Nightmarch 17 September 2003

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Talk about short-lived: The Lolipop ogling den and the two beer boozers that flanked its entrance and constituted the Zebra Plaza in Soi 2 are no more. After being refurbished and kitted out just a few months ago, Lolipop never quite made it to first base and now the whole shooting match has been demolished. No doubt some form of boozatorium will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes. Do Zebra’s ever change their spots?

 

Where’s Wally? According to sources, it appears as though ‘Alan Ladd’, the main man behind the Living Dolls pair of ogling dens (Walking Street), has been junketing around Hong Kong trying to off-load a pocketful of India rupees. What a Thailand chrome pole palace operator from Australia is doing in Hong Kong with a bundle of Indian rupees has led to some interesting rumours, but his absence from the firing line isn’t making Captain Picard’s task any easier, although a new meeter and greeter has signed on at the original version of Living Dolls.

 

Legs Eleven: The 11th Diamond ogling den (Soi Diamond) dance contest takes place on Friday evening 19 September, commencing around 9:30PM. The winner takes home 5,000 baht and another 8,000 baht is distributed in other prizes.

The chrome pole palace will be holding a wet-T-shirt contest the following Friday, 26 September, also timed to spray off at around 9:30PM.

 

Still good value: The management of the Club Electric Blue ogling den (Walking Street) have increased the happy hour price of liver wasters from 10 to 35 baht. It still represents enormous value for the period between 7:30 and 8:30PM, but it’s also amazing how many people moan and groan about the price hike. The only place cheaper is The Dollhouse at 30 baht during happy hour.

 

First In, Best Dressed: The new Simon Centre Drinking Street (opposite Tiffany’s Show on Second Road in north Pattaya) is already partially up and running with the first of a planned 44 beer boozers to hang out a shingle being the Dao Kai.

Regular beer boozer aficionados may be aware of the original and long-running Dao Kai boozer in the cluster of bars near the start of Soi 9 on Second Road. There is also a second version in Soi Skaw Beach (near the Made in Thailand Centre) that also has rooms for rent.

 

Ready to be Revamped: The people involved with the failed Pattaya Fight Night Complex (aka Pattaya Shopping Plaza; Second Road) are making another attempt to bring business into the area by knocking down the walls of the failed shops and, so I’m led to believe, turning the whole shebang into, you guessed it, a collection of beer boozers.

 

Undrinkable: As regular readers may well have worked out by now, I’m not much of an amber fluid guzzler, preferring liver wasters and, I confess, lolly water. However, a couple of acquaintances who do like to pour amber liquid down their throats claim the free ‘first glass of Tony’s beer’ offer by the heavily-patronised Tony’s Entertainment Complex (Walking Street) is actually a liquid masquerading as beer. One unkindly referred to the substance as similar to the emission of the urinary tract. There again, with a marketing ploy offering your first drink free, surely no-one expects to be guzzling on the amber equivalent of Dom Perignon.

That said, the all-you-can-eat buffet at 99 baht represents good value and Tony has been smart enough to offer a 30 baht Thai dish for those foreigners accompanied by local lasses who may be watching their figure or don’t eat foreign food.

 

 

My e-mail address is: nightmarch@hotmail.com

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i think the lighting in tonys may contribute to this misconception,everything looks green.in my experience its the same shitty draught as everywhere else.It is a kip though.