine cleanliness. This is turning into a nice Christ-my-ass Quiz, isn’t it?
First prize - a Boxing Day Sprout Sandwich at the Duke.
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Did you take one of the ‘News of the World’ papers in with you from the bar?
- That’s what I normally use?
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These are all fine, intelligent responses that show a keenly probing and insightful mind. Also wrong. No paper or fabric of any kind was employed in bestowing a lustre to my nether regions only comparable to that of a freshly-minted Swiss franc.
Second prize: *two* Sprout Sandwiches …
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Did you make like a dog and lick your own ring? (I wish I was a dog)
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OR you used your stretchy ballbag to mop up the ungoldly mess? Mines so stretchy i blew my nose with it once. But thats a different story
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Ingenious, yes, and wrong, yes. That Sprout Sandwich remains unclaimed!
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Did you poke the poop all back up inside yourself, then rub the ringpiece clean with spittle-moistened fingers?
Enjoy that xmas dinner folks. Easy on the gravy.
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3B gets alarmingly closest to the truth, but still fails to grab the Sproutcentric Sub that pmmp is even now mangling into submission in the Duke’s galley. No more clues, quiz fans!
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Did you just flush…. dip ones are into the bowl…flush…dip…flush….dip…flush….shake….depart?
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Oh, yeah. Merry Christmas.
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Daywalker occupies the Cubicle of Cunning and emerges flushed with success! Simple as that. Seconds after emerging I shook hands with pmmp, too. He says* your Sprout Sandwich will be waiting for you at the Duke on Boxing Day. Congratulations!
Merry Eczemas, everybody!!!
*metaphorically
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Thank-you Thank-You.
I’d like to donate my ‘metaphoric’ Sprout Sandwich to ‘Mark’ at the Duke.
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You were part of an elaborate puzzle solving experiment designed and executed by Chula’s world-renowned Dept of Psychology.
Miss Siriporn Peeeaakhbunn na Thonglor - Chulalongkorn University PhD. candidate and 32 undergraduate research assistants thank you for your kind cooperation and wish you all a Merry Christmas
Your 155 baht participation fee can be claimed at any Family Mart counter service or credited to your BTS pass.
Dr. Siriporn has indicated that she is prepared to post all Videos posted to YouTube if her she fails her oral dissertation.
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As a last resort i was going to suggest you befriended a stray bangkok dog and coaxed to poor canine into licking your spincter clean of debris
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