BugJackBaron Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 (edited) It seems that despite a bevy of expatriates living in the area it has become less interesting recently. Many cool Japanese places have boarded up and even thai restaurants that were popular sit empty. The free wifi places have closed this service. Some western food places on a popular street have gone down in quality since their western owner sold out to Thais. But VM has always been on the edge - No Starbucks, Coffee World or Burger King - like in truly upscale places. Edited September 29, 2009 by BugJackBaron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endure Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Just imagine that! A part of Thailand that has no Starbucks, Coffee World or Burger King! How outrageous. What is the world coming to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugJackBaron Posted September 29, 2009 Author Share Posted September 29, 2009 Just imagine that! A part of Thailand that has no Starbucks, Coffee World or Burger King! How outrageous. What is the world coming to! Yep I have no problem with that actually, but you have to admit it's strange to have a market as big s VM with none of these. It does after all have a mceeDee and many crappy western chains so you cannot say it is really a pure Thai area anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dekestone Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Some western food places on a popular street have gone down in quality since their western owner sold out to Thais. If you mean Soi Ragnam I would agree that the loss of the popular farang restaurant now limits the quality of foreign food in the area, but I still think some of the Thai restaurants / cafes on the soi are excellent. Relaxed places to hang and friendly staff, not expensive and sometimes an interesting flow of people on the street. (But I wouldn't want to live on that soi!) Would like to see a live music joint though -- something in addition to Saxaphone (maybe not quite as pricey!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connel707 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 It seems that despite a bevy of expatriates living in the area it has become lessinteresting recently. Many cool Japanese places have boarded up and even thai restaurants that were popular sit empty. The free wifi places have closed this service. Some western food places on a popular street have gone down in quality since their western owner sold out to Thais. But VM has always been on the edge - No Starbucks, Coffee World or Burger King - like in truly upscale places. Who gives a monkeys.... there are plenty of good places to go for free WiFi..... nothing at VM except schoolgirls..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machugok Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 It seems that despite a bevy of expatriates living in the area it has become lessinteresting recently. Many cool Japanese places have boarded up and even thai restaurants that were popular sit empty. The free wifi places have closed this service. Some western food places on a popular street have gone down in quality since their western owner sold out to Thais. But VM has always been on the edge - No Starbucks, Coffee World or Burger King - like in truly upscale places. Not good economics? I see less customers everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phetaroi Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Not good economics?I see less customers everywhere. Have you been to Central World and and the like lately? The restaurants are often packed...with Thais, not farang...sometimes with lines out front. I actually think most shoppers anywhere in the CBD have gravitated to Central World and Siam Paragon simply because the Skytrain makes it convenient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkjames Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Not good economics?I see less customers everywhere. Have you been to Central World and and the like lately? The restaurants are often packed...with Thais, not farang...sometimes with lines out front. I actually think most shoppers anywhere in the CBD have gravitated to Central World and Siam Paragon simply because the Skytrain makes it convenient. RE the line ups at Restaurants, only Fuji. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phetaroi Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Not good economics?I see less customers everywhere. Have you been to Central World and and the like lately? The restaurants are often packed...with Thais, not farang...sometimes with lines out front. I actually think most shoppers anywhere in the CBD have gravitated to Central World and Siam Paragon simply because the Skytrain makes it convenient. RE the line ups at Restaurants, only Fuji. No, not just Fuji. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugJackBaron Posted October 2, 2009 Author Share Posted October 2, 2009 Not good economics?I see less customers everywhere. Have you been to Central World and and the like lately? The restaurants are often packed...with Thais, not farang...sometimes with lines out front. I actually think most shoppers anywhere in the CBD have gravitated to Central World and Siam Paragon simply because the Skytrain makes it convenient. RE the line ups at Restaurants, only Fuji. No, not just Fuji. Well as a regular patron of Siam Paragon I can say that the Japanese places seem to have the most businessa as they offer a more or less tasty meal at reasonable prices whereas the more expensive but tastier Pi-Pi is at best 25% full. Same with the new fish n chip place. Also keep in mind that many asians their are not Thai. The Thais that patronize such places are clearly in the top 10% of the income bracket of Thais. Perhaps the top 10% of the population. You may want to look at the "lonely few" at the far end of Siam on the first floor. The high class restaurants seem never to be full(with or two exceptions) From what I remember as a tourist here last year it is down down down. It i Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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