Thanks to everyone who made the July 4th grand opening a special one. Many bloggers made an appearance and of course caused the most problems. BBB and the swedes almost got into it. We almost had to take psi to the hospital. Big Baby Kenny was taking notes for his future post “BBK’s Guide to mingling with other bloggers at Big Mango Bar Parties”. Smitty slacked off early with a hottie to prevent Heckler and others from getting there first. Young Penfold was actually well-behaved which was a major disappointment. Daywalker didn’t grab man ass which was also a disappointment. DJ over did it again with the Wild Turkey. Aussie Jamie and Jonas were walking zombies. One of the Hawaii boys puked after taking his first ever shot of Sambuca. Great stuff!
Pics are available at http://www.bigmangobar.com/pics.html. Thank you to Hawaii Norman for many of the pics.
We will be doing a special theme party every first Friday of every month. The next one on Friday, August 1st will be a Freelancer Orientation Party. More details to come…
-pmmp
Looks great, congrats.
View all comments by R9
Please put names to the faces.
View all comments by Mr Shagwell
But only for the female faces, please. Most of the male faces are so frigging ugly that letting them remain anonymous seems the only decent thing to do.
View all comments by Old Asia Hand
for my take, the safety of others and for various other reasons - I don’t think we will put any names to them. bkk is a funky town. being somewhat anonymous is key.
sorry folks.
good party indeed
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Shagwell
If you want names for some of these faces go to the FBI Most Wanted List
View all comments by docsmith
I didn’t realise you had a pool table. Guess I didn’t venture too far into the bar!
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I can’t see the pics when I click on the link above - am I doing something wrong?! Last photos I can see is “Rising from the ashes” folder.
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Mark: It may be a caching issue with your ISP. Anyway, you can try http://ur.pair.com/mangobar/pics.html to see if that gets by the issue.
As for names with the pics, as Smitty said, no can do. Discretion first.
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Oh man, looks like great fun. Been reading this blog and several others for the past year and enjoying the no-holds-bar style in them. I ended up with my 2 buddies in the bar a week or so ago and was pleasantly accosted by one of your staff - excellent fun.
Hope I can make into Bangkok on the 1st…
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Okay - got it now, thanks. Looks like a fun night. Congratulations on the new bar. Will have to get down there very soon. Great blog by the way.
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Hey, is smoking in bars allowed again now?
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Combover: It’s still not strictly being enforced but most bars are now providing outdoor areas and enforcing it. Depends on the neighborhood. We provide a 2nd floor outdoor balcony area which is still being worked on that allows for smoking and customers have been going outside the front door on the first floor. Not sure if this one is going to stand, could go either way at this point.
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My Pattaya TOT narrow band takes ages to load pics these days so it would have helped if you had grouped all the girlie photos together so I didn’t have to scroll past all those bald geezers?
Bar looks brill and so does the girl in white!!!! Much success for the future.
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Whose idea was the chip butties?
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I’ve just worked out the next page function and got a proper look at the snaps. Looks like a good night…few stunners in there as well..
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Nice party guys, thanks.
I had stupidly told Mrs Jaiyenyen about the party and she insisted on coming along too. I told her she wouldn’t enjoy it but she said that she wanted to go to make sure I didn’t enjoy myself too much.
The 1/4 hamburger that I had was very tasty, I’ll make sure I come back soon for the other 3/4 of it soon.
A BIG thank you to your staff, they worked really hard that night, and made me and Mrs JYY very welcome.
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ed: Skin is Skin, no? White dress eh? The one with the red belt or you talking about Young Penfold?
milo: Chip Butties were passionately requested at the Duke Pub months ago by some old Mango customers who visited every so often so we put them on the menu there and then added them here. Tried to keep them to 60 baht but the HP Sauce/Ketchup makes up most of the cost. Cheaper to get them in England at around one pound but pretty close.
jyy: great to hear, thanks. It was a little sad seeing you strapped in but props for respecting the Mrs
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pmmp: In photo number 52 there’s some nondescript bald guy (one of 3 in the photo) on the left… I’m not worried about him, but there’s a girl immediately next to him… sort of where his left shoulder should be.
I can only see her face but she looks absolutely stunning in this pic. Do you know who she is? Is she somebody’s girlfriend, a stray freelancer… or possibly the next ex-Mrs. Werewolf? If I pay in advance can she be on-hand to entertain me on my initial visit to the resurrected Big Mango this weekend?
Gotta run. Off to the shower for a quick wank. Thanks for the pics.
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ww: That is Mint. She is a new Bartender here. Unless you’re referring to the blond guy in the back row. Sorry, he is no longer in Thailand but I can get you his Facebook account name.
