What's good in Bangkok?

Mr_DelmontMr_Delmont 279 Posts
edited March 2006 in Strut Central
As far as record shops....Any info on Restaurants, Flea Markets and shady Thai cat houses will be appreciated as well.

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  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    shady Thai cat houses will be appreciated as well.

    In Bangkok, shady "cat" houses, means they're filled with trannies. That's not what you're looking for right?

  • goatboygoatboy 371 Posts


    Na Na Plaza.

    Any taxi or tuk-tuk driver will know the way.


  • shady Thai cat houses will be appreciated as well.

    In Bangkok, shady "cat" houses, means they're filled with trannies. That's not what you're looking for right?

    perhaps he after something younger?


  • Imperial_MaoImperial_Mao 1,119 Posts

    perhaps he after something younger?



  • manchildmanchild 56 Posts
    Check the main drag in chinatown for records. The best place i found there was this store run by a grumpy old dude with his rabid dog. He had the dog held in this little old gate doors that he would move around the racks to form a pen to restrain the dog from tearing off my nuts. everytime I wanted to move to a different section of the store he would move the gates and corral the dog in a different section of the (tiny) shop. I had a portable and was there for a about 5 hours going through records and about 2 hours the next day. The whole rabid fucking barking and throwing itself madly against the gate doors.

    But I did pull about a dozen Impossibles LP's and 45's amongst a whole bunch of other crazy crap (sealed Bill Withers and Issac Hayes LP's too)


    As far as record shops....

    Any info on Restaurants, Flea Markets and shady Thai cat houses will be appreciated as well.



  • Thanks for the info.


    Oh....and the 'cats' I was talking about look more like this: http://www.geocities.com/shadowstalker_98/kanyarut1.jpg .

    I'm not with that pedophile shit.


  • The poontang, good sir, the poontang. I wouldn't drink the water, but then again, I never drink anything that fish fuck in.

    Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water. Of course, now I touch nothing stronger than buttermilk: 90-proof buttermilk. I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.

  • Well played Mr. Souse!

    I on the otherhand exercise extreme self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.


  • Well played Mr. Souse!

    I on the otherhand exercise extreme self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.



    A-ha! I was stranded in the desert for weeks without a corkscrew and was forced to live off nothing but food and water!

  • canonicalcanonical 2,100 Posts
    This thread is wierd. There was only one dude to and his name was "manchild".

  • Might I inform you Mr. Souse that women living next to gas stations are four times more likely to develop multiple orgasms. Adults living far away from women living next to gas stations are four times more likely to develop leukemia.

    Carry on....



  • SooksSooks 714 Posts
    I have no cat house or record recommendations - only restaurants from a few years ago, but they were such great food that I still remember them vividly...

    ok, so hopefully you're not staying in khao san road - that area's not very good for food, so don't go there, or, if you're there, you should probably leave. There's a Time Out Bangkok that has excellent restaurant reviews and is worth picking up. Also has excellent bar recommendations (look for tawaendeng brewhouse).

    Most of the street food is excellent - if you see someone with a wok they can likely make you these two dishes: krapow (chicken & thai basil & chilis) and phad siew (broad noodles cooked with soy) both are great. The street satay can be good, but try and get some just cooked stuff, as rubbery squid is not so appealing. Basically, try it all out - corn waffles, fish cakes, whatever, it's probably tasty. If you want something spicy (which, although I could never handle the spice levels that Thai people eat, was sometimes necessary, since people would tone it down for you whether you wanted them to or not) say "keen pet die" it means something like 'it's ok hot'.

    There's a great food court in the MBK mall at Siam Square. There's a pork and eggs stew that is particularly delicious.

