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Ladyboy Lada Is Back In Pattaya

• My Thai Wife • Season 1 • Episode 18

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Valentine's Day took a unique twist for us here, with Lada's nostalgic journey to Pattaya setting the stage for a heartfelt reunion and a reminder that love extends beyond romantic gestures. Our latest episode is a cultural tapestry, weaving stories of Lada's warm childhood memories at her mother's flower shop, complete with a lucky wooden rooster, and the customary exchange of gifts and meals among old friends that reaffirm the bonds we cherish. As we juxtapose these personal moments with the colorful nightlife of Pattaya, we offer our listeners insider recommendations on the best spots for those intrigued by the city's famous ladyboy bars, including the newly opened Cindy's Secret Bar.

Wandering through Pattaya's LAN Po Market after dusk is an adventure for the senses, and we're taking you with us! Our episode captures the essence of street food culture as we guide you through selecting the freshest seafood and having it grilled by local vendors while seated on a picnic mat under the stars. This market escapade is more than a culinary delight; it's an epitome of Thailand's community spirit and resilience, especially as businesses bounce back post-pandemic. We assure you, the flavors of this experience are as rich as the stories we share, including our personal encounters with the generosity of the local vendors.

For foodies and travelers alike, our episode is a treasure trove of recommendations that will tantalize your palate and satiate your wanderlust for Pattaya's diverse dining scene. From the surprising finds at the Rauwai market, where the catch of the day is cooked to your preference, to the versatile restaurant serving everything from pork to frog, we unveil hidden gems that promise a feast of local flavors. We also spotlight the evolving market landscape, celebrating the resilience of businesses and the heartwarming sense of community at play, as seen in the care for local dogs. Join us for a journey filled with laughter, nostalgia, and the undeniably delicious spirit of Thailand.

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Speaker 1:

Hello everyone and welcome back to my Thai wife podcast. I'm Mike and sadly I'm still doing this podcast without my lovely, lovely wife Sunari. But as always, we have Lada with us. Hello Lada.

Speaker 2:

Happy Valentine. How was your Valentine?

Speaker 1:

Happy Valentine. It was ok we didn't do anything special because she, sunari, worked that day, but in the evening we met and I got her some gifts and that's it nothing too special. How was your Valentine that's?

Speaker 2:

great, oh, I be with my Lisey Rose.

Speaker 1:

You be with my Lisey Rose.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

So you stayed home, listen to music.

Speaker 2:

I can buy myself flour.

Speaker 1:

Oh, now I understand.

Speaker 2:

No, but I buy by my own. Yeah, I'm surrounding myself with Rose that I bought myself and also some chocolate. Ok, so chocolate and then turn on the my Lisey Rose song. I wish I could be a boyfriend right now, but I'm still happy because I went out and see a lot of love for us. A lot of people buy them. I love about the rose, about the chocolate and many, many things on the fridge. I'm a little feeling lonely, but the others I am happy for them, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Ok, yeah, I understand that feeling. So I heard, not heard. You told me that you were in Pattaya last week, is that right?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, how was that?

Speaker 1:

How long you not have been there.

Speaker 2:

Uh oh, I think it's like almost a year, almost, maybe almost two years.

Speaker 1:

Ok, and you just went to visit a friend or something.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I just been there and just walking around but yeah, most of the friends that I know they already moved out or going somewhere else. But yeah, some is still over there and I go to see my mama in the flower shop but they shan't about the shop a little bit.

Speaker 2:

And then we go talk and I say hi because I got the one thing that I remember. My mama shop is like she kind of like her where she puts her red lips on and she's very small girl, but in her shop she's selling about the flowers and also like another drinks, like coffee shake or something else. But the only one thing that I remind is like she have very, very big cock in her shop you know, like in Thailand, maybe you can see some weird things.

Speaker 2:

I know in Japanese. They also have big kaiyo festivals, like they have like a lot of cocks on the hills, like on the mountain, and they have.