BBB informed us of your return. We will keep the stairs warm for ya.
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pmmp: Mint is a goddess. Please tell her that I’m am totally captivated.
I’d propose to her on the basis of the photos alone, however I am willing to stipulate that I am an unlikely prospect for a successful marriage, and in anticipation of an eventual divorce, I am happy to pay Mint her property settlement in advance in installments if she is willing to perform her wifely duties on the same basis. We can avoid the messy issue of actual marriage and divorce — she can simply have sex with me a couple of times per week, each time she does I will make an installment payment on the stipulated property settlement.
In any event, I understand people pop mints in their mouth to freshen their breath. Please let your special Mint know that I keen to have the freshest breath in the Big Mango Bar.
If she’s not working when I get there I’m burning the bar down!
There’s only one word to wrap up my feelings concisely: “Wow!”
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PS. The blonde guy looks like Penfold sneaked up behind him just as the cameraman took the photo…
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ww: I know you’ve been away a bit and pics can rouse you up at this point but do the in-person thing and take it from there.
hh: removed both of our comments. Both of us a little out of line with too much name calling. Peace.
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Gentlemen, had a Great time opening night at the Mango. Been lurking in this sight for about the last year or so and like the presentation. Smitty, I was the good-lookin Black guy (well the only Black guy), with the party of 6 in back bending your ear about the states. Apologies for my bud who insisted the internet not strong enough to support the Mango. Guess he couldn’t see the internet brought him and 5 others in our party there! He’s an Econ Prof born in the UK. Sphincter won’t get any tighter than that. The Mango will be on my to-do list whenever me and my Buds come to town. Which is often. Good luck to the BIG M
View all comments by ShufflynBy
Noticed that there is a white rastafarian dude in some of the photo’s. Is there like a Khao Sahn Road thing going on?
View all comments by AUK
Just bitching cos I wasn’t there. Sorry mate.
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Some of the gals are quite busty. Still waiting for the facebook-like feature and hoping for some specs as well
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doc smith - yeah. i dont think so.
msb - 3 tables all in
ed - thanks. hope u can make it up sometime
s - u da man. it was good talking to u. I guess he is blind and did not see we were rammed and stayed open until 3 because people were still here? I suggest the prof get some glasses. how could a proper econ prof still not get the net? feel bad for his students. hope to see u around again. was good chatting with u.
auk - ouch. i shower regularly punk.
julian - there were some lookers there that night. dont we will be getting to FB functions anytime soon unless u can show me the path to the money. sorry bud. party was good though.
ww - would it help u to know that I used to drink with mint regularly? then I would run across the street and have drinks with her identical twin. ahh good fun. just could never get them to drink with me at the same time. I will inform(warn) her u are coming.
View all comments by smitty
Well, full fledged Facebook would be overkill. But a gallery with what’s available would perhaps help the potential customers? Eg by looking at the photos I cannot tell who’s what. But if I fall in love with a face (or any other part of her anatomy), it would help if I knew she was open to naughtiness (vs just being a clock punching employee). Now, I can probably navigate this conundrum, but it might help the newbies?
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It was a nice opening night. The heavy downpour didn’t kill the evening and I saw quite a few drenched customers coming in later.
You guys did a good job keeping the food coming out.
Question: what exactly is in the mango nipple? I had asked before but the only answer I got from Smitty was “alcohol”
-Mike
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my cunt - it has some vodka in it. not sure the other ingredient and then topped off with mango juice.
I think pmmp invented it one night by accident.
j - as the freelancer play starts to work we will possibly attempt some technical solutions to making it better. have to work on some of the other stuff first.
any geeks out there wanting to put in some time coding this stuff are more than welcome. we can pay with the occasional draft beer.
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Mike: The Mango Nipple is a Vodka, Lime, Sugar and Mango shot. A take off of the Fuzzy Nipple drink. There is no special procedure for drinking it involving the nipple but sometimes it leads that way.
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Yeah it was a nice night with a good vibe! had some personal TGF (yes pmmp, the smily one) issues but nothing to do with your place ^^’
About the mango stuff, your burger is really great (what do you mix in the meat?), and the shots were goods too (i was surprised because i usually don’t like sweet stuff, but the mix is right), thanks pmmp! Is it what you call the mango nipples?
Anyway, thanks for the party!
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Louk: Thanks for the kind words. The burger recipe is a secret. I could tell you but then I would have to add cyanide to your next burger to keep the secret safe. Come to think of it, it might give it a nice bitter almond taste. Hmmm…
As for the shot, yes, that is the Mango Nipple. Glad you enjoyed it.
