Hello folks. I will hopefully get to a Mango update post today. I am working on When Dogs Attack! and other things you should know about Suthisan. We also owe people pics of the bar and such. We know - just been really busy given we open at 10am and still have some things to finish up. Apologize for the delays. However we must talk toilets. Werewolf is in Chiang Mai and sent this in. Nice. With directions and all:
So cool we get the step by step directions there.
Moving now to the Top 100. Matt over at Lost Boy had the list somehow hacked and taken down. Bummer. That means all the voting was lost. So I will remind people there is the list and that it is somewhat influenced by voting.
Last note - seems the City Wide Pub in London will be condos soon. This sucks. I went there once many years ago. The pub and land are being sold at a price that has little to do with the value of the business. It is all about the land. IMHO - this is what will happen to Nana Plaza someday. Simple market forces dictate these decisions. Time will tell. Anyway - bummer on City Wide but what the hell is a pork scratching? Sounds disgusting.
“All I want after work is a quiet drink with my mates with some peanuts and pork scratchings, not paninis and sun-dried tomatoes.
Pork scratchings are pieces of pork rind/skin, deep fried. Pretty popular drinkers snack in the UK….can’t say i’m a fan tho - like in certain other walks of life, its only a matter of time before you come across one thats big and hairy. Give me scampi fries anyday
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c - so confirms my disgusting comment.
so what are scampi fries? Is all of this work to create disgusting snacks in England an attempt to divert people away from the lack of interesting cuisine?
anyone catch this on Asian Sweetheart
http://asiansweetheart.blogspot.com/2008/06/cowboy-nana-patpong-to-be-closed.html
the thais are itching to pull the trigger.
View all comments by smitty
Pork scratchings are pigs’ labia left to rot and then deep fried. Scampi fries are the vaginal discharges of fat sows left out to rot and then deep fried. Yum yum!!
View all comments by andyxyzb
Pork scratchings is the British term for what Americans refer to as pork rinds.
Scampi fries are chemical weapons, often used to evacuate pubs.
View all comments by Bangkok Bad Boy
I get the pork rinds but still not clear on scampi fries?
View all comments by smitty
In fact we used to refer to scampi fries as “minge pieces”
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@Smitty: They’re “cereal snacks”, flavoured to supposedly taste like scampi and lemon. The flavour has been described by some as “quite strong”. Merely opening a packet can dissolve your nasal membranes at forty paces.
http://www.abitofhome.ca/page/C1/PROD/7071204
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bbb - I guess it proves my point then
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So can I assume you’ll have these in stock at the Mango soon Smitty?
View all comments by Chris
c - no u cannot
we are a non denominational bar so I see no need to specialize in pathetic british snacks.
View all comments by smitty
You had a point?
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Yea, came here to tip off about the Asiansweethearts latest blog spot, but seems it was brought up already.
Well, it was kinda inevitable. Taking the big foreign hangouts down as they wont hurt the local economy the same way as would be to close all the soap and massage places meant for locals.
I understand this possible tourist-opinion-move and it wont be resisted by any Thais except those few who own places in those streets.
Personally and as my own selfish opinion, sadly, I enjoy the bars just-look-and-drink thing and listen to music and chat with pretties. I am not into that massage straight into sex business at all, too expensive and especially too fast lol (meaning, I cant go from massage place to massage place sipping drinks and looking at (semi)nude girls). But well, as said, totally understandable as Thailands tourist image issue.
Anyone agree with my attitude?
ps. I like her blog a lot! I wonder who she is and why she keeps a blog about Thai and Asian pretties being a Thai woman and all…
View all comments by KV
scampi is way over rated (and over priced) if you ask me. id choose normal size prawns (shrimp) or Ms Goong over scampi any day of the week.
but the thai version of pork scratching’s actually not so bad. as WW mentioned in his post the stuff is most popular up in the north. they eat it with a northern dip (naam prik oong) which tastes like spicy tomato bolognaise. it actually goes pretty cool with beer.
View all comments by Mr Carpet
I am a non denominational farang so I see no need to patronise pathetic bangkok bars.
View all comments by RatGirl
Shit! It’ll just be like Manila all over again when Mayor Lim got in and closed down all the bars in Del Pilar. They all moved a couple blocks down to the next municipality - Pasay. No real damage done to the scene and most hardcore mongers do not past go and head straight to AC anyway. Bit like Pattaya I guess.
View all comments by Rootrat
@RatGirl.
- Good… as we don’t want to look at Denominational Rat featured Farang girls.
