Venturing out on Monday night - the night before Halloween - you wouldn’t have thought I’d have come across quite so many witches, skeletons, vampires and werewolves. “But Halloween is tomorrow, isn’t it?”, I asked the girls at Rainbow 2, Mercury and Carousel bars in turn, before giving up and just accepting it. This is Thailand, after all.
Whilst high “spirits” were in the air at Nana Plaza, this was nothing compared to the buzz of being on the judging panel for the fancy dress competition at Soi Cowboy’s Rawhide bar.
Rawhide is something of a success story of late - many of the Long Gun’s hotter girls have been moved here, in order to try and move some of the overcrowded customers out of Long Gun and into the relatively empty Rawhide (owned by the same management). Thus far, it’s working slowly - Rawhide was fuller than I’ve seen it in a while, but still nowhere near as full as Long Gun.
Anyhow, as well as being home to what must be the most perfect pair of breasts in the whole of Thailand, Rawhide was also home to a fancy dress competition last night. Some of the girls had used their not inconsiderable skills to craft their own “scary or sexy” (or both) outfits, and paraded their efforts for us on the stage. Very nice indeed, and the winner fully deserved her prize of B10,000.
As the evening drew to an end, a couple of the girls whispered to me that they would be off to the Penny Black bar after the bar closed, should I wish to meet them there. I’m no stranger to dodging a bar fine, and this sounded a good plan.
After a couple of games of pool in the Penny Black though (I lost, badly), when I invited the cuter of the two girls (they claimed to be sisters - don’t they all?) home with me, she smiled and told me she’d love to come.
“Ok, we go! You pay bar now!”
“Huh? Your bar closed already - we left!”
“No, you pay this bar. Pay Penny Black. Five hundred baht.”
So it seems that Rawhide, Long Gun and Penny Black are owned by the same folks. And that if you want to remove the staff of the former bars from the latter, even after hours, you’ll have to come up with a barfine.
I preferred to head down Sukhumvit’s Miracle Mile, Cheap Charlie that I am, where I met an exquisite young thing - formerly of my favourite bar at Nana Plaza, the now-defunct Pretty Lady. Which my sources inform me will be re-opening on November 5. See you there!
Update: My sources were wrong. Pretty Lady remains closed, but I’ll be keeping an eye on it.
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