Kho- San Road

Our First Group Dinner

I would be lying if I said I never knew this road existed. Actually, I found it on my first day in bangkok and practically every night after, it became our group's favorite hang out spot. It's called the backpackers road. It's also tourist central where you can find the best food, bars, nightlife, shopping and best of all “Thai massages”.

Every city has a distinct noise. In Delhi, its the never ending parade of honks from one end to another. In Khosan Road, its the women of the northern tribes of Thailand who attempt to sell you musical turtles. Basically you take a wooden piece and rub it in either directions and it makes a “trrrrrr” sound. Every night after 6pm, this noise takes over the street and blends into the reggaeton music, R and B and house coming from various areas of the street.

Kho san, is also where we quickly realized that we became the regulars. The tuk tuk drivers knew that we stayed at the royal princess. They even knew that we did not want to go to a “ping pong show” and we were NOT interested in women. ( I think we girls had confused them by holding hands one too many times)

This is also where I began to once again be called “Shilpa Shetty” from the Big Brother London fame. Maybe I should just nod my head and agree instead of cringing. The street has the best street food ever. From freshly cut fruit, to chicken skewers, sweet corn and most disgusting of all, any kind of insect you want to eat will be given to you. I say NASTY



The Fab Five

But, the lure of kho-san road was threefold. For us women, we wanted to hang out with all the cute foreign men. Quickly our favorites became the Aussies and the Brits. Hey, they were friendly and apparently, Indians are hot commodity. (I have no complaints, there is a GOD) Secondly, you could drink by the bucket for 200 baht and most importantly, drum roll please- BANANA pancakes and Mango Sticky rice...YUM YUM

Oh Jack Johnson you need to go to Kho-san road because every day is the weekend and you don't need to pretend! Banana pancakes covered in nutella or you can have them with carnation milk..so deadly good.

If you are ever stressed out or just feel like pampering yourself, for about a 100 baht, you can be stepped on, raised, have a deep tissue massage, have your body twisted and come out feeling like jelly. Hmm, life is good!

Random story: Trying to get back to the hotel, I was asked by a tuk tuk driver if I liked women. He then proceeded to show me pictures of naked women because I had been holding on to my friend Joanna's arm. Never one to be shy, I proceeded to find two cute boys and began pointing at them, telling the driver “ I no like women, I like MEN, see see, MEN”.

Most commonly asked questions on Kho- san road:

“ You like Ping Pong show”, Ping- Pong. If you don't know what that is please email me.
“You want Spicy club?”
“ Are you Indian, you buy sari, give you good price”
“ Oye, you look like Shilpa Shetty”