    Issan food (from the Northeast of Thailand) is great, and worth seeking out - if you see someone roasting chickens that's likely gaiyang, and is definitely worth having, along with a papaya salad (som tam, 'keen pet die') and sticky rice. In Siam square (and there's another somewhere, I don't remember) is Cafe de Lao which serves some really good Issan food with lots of laabs (basically meat salads) and sticky rice. There's also an Issan cook-your-own hotpot style food called 'jim-jum' or Issan-suki that my GF and I had in Patpong of all places (it was on soi convent? maybe?) A giant suki restaurant is called Coco Suki, and is 3 floors of cook-your-own frenzied excitement. There's also a restaurant in the lobby of the Wittayu centre on wireless road that serves sour issan sausage (raw, if you're daring) and other not-normally-found-on-english menu items.

    More upscale restos are found around the sukhumvit strip - cabbages and condoms (yeah, yeah) is realy nice (eat upstairs, outside), another cool place was called 'a day cafe', there's also hualumphong food station.

    Other Bangkok advice - don't bother with the tuk-tuks - sure they're cute, but taxis are cheaper and less hassle (they use the meters - don't take one that doesn't) and air-conditioned. Also it's not so pricy, you can go all the way to across the city for pretty cheap. Or take the skytrain - it's a great way to get around, fast, and you can get all over the city, also the boat-bus that goes down the river is good, too.


    hmm, there's probably more, but that's all I can think of. PM me for more.

  • Thats what i'm talking bout.

    Thanks Sooks!

    I am staying on Khao San Rd. Heard it is to Bangkok what Long St is to Cape Town or Kings Cross is to Sydney. I'm only going to spend a couple weeks there then I head up north.

  • davesrecordsdavesrecords 1,802 Posts
    Check the main drag in chinatown for records. The best place i found there was this store run by a grumpy old dude with his rabid dog. He had the dog held in this little old gate doors that he would move around the racks to form a pen to restrain the dog from tearing off my nuts. everytime I wanted to move to a different section of the store he would move the gates and corral the dog in a different section of the (tiny) shop. I had a portable and was there for a about 5 hours going through records and about 2 hours the next day. The whole rabid fucking barking and throwing itself madly against the gate doors.

    But I did pull about a dozen Impossibles LP's and 45's amongst a whole bunch of other crazy crap (sealed Bill Withers and Issac Hayes LP's too)


    As far as record shops....

    Any info on Restaurants, Flea Markets and shady Thai cat houses will be appreciated as well.



    oh yeah i guess all the shops are in chinatown.

    when did you go to that shop? i was there last year and didn't find shit.

    place was dissapointing for records really. get your hands real filthy too. one shop owner didn't want me using my portable i guess cause everytime i would play a record he would turn his music real loud so i couldn't hear the portable.

    best record i found was a sealed sylvers. thai land is great though. don't go there for records.

  • SooksSooks 714 Posts
    The thing about Khao San is, other than the dirty hippes who don't wear shoes, is that it's just watered down thai for people who don't know better. And while you're there you'll get hustled on all sides for tuk-tuks, shows, blah blah blah, but if you leave and go check out the city, you'll find that, really, Bangkok city people have better things to do than bother you. Get the Time Out, and go check out the city - get dressed up, go to a club, go shopping (some cool stores there), eat well - it's not just sex-shops and beers and phad thai movie night at the bar.

    Also, many of the services that are aimed at tourists can be done in a much easier, and much nicer alternative, that often costs only a touch more. For instance, people always take these absurbly cheap busses around Thailand, but they take fucking forever, and someone will probably go through your bags in the process, but, for a small amount more, you can have a sleeping compartment on the train, complete with a/c and a guy who comes and folds down the sheets for you. No contest.

  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,960 Posts
    Cosign all Sooks said, esp. the food court in the Siam Square mall - I had the seafood gumbo in that place in the corner unit; it was so spicy that I was cwying like a likkle baby, but so tasty that I *had* to finish it.

    The other good place we found was Seafood City, Sukhumvit Soi 24 (sois are side streets off the main Sukhumvit Road), the one that has the sign, "If it swims, we have it". Pick your food off the ice, take the basket to the checkout, pay, and they bring it all over to you, cooked how you want.