Speaker 2:

They put many, many colors of the cock, big one for just like for believing in something, in some good kind of like a god. So I saw in Japan they also have like some, some shimony kind of like. They go to the mountain and then like, and on that mountain on the place have many different color of a cock, a big one, huge one. It's just like a festival or some people that believe in that. And also Hindu, in Hindu, I see it's like we call. I see one link. It's just like a rock kind of like that, but it's look like a penis and people did things like this is like a penis of the god or something like that, and they believe in that. And in Thailand, when you open the shop, like selling some food or some things, many people believe in so many things, but most of them they put like a Karnat god, like Hindu god also, but, you know, like the god with the elephant head, yeah of course.

Speaker 2:

I know we call Karnat. Yeah, and also some shop they put about Nankwak. Nankwak is just like a beautiful lady and sitting and then Slipping her hand like welcome, welcome or something like that okay yeah, we call Nankwak and also in the traditional costume she's sitting and then she takes the hand just like a welcome, welcome or something like that. But some they put a big cock. The cock is made from the wood.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, sometimes they have a red head on that and then believe in that it's going to make you make a very good selling. And yeah, in my mom's shop she have this one and it's really huge one.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

And every time I go there I just want to touch it and kiss it. It's like, uh-oh, make me lucky, give me a big cock or something like that, and she's going to be very fun. So I come to say hi to her, but she don't even know that it's me, because I shan my hair color and then I hide in my face.

Speaker 2:

I said hello, do you have any durian sepe, or something like that? She said, no, we're not still durian and she's just yelling, yelling like this bitch. Want to buy durian sepe or something like that? Who sell that thing? And then I just take out my son's car and she realized it was me oh, my fucking daughter. So we give a hug and she give me a free coffee.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and then she, yeah, and then I go to visit some some the other friend they, uh, he's selling about, like he's selling about, chicken flies on the street, okay. Yeah, I come behind and then I just like I remember them, even through he a little bit like sharp beer right now he's just like a young guy, but he always come with another guy, but another guy today he on the day, he day off.

Speaker 2:

So the little guy is come alone. So I go and then I just ask him I do you have any raw chicken? He said oh, raw chicken, it's finished. He didn't sell raw chicken, but he just like and so me, by by, she fights it by, he fights it before like he shocked because I come from behind. And then he turn on his face, come to see me and say oh. I miss you so much.

Speaker 2:

Also, I get a free chicken but, if I walking around I'm going to get a lot of free food, because most of my friend I used to. I used to sell food in the market.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Every time when we have a really hot time, we're sharing food or we give each other food and just like action or something like that, and they're really happy that I go to receive them. Even to we don't have like so much time to talk because they're selling things, yeah they're busy. So they don't have much time and I don't want to disturb them. I won't. I'm sorry. It's good in particular, but the crazy thing is it's cold. It's really cold and windy.

Speaker 1:

Really.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'm so surprised because input get is so fucking hot, but when I'm all right, in particular, oh my God, it's fucking cold and I'm just like, as my side, I wear like a very sexy dress and then sometimes, like you know, don't have too much clothes on that.

Speaker 2:

Like a very sexy one, kind of like a see-through or something like that. I love to wear, like the things, and oh my God, I'm just shaking when I'm walking and this makes me sick. Then it makes me coughing, like maybe this time you can hear me if I'm coughing and it'll be, like cock, cock, cock.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it doesn't mean that.

Speaker 2:

I won't cough, I have enough. But, it's my coughing. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's okay, no problem.

Speaker 2:

So it's really cold and windy. I'm so surprised, but people said it may be a few days because before I come it's raining a lot.

Speaker 1:

I want to ask you something. You lived in Phuket for a long time, right, and you live before that.

Speaker 2:

You stay in Patea for a long time. Yeah, almost three years.

Speaker 1:

I want to know now where is more busy, where more tourists come. I want to know what is. How do you compare Patea to?

