The Good Manner: Advice on Thailand from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: My girlfriend’s a Phone Freak Dear Pa Farang, My Thai girlfriend and I have been living together for over one year now, and I just can’t seem to break her of the habit of carrying a mobile phone constantly, and answering it […]
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Thai television soap operas… not always the Good Manner
If you watch any amount of television at all in Thailand, you’re bound to run into a Thai soap opera. And even if you don’t speak Thai, you’ll be able to distinguish the heroes form the villains, due to the success of these extremely formulaic dramas. Here at WoWasis, we think they’re worth an occasional […]
Read the rest of this entry »Museum & soapy massage the same day: a must for Bangkok museum-goers?
Over the past several months, veteran Bangkok museum-goers have been raving to WoWasis about a museum experience that might be unique to Bangkok: a morning visit to a museum, followed by an afternoon soapy body-to-body massage. This occurs because the venerated Suan Pakkad Museum and the Chao Phya 2 soapy massage parlor are a mere […]
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Bangkok’s multistory standalone soapy spas have parking lots, and often have full service bars and karaoke lounges, unlike most smaller Storefront Spas. They occasionally have curtained-off individualized carports to ensure privacy. Many of these establishments will offer masseuses providing different massage services, at varying price points. Spa management have indicated to WoWasis researchers that their […]
Read the rest of this entry »PC Air’s ladyboys to be Thailand’s queens of the skies
Freshly-minted Thai regional airline PCAir won’t make its first flight for several months yet, but here at WoWasis, we applaud them for staffing up with ladyboys in its effort to have a diversified work crew. Perhaps the highest profile ladyboy hired so far is Miss Tiffany Universe 2007 winner Thanyarat Jirapatpakorn. The Bangkok Post notes that […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bangkok’s Suan Pakkad Palace Museum: traditional houses and Ban Chiang pottery
WoWasis is always looking for interesting museums that aren’t always well-touristed. The wonderful Suan Pakkad Palace museum is one of these, located just a few steps east of Exit 4 at the Phaya Thai BTS station, houses a nice collection of artifacts in a “palace” setting of old Thai teak homes. Eight separate houses contain […]
Read the rest of this entry »In Bangkok’s electric showers, death is quicker than the electric chair!
Earlier this year, WoWasis reported on a deadly shower stall in the Philippines, but one we recently encountered in Bangkok certainly competes! This Thai shower features an electric heating unit with the insulating cover removed from the control box, leaving all the wires and electrical stuff exposed to water and humans. There’s even a Buddhist […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bangkok’s streetside sewing & shoe repair: good quality, great price, and close!
Quite a few visitors to Thailand have told us here at WoWasis that they like the quality and price of streetside shoe repair and sewing so much that they actually bring their shoes and clothes from home to be repaired here. It’s cheaper than repair in their own countries, or buying new. In all Thai […]
Read the rest of this entry »Best lunch and dinner counter in Bangkok: Took Lae Dee at Foodland Market
Here at WoWasis, there are times we want a quick, inexpensive, and good meal, and for a second get away from the exhaust fumes and heat that can be part of the sidewalk dining experience in the Land of Smiles. Took Lae Dee (“Cheap and Good”), a lunch and dinner counter at our nearby Foodland […]
Read the rest of this entry »Best skin scrub, massage, and spa in Bangkok? Sazanka’s new location
Although mostly men frequent Sazanka, the experience of getting salted, exfoliated, massaged, and lotioned is something all genders would appreciate. Sazanka has just moved to a new location, one BTS stop away from its former location on Washington Square. Those of us at WoWasis recommend the two hour long “Sazanka Massage,” essentially a Korean akasuri process, […]
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