Bangkok restaurant refusal to serve foreigners goes viral – VIDEO

By The Thaiger

 

 

The Fullmoon Terrace and Bar, in Lat Phrao in the north east suburbs of Bangkok, is refusing to serve foreigners. It’s not a good look, especially when there have been no locally-transmitted cases of Covid-19 for over 2 months and the man was wearing a mask and being quite pleasant about the whole matter. The Thaiger wouldn’t have been as polite.

 

Yan Marchal posted his video with full commentary about his visit to the restaurant. 2 staff came to him, almost as soon as he sat down, and said they were unable to serve foreigners. There was no argument, beyond asking to speak to the manager but Yan was informed the manager was not available.

 

The video, which has been a popular post of The Thaiger’s Facebook page today, has had mostly negative comments about the restaurant’s refusal to serve foreigners. There has also been quite a few other cases, some of them posted in the comments section, where more examples have exposed a small rise in cases of commercial xenophobia.

 

Thailand has had no locally transmitted cases of Covid-19 for more than 2 months. The refusal of service to foreigners smacks of unnecessary discrimination, mostly hurting their own businesses at a time many other restaurants are glad for any customers at all, especially in the outer suburbs of Bangkok. The Fullmoon Terrace and Bar was almost empty at the time.

 

There are no laws within the Kingdom of Thailand which specifically outlaws racial discrimination inclusive of racist cliches and the restaurant has not broken the law.

 

The Thaiger has sent a message to the management of the Fullmoon Terrace and Bar asking for some more details and rationale about their policy. There has been no reply at this stage. The video has already been widely shared around Facebook.

 

Full Story: https://thethaiger.com/news/bangkok/bangkok-restaurant-refusal-to-serve-foreigners-goes-viral-video

 

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We will all have to go for a beer in the nearest Swimming pool then 

It has to be the hat!

Could be that it is a Student bar and they had problems with retired Westerners going to the bar just to look at the students and drink one beer all night long ?

Well, It's there loss in these challenging times. If their business goes bust then they will only have themselves to blame.

Hasn’t this been covered enough here already?????

 

 

 

27 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

There are no laws within the Kingdom of Thailand which specifically outlaws racial discrimination inclusive of racist cliches and the restaurant has not broken the law.

for all those who think the restaurant broke any discrimination law ...   

 

 

25 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

We will all have to go for a beer in the nearest Swimming pool then 

Nice recovery...  How many beers?, will be you be looking after any Children?, and, are you really sure you won’t loose self control? 

6 minutes ago, Yinn said:

it's NOT xenophobia. Is because COVID. Sure. 

It's clearly xenophobia stop making excuses for it and as the country that was the first place outside China to get covid it's pretty pathetic to hear you drone on about how it's the white mans fault when Thailand let people come and go freely when they knew they had covid before any other country.

18 minutes ago, Yinn said:

Thai news, many country have terrible covid problems. Thousands die, close the schools, close the restaurants, factory etc. now.

People fight about mask, refuse the app, have covid parties etc.

Deny. Not care. Selfish = increase covid problem

What that kind is nothing to do whit Thailand? Farang's in Thailand do more than thai about social distancing and use mask!

And like already said how can be infected farang in Thailand if already have been here over 4 month! If so have to get that from Thai person!

Edited July 28, 20205 yr by 2 is 1

One of a few restaurants in Thailand that doesn´t need more customers when most restaurants suffer because they have not enough customers.

7 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

All the borders are closed, so, no infected foreigners are allowed into Thailand .

You dont have to be scared of us  

That concept is way too complicated.

 

Farang no good. Farang refuse mask. Now that's simple enough for Yinn. If she's not sure she can ask Anutin. Him good. Him rich man. Thai. good.

1 minute ago, OneMoreFarang said:

When people want to come in the restaurant and they don't wear a mask that is not a good sign. And that is easy to spot.

How do they manage to eat and drink whilst wearing a mask ?

56 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

Could be that it is a Student bar and they had problems with retired Westerners going to the bar just to look at the students and drink one beer all night long ?

This is in back area of a supermarket shopping center and not near any schools or near any Westerners or main road.

Edited July 28, 20205 yr by lopburi3

12 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Presumably you'd be fine with white owned restaurants in farangland having a "no blacks" policy?

 

Plenty of other places they can go, right?

 

I'm sure you'd be happy to tell these blacks to just go somewhere else and stop complaining. Remind them that hundreds of places still let the blacks in, it's not that difficult for them. 

Is what you write reality or just theory?

There will always be places where "others" are not welcome. Maybe i.e. a bouncer won't let them in. Or the "others" will soon realize that they are unwelcome inside.

We won't be able to eliminate that kind of behavior.

But we all have lots of choices. We go to the places which we like and avoid the places which we don't like.

 

Let's assume there is a restaurant which does not like me as their guest. And then let's assume they are forced to let me in. Would I would want to go to such a place? Sure not!

5 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

7 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

When people want to come in the restaurant and they don't wear a mask that is not a good sign. And that is easy to spot.

How do they manage to eat and drink whilst wearing a mask ?

This is why I wrote: "When people want to come in the restaurant". That's is before they take a seat and before they order and before they drink and eat.

9 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

11 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

When people want to come in the restaurant and they don't wear a mask that is not a good sign. And that is easy to spot.