Speaker 2:

Phuket. To be honest, mostly it's like in Phuket we're busy because we have a lot of Russians. They come to stay over there, right? But they come for a long stay but they're not spent too much money because they need to stay for the room and for the food and they come with the family.

Speaker 2:

So they need to think about the family first, so they're not paying money to the bar or to the like, kind of like a master stuff or take a girl to the room, because they come with the family. Yeah, but comparative with like with Patea, I think. This time when they come to Patea I see a lot of tourists but mostly it's Chinese, maybe because of Chinese New Year.

Speaker 2:

Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of Chinese on the street and many, many, many Chinese, and also the tourists, like the foreign tourists as well, maybe because of, like, as you know, in Patea there is a place like the retired man, like 60 years old, 70 years old, from all around the world they shoot Patea to live in their retired life. So, yeah, plus with this one, I see a lot of tourists now, but also in Phuket we have a lot, but mostly now we have friends, I think friend and Russian.

Speaker 2:

Okay, and some Chinese yeah.

Speaker 1:

And I want to know, especially for Lady Boy you think right now, patea, is better for Lady Boy to make money, to make money?

Speaker 2:

Now, patea is better for Lady Boy or not. I can say yes because, like as I know as my job, and also in Phuket, we don't have much Lady Boy bar. I don't know why, but in Patea, basically, we have many, many, many, many Lady Boy bar.

Speaker 1:

Can you give our listeners some?

Speaker 2:

Most of the guys like the old guy, the old guy like Lady Boy, but but if comparative with the money that we get, I think who get is better. Even through we don't have much Mass customer but they pay well, so the price is a little bit a conceivable. And party are things, because, as you know, and party I will have like retirement old man, so they, they don't want to pay much money, mm-hmm.

Speaker 1:

So they pay like one thousand one thousand five hundred.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you can make that price right one thousand. And some people Um, I don't want to blame, like some the other people because, like you know, say some people is not easy to get the money and some people are not really beautiful. They am like a man, type, like a man gonna have like a type on. He had on his head Like or he won the lady with big book, long black hair and beautiful face, young and big, has something like that. But some lady we have flash, we don't have big book, big ass, you know. So we don't really beautiful as a man, like, yeah, everyone is beautiful the way they are, but the man have that type, yeah, that what, what kind of woman he won. So sometimes some lady in particular, they go with like five hundred, but I don't want to blame them, but maybe it's kind of like upset because, like we want, the price is like one thousand, two thousand.

Speaker 2:

Yeah something like that. We don't want to go with five hundred because it's kind of like a hard work. But I totally understand Someday when we have no customer but we starving, we hungry and we need to send the money to a family. Sometimes some lady go with five hundred but yeah, just for the food and for the things on fall like to send the money for the family. So I so I respect everyone, yeah, but but I can say, like a comparative with what's young, book it book, it is a man pay more money and it's good rate and you mentioned before that.

Speaker 1:

Now, but I have many Bar for ladyboys. Would you like to recommend some listeners? Maybe you can tell where to find or.

Speaker 2:

So if you want the ladyboy buying I didn't go much like, I just know they have a lot in surround, like in soy book how yeah? So if you walks around like soy. Diana or soy Shaiyapoon. So when you go there, they have many, many ladyboy there and also, so it's a pretty soy pot hole for someone don't know how to say yes, I show you boom. Such Diana and Around, so I go how they have many, many ladyboy on the street as well.

Speaker 2:

So if you want to go, to see the ladyboy bar or want to have a look for ladyboy on the street, you should go to. So I book. How, yeah, can you give one recommendation for a bar? I cannot say because I don't know support.

Speaker 1:

I don't know support.

Speaker 2:

I cannot say because I don't know about the name of the bar right now. Okay, they already shan and I didn't come for long, long time. Somebody is already shan the name, but they're already the same location, and I don't know even the ladyboy in the bar, because the new is come over over again and again.

Speaker 1:

So all the people Change already even through my mama.

Speaker 2:

But I didn't go to visit her because I have heard like she come back to open in there, in in Patia, but I don't remember, I don't know what the name, what the name of her bar. Maybe she used the same name in Bangkok, like Cindy's Secret Bar.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's really good.

