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This article on CNN will be interesting for all you aviation enthusiasts...... I'm looking at you, @PeterRS. https://www.cnn.com/travel/what-it-was-like-concorde-pilot

Based on your recommendation of the "orgasmic pad krapow" at the Tarntawan Hotel, I decided to try it today for lunch. OMG, two bites into it, and I was breathing fire from the chilies. I agree it tastes good, but I had tears in my eyes from the heat. By the time I finished the dish, I must have looked like a mess, what with tears running down my face, and my nose running non-stop from the hellish heat. Eating this dish is similar to being pepper sprayed in the face, certainly not an orgasmic experience for me. I hightailed it to the nearest 7-Eleven to buy a yogurt, in a desperate but futile attempt to douse the persistent inferno in my head. Now a few hours later, the fire has subsided. Never dismiss the importance of specifying the spiciness level when ordering food in Thailand. Those chili pieces are devious, in the way they blend in, wrapped under a wilted holy basil leaf in the krapow sauce. And the Thais love to use both the red and green chilies in the same dish, for added intensity. The green chili pieces are absolutely sinister. Just a warning for others - this Tarntawan dish is the genuine napalm flamethrower local Thai version of pad krapow, not a tamed down tourist variety of the dish. Thanks for the recommendation, but I think I'll try something else next time.🔥

I was mistaken, the old Gaybutton site that was from 25 years ago was Gaybutton (without the word "thai"). Sorry for any confusion I caused, @PeterRS. Here's an archived screenshot from 2001. This is the old website I remember from 25 years ago.

You are correct, it was gaybuttonthai.

No, I mean 25 years. I clearly remember reading the board back in 2000 or 2001.

Gaybutton's board has been active for around 25 years. In the early days, he offered a matchmaking service on his website.

Here's a good chart that shows condom sizes frequently shown in Thai massage ads, with measurements in both centimeters and inches, and the corresponding penis circumference sizes. The measurements quoted by massage shops are the width of condoms, as shown in this chart in the condom width column.

@spoon, if you find yourself in Sukhumvit in the future, you may want to exchange money at Vasu money exchange, located at the corner of Sukhumvit Road and Soi 7/1, right near to BTS Nana Exit 1. They have been in that location for decades, and the exchange rates they offer are equivalent (within a couple satang) to X-One and the Silom Plaza Superrich branch. https://www.vasuexchange.co.th/

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.

Not to nitpick, but the name was Gacuya, not Gaycuya. Here's an old post from 2006 by catawumpuscat (RIP) that mentions Gacuya Bar. If I remember correctly, the narrow Kawaii Bar was just to the left of it, then past that, the stairs leading up to the second floor Dynamite Bar, which was above Kawaii and Gacuya bars.

Yes, you are correct, it's the old Tawana Hotel on Surawong. It's a renovation. Last spring, one of the hotel booking sites was showing the Tawana's status as under renovation, and open early 2026.