When I first came to Asia, I thought bread wouldn’t pass my lips until my 
round-the-world ticket brought me to the baguettes of Paris. I was wrong.
In Biak the end of the world where the sea mirrored a flat blue sky, the Javanese store sold bread. As white as Wonderbread. Soft and squishy. Malaysia had roti. Over the years the situation has improved, although I always swore the only things I missed about America were friends, family, and pizza.
No longer.
Scopy’s Pizza on 3rd Road is the best this side of Stromboli’s Pizza on 1st Avenue and St. Mark’s Place in the East Village.
Which is only good when you’re drunk and Scoby’s is good sober.
Better is that Scoby bought the pizza oven for 4000 bath from a broke Irishman. Scoby resembles Tom Waits’ cousin. About two days away from a prison sentence. He’s from Alaska and no one who’s ever lived north of the Arctic Circle should understand pizza, but his crew makes the best pie in Pattaya and they deliver.
Now I can say the only things I miss about the USA are my friends and family.
Especially since Scoby is a bookie and a poker player.
But then what else could you expect from Pattaya?
Scoby’s Pizza
340-16 3rd Road
TEL: 038-720752