Speaker 2:

She take care the customer.

Speaker 1:

They open the new one in many beautiful ladyboy there. They open the new one in soy LK, lk, okay okay, yeah, I see many.

Speaker 2:

I just passed by, you know. No, no, no, I have a friend.

Speaker 1:

I have a friend and he sent to me a picture and the new Cindy secret is in LK Metro.

Speaker 2:

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm in LK Metro. Before they don't have like they don't have ladyboy bar, but now I see like they have like two to two ladyboy bar. I. Don't know all the lady because they are new and the new ladyboy is come every year I.

Speaker 1:

Understand. I just tell you that Yo mama bar now is in LK Metro, just this.

Speaker 2:

That's cool.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, okay, that's good. And Do you think that, like Right now, let's cut the Chinese New Year, but you think right now that everything is improving? They have more people coming and stuff like that?

Speaker 2:

yeah, I can see it's like more, yeah, so, so now it's good, tom.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think it's better okay, and now I want to talk about your favorite thing in the world food where is the best place in the world? Food, about food, no, eating food. Where is the best place to eat in Pattaya?

Speaker 2:

maybe for me, yeah she can, she can rice. Yeah, she can with rice okay yeah, so in the end of soy soy bocao like stick to South Pattaya and nearby the ground hall market they have like a one common guy shop like a sticky rice with chicken is really really good in there okay so I love it. And also in the middle of the alley in soy bocao they have like a bocao market the old one, yeah, they also have like at the place that I selling food.

Speaker 2:

They have so many food in there so really really good have food called, I can say mostly when you go to Pattaya you should go to soy bocao because they have so many restaurants like a European restaurant, chinese restaurant many, many like, and also Thai restaurant and Arabic food as well, in so far how they have a lot, a lot of restaurant. But for myself, I love street food. The good thing in so far how also they have like many, many street food, like a food cart that they driving around with the motorbike and selling things. That's one is the best for me especially in the night time.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, they put a lot and after you finish work in the bar, like late night, there are this kind of like, this kind of things like a food cart. They become a lot to sell for the burger that she hungry or the people that we really hungry in there. So the best time to find a street food in Pattaya is after the bar close or maybe between the bar so pen, say, in the midnight yeah, but when you said before and also another one.

Speaker 2:

Sorry to interact yeah, it's okay, but if you love about the seafood, you should go to LAN po market where is that? They have like a seafood market named LAN po where is that? Yeah, people knows like LAN po. Lan po is kind of like in Nagla area so you can, you can go by taxi or maybe you can go by songtel also the car with like a bigger kind of like a bigger tuk-tuk. But you can see it like many people and it's cheap, it's just 10 baht yeah, last time blue one, the blue one.

Speaker 2:

Take the blue one, just 10 baht last time to Nagla and and everyone will be stopped at the last. The last exit.

Speaker 2:

The last exit is like LAN po market and the same you don't need to worry that you're gonna arrive or not, because when you go you just tell them LAN po and then they're gonna stop every, every tuk-tuk will stop over there so you can go and then selling and collect about the seafood and whatever you want to eat in the market and then you walk a little bit nearby the public park. They have like a small public park over there. Okay, that place. They have a map for rent so you can rent the map like 100 baht so you put on the ground you mean the green field.

Speaker 2:

And then you see thing, and then you can take all your seafood to another shop nearby there. Mm-hmm, it's the man, very handsome man. I love him.

Speaker 1:

He can grill all the seafood for us okay, so you buy the seafood in the market.

Speaker 2:

I think one kilo, he shot like 50. But wait, I want to understand for one kilo for grill and for boys. So and he gonna serve for you, on on your place that they use it wait really really good, and one I want you can eat a lot.

Speaker 1:

I want to understand. So you go to the market, you buy the seafood that you want, and then you go, you buy the big map food. No matter what, what shop you buy, every shop and then I go, I buy the peak, I rent the picnic map and I put on the ground and then I give to someone to cook for me, right?