    Singha beer - mmmmmmmmm.... 6.5% alc though, so marathon it, not sprint it. Watch the live bands from the bar across the road from king's court bar on Patpong - bizarre ingrish versions of your chart faves. Me and the wife still crack up over "Musiiih, mexa people, cam togezza.. yeah!, Musiiig, mix a bourgeousie (pronounced perfectly) an za revel"...

    Cringe at the 300lb 50 year old german businessmen walking hand in hand with teenage local boys. Don't worry, it's not common, only around Patpong, but you DO notice it. Drink through it.

    Shirts - I am into the pure captain-of-industry/Alan Whicker/Hefner white-cuff-&-collar look. Stripier the better. Go to one of the Indian tailors on the sois off Sukhumvit, pick your cloths (cotton, silk, whatever), get the shirts made in 24 hours as you want (bonus points for ill monograms) and pay about $12 each. You can get measured there but my advice is to take a shirt that fits you well and get them to copy the measurement from it.

    If you go for a suit, get a contrasting silk lining for mega pimp points. You know it makes sense.

    Got some good raerish import CDs in the World Trade Center record shops - giveaway prices. Great city, Very friendly people, skytrain is best way around, yes you will be shown sharkskin wallet shops halfway through every taxi ride, but it's the way it works there. Enjoy!

  • Strider79itStrider79it 1,176 Posts
    Thanks for the info.


    Oh....and the 'cats' I was talking about look more like this: http://www.geocities.com/shadowstalker_98/kanyarut1.jpg .

    I'm not with that pedophile shit.





    where is the "stop-fetishing-Ms Damn " police when you need it ?


  • DuderonomyDuderonomy Haut de la Garenne 7,793 Posts
    Check the main drag in chinatown for records. The best place i found there was this store run by a grumpy old dude with his rabid dog. He had the dog held in this little old gate doors that he would move around the racks to form a pen to restrain the dog from tearing off my nuts. everytime I wanted to move to a different section of the store he would move the gates and corral the dog in a different section of the (tiny) shop. I had a portable and was there for a about 5 hours going through records and about 2 hours the next day. The whole rabid fucking barking and throwing itself madly against the gate doors.

    But I did pull about a dozen Impossibles LP's and 45's amongst a whole bunch of other crazy crap (sealed Bill Withers and Issac Hayes LP's too)


    As far as record shops....

    Any info on Restaurants, Flea Markets and shady Thai cat houses will be appreciated as well.



    oh yeah i guess all the shops are in chinatown.

    when did you go to that shop? i was there last year and didn't find shit.

    place was dissapointing for records really. get your hands real filthy too. one shop owner didn't want me using my portable i guess cause everytime i would play a record he would turn his music real loud so i couldn't hear the portable.

    best record i found was a sealed sylvers. thai land is great though. don't go there for records.

    I know the fucker with the dog you're on about - his shop is on the hump of a small bridge, right?
    There is another, much better record shop in BKK closer to Khao Sarn than Sapan Lake... you have to walk out of the bottom of Khao Sarn, turn right and you'll be on the big six lane road with big round-abouts. At one end of this road, within eyesight of the bottom of Khao Sarn, is a hotel called something like "Royal Prince Hotel" sitting on a corner. Head for that, and take a left along a road that runs next to a smelly canal. Keeping the canal on your right, follow the road and you'll find a record shop owned by a Thai cat whose name means 'Tiger'. He speaks broken Engrish, he's very helpful and lets you use his record player to listen to stuff. His wife runs another record store, but it's across town, in a huge mall out in the middle of nowhere.

    Accomodation: Get off Khao Sarn. You're getting ripped there. My fav place is called PS Guest House. It's on a road called Thannon Samsen. Ask a tuk-tuk driver to take you there if you can't find it, but it's only a 15 min walk from Khao Sarn.
    Place is near the river, rooms are nice - but modest; fan, two beds for 140 baht a night. The best thing about the place is the roof. People go up there to sit, drink, eat and smoke pot. There are a few tables and chair, laundry facilities - guests always stay there longer than they anticipated, really nice communal atmosphere there.
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