I used to order food from the Not Just Meat website but they haven't been in business for quite a while.
Any recommendations for items like English sausages and Indian curries?
Stable Lodge was opened by Danes just before their first hotel on the soi, Mermaids Rest closed. First place I stayed at in Bangkok. Nice bungalows around the pool. Soi 8 used to be great but now gentrified with expensive eateries and poncy western DJs though some of the smaller bars are ok.
Which soi has a combination of street food/market and A/C restaurants plus affordable accommodation and some nice bars but retaining the 'old Bangkok' atmosphere with no anti-westerner feeling?
I used to like Sukhumvit Soi 8 in the 90s before it was gentrified with high end condos and pretebtious wine bars with snobby DJs.
Petchaburi Soi 5 came close in the early 2000s.
Generally, yes it's safe. The western woman needs to act responsibly and not put herself in certain situations. I've often seen drunk low-so twatpacker types draped all over thuggish looking Thai guys on the islands and elsewhere.