Chapter 38: Yaowarat Road
In the evening, Kaohsiung drove me to the north side of Yaowarat Road, the traffic was very congested, he had to park the car somewhere, and the two of them walked for 20 minutes to arrive. Chinatown is very lively, basically Chinese, and most of the shops are also opened by Chinese. As soon as I walked by, I saw that the shops on the street not only sold Chinese medicine pills and Moutai liquor from Beijing Tong Ren Tang, but also Wang Zhi and stinky tofu. I couldn't help but point to the rows of eye-catching stinky tofu on the shelves of a certain store, and said to Kaohsiung: "Boss Gao, I came to Bangkok to appreciate the Thai style, not the Beijing style." ”
"That's a lot of nonsense!" Kaohsiung glared at me, "Did you let you eat stinky tofu?" I laughed and walked behind his ass for a few minutes, and came to a three-story Chinese restaurant with "XXX Tang Ren Seafood Restaurant" written on it, and went up to the second floor, there were a lot of people, whether it was diners or waiters, it didn't sound like Cantonese, but it didn't sound like the Hokkien spoken by Taiwanese, anyway, I couldn't understand it at all. There are several rows of eating cabinets against the wall, and many people are crowded to clip things.
At the cash register, Kaohsiung had a simple conversation with the boss, and asked me to pay 800 baht to receive the seat card for two people, and find a corner seat to sit down, as if there was only this vacant seat. Picking seafood from Kaohsiung on a tray, he said: "In Bangkok's Chinatown, at least seven out of ten are from Chaozhou, Guangdong. ”
I asked him where he was from, and he looked at me, "Is my Teochew dialect very bad?" and then I realized that he was Teochew, and that strange-sounding word was Teochew. I have to say that this seafood restaurant has a full range of goods, in addition to crabs, tiger prawns and big-headed shrimp (called shrimp crawlers in the Northeast), there are also mussels, beef, salmon, arctic shellfish and all kinds of seafood, all of which are very fresh. I only remember that there were these varieties at that time, and I can't remember more of them, and the methods are also very rich, roasted, fried, and fried, and the dipping sauce is sweet and spicy, but it is very delicious, mainly fresh. 400 baht per person is 80 yuan, and I feel like I've never eaten seafood before, so I asked Kaohsiung to help me pick each of them, and I ate them with a mouthful of oil.
Kaohsiung looked at me while eating: "You haven't eaten for a few days before you came to Thailand?" I vaguely said that I had eaten on the plane, and he gave me a thumbs up like a monster. It's no wonder that I also ate the money leopard in Shenyang, and I still invited the blind date to meet for the first time, 268 yuan per person, which cost me half a month's salary, and I was so distressed that I was going to die, but in the end, the object did not succeed. At that time, I thought it was delicious, but compared to this one, it was basically the difference between instant noodles and pasta.
"If you want to talk about Thailand, the most famous thing is probably not the Buddha card, but the seafood and women!" Kaohsiung didn't eat much, so he started picking his teeth early. I had to put down my chopsticks, and he quickly said that I would leave him alone and eat it. I was embarrassed, but when I saw two large plates of mussels brought by a waiter on the container, I hurriedly picked up the plate as if someone was carrying a thread.
There was a two-and-a-half-hour time limit, but I was already barely able to stand up, and I ended up eating two small servings of ice cream before walking out of the restaurant with Kaohsiung's help. He asked me, "Are you okay, do you want to buy some emetic medicine?" I said what are you kidding, so many delicacies are not digested slowly in the stomach, but they all vomit out, isn't that a neuropathy.
It's getting darker, but it's getting brighter and brighter in Chinatown, and it's very lively, with neon flashes everywhere and shops hustle and bustle. I was immediately in the mood to ask Kaohsiung to take me for a good walk around Chinatown, and by the way, I could also consume food. Kaohsiung seemed reluctant, and I said that in my current situation, I would go to the horse and kill the chicken and press the belly, and I would have to vomit it if I tried a little harder. Kaohsiung laughed, said it made sense, and went back and forth for nearly an hour. It's not that long, four or five miles at most, but this is the first time I've been shopping abroad, and I've had to go in almost every store. There are many gold shops in Chinatown, basically opened by Chinese, and those thick and thin gold necklaces on the counter are like domestic hardware and building materials stores, stacked one by one, bundles and bundles, I deliberately looked at the label, and they were all 24K gold. I secretly think that Thai people are so rich? Treating a pure gold necklace as a copper pendulum is not high-grade.
After walking for half an hour, Kaohsiung was so annoyed that he urged me to leave quickly, and if it was late, those good female technicians were picked up by the guests, and I walked with him for another twenty minutes before driving to this place called Nana Street. Kaohsiung said: "This is one of the major red light districts in Bangkok, Nana Street is for men and women, Patpong is for women and men, Cowboy Lane is for striptease, and Royal Road is for men and men. "I was dizzy when I heard it, and I really wanted to write it down like Buddhist card knowledge, but I was afraid of Kaohsiung's jokes, so I had to hold back.
However, it is said that it is so clearly divided, in fact, this Nana Street also has all kinds of services. I looked through the glass door of a massage parlor and saw a lot of young men in white briefs standing on the stage inside, all of them in good shape, dancing, and the spectators below were mostly women, and those men were bending down as they jumped, touching this hair, pinching that face, and not knowing who was molesting whom.
"Here, I'm more familiar with it. "Kaohsiung took me into a shop with eye-catching display boards at the door of the house, which seemed to be quite formal and antique, and the female boss took us to two private rooms, changed clothes and lay down, I was a little nervous, and it didn't take long for a female technician to come in to serve. The female technician was neatly dressed, like the kind of ancient Southeast Asian clothes shown on TV, rolling dark gold edges. She doesn't speak Chinese and I don't know Thai, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying the massage. An hour passed, and it was very comfortable, but I was also a little disappointed. I thought there would be that kind of exciting "special service", but I didn't. After coming out, I sat in the hall, and the service staff sent fragrant tea and several fruits, and I rested for half an hour before changing my clothes and coming out.
It costs three hundred and fifty baht per person, which is not expensive. On the way back to the apartment, Kaohsiung squinted at me and asked me how I felt, and I said, "This is an authentic Thai massage, right?"
Kaohsiung asked, "That's it?" I looked at him and thought to myself that this guy obviously knew what I was thinking, so I smiled and said that I thought there was a special massage.
"Nana Street is full of those kinds of shops, but I chose the regular ancient massage parlor just now for your own good. You're still young, and many men who come to Thailand for the first time are comfortable with a female technician, and then they almost die on it. Kaohsiung lit a cigar and exhaled green smoke.
According to this logic, I just arrived in Thailand this time and ate such a delicious seafood buffet, so will I have to die in a restaurant sooner or later? In the evening, I found a hotel near my apartment in Kaohsiung, not because he didn't let me stay overnight, but because his house was too messy, and the living room was worse than a garbage dump, and this guy had a strange habit of sleeping in the same bed with women, not men.