Asia After Hours

The Big Mango

This Big Mango in my eyes is the world’s best city. When I visited Bangkok for the first time in 2005, I already had the feeling that this would become a love-affair. It just felt right to be there and things didn’t change since that.
When we explored the city by helicopter I recognized how little I know of the city. I don’t think it is really important to know every angel there, but there is plenty I still want to learn and explore. The heart of Bangkok are its natural friendly, Buddhistic people who are strongly connected with the king. I don’t think it is correct/fair to say that everything went downhill and that it just became a touristic, idiot hub. It depends on the areas and tell me any other place that’s better taking it all together. Jakarta has more diverse characters, it feels more grown-up, but they don’t have that open, free feeling : too much is happening just inside buildings there.

One of the most frequented questions I get is how much money you need to enjoy it the way I present it in my videos. I thought a long time about it and experienced the very luxury but also the budget end. I didn’t start staying in Bangkok at the Jim Thompson suite. My first hotel was the President Solitaire. I payed for my first room and first stay THB 2200/day. Let me tell you what : I was so extremely happy with this room, I could not believe that I was now able to afford a room that has such a nice marble bathroom. I was blasted away from the Thai hospitality and got the chills when I entered my room. I think the first time Jim Thompson didn’t make me happier, although I still consider it to be the best room of a hotel in Bangkok and Bangkok is No.1 worldwide in my eyes.
The point is that at a certain level, the extra luxury doesn’t bring you proportional extra fun.
Interesting is that according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the normal, average tourist spends around THB 4000 per day, a little more than USD 100. And I believe that this for a tourist is just about right to do everything without real limitations if you are smart. Of course there always is no open end. But I would never go in below THB 4000 per day, it won’t be fun. As an expat or resident the budget could be decreased a lot. Beware that taken into assumption that your currency might inflate at a rate of 2.5%, your fixed money value will decrease by half after 2 decades.

Honestly speaking you can basically fuck all my guides if you search there for eventually having the ultimate day. They can help you for getting an impression, give you ideas and a better overview. Everyone has a different taste, I prefer to structure here everything as an authority because in first priority I am doing this site for myself, it is a collection database of my own travel memories.

Do you really need to pay THB 5000 for a having the best massage experience of Thailand ? Hell no, you only pay that if you want to be secluded/safe from the real world, housing in pure luxury while getting the treatment. Some of my most memorable massages were THB 250, 90 min Thai massages in some dingy parlors, located in small Sois.
The picture is very similar for Thai food. My best Tom Yum Goong I also didn’t had a 5-star Thai restaurant. Does this now all mean that I reverse back and only stay at the budget places ? No, I will continue visiting the whole spectrum because I think I experience most that way. The point I want to explain is that even if you cannot afford the luxury places, just be happy with what you have and that you found Bangkok instead of dieing in ignorance without knowing heaven.

I want to thank a few people who helped and supported me on the last trip to make this video and following happening : Jakob, Thomas, Vann, Em, Twopee, Michael, Jah, Tar, Cherry, Fai, Nadia, Kat, Dream, Ann, Lookpad, Michaela, Patrick, Advance Aviation, Peninsula hotel Bangkok, Four Seasons hotel Bangkok, Dusit D2, BKcoolclub, The Pent, Funky Villa, Bangkok Pattaya hospital, Baccara, Rainbow 4. Many thanks for letting me keep the memories inside this video and I hope it enjoys/motivates/inspires other people as well :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNNKyoRRyMk

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In the mood for love restaurant, Sukhumvit Soi 36, Bangkok

This restaurant got inspired from the chinese movie which is set in Hongkong 1962. I especially still have the music of that masterpiece from 2000 in mind. The interior of the restaurant really has an old Hongkong/Shanghai flair. The atmosphere and the guests are most remarkable of this unusual place. The food is good, not fantastic; the staff lacks a little training but these errors are hardly visible. Such a venue is much more a restaurant I like to visit again and again than a hotel restaurant. Sorry to say that but I simply prefer hanging out at small to medium-sized boutique restaurants. Some hotel restaurants are fantastic in Bangkok, but they mostly appear sterile and I somehow feel locked away / caged. I prefer a restaurant that you easily enter from the street and that has a boutique charm as that one :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwtCDetgCWE

