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Soi 8 Sukhumvit last night, this guy was spectacular. Robot voice, lit up eyes and lights on the suit as he moved.

Estrella Galicia Special, strangely priced at 10 baht cheaper a glass than the Thai beers in my local craft bar. A decent lager, but would never order it at home. Here it's superb!

Toasted cheese sandwich with mushroom, served with watermelon 😊. 275 baht, was too overloaded with cheese for me!! Didn't leave hungry at least!

Nice one, the property rentals map on Facebook Marketplace can be very finicky to navigate- I found it best to use my laptop. At the point you are driling into individual Soi's you will get some small frustrations of properties on the wrong Soi, or wrong area completely. I then harvested all the one's with a Line ID and then investigated the Soi day and evening. A key part of this process is stopping for coffee, breakfast, lunch & dinner and beer whenever you can find it😜. If you are going to be living there these things are vital !! Narrow it down to contender's, go back online and check for more updates/new properties, then start arrange viewings for the weekend. Happy hunting🙂

Sorry don't know who Ben is

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Brilliant pictures @Yessongs and backstories. Young Ron is an inspiration for us all. What is it with Kub Kao Kub Pla and the Thais ?They seem to adore the place. Have eaten in my local one, the food is very decent but a little on the expensive side but a comfortable setting. My local one gets rammed and see CentralWorld branch often has long queues at lunchtime. Seems the way to a girl's heart is to invite her there😃

Will be a great addition to that area having an enclosed bar with aircon. You'll probably know the businesses there are a mirror of the bars on Soi 23 in BKK Scruphy's, Craft and Whisgars (don't know Bird's though) Scruphy's will definitely get my custom when I visit. Never been to the Craft on Soi 23, remember it launching years back. It's been very successful without my support😃 The prices are just too high for and sitting outside in the BKK heat doesn't appeal. Hope they are successful.

That suprised me too but not as unpleasantly as you😜 Think we might see some strange line ups this weekend with the European games either side of the PL weekend. God only knows what team Ange with put out tomorrow.

Must be the day for it. my Saturday morning choclate croissant and coffee treat was interupted by 4 loud 30 something American expats (contrast to all the older US guys I've met on here who have been great). They were with a child and I thought I'd be polite, finished up quicly, cleared my table away for them. They didn't even look at me, let alone acknowledge what I'd done . Not an isolated phenoma in BKK with "young" American expats. Much prefer the Russians of the same age I encounter in language school or meet ups. Quiet, intelligent and well mannered, a stark contrast!!!

I had heard from a reliable source that Thai banks had become very reluctant in the past 12 months to loan property. A friend has multiple that they rent/sell. He had buyers several times dropping out as the Thai bank wouldn't advance the money. I don't know the underlying reason for the banks lending becoming more conservative though. Chatting to one of the girls in the Nana Beergarden last night she was sharing with a mate for 7k per month for the condo on Rama IV. She showed me some pictures, huge pieces of concrete have crumbled away on the outsides. 20 minutes on a bike from Nana though so she was happy. Now that was a shithole- on a lovely soi though😃

Brilliant info, thank you🙂

I don't really consider Pad Thai or Thai Green curry Thai dishes, despite the obvious contradiction😃 Where outside of the airport in Don Mueang sells them in your neighbourhood?? For me 1. French- best cooks in the world and quite possibly the best footballers 2. Italy 3 Thai- Thai food is wonderful. I live in the Phaya Thai areanever see a Green Curry or a Pad Thai aside from a chain like Greyhound. The Thai's are fantastic cooks. There's great food around me, even from the cheap street food stalls I've had great food in Hong Kong so might row in with Catonese

Just watched an African girl onstage in Nana!! I'm all for it but shocked me. Twisters ground floor , big girl late 20s ish The new Thailand 😄

I didn't notice the beer price to be honest. If it's more then hopefully some of that goes towards paying the band. Ped Bluesman's jam session on Sundays is superb. Can't really think of anything more appealing on 94/88. I like Break & Run for football, decent beer choice in Cheers but the live musics not as good as it was and there are loads of mediocre hostess bars on 88/84 that I'd struggle to pick one that stands out. Can't beat Bhan Khun Por though for value and choice You obviously know HH far, far better than me , maybe Fame bar is worth a go. Overall too many similar bars chasing the same customers. The music makes Woodstock stand apart.