Expat enclave: Chinese expat population doubles, Bangkok's Ratchada becomes ‘Chinatown’

[useronthenet]

Chinese (or those that decend from China), are in fact the biggest minority group outside their own country to live in Thailand. Figures published suggest 9 million (14%) of the population of Thailand are living here. They have colonized and infiltrated all aspects of Thai society, and have profited the most from their host country. 

[JLCrab]

I cannot comment on the current disposition and temperament of the typical mainland Chinese. When I spent time in China -- late 1980's to mid-1990's -- they were poor.

[fruitman]

2 hours ago, trogers said:

 

Sorry to prick your bubble. You forgot to include the deciding factor. Why would they stork up on discounted 7-11 ready to eat food? Because they spent most of those hard earned money in the expanding karaokes...

 

Don't underestimate the weakness of the flesh...which had led a German to kill his wife back home...

 

Because they are smart, it's the same food but comes for half price at the end of the day. Same reason the big boss from Ikea buys 2nd hand clothes.

 

Chinese like to spend money in the casino.

[trogers]

3 minutes ago, fruitman said:

 

Because they are smart, it's the same food but comes for half price at the end of the day. Same reason the big boss from Ikea buys 2nd hand clothes.

 

Chinese like to spend money in the casino.

 

Huay Kwang has no lack of street food of better taste at the original prices of microwaved 7-11 products...

 

And there are many underground casinos in that district...

[YeahSiam]

9 minutes ago, trogers said:

 

Huay Kwang has no lack of street food of better taste at the original prices of microwaved 7-11 products...

 

 

Yeah but not at silly o'clock when these people emerge from those karaokes and illegal casinos.

[trogers]

4 minutes ago, YeahSiam said:

 

Yeah but not at silly o'clock when these people emerge from those karaokes and illegal casinos.

 

That's the time to head to the porridge shops...which open till 4am...?

[blackcab]

15 hours ago, fruitman said:

 

I only know Isetan and Tokyo and Zen, what is the name of those malls? I probably know them but i miss a real neighbourhood like in Chinatown.

 

Look between Sukhumvit 31 and 55. That's where the majority of Japanese people live. Inside soi 49 you will find onsen, tea houses and Japanese restaurants with Japanese staff. Plenty of Japanese karaoke and massage too. There are plenty of places in that area where farang rarely, if ever, go.

 

If you want to find Japanese people in Bangkok, look for a cluster of Fuji supermarkets.

[YeahSiam]

1 hour ago, trogers said:

 

That's the time to head to the porridge shops...which open till 4am...?

Maybe some don't want porridge.

Maybe they like 7-11's stuff.

Could you be more rigid in your thinking?

[trogers]

11 minutes ago, YeahSiam said:

Maybe some don't want porridge.

Maybe they like 7-11's stuff.

Could you be more rigid in your thinking?

 

I have been here for over 30 years, and had stayed in Huay Kwang district in the early 90's. I would know the lives of these newbies in that district.

[teacherpaul]

On 17/11/2016 at 6:12 AM, kotsak said:

The first mass wave arrived 3 generations ago, and now these.. Resistance is futile,  assimilation is inevitable 

Actually, the Chinese first emigrated to Thailand 400 years ago. Not even close.

[YeahSiam]

2 hours ago, trogers said:

 

I have been here for over 30 years, and had stayed in Huay Kwang district in the early 90's. I would know the lives of these newbies in that district.

This "new" wave of arrivals wasn't underway when you lived in Huay Kwang in the early 90s so your assumptions - clearly arrived at through the prism of your own unjustified sense of superiority - have zero validity.

You know absolutely nothing about the lives of these "newbies".

 

 

[trogers]

Just now, YeahSiam said:

This "new" wave of arrivals wasn't underway when you lived in Huay Kwang in the early 90s so your assumptions - clearly arrived at through the prism of your own unjustified sense of superiority - have zero validity.

You know absolutely nothing about the lives of these "newbies".

 

 

 

New ways of the flesh? New ways in betting in casinos? I doubt human kind had evolved much in two decades...

[YeahSiam]

1 minute ago, trogers said:

 

New ways of the flesh? New ways in betting in casinos? I doubt human kind had evolved much in two decades...

 

You haven't got a clue.

[trogers]

22 minutes ago, YeahSiam said:

 

You haven't got a clue.

 

The clues are too obvious. All one needs to do is to look at the businesses that flourish in that area, both day and night...

[Sooo Upto Me]

46 minutes ago, YeahSiam said:

This "new" wave of arrivals wasn't underway when you lived in Huay Kwang in the early 90s so your assumptions - clearly arrived at through the prism of your own unjustified sense of superiority - have zero validity.

You know absolutely nothing about the lives of these "newbies".

 

 

 

Stop bickering with eachother u two.  ???

[Reigntax]

18 hours ago, Thechook said:

China coloncise Thailand years ago and thais can't see this.

 

And many are currently controlling the country and dont want those dammed locals taking any control

[YeahSiam]

1 hour ago, Reigntax said:

 

And many are currently controlling the country and dont want those dammed locals taking any control

 

Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and many others built their "old wealth" on similar shenanigans.

Now we've got the descendants of the beneficiaries of those policies yammering on at the Chinese for doing much the same.

[bumpkin]

10 hours ago, trogers said:

 

Sorry to prick your bubble. You forgot to include the deciding factor. Why would they stork up on discounted 7-11 ready to eat food? Because they spent most of those hard earned money in the expanding karaokes...

 

Don't underestimate the weakness of the flesh...which had led a German to kill his wife back home...

The behaviour you describe is more likely to be associated with tourists rather than those who have work permits and are earning a living in this country.  

[trogers]

33 minutes ago, bumpkin said:

The behaviour you describe is more likely to be associated with tourists rather than those who have work permits and are earning a living in this country.  

 

May take 3-5 years to adapt to living here amidst the temptations. Seen it in the change in lifestyle of one of my tenants of almost seven years. The younger they start living here, the longer it would take.

[Thingamabob]

Oh dear. Time to go..

[Stargeezr]

This  may  just  change  the  face of BKK  even   more.  I  guess we  will   all   just  have

to  see  what  the  future  will bring

Geezer

[IMA_FARANG]

I happen to live in a residence in the Ratchada- Soi Asoke area not far from the Chinese embessy.

This is not a "Chinaown" as some have characterised it.

In fact it is a mixed area of many Thai shops as well as some Thai-Chinese property owners.

The owner/manager of this residence building happens to be a Thai-Chinese family who have lived in Bangkok for over a century.

It is only my opinion, but i happen to be quite glad I found this small clean and tree and garden  nook  where I now live.

I Much prefer it to the noisy and cowded Suhumvit Road area where I also briefly lived.

Each to his own I guess, but I like this part of Bangkok.