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I got two Jupiter ads in my x.com feed a couple days ago - one ad for hiring models, and the other ad hiring server staff.

Here's their Line address and QR code. They send out messages regularly on Line, with photos of available boys. I don't believe they have a website.

In the 1990's, there were three My Way bars in Thailand. One was in Phuket, as mentioned by @mauRICE, another My Way bar was located in Bangkok, on a small soi off Rama IV, near to the Surawong intersection with Rama IV Road. The third My Way branch of the business was located in Chiang Mai, in the northern part of the city, in the Santitham area. The three bars not only shared the same name, but all three My Way bars appeared on the same business card.

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't detect a joke, must be too much daydreaming on my part.......

???? "Apperatips" as shown on the Midnight Bar drink menu is a misspelling of the word "Aperitifs". The liqueurs listed are usually considered as aperitifs, and sometimes as digestifs by some.

Sarica is at the corner of Soi Wall Street and Surawong. I usually go there once or twice when I'm in Bangkok. It's been in the same location for at least 15 years that I know of. They serve Thai food, with some farang and Japanese dishes. It is very popular with Japanese customers, as Soi Thaniya is only a few steps away. The menu, in addition to Thai and English, includes names of the various dishes in Japanese. I was surprised last year to find the restaurant / cafe had changed a bit, with the front section featuring a cannabis menu, and the sign outside with the name Sarica Cannabis. The front half used to be a coffee shop. The cannabis section and the restaurant are divided with glass wall, with a door between the two. The same waiters serve both sections. The side entrance on Soi Wall Street leads directly into the regular dining room.

Do report back, and let us know if you get molested there.

Another new bar you may want to avoid - I just read that a new lesbian bar recently opened on Surawong, close to the Rama IV intersection, near Roadhouse Barbecue and Jim Thompson Silk. It opened on November 22, and the name of the bar is Tuff Bar BKK.

The site where Golden Cock was previously located closed down during the pandemic. I offed boys from the original location of Golden Cock in both January and February 2020, so it was open for business in February 2020. In March 2020, Thailand closed its borders to international travel due to COVID-19. I returned to Bangkok in January 2022, during the days of the Thailand Pass, required AQ hotel stays, and multiple mandatory PCR tests. In January 2022 when I visited Thailand, the Golden Cock was shuttered, and as @neyger said, they had combined with Nature Boy, across the soi, sharing a small combined sign with both business names. The former site of Golden Cock has now been transformed into a restaurant named the Pancake Palace.

For anyone looking for low cost airfare from the US to Thailand or other Asian destinations, there are some really low fares being offered right now on Trip.com. $514 from LAX-BKK round-trip. I checked a random date two week Bangkok trip from Feb 09 - Feb 23, and Korean Air has a round-trip price of only $651. I am on the trip.com email list, and received this today, with sample dates shown. If you're not particular about the air carrier, there are some super low cost deals available at this time.

Indeed, the Democratic party officials were mute as far as Biden's incapacity to fulfill the duties of the office, and to run for another four year term. It was a Hollywood actor that was responsible for loudly starting the conversation. In July 2024, George Clooney shared his opinion when he authored an op-ed in the New York Times, calling for Biden to step down. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/10/biden-age-george-clooney-00167329

If you drive on your trip to Hua Hin, here's another spot accessible by rental car, or a Grab or Bolt car from Hua Hin. I visited Hua Hin in January 2024. About an hour before reaching Hua Hin from Bangkok, it's worth stopping at the Khao Luang cave. It also is a nice day trip from Hua Hin. Here's a photo I took inside the cave.

Thanks for your detailed reports, @jimmie50. It sounds like you had a great group tour, seeing several parts of the country. It's unfortunate you were in Chiang Mai during the Loy Krathong festival time, with the huge numbers of visitors, and bad traffic. Chiang Mai is not usually overcrowded like that. I have been to Chiang Mai more than twenty times in the past 30 years. I like that part of Thailand, and I have explored the provinces of northern Thailand with a number of Thai, Shan, and hilltribe young men over the years. I always avoid the north from February to April, as that's the season farmers burn the rice stubble in the fields, and the air is often very hazy with smoke. Due to your trip report, in the future, I'll also stay away during Loy Krathong.

Bangkok attorney Benjamin Hart and his wife have opened a new restaurant named Pancake Palace. It is located in the shop that was the Golden Cock bar for many years. You may know Benjamin Hart from his Youtube videos, focusing on legal issues affecting farang. He is the managing director of Integrity Legal in Bangkok. Also, Stickman has endorsed the Pancake Palace, and the link is below. Endorsement is at 1:32 in the second video. Has anyone visited the Pancake Palace?

There were many bars on this block of Pattayaland Soi 1 (Soi 13/3), and some of them closed and re-opened as new businesses with new names over the roughly twenty year period of 1990 to 2010. I dug up a couple archived photos showing some of the bars on this soi. In one photo, we can see Handy Boys was next to Lucky 777 when the photos were taken. In the 1990's, before Lucky 777 existed, I remember the previous bar in the same location was called Charlie Boys. I think Charlie Boys closed about 2002 or 2003, and then later became Lucky 777. A couple bars that moved to Pattayaland Soi 1 were Wild West Boys, which moved from their smaller location on Pattayland Soi 2, to the much larger shop on Pattayaland Soi 1. Also, Star Boys moved from Pattaya Sai Song 15, across Sai Song (Second Road) to Soi 1. At its height of popularity, Pattayaland Soi 1 was very busy, housing numerous boy bars.