Unscientific research into the gogo bars in Soi Cowboy
I love unscientific research. Did a comparative study of the escalators of the BTS, the overground, and MRT, the underground metro.
I had noticed that the MRT stairs roll faster than the BTS stairs and I wondered: why? I will not tire you with the result, because that is extremely unscientific.
Walking through Soi Cowboy, one of the three most famous prostitute streets in Bangkok, I wondered if the name of a gogo bar says something about the nature of the business that is carried on there. These are the names of the bars, in no particular order: Corner (2x), Cocktail club, Suzie Wong, Tilac, Moonshine Joint, Cockatoo, Deja Vu, Cowboy 2, Baccara, Rawhide, Country Road, Insanity, Toy Bar, Kiss, Lighthouse, Spice girls, Dollhouse, Shadow bar, Midnite, Sahara and Rio. I may have missed a few, but these are the main ones.
Cocktail bar
When I was still a bad boy on a regular basis, I got into the Cocktail club. A narrow space with a long sofa on the right and a platform behind the bar on the left, on which the bar girls, as they are euphemistically called, stood bored on poles.
It had to tempt us men to invite them to us, to offer them a drink only to find that the English they said they spoke was limited to the tune: What your name, where you come from, how old are you, you have children, you buy me drink, I want to come with you and at a later stage the announcement that mother is in hospital and brother cannot go to school because school fees are still owed.
Hence the bar Deja Vu (the accents are missing) will receive a prize from me. I've (almost) seen it all and I'm not going there again.
And if I ever land there again, I'll ask the bartender: do you also have a girl who keeps her mouth shut? She can tickle my hand and even sit in my pants if she has to, as long as she doesn't bore me with this memorized standard talk. And no, she's not coming with me. I go to my room, crawl behind my laptop and write a nice piece for Thailandblog. I can cum on that.
In Cocktail club the owner always came to sit with me. A portly man who asked me every time if I knew a nice compatriot for him. Mind you: not only a compatriot, but it also had to be a fun one. Like I know it. He always begged for a drink, but when I asked him when he ever offered me a drink - after all, I was something of a regular - mister was shot in the wing and we ignored each other afterwards.
Insanity
The name, which stands head and shoulders above all other names, is Insanity. Indeed: it is all madness, insanity. The names Dollhouse en Toy bar are also appropriate, because most girls are dolls. You don't come across many fatties and elderly people.
Dollhouse means dollhouse, but write it as madhouse, then it shows its true face. In earlier times, a madhouse was an institution for the care of the mentally ill and that patient group was taken very broadly: sufferers of epilepsy, asocials, rioters, addicts, dementia sufferers and so on. The creator of Insanity was not far off.
Dick van der Lugt
Dick's previous unscientific research on comments and page views (on Thailandblog) was posted on Thailandblog on April 20.
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To be honest, I expected a bit more research.
Where is the beer the cheapest and where should you be for a good conversation?
at home, at mother's porridge….
SAMEE ,
A good conversation in soi cowboy ?? Is that a trick question haha…
for cheap beer you have to go to cheap charlys bar , sukhumvit soi 11 .
or the cheapast bar in nana plaza ,sukhumvit soi 4 all drinks also strong 69 bath .
@Dick If you land there again, would you prefer a girl to shut up? Then I would go for Insanity if I were you, because among the sufferers of epilepsy, antisocials, rioters, addicts, demented people, there is probably also a deaf and mute. But why would you still settle there, as you say yourself, you will be comfortable if you write another nice piece for Thailand blog behind your laptop, and given the fact that you write a lot of beautiful pieces for a few years, it is also good with your average.
Beautiful, short and sweet.
There is also something nice to say about "afterskool", so they keep their mouths shut there!
All nicely written articles for that book. But how can you actually order that book?
@ Eric Sorry. Under the post was the wrong IM. I have now changed that. You can order via the link https://www.thailandblog.nl/bestelwijzeexotisch-bizar-en-raadselachtig-thailand/
Hello.
@ Dick.
Once again thoroughly enjoyed your story… masterfully written… have also been to soi Cowboy, and hopefully if I am not mistaken the name of the first original bar comes from an American…
And a Thai who keeps her mouth shut??? That is a utopia, Dick… they always say: you talk too much, but at the same time spend hours chatting on their mobile phones with their girlfriends…
And with respect, speaking of deaf and dumb people and other disabled people… I have never seen so many blind people in my life as here in Pattaya, and all with an attendant and some music.
I secretly suspect Pattaya that they are building a collection of them here!!!
And as for a Bargirl's English… almost all of them have a booklet here, the size and thickness of a pack of Marlboro… English for bargirls… I'll spare you the content, but you know what I mean… they all have… I took pictures of it, because nobody believes that in Belgium!!!
I look forward to your next column…
Sincerely… Rudy…
@ Rudy van Goethem The book you are referring to is called 'Get Rich Quick English for Bar Girls' and contains 279 sentences, which the bargirl can use to say, for example, that you are a beautiful man, that you are a liar, that she wants to go with you, that her mother is sick, what positions she likes. Also to inform which positions you like, what your favorite dish is and what you think of Thai people.
Hello.
@ Dick.
It's a booklet the size of a pack of Marlboro… have one…
But should have known better that someone like you doesn't know that… was a stupid mistake on my part, but all mistakes are stupid towards a Thailand specialist like you…
Think you also have the booklet 55555
Sincerely… Rudy…
hi, that booklet is nothing thinner than a pack of cigarettes.
got my hands on it once, is basically a manual for new Barlady's.
Hello.
@ Chrissie.
I have such a booklet because my Thai wife worked in a beer bar, which I took her out of, but this aside…
A manual is said a lot, it is rather a booklet with standard phrases that they can use… but what many forget is that most barladies and with respect, because I know many, speak poor English, but cannot read English at all… they all have that booklet, my wife has one too, but she also has dozens of notebooks in which she wrote down English sentences and words and then looked up the Thai translation… most of them don't bother…
Most know a few sentences, which we all know here, but if you ask them: read aloud, they hear the thunder in Cologne, in this case Bangkok 😉
But again, most of them are very sweet ladies, and have to support their families, because the brothers don't do it...
Kind regards… Rudy