I took a cab down to Soi Cowboy last night; it’s a little quieter than Patpong, kinda more laid back. Spent a few hours wandering around a few bars and found one with an excellent live band. I even remembered to take a picture or two so here is Soi Cowboy in all its neon glory.

Wandered back to the hotel about 1am and started chatting to a few people in the bar, then we all decided to go and find somewhere else to drink as the hotel bar was about to close. Luckily somebody had told me about the car park the previous day. Now the car park is a strange place, it is exactly what it says on the tin, a car park. But some enterprising person has set up a bar in it, they have all these tables and chairs and a mobile kitchen.

I decided I was hungry and asked for a menu, it had the name of the dish in Thai and then in English underneath. That’s pretty useful when it says things like ‘shrimp in bean sauce’ but there was one dish that in English just said ‘Snake head fist’. I’m thinking what the fuck is snake head fist? So I just had to try it. I have no idea what it was, tasted ok though, definitely one to chalk up as ‘mystery meat’.

People ended up having far too much to drink and some Australian guy decides he wants to teach everyone (including a bunch of Thai folks) something he calls the sailor dance, I have included a few images of this strange phenomenon, I sincerely wish I never have to witness it again!

I finally rolled into bed at about 7am, another night in Bangkok over, just 2 left now, on Monday night I have to catch the sleeper train down to the ferry.