How do they manage to eat and drink whilst wearing a mask ?

Really ??????  being a little pedantic no? 

 

The mask comes off and goes in the bin while sitting at the table & is replaced by a fresh mask before leaving and walking past other tables. 

Edited July 28, 20205 yr by richard_smith237

Isn't Yan Marchal the French guy who criticized the Thai government with a song a while back?

 

He's lucky the government hasn't sent him back yet.

Edited July 28, 20205 yr by EricTh

59 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

Could be that it is a Student bar and they had problems with retired Westerners going to the bar just to look at the students and drink one beer all night long ?

I've been 4 or 5 times and yes there are plenty of students there on the weekend, but I've never seen any other white people there before. This is more of a locals hangout and I only found out about it through a Thai friend.

 

It's actually a really good bar complex with a lake/pond in the middle, this no foreigners rule must have been introduced after I left Thailand, I departed 25th March.

 

It's things like this that will put people off coming to Thailand and that is if foreigners are ever let back in again.

1 minute ago, richard_smith237 said:

Really ??????  being a little pedantic no? 

 

The mask comes off and goes in the bin while sitting at the table & is replaced by a fresh mask before leaving and walking past other tables. 

I dont know about BKK , but people in CM have generally stopped wearing masks  , apart from in shopping centers 

22 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

All the borders are closed, so, no infected foreigners are allowed into Thailand .

You dont have to be scared of us  

What about the Egypt guy? And African girl? Two week ago. 

They have covid.

safety first. 

Not scared.

Worry. How I know? Maybe it Logosone, Dr Tuner, ionsone, etc.

1 in 6 not full baht.

10 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

This is in back area of a supermarket shopping center and not near any schools or near any Westerners or main road.

It's at the end of Ratchada soi 32, small shopping arcade and at the back is the bar complex. There is a uni nearby.

11 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Is what you write reality or just theory?

There will always be places where "others" are not welcome. Maybe i.e. a bouncer won't let them in. Or the "others" will soon realize that they are unwelcome inside.

We won't be able to eliminate that kind of behavior.

But we all have lots of choices. We go to the places which we like and avoid the places which we don't like.

 

Let's assume there is a restaurant which does not like me as their guest. And then let's assume they are forced to let me in. Would I would want to go to such a place? Sure not!

 

If its bouncers not letting people in because they are in a ‘group of guys’ or not meeting the dress code etc thats ok, if its based on race or nationality that is clearly outrageous and wrong.

 

The same can be said for restaurants, bars and any other establishment open to the public - if someone is not allowed in because they are drunk, misbehaving, being antisocial, miss behaved last time they were there etc etc that is of course fine - but if entry is refused based on race or nationality, again, that is clearly outrageous and wrong.

 

IF any restaurants, bar or any other establishment open to the public was hesitant to let me in at all for any reason which left distaste, I would never want to go there anyway. 

 

Thus, as your wrote OneMoreFarang, would I want to go to such a place? No !!!

This is one place which I never will go to, and I hope we all boycott. 

 

I like the fact that these sorts of places are named an shamed - that way I don’t waste my time accidentally going there and finding myself in the situation of getting rejected based on race and nationality. 

 

 

 

Edited July 28, 20205 yr by richard_smith237

5 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

The mask comes off and goes in the bin while sitting at the table & is replaced by a fresh mask before leaving and walking past other tables. 

I like to see the statistic of how many people do that?

 

It seems all the people who I know use one mask for the time they are away from home. They don't change it one or several times per day. But maybe I just don't know the right kind of people.

1 hour ago, steven100 said:

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

There are no laws within the Kingdom of Thailand which specifically outlaws racial discrimination inclusive of racist cliches and the restaurant has not broken the law.

for all those who think the restaurant broke any discrimination law ...   

 

Is it now indisputable fact as in etched in stone?

Hey come on guys just move on, I have here for 25 years I speak good Thai and many times I have been sat somewhere and listened to the <deleted> from the next table and when I go I say something nice to them in Thai as I walk bye,

So what, tell them a polite <deleted> and eat elsewhere. Stop it with the BS, please.

12 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:

I've been 4 or 5 times and yes there are plenty of students there on the weekend, but I've never seen any other white people there before. This is more of a locals hangout and I only found out about it through a Thai friend.

 

It's actually a really good bar complex with a lake/pond in the middle, this no foreigners rule must have been introduced after I left Thailand, I departed 25th March.

 

It's things like this that will put people off coming to Thailand and that is if foreigners are ever let back in again.

Have you been to Thailand before ?

Thailand don't welcome foreigners but foreigners still come in droves. Ironic, isn't it?

10 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I like to see the statistic of how many people do that?

 

It seems all the people who I know use one mask for the time they are away from home. They don't change it one or several times per day. But maybe I just don't know the right kind of people.

 

You are right...  it is for reasons such as this that the ‘Anti-mask’ debate has been raging.

 

We [the general] population have not been adequately educated to the most basic of standards about mask wear such that our poor ‘mask etiquette’ makes wearing a mask less effective than it could be. 

 

Though, thats a fairly moot point in a country with no local transmission for over 50 days and thus no asymptomatic people (if we believe that) which is a debate for another thread, of course !!!!