youngfarang Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 I have never seen it like this. Back when I went to Los in July it was like a ghost town. And then when I went in November-December it was still dead. A few years ago you (I) wanted to be on Suk Rd at 3 AM in the morning. Now it's just another street to piss on when you have had a little too much Black. Please tell me there is light at the end of the tunnel and it will be reprieved again by the time I get back hopefully in March. Ps. I know many of you "expats"/"old farts" don't like Suk. Road because there is a lot of "trash" sitting around. Suk road works just fine for me at 3 AM after a few shots of that nasty shit, yaba I believe it is called, that you can get for 15 baht on cowboy, and a bottle of Black. I dont want to hear how ratchada or soi 33 is oh so much better. I just want to know if it will ever pick up again like the good ol' days. Dissapointing if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 you mean Ya Dong not Ya Ba, right? i took this week a stroll along lower Suk first time for many months; full of middle eastern/indians; also even more construction than ever with noise and dust. many good old venues like Country Road, Ambassador Beer Garden, Beer Bars are gone; food carts replaced more and more by overpriced low quality stuff sold to tourists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Scrutinizer Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 I have never seen it like this. Back when I went to Los in July it was like a ghost town. And then when I went in November-December it was still dead. A few years ago you (I) wanted to be on Suk Rd at 3 AM in the morning. Now it's just another street to piss on when you have had a little too much Black. Please tell me there is light at the end of the tunnel and it will be reprieved again by the time I get back hopefully in March. Ps. I know many of you "expats"/"old farts" don't like Suk. Road because there is a lot of "trash" sitting around. Suk road works just fine for me at 3 AM after a few shots of that nasty shit, yaba I believe it is called, that you can get for 15 baht on cowboy, and a bottle of Black. I dont want to hear how ratchada or soi 33 is oh so much better. I just want to know if it will ever pick up again like the good ol' days. Dissapointing if you ask me. Good old days? Few years ago? You have never seen it like this? WTF? You are what... 18/19 yro bro? What the heck are you talking about? How many is a 'few' years? Three? Five? Are you comparing Suk now to when you were 13 or 14? "A few years ago you (I) wanted to be on Suk Rd at 3 AM in the morning." A few years ago you should have been in bed sleeping so you could get up for school in the morning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 you mean Ya Dong not Ya Ba, right?i took this week a stroll along lower Suk first time for many months; full of middle eastern/indians; also even more construction than ever with noise and dust. many good old venues like Country Road, Ambassador Beer Garden, Beer Bars are gone; food carts replaced more and more by overpriced low quality stuff sold to tourists I used to like the soi 10 area bars and massage parlors. The Ambassador Beer Garden was a great place to eat and get laid. Soi zero, which I only went a few times, is gone along with Soi One. Soi One looked like it might have been able to work, but it didn't. But soi 7/1 was a nothing wasteland and then came along the bar we can't talk about. Now look at it, you can just barely get down thru the street. I used to like watching the ladies who would hang out at the corner of soi 7 all night long. Now, the crowd has changed and not for the better. You got street vendors coming and going but the ones I like are the vendors that sell filled pastry which they bake right on the street using charcoal. That has to be one of the hardest skills to master. There was vendor I used to watch make rice using charcoal for fuel. When Paragon was being built, I found it interesting to watch up to 12 cranes working at the site and then at nite the big tractor truck loads of steel would come roaring down the streets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTO Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 He means Ya Dong - I was the one who bought it for him And Cent - your numbers could be right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 Thought you went home already? WTF? GO now, before you get totally sucked in and end up like Suadam! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustian Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 Or even worse, like OH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 I know of one punter who thought Bangkok was situated between Suk 5 and 7. He has been coming to Thailand for years, but never ventured out of his comfort zone. I took him to a few places outside of his zone and he was amazed at what is available. Maybe we got to start thinking outside of the box about lower Suk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 ... then write up these "outside the box" places in the Nightlife section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USVirgin Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 I can only go back ten years, but I can't remember any good ol' days on the Sukhumvit sidewalks. Any kind of vendor, even those who sell alcohol, I pretty much consider a nuisance. If I'm staggering around there at 3AM without a girl after a night of bar crawling without finding one, then I'd better stop looking because I'm not going to like what I wake up next to in the morning. Having said that, the skank I woke up with on the one occasion I pulled from there was more like an angel, because she rescued me from passing out in one of those plastic chairs on the sidewalk. Her pick-up line was, "Are you OK?" Much better sleeping with her in my own bed than whatever else might have happened to me being passed out on Suk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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