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Global Nanpa Pool Party @ Dusit D2 Pattaya : Friday, February 4th – 12 to 6pm

Global Nanpa and the Dusit D2 Baraquda Pattaya invite you to join a sexy pool party with cool music. Entrance is free and drink prices are as usual ! Enjoy an uncommon, rare event at Pattaya’s most stylish pool area. Check it out if you are in the area that time…

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Hanging out with sexy Thai chicks at Four Seasons hotel, Bangkok

It was a really fine evening with those 3 sexy Thai girls. Because of elections the next day, most places didn’t serve alcohol. So we decided to kill the mini bar first, but we actually got served drinks later on anyway.

These girls had already  helped me with a first Bangkok party at 808 in 2009. The style of the model above very much changed, I didn’t recognize her when I first saw her again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDBaSxCA5bA

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Bedsupperclub, Bangkok September 2010

Bedsupperclub is one of the most established clubs in Bangkok. It lacks a special atmosphere and appears like Sage club in Berlin. On the positive side they know how to handle international guests and do a fine job promoting their place to farangs and to Thai chicks who love the spotlight and maybe also look for boyfriend sponsors. On some special event nights it is still worth to go for me, moreover they are so well-known that I am forced to make a visit sometimes. The location I regard as positive as well, in the middle of Sukhumvit Soi 11. It is just not my world, but I still see their strenghts. I was by the way the first one who ever released a public video of Bedsupperclub : of their new year party 2006. Here is a short new video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGbkw1i-XcU

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Around at Lumpini park, Siam Square and Siam Paragon

I love flirting and doing nanpa with promo girls. You find a lot really sweet ones in Siam Paragon, some also at Siam Square and Lumpini park. I am not primarily interested in collecting phone numbers, often the longer I stay in Bangkok the more I get a desire for staying a while with a funny and a little thoughtful girl. The girls you might meet at Lumpini park appeared real to me in that case. I didn’t release my entire video material here for certain reason.

On the picture above and below you easily see the two different worlds of the game. Show&looks versus kindness&affection.

It is really incredible. There are not many places in the world where I just walk around and a lot people start smiling at me. You can clearly see in their faces that this is a very unprejudiced, open and maybe curious smile. In western countries people, and especially sexy girls, will try everything to curve a distance around them, always holding back other people because of having a negative first thought of a person. In Bangkok the first thought is a positive one. Let me tell you honestly that this is MUCH more striking and letting you feel well long-term than having the possibility to being surrounded by sexy girls all the time.

Lumpini park is the green lung of Bangkok. You will see a lot of families and people jogging/working out there or they just come to relax.

I love street food. Bangkok is the world’s only city where I am still in early-stage progress of establishing a restaurant video guide, I probably won’t do it for other cities. But there is no need to spend big bucks at expensive restaurants all the time. You will find so many good food stalls for little money. I also am impressed how healthy most Thais eat. You will get some very fresh fruits, I eat more healthy there than in my own country because it is just often more easily accessible.

Here is the video, it also includes “the smiles will return” festival which got sponsored by the Thai Tourism Authority :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBJfXOnuLQY

Wild Sex Video From Bali

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Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok

Ramkhamhaeng university is the largest university of the country and it is a public one. The major negative issue that surprised me was that it was rather the exception to find students who spoke well English. But the major positive thing about Ramkhamhaeng is that the students seem to be very friendly and are easily approachable. The worst behaving students I met were Thammasat business&law students. You guessed right : i get along best with people coming from health related sciences, engineering/technologies or arts. The best university in Thailand for such study fields is clearly Chulalongkorn University (still ranking only #180 worldwide). They are the best of the country followed by Chiang Mai University (CMU).

The university area is pretty big. Around it there are plenty of cafes, little restaurants with low prices and lots of young people in general. I had a good impression of the area. The video isn’t spectacular but it gives you a feel for how it looks like walking around there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZjuF9pkYBc

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