A dinner date with Nong at the Nana's

Thailand, Pattaya,
15 Jan. 2011.

The Nana Plaza food market is still quiet, slowly preparing for the 02.00 h. Bangkok bar curfew, hordes of starving bar girls with empty bellies and desperate to exchange the latest gossip... if their bar fee hasn't been paid by some fat bellied semi-drunk Farang from Europe though...

The open air beer bars, sheltered from the notorious Bangkok traffic pollution by a semi-circle of man-sized potted plants, their cutomers still trying to make up their Farang minds which lady of the night is worth their 200 to 500 Baht bar fee, sitting at steel tables under thatched and wooden roofs that protect them from rain and sun alike...

I take it all in though it being so familiar after my numerous trip to this sweltering mega metropole, trying hard to ignore Nong's foot, clad in expensive leathery Gucci high-heeled platform shoes, creeping slowly up my tighs underneath our table...she is cleaning the last meat of her barbecued chicken leg with her perfectly white teeth, having already told me she has paid for a small room off Soi 23 where I have no doubt she wants to continue our little evening date...

Per, her Norwegian sugar daddy back at the Shangria-La Hotel, is probably already fast asleep and most likely totally unaware of his Thai Tilac's carnal interests in poor Moi tonight...

My favorite Thai dish, Khao Pat Khong already down my belly, making serious work of my half liter condensed bottle of Leo while Nong is drinks a small bottle of her own favorite, Regency Whiskey with cubes of ice and a diet coke added, a bit of energy drink as well to get her mind set on the upcoming ocassion we have planned at Soi 23...

From somewhere I can hear the rings of a, usually beribboned, bar bell, announcing yet another drunk Farang customer with too much Thai Baht in his wallet, wanting to pay a bar round...

A small Buddha shrine sitting on the branch of a Bodi tree, small plastic cups of Black Cat whiskey. a bottle of soda and tiny bols of boiled rice in front of this holy stone figuerine the evidence of a Isan Hot Momma's religious ansd superstitious convictions...

Only my second night in the Kingdom but already being in full swing!!!