Impress the Locals with your knowledge Buddha Images for the Seven Days of the Week
All places for worship in Thailand will have the lucky budda image of each day on display. Everyone knows their DAY of Birth ie., Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday or Friday or Saturday or Sunday
View known Buddha pose of that day and read the inscription about what Buddha was feeling and projecting for that day, it denotes the personality of the person for that day.
Then when touring Thailand visit one of the local markets at a Temple or any souvenir shop and buy your pendant or image of buddha for the day that reflects your birth day
Be sure to let your Thai friend know that you know your buddha image and what it represents and they will be quite surprised and most humble by your appreciation of their culture and tradition
On page (linked above) is a link to Thai lucky colour of each day.. you will then have a Lucky buddha and a lucky colour for your amazing journey in Thailand
Just be curious they say, and why not, it's all in a days adventure in Bangkok
One of the best ways to meet ladyboys in Bangkok, is to visit some of the many ladyboy bars. Bangkok is notorious for its raunchy red light districts, home to hundreds of bars, gogos, and hostess clubs, many of which are staffed by ladyboys.
The perfect way to take sooth your curiosity.
While escort agencies and dating sites are great for getting a hot ladyboy to your hotel room, visiting a ladyboy bar you’ll get the chance to sit back with a drink and witness Bangkok’s ladyboys in the flesh, chatting and flirting before deciding just how far you want to go.
While the name is a cheeky giveaway, many have been fooled by the hot and feminine ladyboys that shake their stuff on the poles of Cockatoo A Gogo. A fairly new gogo bar, Cockatoo can be found on the neon lit Soi Cowboy.
Some less open minded folk may not feel totally comfortable entering this ladyboy gogo bar surrounded by a host of busy girl gogos, but that really is their loss. Inside you’ll find a rather narrow gogo bar, where you’ll be sat seductively close to a stage brimming with curvy, bikini clad ladyboys, who could be described as anything but shy! There are around 30 ladyboys on staff every night and the quality is high. It really doesn’t get much more intimate than this.
King’s Corner
King’s Corner can be found in Patpong, Bangkok’s oldest gogo area, though unlike most of the other ladyboy bars in Bangkok, this one is best known for having lots of post-op ladyboys (i.e. ladyboys with manmade pussies).
It’s very much a large and lively gogo and there are several real girls thrown in to the mix. In fact many of the ladyboys here will claim to be genetic girls, which can leave you playing a bit of a guessing game, but if you prefer your ladyboys to be dickless then this is the place to go.
Guess Bar
An alternative to Bangkok’s wild and often manic ladyboy gogo bars, Guess Bar is better described as a ladyboy lounge bar. Here you’ll find a team of around 10 to 15 ladyboys hanging out in their air condition bar, playing pool, and flirting with the customers.
Instead of bikinis, Guess Bar ladyboys are dressed in more casual attire with occasional themed nights where the staff dress more provocatively, in cocktail dresses, cosplay, or lingerie.
Guess Bar can be found on Sukhumvit soi 4, close to the entrance of the Rajah Hotel, and If you’re fan of lounge style ladyboy bars also check out Darkside Bar on Sukhumvit soi 33 and Check Inn Bar off Sukhumvit soi 5.
Cascade Bar
When it comes to sheer volume of ladyboys nowhere in Thailand (or quite possibly the world), can compete with Casacade Bar. Located on the top floor of Bangkok’s buzzing Nana Plaza gogo complex, Cascade Bar has around 80 to 100 ladyboys working on a typical night, ranging from 6 foot Amazonian babes, to small, feminine types.
It really is a huge gogo bar with a massive stage and lots of padded seating (including some dark corners where more intimate flirting tends to take place). Some may feel a little intimidate by the sheer number of ladyboys packed in to this sexy funhouse, but if you can’t find a ladyboy to your liking here then maybe you’re not into ladyboys after all.
Obsession
While Cascades may be the biggest, many experienced ladyboy lovers consider Obsession to be home to the most stunning. Located on the bottom floor of Nana Plaza, Obesssion is still a fair size, with around 50 ladyboys dancing on the revolving stage each night, and whereas Casacdes has a number of tall and athletic ladyboys on staff, your typical Obsession ladyboy looks more like a young, cute, Japanese schoolgirl.
With so many uber hot, feminine ladyboys on staff the only negative is that it tends to attract a lot of wealthy Japanese and Korean tourists, and some of the more popular ladyboys tend to develop a bit of a diva attitude. But don’t let this put you off, Obsession gogo is home to some of the most beautiful ladyboys on this planet, and watching them sliding up and down those shiny poles will leave you drooling in your beer.
A couple weeks ago, I went with my wife and her family on a little family vacation.
