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More women than men filled the two long tables in the narrow Chinatown shophouse, and when the three-piece cover band near the door kicked into the chorus of Drake’s …
A bomb went off in Bangkok this week, by which I mean to say, in a less passive manner, that a man wearing a yellow t-shirt and, possibly, a …
Consider this curious, white-gloved creature of imagined import, stalking Phetchaburi Road–the middle of Phetchaburi Road, mind you, on a stretch of road that not even Thais will cross, not …
On behalf of a well-respected travel site, a well-known travel writer recently visited Bangkok on a quest to find the “perfect pad Thai.” It was a noble, if not …
In Bangkok taxis are cheap (fares start at 35 baht), and abundant, and every color of the rainbow. Most drivers don’t speak much English, and they hate traffic. Fucking …
In central Bangkok, Siam Paragon has its ground-floor Gourmet Paradise, a heaving, where-the-fuck-are-we-going-to-sit food sanctum packed to the cubic centimeter with scads of restaurants, food stalls, a food court, …
In Bangkok, there are certain things one should and should not do between 2pm and 5pm. One should not, for instance, visit the Grand Palace, lest one risk a …
The over-the-counter pharmacist, with whom I’ve done business for years at a Ratchaprasong pharmacy that shall remain nameless, said that he’s fresh out of Xanax. “Oh, no, no more. …
Most nights, the roti vendor camps out near the western, street-level stairway for the Ratchathewi BTS Skytrain station on Phayathai Road. He’s behind the bus stop there, to be …
Bulldozers demolished what was left of the condemned, abandoned buildings, these battered relics of a Bangkok priced out and put down. Soon after the concrete rubble would be cleared …
Just over a year ago I briefly noted the unfortunate demise of Talad Rot Fai, the laid-back Bangkok night market where booze-addled treasure-hunting for all manners of vintage and …
The big news out of Bangkok this week is, without question, the kinda-sorta-expected military coup recent debut of Central Embassy, the latest multi-billion baht addition to the city’s growing …