Bangkok Part 2 - Day 3

New Year’s Eve day started out slow. A late start to the day but Jason was determined to do some more shopping, just in case the world ended and the shops were closed on the first day of the new year. So we headed to Si Lom in search of bargains and street food.

We started off with a few chicken skewers. One of them I’m not sure which part of the chicken it came from but it was as tough as leather. It definitely wasn't chicken ass though. The vendor told me all of the meat was chicken, and some of them were definitely hearts and livers. Then we went onto dessert with roti pancakes with banana and coconut and condensed milk drizzled over the top. Somewhere along the journey there was also an orange/passionfruit juice consumed.

Tired and wary, we made a pitstop at the hotel for a quick kip, before going to Patpong Night Markets for dinner. After dinner, there needed to be a costume change so we traversed back to the hotel to get ready to go to Circus, a club in Si Lom Soi 4.

We arrived at Circus as one of the shows was ending, so we quickly took our place before the next show started. The costuming was fabulous on all of the performers, all of them had great headpieces. The club features drag queens and kathoeys/ladyboys lip-syncing to songs with stripper boys, which they call coyote boys (rent boys/ money boys). One performer has combined being a coyote boy with a show girl, wearing only a pair of sparkly diamantes jocks and a Medusa-like headdress. Their performance was mesmerising with carefully choosen songs to accompany the costuming and choreography.

For the midnight countdown, we thought that we would head back to the hotel to see if we could watch the New Year’s Eve fireworks from the rooftop bar. Unfortunately it was full and we couldn’t get in. But we had just enough time to quickly walk back to Si Lom Soi 4 before midnight. We had a couple of minutes to spare before the glitter bombs and confetti started to explode throughout the alleyway. We soaked in the atmosphere for a while and then trekked back to the hotel.Læs mere