Well. We made it through a week - almost. Business is not bad considering we are opening up in the dead of what some people are calling the worst low season so far. Read Stick for more proof of that and also a very nice mention of the Big Mango. We have seen a lot of our regulars back, some new faces and a few girls. The freelancer thing will take time but we have handed out a lot of cards and have explained to a lot of guys the program. Some guys have brought some girls by and yes - we have a few uni girls making the rounds. The hope is to get the basic biz back, layer on the food and then keep evangelizing the model. I think we will be okay but you can always swing by and buy a beer to check in on us.
We are opening every day at 10am with happy hour going from open until 8:00pm. The draft beer is always 89baht for Tiger and 99baht for Heineken. Draft beer sales have been pretty decent. The kitchen is in progress - we know getting the food back is a huge deal.
In the meantime - we have been ordering some Pizzas from one of our friends with a pizza delivery service.
http://www.pizzadeliverybangkok.com/
Other people can attest to the pizzas since they were in the bar at the time when we tried 3 different pies but these pizzas were pretty damn good. I had a slice of one of the white pizzas and was loving it. Give it a whirl. The owner’s name is Chris.
First Pattaya column from Ghost yesterday and I thought it was some good info.
Yet another ranking list for Thailand blogs. Get in there. Seems to me these are just blatant no content sites for attracting advertisers who don’t know better.
Okay. Back to the NBA finals.
You have set a new low for buzzwords.
“Evangelizing the model”????? WTF?
You have re-written the “Bingo Buzzword Game”.
OTOH, you guys ARE doing it the right way. Best of luck and I look forward to seeing you in the not-to-distant future.
CHEERS! (I’m raising a Dewars toward BKK as I type this.)
View all comments by The Asian Badger
ab - a new low? Ouch.
Well - I used to be a tech evangelist. Nothing to do with church here. So basically it means to spread the word. THe model is the FL thing.
Is it that out there?
Come on over. Dewars - what the hell is that?
View all comments by smitty
How about a live webcam at the Big Mango!?
View all comments by bkkpartyboy
bkk - pretty simply put. wives, gfs and bosses can use a webcam as easy as anybody else.
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Got an opening date for the kitchen yet? Looking forward to a decent hamburger.
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Oh come on Smitty, Dewars the whisky.
BTW, Celtics/Lakers. Phenomenal game tonight.
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bkkpb - Oh yes and a facebook profile so that we can upload the vids and put our real names on the faces!
smitty - do you have wifi at the big mango? If you do, how much do you charge for it?
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Unrelated. But, interesting to see a Thailand/women-related article making it to the mainstream US media. Even more interesting are the comments. Any cross-posters here?
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/06/1120883.aspx
View all comments by Julian
What the Hell, first ye dinna ken Captain Morgans Spicey Label and now Dewars, one of the finest fae Scotland?
We’ll get yer bar stocked yet laddie.
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Yeah, the Lakers-Celtics game tonight was great. It makes me go warm all over in particular to see the Lakers lose such a heartbreaker. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of guys…..
View all comments by Old Asia Hand
You mean there’s another pizza place other than “Pizza Company”?
Who knew?
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The white pizza was amazing and the crust for all the pizza was top notch. Chris from Big Pizza http://www.pizzadeliverybangkok.com/ said he could have shot a documentary on the past two years and getting the crust right. Glad to have an alternative to the limited pizza delivery offerings here in bkk. Pizza Company is pretty good JD and their delivery service is the fastest but this is the best delivery pizza I’ve tasted in bkk. Still need to try Pizzanotti’s.
As for the bar stock, we obviously can’t stock everything but if somebody requests it we will keep a bottle on hand. We’ve always had Capt. Morgan’s regular black label but don’t stock the spicy label. Dewars we don’t stock either just because we haven’t been asked about it. Give a head’s up your coming and we’ll stock the booze you like.
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mart - wifi on both floors free.
3 computers on the second floor - free.
Think of it as an internet cafe but free. And a bar - soon with food.
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On the kitchen - hopefully a week or so. But we hate to make a date and have an issue so we will announce it when we know for sure.