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The Mango Nipple was very good. Like Louk, I don’t like sweet drinks but the Nipple ‘Hit the spot’ as they say.I was lucky enough to be served mine by the looker with the big mangoes, I got the impression she was with you Smitty, lucky man. Her mate was very pleasing to eye also.
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Overheard at party
TG1: Why are there so many men with no hair?
TG2: Because they shave it off?
TGI: Why do they do that?
TG2: They cant afford shampoo.
View all comments by Wayne Loony
Why would a man need hair in Thailand? It’s not like you need it to get laid or anything, and its hot. May as well get rid of it.
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Milo /WL / J
If you look at pic 40 of the opening night, you’ll see a rather dashingly handsome man with a bald head with an rather luuurvly looking girl..
I do believe she prefered the ‘clean’ look to the ‘dread’ look, but Dread man has the most money
View all comments by Day Walker
That girl is fit.
Is the dashingly handsome bald man trying to line up a Thai sandwich with James Gandolfini in picture no.43?
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Who is the girl in Pic 27? She seems to be behind the bar in another pic?
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auk: so coy, you devil. The lovely Oh was lovely as usual.
milo: “Why would a man need hair in Thailand? It’s not like you need it to get laid or anything, and its hot. May as well get rid of it.” - Spot on. It’s the guy’s with hair that will never understand this and keep thinking they have an advantage with their hair that they had in “The World”.
Well, in the p4p world hair doesn’t make the slightest bit of difference. The marketing machine that brainwashes us all on how people are supposed to look, and the people that buy into it, can suck eggs. All the nights in The World where baldies were shot down and instead concentrated on working and their careers to save money have finally paid off. It’s Revenge of the Baldies. As it should be. All the guys who think they are special because they have more hair, something they had nothing to do with, have nothing. Ha!
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I am bald, well shave my head. The only reason being that if I grow it, it looks like Dickie Davis’s!
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@PMMP - 2:30, The bar is still open?
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AUK… as if you don’t know
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@ DW - Is the Penthouse suite ready yet? Not too long before a trip out. Need a full Jacuzzi to ease me in.
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Penthouse suite not ready yet. Have to give it a few months. I flew in for 2 days for the party and didn’t get a chance to get an update!
YP has spied some Jacuzzi’s though….
Can’t rush these things!!
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@DW - Can you suggest somewhere else? You in the desert again?
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oh no, not another dw and auk comment-fest. Get a room guys will ya.
AUK, bar is closed. I just got back from a trip to the Resort G-Club. Excellent time. I’m sure smitty will write it up but just to torture you guys, there were so many hotties. Model quality, dozens of them. Met a girl named Nay. Extremely friendly. Digits exchanged. How you guys doing? :p
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Wet and wild in the UK. Not much doin here. Been to Borneo last week!
Cannot do a write up on the Girl scene as it was absent, barring a hottie singing in a band at the Cock & Bull bar in Kota Kinabalu. And Singapore very expensive, and did not get to Orchard Towers, as wifey was with me! Off to do my Wednesday night Pub Quiz soon. So rock and roll!
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Thanks for puting me straight DW. You’re right, she is luuuurvely.
However, I think dashingly handsome is pushing it a bit.
View all comments by Jaiyenyen
So I look up “Chip Buttie” since I never heard of it before and see it’s a potentially great hangover breakfast.
BTW, you guys at the Big Mango should know that sort of a new “food trend” at non-chain burger joints is burger with the meat and fries between the bun. For a little extra, you can add a fried egg.
Oh man, are they good.
Sorry I missed the party.
View all comments by The Asian Badger
no g club write ups. I am done with them - the writes up that is.
i need a playstation 3 in case anyone cares.
View all comments by smitty
I need a girl.
Maybe we could strike a deal of some sort?
View all comments by Day Walker
I need a ladyboy
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Ah… but I have a PS3 that I can trade with Smitty.
What can you bring to this little trade party?
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Ahh… but hang on….. is it a Fairtrade Girl? Has she been reared in humane conditions and has the farmer been paid a fair price for her enabling him to put something back into the community?
We all need to do our bit chaps!
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Doc… if this were the Big Brother household, you’d be the 1st person to be voted out.
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@Smitty - I have an XBOX 360 Elite if that is any use? Call of Duty 4, Fifa 08, sorry, Soccer 08, etc etc.
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The bald headed hooligan lookalike must be DW.
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Ouch…..
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@ DW - Ha! the tables have turned hooligan - maybe the housemates will want you out first !
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Lets all pick on DW shall we?
Blimey… now I know how YP feels.
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“Well, in the p4p world hair doesn’t make the slightest bit of difference”
Unless its on your back
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