SAPAN KWAI brs-it has ben told recenly and I can only confirm-had not ben there in the nighttime since the last century. Besides Charrm-ming they are now all in the dead-end soi toward the Embassy HTL-the side soi to main road which used to have Midnite/Apache has been closed off-a big high-rise condo-this took me quite a while to realise. The 7/8 bars you see first are all karaOK-and besides the old names of Adam and STAX they seem all convinced now that farang simply dont like KaraOK and its fruitless to win them for it. @ 21.30 (they open all at 21.00) C-ming was just organising to get open-and many lads were still at the barbers doing their new hairdo. Many have fulltime dayjoibs-at least in the past-so be careful with overnites.
The only remaining gogo is Be Hi-in the deadend soi. Doorstaff well used to memory seeking farang and being told were what was...Here the gogo was also stand-still, 12 boys present, 3 on stage. Drinks are 140 bt-small glasses. Indeed; there is approach-the ost daring half child sat beside me, was overpolite and tried to start some talk. I was wary at first-but no waiter appeared greedily to ask about a new drink-and no other pressue at all either. This was indeed fairly common in old-days SK bars-the boys would present themselves to you-or simply old style Thai ''kreng jai''=you dont let someone sit alone. Anyway-when his turn for stage came on he must also have acted as spy/or only angkrit speaker- as 2 strictly lao-only lads came over. When I left there were 5 farang and 2 Thai-these were also politely approached.
The gods understood me: a free red bus appeared in minutes-with that cocky, but o-so gay look kreung conductor-who made his way all across the crowded bus to ask if I was sure about it-bus staff even gets to know me. A big smile from a black clad lao lad who then appeared beside me and threw himself in close contact at any stop or corner-more smiles-but he did not get off with me. The lad at se=hwen-always extremely shy-then started a chat-up, whispered that sexy words: where you come from?''-finally grasped that farang dont like anything in plastic bags-and whispered when his shift was finished. Amazing Thailand-it always comes when you dont expect it.
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