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smitty - This was more a joke than an inquiry. But a good opportunity for you to recap the facts…
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smitty - Bang on the money with the web cam thing, don’t want any of that stuff going on.
View all comments by Spyker
Can’t be there, but here’s a virtual toast to your first week lads..
View all comments by Milo
I confirm that “Evangelizing” is an IT thing. It basically means: “to convince people that something they never need nor ask for will change their life forever, and that they have to deal with it”.
It is usually done by tech or marketing gurus, which makes it a bit religious though
View all comments by Suk Psycho
Congrats on week #1, guys. I hadn’t read Stick in eons. Loved this line.
“I got a new job. They just offered me a load more cash. Not a lot of difference between stockbrokers and Nana bargirls…we go with the highest offer!”
I went to college in New Haven, CT, the home of what I still think is the finest pizza on planet earth, so I tend to avoid it when traveling, but it sounds like he’s doing things right. Just having white pies is a great start.
View all comments by tosh
I can no longer hold it in……
what’s a white pie?
View all comments by doctorbond
No tomato sauce. Your hardcore east coast Italian pizza place will expect you to order everything, even cheese. So what you might think of as a pepperoni pizza will be ordered as ‘red pie with mozz and pepperoni.
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Thanks Tosh - I’ll put it on my ‘try list’
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I always thought a white pie was when you spluff your muck in a girl’s lovepocket before she squirts out the load onto the bed sheets.
Maybe that’s why I’m banned from all the pizza parlours in New and Olde England.
‘Bitch, I’ll show you a white pie alright…’
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dr007: what else is on your try list? Does it look something like:
- Pizza Bianco
- Ball Massage
- Ramk University Library
- Sleazy shortime hotel across from new mango
- ???
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@ pmmp - ha ha
I think I discounted myself from the Uni visit - everything else is fair game… including of course spending wads of cash in my new favourite bar…. maybe even ringing the bell (at 10.01 a.m naturally)
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@PMMP-was about to rip you about Italy losing, then realised we aren’t even there! What is the shortime hotel like across the road. Is it listed on Durianseed?
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suk - I swear they needed the stuff I was selling. That is as long as they never heard of open source.
milo - that;s disgusting.
bond - a bunch of people keep ringing the bell in the morning. It could be that I put in the doorway and they don’t see it when they smack there head on it but at that hour they are only buying a drink for me and seem not to complain to much.
living the dream.
auk - no sleaze on DS. grow up
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auk: Three words: “World Cup 2006″. As for the ST hotel across the way, I wouldn’t know of course since I only do respectable relationships.
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Sorry Smitty - i meant cream pie
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Sorry Smitty, only messin’ about! Pmmp, I know!
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pmmp - I forgot about that one. I remember EURO 2004 quite well though…
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Auk - That short-time hotel nearly opposite the BM is like a David Lynch nightmare. I paid at the desk once, went up to the room, turned on my heel, walked out without asking for my money back, fighting my dinner back into my stomach. I felt soiled for weeks. It makes the short-time rooms in the NEP look like the Marriott (sp?). BBB told me he wouldn’t even take a hooker there, that’s how bad the place is. Words fail me. Check it out!
(YP lives there, by the way - I only know this because BBB told me)
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@Pants Elk - well noted. Maybe the boys will take it over one day, then they could build a bridge from Mango to the Hotel. Something like the Bridge of Sighs in Venice perhaps?
YP lives everywhere by the sounds of it! DW told me so.
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Stopped by the new Mango on Wednesday. Enjoyed the ice cold beer, free wifi and the sound system was set just right.
Things are shaping up guys!
Just waiting for the kitchen and the new Mango menu.
P.S. Get the contractor on that leak in the bathroom, or at least have a boat and fishing tackle available for the trip to the stall (will the lake be stocked in time for the kitchen opening so you can fry what you catch?).
View all comments by VegaS
Where is the new BM located…………..I fancy the sound of the David Lynch ST room
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s - rtfm
http://www.bigmangobar.com/map.html
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Oh behind Jools………….I must a missed it last time …in May..Good Luck………..Whatever happened to that small girl with the Christian Tatoos?
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