Speaker 2:

yeah, yeah, you just rent a map.

Speaker 2:

You don't need to buy it for random map, I think 50, but or 100, but I'm not sure right now. So you put the map on the on the on the field and then you just sitting in the public park and then you take the seafood to a man to grill for you and then he comes up for you with the seafood sauce and then you can sit in and eating the food and very chilling there, the wind is blowing, the green field in the park, all that's the best. I used to buy 11000 but and I have a lot, I have the shrimp, I have oyster, I have fish, I have some time, I have Just a lot of food like 1000 baht. Oh my god, I cannot finish it with my two friends, so this is good place to go for a date, right?

Speaker 1:

This good place to go to a date with someone.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, someone especially you should go in the evening say about like, maybe 2 pm, 3 pm, not to not two evenings, maybe 6 pm. It's too late because you mean afternoon.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you know pm. It's perfect time last time when I was in Thailand it was August I went a little bit to Phuket and then after this I went to Pattaya and I met a friend of my wife I will not say her name and, yeah, we go to this market and Because my wife Sunari, she need many things Like dry squid, dry shrimp, so we go this market I know where it is and we buy a lot, but we pay. We pay like something like 7000 baht, I don't know a lot of money.

Speaker 2:

Oh my god, that's big money.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so we bought. We bought a lot of things because this is what my wife, sunari, asked me to bring back. So I know about this market, but I don't know that you can eat this. This first time I hear about that that you can eat there.

Speaker 2:

Well, what testing again? Sorry, I didn't hear you well.

Speaker 1:

I say I I I've been to this market but I didn't know that it was possible to buy food and they cook for you there.

Speaker 2:

Oh, mm-hmm, you should go next trip. Yeah, and also in Phuket. We also have in Rauwai Excellency when, yeah, in Rauwai. Rauwai is a beach that has many, many, many local people go to hunting the fish in the sea and then you can come there, come to selling that things.

Speaker 2:

Okay nearby the beach and also you can buy it, and opposite the shop they have the restaurant that can cook for you, like 70 baht per one kilo, so you can cook. You can take it, the same damn things, and but the price a little bit. Equinece bler.

Speaker 1:

Okay, you know, when I, when I go to Pattaya, I have a favorite restaurant. There I eat. Normally I eat on the streets, right, street food, but when I want to, yeah, but when I want to eat something else, I have a favorite restaurant. It's the end. It's in the end of. So it's she a pun near the third road, mmm, you know this restaurant.

Speaker 2:

No, I never take em. I'm sorry, I'm not the restaurant person. I love street food.

Speaker 1:

It's very cheap. It's cheap, same street food, but they sell everything there. All the food that you want, they have. They have from pork to frog, to steak, to Thai food, whatever you want they cook there. It's in the end of say, pot hole. It's very good, that's cool.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

I really like it. I've been there many times.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and maybe because of I I work in the night time, so mostly I take like a street food.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

I don't know much about the restaurant, so you go in the daytime, yeah have you. I have one, one favorite restaurant on, like that's called, just mean you. It's on Patayakang Road and a very small restaurant, very cozy and lovely. They decorate very lovely, they have really good food and not too expensive. It's called jasmine.

Speaker 1:

What they are selling, what kind of food?

Speaker 2:

Jasmine Thai food. Mostly they say about Thai food.

Speaker 1:

Okay, it's interesting that you say that, because in Soi Bokau they have also a restaurant named jasmine, and this is Israeli restaurant.

Speaker 2:

I see, but this one is on Patayakang Road. Yeah, you mean the street to go to the. It's a good street to go to, like on the beach, and also I would like to recommend you guys. Now in Patayak they open the new market Maybe they opened more before, but I just see it and that market. They have a very big white plant over there. So you can see, it's just like a sign of it, and its name is runway market.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's on the way to. If you go from Middle Patayak to, let's say, around Soi 6, it's a little bit before on the left side.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, soi 6.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Wow, now I can see that have a lot of people there and they have really good food on there also, and especially the fruit they have many, many fruit arouse. And also how I see a flat. I see a grilled crocodile, a very big one. I want to try, but I'm sorry, I'm so no words to try.

