Patpong District
Bangkok, thailand July 9th, 2009
Continuation from:-
Hour Past Midnight
Along Chao Phraya
The Grand Palace, Bangkok
Majestic Wat Pho
Culture Shock
Euphoric Chatuchak Weekend Market
28th February 2009
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After an exhausting but satisfying day at the Chatuchak Weekend Market we were more than ready to return to the hotel for some well earned rest. So utterly tired were we that we didn’t even have the energy to look for food.
Clockwise from top right: Seafood rice, pork ball noodle, oyster omelet, roadside hawker
So, we just crashed on the first hawker stall we encounter which was not a bad idea. The food proved to be absolutely good.
Pepsi!
I knew we had bought a whole lot of stuff from the market including packets of Thai instant noodle from the departmental store nearby but when we spread all our buys on the bed i was surprised by the lot. Bangkok has a special something that would tempt even the most reserved shoppers. Heck, i sure couldn’t control my urge to buy everything i set my eyes on.
After freshening up, we ventured out looking for a good massage parlor. It’s a pity that Dad had a sudden bout of gout attack and had to stay behind to rest. If there’s any consolation, the massage wasn’t that good anyways. We went for a group massage but the technique wasn’t great and we spent half the time laughing because it was so ticklish. My masseur went to the toilet and stayed there for quite sometime too so my massage was cut short. Totally not worth the 30Bath at all 
Otherwise, Bangkok is truly amazing. In the day it’s the modern city and shopping paradise where else as the night approach the city is transformed into a totally unrecognizable entertainment hub, full of night markets, dodgy massage parlour, pubs and clubs.
Patpong red light district taken from: http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/
When in Bangkok, the trip is not complete without a visit to the racy red-light district in Patpong. As we ventured into the district, it’s pretty overwhelming especially for Mom after she got her first glimpse of scantily clad girls perched on top of the bar counter. Or when a guy excitedly pimping tiger-shows, calling after her “Mamasan, you want tiger-show? Ping-pong show?” while the rest of us trail behind her trying to avoid getting pulled into dodgy strip bars.
Patpong go-go bar taken from: http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/
It was priceless to see my boyfriend being mistaken for a homosexual and being coaxed into a gay go-go bar by a coy looking young man. Everywhere you will see local girls in super tight mini-skirt and exaggerated thick make-up hugging their ‘farang’ around town having a good time.
Then as we turn into a street alley we saw everything customized for Japanese tourist, even the call-girls wears Japanese uniforms spotting cute pony tails.
That’s how crazy Patpong is. It was awesome!
A word of caution though. Patpong night market is really a rip-off. The pavement and the entire pedestrian precinct is lined with uncountable imitation garments and products that you can actually get for a much cheaper price in Chatuchak Market. Even roadside stalls outside Patpong offers a better deal then here. The price is ridiculously jacked-up obviously looking for tourists that don’t know better.
I’ve been offered a USD60 for a cosmetic mirror casing in which i of course declined. It cost around 15Baht at Chatuchak for gods sake. My sister on the other hand had greatly annoyed a seller by asking her if the USD50 T-shirt was actually 50Baht. Sis was rewarded an annoyed stare and shoo-ed away. The seller’s exact words were “Baht?! You go back Malaysia and wait for sale!”.
Thus take my advise and be careful of the seller at Patpong market, it could get rough. Tourists refusing to make a purchase are greeted with angry “F*uck off!”. Yep, that’s how it is. Be brave. Haha.
To be continued at:-
Siam Square and Hua Lamphong Railway Station
Note:
All photos are taken with my Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX8.
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