This is a great essay from a New Yorker who grew up in Bangkok on how the city is never what other people think it is.
“I recently watched a Nicholas Cage movie called Bangkok Dangerous and read Bangkok 8 by John Burdett. This is the Bangkok I don’t know, full of brothels, knife fights, and cobras; it’s also the Bangkok that comes up the most everywhere else I go. On learning where I’m from, drunk people at parties will sing a line from, “One night in Bangkok.” All I can do is politely laugh, because I can neither confirm nor deny the song’s factuality. This happens more than a few times a year.”
Read Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s full essay at The Morning News. (Found via @skinnylatte)
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