{"id":1116,"date":"2012-01-30T04:27:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T04:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2012-01-28T04:46:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T04:46:05","slug":"the-no-bar-needed-bar-girl-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/the-no-bar-needed-bar-girl-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The No-Bar-Needed Bar Girl, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day, I was walking to a food stall near the front of Hua Lamphong (hua5 lum1 pong1, <strong>\u0e2b\u0e31\u0e27\u0e25\u0e33\u0e42\u0e1e\u0e07<\/strong>) with a friend. Near the station we passed by a bunch of people having a picnic. It\u2019s around 8pm at night, and dozens of Thais are having a picnic (bpig2 nig4, <strong>\u0e1b\u0e34\u0e01\u0e19\u0e34\u0e01<\/strong>) literally on the side of a big road on a common footpath area. Yea . . . Well ok, a little strange, but I just kept walking and ignored it. Hey, it\u2019s Thailand, weirdness is normal for me here!<\/p>\n<p>Later, my friend explained to me what I just saw. It was prostitution, she said. Seriously, it looked like a picnic to me . . . What does a picnic have to do with any of this? I had to investigate, so I went to have a closer look.<\/p>\n<p>The Thai girls were dressed like normal, nothing \u2018skanky\u2019 or revealing, and they were just chatting with Thai guys while eating food and drink. They were all sitting on straw mats, and there was a basket which had food inside on each mat. Nothing looked even remotely inappropriate. Seriously, it looked like a friendly picnic!<\/p>\n<p>My friend explained that it was the girls\u2019 job to charm the guy through conversation. If she was successful, they\u2019d then go somewhere else to \u2018dtee1 maw3\u2019 <strong>\u0e15\u0e35\u0e2b\u0e21\u0e49\u0e2d<\/strong> (slang; best translated as \u2018hittin it\u2019). If not, she still makes money from selling the food (sell food, <strong>\u0e02\u0e32\u0e22\u0e2d\u0e32\u0e2b\u0e32\u0e23<\/strong>, kaai5 aa1haan5). I was told these girls don\u2019t make much for what they do because their customer base, blue collar Thai men, don\u2019t have much money to spend.<\/p>\n<p>But not all work for Thai men; there are some that do the same for farang (western men) as well. I\u2019m sure many of you have been to, if not at least heard about, the infamous red-light street called Soi Cowboy (<strong>\u0e0b\u0e2d\u0e22\u0e04\u0e32\u0e27\u0e1a\u0e2d\u0e22<\/strong>). If you haven\u2019t, do a google image or youtube search for it (in English). This street has your stereotypical girls and bar girls, and needs no further explaining. But what you probably never paid attention to were the small tallish tables outside of Soi Cowboy where the normal looking people were just sitting down and chatting\/drinking. There aren\u2019t many tables, maybe 10 at most, and these tables only appear at night. Guess what was being sold at these tables . . . it\u2019s not just drinks!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em><strong>to be continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following views and descriptions should not be conferred as the views held by Transparant Thai, and in no such manner is this article meant to demean women or Thailand. 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