Tag Archives: farang

Headless Farang in Bangkok

June 11, 2016 – 6:18 pm

Jamie Parker remains my eyes and ears in Thailand. Wehave known each other for decades. Our tastes coincide more often than not, although Jamie’s fun usually begins where mine ends, which is why I told him not to spy on either my girlfriend or wife during this extended absence from Siam. My wife lives in […]

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Mia Noi DNA Test

April 23, 2016 – 2:33 am

Thailand is a surprisingly puritan country. The nation’s Buddhist tenets demand propriety on all levels of life. Most people succeed in keeping the straight and narrow, however many men lose interest in their first wives and take up with mia nois or small wives. When my wife left to go up country, ostensively to care […]

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Who Are You? / from www.nakedfarang.com

November 9, 2015 – 12:19 pm

CULTURE QUIZ Who are you? Take this fun “cultural” quiz to determine whether you can morally qualify for Thai citizenship. You may be more Thai than you realized. If you are Thai, you may find that you are more westernized than you thought. 1. You need change for your sky-train ticket. There are some people […]

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The Universal Language

February 2, 2013 – 11:46 pm

Once a week I leave our 100% Thai compound for a farangization visit to Pattaya. Mam doesn’t begrudge my re-union with the West. She has me the rest of the time. This week I took the 1pm bus down the coast. Thirty minutes later I was at Maggie May’s. The afternoon drinkers were few. I […]

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Mayor For A Night

June 29, 2012 – 3:08 am

The other day I ate a spicy catfish salad or yam pla muk foo followed by a beer. The combination sat wrong with my stomach and my sleep that night was interrupted by a disturbing dream. Somehow after a drunken night on Walking Street, I had been appointed mayor of Pattaya. I was in the […]

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