View all comments by Day Walker
As a pathetic Bangkok bar-goer, I’d like to defend pathetic Bangkok bars. They were made for us to feel comfortable in, and as no other institutions in the world have these design parameters in mind, they should be cherished and perhaps protected architecturally. Every other fucking building in the known universe (apart from go-go clubs, which I include generically under the term “pathetic BKK bars”) was designed for women or homosexuals. Apartments need furniture and decoration and are nests. Offices are prisons. Churches and temple? Shopping centres? Nope. Pathetic Bangkok bars are the best places on the planet. They have beer, pool tables, cheeseburgers, fabulous women you can pay to have sex with you, newspapers, widescreen TV, wi-fi, and the very best of them have urinals shared by semi-naked girls. I defy any man to come up with a a more compelling vision of a perfect eternal afterlife. And I urge any farang women who find the concept distasteful to fuck off.
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So.. Pants, what are you saying?
View all comments by Day Walker
He’s saying that non denominational farang girls are the pork scratchings mated with scampi fries and given - just about - female form.
View all comments by andyxyzb
Whats the name of that crunchy shit you get with kuay teow for 5 baht in the bags?
Surely you can get that in stock? Tasty shit
I have been in the gym lately and tend to get a lot of dead skin between my anus and my scrotum from both the RPM classes and constantly fondling myself until im raw. Smells kinda like scampi fries - maybe i can supply the mango with some nutritious snacks. 95% HIV/Aids free
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SPEAKING OF TOILETS. i found this link while wasting time at work.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25234970/
who knew sisaket would be the groundbreaking province the civil rights movement for all transgendered??
View all comments by UnCochinoWetback
Guess that what blogging is all about, but we got a long way of track in this one.
Let’s hear more about BKK bars and recent ratings.
Who is going to be the first to rate Mango2?
We will check it out in July but we thought that someone would have a go by now!
Cheers
View all comments by 3amigos
I can bring you a rack of Scampi fries on my next visit, along with a Guiness pump if you would like. All wellies sold out ready for Glastonbury. I like pictures.
View all comments by auk
I work nearby; believe me the City Pride is not worth saving!! All around high-rise apartments are going up catering mainly to buyers working (maybe only for a short while), for the local investment banks (goods old Lehmans, Citibank, JP etc). The developer here has paid a price that won’t be seen again in his lifetime.
Great blog by the way-look forward to visiting your bar in Oct.
View all comments by Sed
‘They have beer, pool tables, cheeseburgers, fabulous women you can pay to have sex with you, newspapers, widescreen TV, wi-fi, and the very best of them have urinals shared by semi-naked girls. I defy any man to come up with a a more compelling vision of a perfect eternal afterlife’…
PE - Went to the toilet in Rawhide a few weeks ago and the girls were totally naked. Is that more compelling?
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Dave, yes, I feel pretty compelled by the image. I hope they weren’t hawking up each others’ minge fluid after a lesbian show (as BBB’s epochal piece once described.
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kv - u make a good point but I think the thais just dont care. Since they already make stupid tourism overtures then I dont see them stepping in to save NEP over tourism - otherwise they would have saved the night bazaar.
ratgirl - where is the exterminator?
rootrat - I doubt it. thais are more clever than that form experience. if there was other places to open up many would have done that already. This is all years in the making but I think possible. pattaya no exception either.
pe - here is my non denominational amen!
un - funny stuff
auk - bring em on. interested to see how disgusting they really are.
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smitty:
Yes, the night bazaar thing was odd. The royal development company with it’s decision to change it to who-knows-what from a sightseeing place mentioned in EVERY GUIDE BOOK AND TRAVEL AGENCY as destination in Bangkok. Idiots I dare to say. Idiots. It is like their head is in their arse, one moment they want “better quality tourists” (like those who might visit night bazaar) and the next day they are bulldozing it over to “develop” Bangkok. It is bit same as in many other places in Thailand and in China. Old buildings and architecture and places of commerce which in Europe for example are considered special historical places worth saving and restoring for next generations are torn down in way for “progress”.
I am not saying that new buildings shoud not be built or everything should be saved but just that the amount that has been saved for generations coming and/or restored is so feeble in Thailand and in for example Shanghai and Beijing that it makes me really sad.
//end of uh, off-topic-non-sex-related-reply
View all comments by KV
Scampi fries are what you eat when you are 15 and not having much luck with the opposite sex.
Smells just like the real thing!
View all comments by ao nang
Oh, had a packet of the scampi fries in Hong Kong recently at the Globe on the mid levels, maybe the cost of the girly bars is too high there?!
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