Speaker 1:

People say it's really good, but and you can go inside the airplane also. Pardon, can you go inside the airplane?

Speaker 2:

No, no, no, but people just sitting under the airplane, under the plane.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

But very, very big hand. It's bad for me no way I don't want to die because I didn't hit 5000 cock yet. But I see many people just sit down there and then they set up the table under the plane and people just sitting and eating and people take a picture, but not me.

Speaker 1:

I understand. Have you went to the before? They have soy made in Thailand and they close it, and now they open you. It's called myth, myth, myth yeah.

Speaker 2:

They have many, many new bar over there. Really nice place to go.

Speaker 1:

You went there Because I've not been there yet.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I just walk around but I didn't go to have a seat and drink over there. But I can see, wow, they have many, many new bar Because before they opened for a Renoade and doing some new shop and now it's really really nice to go. You should go. If you go there, a really nice one, I can say.

Speaker 1:

Okay, and was it full when you've been there? Like all the bars were full or not so much.

Speaker 2:

All the bars full this time, many, many people. I can see that.

Speaker 1:

That's good. I'm happy to hear that everything is recovering and more people are coming back to this country and especially this city, because during the COVID time it was very hard for everyone. I remember no one could make money.

Speaker 2:

I understand them well, because in COVID pandemic I'm stuck there for over two years. Two years and a half, I think. I'm stuck there, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so everything is really coming back together.

Speaker 2:

And I also going to feed the dogs on the hills. But now my little dog is become mommy and papa. They have many babies as well.

Speaker 1:

You mean where, you mean In Pattaya or in Phuket?

Speaker 2:

In Patanakio, yeah, in Pattaya.

Speaker 1:

Oh, okay, patanakio, I've been there. Last time I went to a walk and it was very a lot of raining, so I have to stop every like 10 minutes. 10 minutes, stop, stop, stop, stop. Yeah, it was difficult, but I liked it. You know, last time I also went to a restaurant. I don't know if you know that it's named Three Mermaids. Have you heard about that?

Speaker 2:

Pardon.

Speaker 1:

It's named Three Mermaids. Have you heard about that?

Speaker 2:

No.

Speaker 1:

So it's in.

Speaker 2:

Patamai, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it hurts about that. They have like a very big, beautiful mermaid dolls in there and people go to take a photo. It's like a very nice cafe.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but it's a restaurant. They sell food.

Speaker 2:

And also you need to go to Dushan Cafe.

Speaker 1:

Dushan.

Speaker 2:

Sorry. Yeah, yeah yeah, dushan Cafe. They have a show like and they have many animals like parrots, like many animals over there, and especially elephant and parrots. They have a show like a lady I think she's a lady boy and then she go to make a show with the animals.

Speaker 1:

Where is that?

Speaker 2:

Dancing with the animals. I think it's on like on Patamai, I think. I'm not really sure, but you can search on Google. Dushan Cafe Okay, yeah, I just see on the YouTube or something and many people talk about it, but I never go there yet. Okay, but it's very famous now so you can take a coffee watching a show.

Speaker 1:

I understand, so I think it's time to finish this episode. Okay, yeah. It was great having you again, and we will talk in a few days, because now we are doing two episodes every week. So thank you for coming. Do you and everyone? Thank you for listening. Do you want to say something to our listeners?

Speaker 2:

Thank you everyone for listening our podcast. I hope to see you guys in the next episode and thank you for like and share. Don't forget to subscribe. Maybe you can share to your friends and if you like and also if you want us to talk with something or some topic, just comment on below. Unless, I know if you have something or some question that's perfect, I would love to answer that thing.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's perfect. So thank you very much and we will talk very soon, bye, bye.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, bye, bye.