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GREATER WEST BANGKOK
OMFBurger: Eat this monster fast enough and this guy will pay you 10,000 baht
An insanely intense food challenge is here to test our biggest appetites. Diners are dared to devour possibly the largest burger in Thai history to win a not-bad-sized cash prize....
Tuk Tuk Asian Streatery: Indian restaurant from Scotland opens in Bangkok with Thai twists
We never imagined that a weekend wander around the far-out reaches of the city, in Ratchaphruek area, would result in us running into an Indian restaurant named after the...
Used condom canal traced to local Bangkok hotel
A Bangkok hotel will be fined for flooding a city canal with used condoms and other toiletries. After photos of Sunday’s mess went from vile to viral, the hotel responsible for...
Love Canal? Flood of used condoms wows Bangkok man
A west Bangkok man stepped out of his canal-side home Sunday to find the waterway choking on all the sex other people are having. Hundreds if not thousands of used condoms clogged...
Bangkok Poutine: A taste of home, community, and local celebrity for the city’s French Canadians
By some estimates, there may be as many as 100 — but French-Canadian expat Sophie Mottet guesses there are just a few dozen of her fellow Quebec natives living in Bangkok....
Postal Boating: Bangkok mailman who delivers letters by canal
Revving up his engine as the monsoon sky begins to open, Nopadol Choihirun steers his weathered boat under a two-lane bridge to keep his pile of envelopes and parcels dry. Dodging...
Uncle Fatty is going home! Chunky monkey to be released after three months in fat camp
Uncle Fatty, the Bangkok macaque famous for his enormous tummy, will soon be released back into the wild after a three-month stay in a government facility having his calories...
Survived by a second: Father, son miraculously uninjured after 18-wheeler fell on car
A father and son made a very lucky escape—they were miraculously uninjured when an 18-wheeler fell from the elevated road above them onto their truck last night. In the pouring...
Bangkok monkey saved from metal arrow shot into skull
A young long-tailed macaque who roamed free in Bangkok’s Bang Khun Thien district will miraculously live after he was shot by a harpoon gun. The weapon’s metal arrow hit...
POPULAR NEIGHBORHOODS
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Silom / Bang Rak
This riverside neighborhood offers far more than meets the eye Decades ago,...
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Phrom Phong
From high-end malls to secondhand bookstores, Phrom Phong is the center of life...
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Nonthaburi
Many music legends have performed at Nonthaburi’s IMPACT arena, the most...
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