On our way to a beach house in Pattaya, we stopped at a seafood market and bought a bunch of seafood - crab, shellfish, shrimp, fish etc.
At the house, we all started grilling and boiling the seafood (everything just plain), and my mother in law made a simple (yet extremely flavorful) Thai seafood sauce, known in Thai as nam jim seafood (น้ำจิ้มซีฟู้ด).
This is a very common Thai way to eat seafood, and it's a way I eat seafood frequently in Thailand.
But during our meal this time, I started thinking:
This meal is so good and so simple, and as long as you can get fresh seafood, you can have this type of authentic Thai seafood meal experience anywhere you are in the world.
The ingredients are very straight forward and should not be difficult to find in any major city, and yet the taste is very Thai.
All you have to do is boil or grill your favorite type of seafood (shrimp, crab, shellfish etc.), then make Thai seafood sauce, then dip your seafood into the sauce. Pretty simple, right!?
Now here's the recipe for the sauce:
Thai seafood sauce recipe (น้ำจิ้มซีฟู้ด)
Ingredients
20 Thai bird chilies (พริกขี้หนูสวน)
15 cloves of garlic (กระเทียม)
6 tablespoons lime juice (น้ำมะนาว)
3 tablespoons water (น้ำเปล่า)
2 tablespoons fish sauce (น้ำปลา), alternatively use only salt or some salt and some fish sauce if you don't like the fishy sauce flavor - some Thais prefer using only salt in their seafood sauce.
½ teaspoon of salt for pounding the chilies and garlic (เกลือ)
1 tablespoon table sugar or palm sugar (น้ำตาล) - or you can use much less like I prefer
Instructions
Add the bird chilies and peeled cloves of garlic into a mortar and pestle. Toss in ½ teaspoon of salt, and start pounding until coarse, making sure all the oils are released (should take 5 - 10 mins). Alternatively, blend or use a food processor or even just mince if you need to, but grinding by hand is the best method.
Add the crushed chilies and garlic to a bowl, then add the lime juice, water, fish sauce (or salt), and sugar, and mix thoroughly.
Start adding the ingredients especially the fish sauce and sugar gradually, and taste test and add more as needed.
Hia Wan Khao Tom Pla (ร้านเฮียหวานข้าวต้มปลา) is a restaurant in Bangkok that specializes in fresh seafood. Don't miss their rice soup with fish, or their boiled seafood with dipping sauce.
One of my favorite meals of the month was from Racha Pochana, an old school restaurant in Bangkok serving Thai Chinese style food. Everything I tried was unique and delicious.
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These translations are phonetic transcriptions into Thai script.
Most English language names can be spelt several different ways into Thai Language....
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Please note that you really should, according to Thai Culture, have a Nickname!
Thais universally have one, or occasionally more, short nicknames (Thai: ชึ่อเล่น play-name) that they use with friends and family. Often first given by friends or an older family member, these nicknames are typically one syllable (or worn down from two syllables to one). Though they may be simply shortened versions of a full name, they quite frequently have no relation to the Thai’s full name and are often humorous and/or nonsense words. Traditionally call-names would be after things with low value, eg 'dirt', which was to convince bad spirits that the child was not worth their attention. Some common nicknames (the non-nonsense ones, anyway) would translate into English as fatty, pig, little one, frog, banana, green, or girl/boy.
Though rare, sometimes Thai children are given nicknames after the order they were born into the family (i.e. one, two, three, etc.). Nicknames are useful because official Thai names are often long, particularly among Thais of Chinese descent, whose lengthy names stem from an attempt to translate Chinese names into Thai equivalents, or among Thai with similarly lengthy Sanskrit derived names.
Suvarnabhumi airport has the world’s fastest WiFi service, according to a study released in June.
Speed-test websiteRottenwifi.comcreated a graphicshowing results of tests it conducted on quality and speeds of WiFi at more than 130 airports, in which Suvarnabhumi came out on top.
The Top 10 airport WiFi speeds included five in Europe, two in the United States and three in Asia. The specialist website said the average Suvarnabhumi WiFi speed topped all airports at 41.45 megabits per second, well ahead of the airport in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the speed was measured at 30.99 Mbps.
The airports serving Dublin, Ireland (19.45 Mbps), Vilnius, Lithuania (18.04 Mbps) and Helsinki (17.46 Mbps) rounded out the fastest five.
Two other Asian airports were in the top 10. Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali (16.01 Mbps) placed sixth, followed by Taiwan’s Kaohsiung International Airport (15.55) in seventh.
Travelwire Asia, a British multilingual travel magazine which operates on the internet, said the Suvarnabhumi speed was “pretty impressive. Suvarnabhumi provides two hours of WiFi for free after a quick registration.
