Tag Archives: dog

86ed from the Buffalo Bar – 2012

February 28, 2025 – 8:13 am

From 2012 I first walked into the Buffalo Bar in 1997. The bar on Sai 3 became my local in Pattaya after I moved to Soi Bong Koch in 2002. The beer was cold, the open-air atmosphere was a welcome change from the go-go bars’ tobacco-reek, beer lout falangs, and more than a few of the hostesses were desirable. […]

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Dog Yum-Yum

May 11, 2023 – 1:35 am

The islands of Ternate and Tidore had been the destination of European explorers seeking to circumvent the Ottoman Empire’s spice trade monopoly . Only one ship from Magellan’s fleet returned from their historic voyage around the world and the spices purchased on these islands paid off the cost of the trip and enriched the investors […]

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Peking Dog Yum Yum

July 11, 2008 – 9:18 pm

Beijing has requested that specialty restaurants serving dog to take it off the menu for the duration of the Olympics. Personally I like dog. Thais are always surprised when i say that, because they say only Cambodians eat dog, but I acquired a taste for man’s best friend in Indonesia and even as a main […]

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