Tag Archives: thailand

A Shabbas Goy In Bangkok

August 18, 2019 – 10:32 pm

In 1991 I arrived in Thailand and visited the Rebbi of the Jewelry trade. We exchanged good wishes as I was a respected shabbas goy and he was a learned man connected to my contacts on New York’s 47th Street. “What are you thinking of doing here in Bangkok?” the old man asked with a […]

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Thai Etiquette

May 29, 2019 – 5:54 am

Severak years ago a Swiss man pleaded guilty to defacing several portraits of Thailand’s revered sovereign. Worst the desecration occurred on the king’s 79th birthday. The perpetrator’s defense that he was drunk won no sympathy from the judge, who could sentence the foreigner to 75 years in the Chiang Mai prison. The trial was held […]

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Brown Mixture

May 13, 2019 – 1:19 am

800 kilometers north of SriRacha is the Golden Triangle. Tourists identify this fabled name with the confluence of the Mekong and Ruak Rivers. The term more accurately referred to the opium-growing regions in Burma, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, where once most of the world’s opium was grown by the tribesmen living beyond the law. Back […]

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Lawang Farang

April 1, 2019 – 1:45 am

Andrew Drummond of www.andrew-drummond.com reported on March 8 2011 of the mysterious deaths of two Britons, a young New Zealander and a Thai tourist guide a few days apart. All had been staying at the Downtown Inn in Chiang Mai. All died of heart attack. The local Thai police quickly announced to the media, “We […]

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Patpong Dawn

March 31, 2019 – 4:30 pm

dawn, patpong, thailand Patpong at sunrise. Years ago I went to sleep at dawn. Now I wake up at that hour like a new-born baby. Sleep – the most beautiful experience in life – except drink. – W. C. Fields

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