a week or 2 ago, BAN KLUAY (=banana house), on RamkamHaeng/corner of soi 48, which is quite near the lamsalee crossing and roughly opposite from the private gay bar street there.
Entry around 19.00, early evening, midweek. This is a refurbished shophouse of 3 floors, very nicely redone in a smart contemporary style. Noone to be seen from outside, many windows, but these are partly obscured. Entry led to some visible consternation of the receptionist, he spoke only limited english and kept unnerved when adressed in Thai. Another guy was called for, the tobeexpected RKHaeng student with better, but still limited angrit. Seemed they had a lot of ignorant farang walking in the last time, as there is a big hotel just further on used as transit-stop by some travel agents for tourgroups transit at swampy.
Anyway, when this was all settled and the TMB site mentioned, it was allright. But there were just 2 guys to choose, one of which was this one, which I duly chose then. Average encounter, he did his best, but seemed not to well trained. Was not on the listing of TMB-ourboys, forgot his name. He told me it was fairly busy at weekends, but on many weekdays there were no real customers at all. Low price (oil 90 mins is just 500-they also offer just Thai). he told me he tried to gain some money for going out to entertainment in weekends. Not worth going out of your way for, after this time. I was in Bangkapi anyway that day.
THis place is related to Ruang RabRong on Lard Prao. In another wwwsite it mentions a fone nr for info(prospecting workers) at Bento-Silom/SalaDaeng.
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