Got Bangkok

Carlos Santana: The Sentient Tour (Feat Carabao)

Organizer: BEC-Tero Entertainment
Where: Impact Arena, Muang Thong Thani, Bangkok, Thailand
When: Wednesday March 6, 2013 at 8:30PM
Website Info: ThaiTicketMajor.com

Santana is coming back to Thailand! Santana performed 3 previous sold out shows in Bangkok in 1986, 2003 and 2011. Santana is considered 1 of the worlds greatest 100 guitarists of all time (according to Rolling Stone magazine). For those of you that have not seen him in Bangkok or ever, here is your chance! Seats costing from 1000 baht for back rows up to 5000 baht for VIP front stage areas.

I’ll be there taking pictures 🙂 If any questions or requests please let me know by contacting me here

Together Festival 2013 featuring Snoop Dogg

Organizer: A.G. Productions and Retox Sessions
Where: Bitec Bangna, Bangkok
When: Saturday January 19, 2013 at 6PM
Website Info: ThaiTicketMajor.com

Finally a hip hop legend Snoop Dogg will show off his unique rapping skills in Bangkok, Thailand. Get your tickets price ranging from 1,900 general admission to 11,000 VIP Meet& Greet Package. Other additional artists performing will be made by Justice, AN2, Quintino, and DJ Max Vangeli.

I’ll be there taking pictures 🙂 If any questions or requests please let me know by contacting me here

Fitness 7 Ratchada
“Get your body fit, 24 hours per day, 7 days a week!”
Open everyday 24 hours per day!
Website: http://www.fitness7.co.th
Call: 026923991, 0896859977
Address: 63 Ratchadapisek Rd Soi 7 Nathong Road – Din Daeng, Bangkok 10400. The nearest MRT station is Huay Kwang station. (In Thai language: 63 ถ.รัชดาภิเษก 7 ซอยนาทอง แขวง-เขต ดินแดง กทม. 10400)

Fitness 7 Ratchada is a really nice and clean new gym in the Huay Kwang, Ratchada area.

Price: 1200 per month or 200 baht per day. No contract needed.

A list of equipment they have is: chest press, leg press, shoulder press, lat pulldown, seated row, bicept curl, peck fly, ab machine, flat incline, decline bench, leg curl, back extension, leg extension, multi hip machine, inner / outer thigh, rotary torso, smith machine. They also have free weights, eliptical machine, 6 treadmills and a lot of bicycle machines too.

There are drinks and food available too, you can order at the counter.

The fitness 7 area gym is located on level 2, and on level 3 is the locker rooms with 1 shower, 1 changing room per male, and 1 of each per female.

Sydictive Element New Years party in Phuket

Organizer: Sydictive Element
Where: Surin Beach, Phuket, Thailand
When: December 30, 2012 to Jan 1, 2013
Website Info: SydictiveElement.com

Sydictive Element and Paris Hilton are accouncing a vibrant New Years beach party in Surin Beach, Phuket, Thailand on December 30th, until the early morning of next year 2013. It’s actual event name is “Sydictive Element Electronic Dance Music Festival”. Some of the DJs and performing artists include: Akon, Dash Berlin, Sky Blu (from LMFAO), Basement Jaxx, Pendulum, Marco V, Alex Gaudino, Tydi, Tiga, DJ Ken Ishii, and many more!

I’ll be there taking pictures 🙂 If any questions or requests please let me know by contacting me here

Sai kok (other spellings: sai kork, sai gork, , sai krok, sai gok) is also known as “Chiang Mai sausages” is now sold every Sunday in Ratchada soi 10. It is a grilled pork sausage that contains herbs, spices, red curry paste, chilis and more. It is very delicious!

I will post contact details, email, phone number today later. If anyone knows anymore good “Sai kok” stands, please let us know!

Chateaubriand House of Steak
“Find a great steak!”
Open everyday: 10am to 9:30pm
Website: http://www.facebook.com/ChateaubriandHouseOfSteak
Call: 021085111
Address: The Promenade, 2nd Floor, room 2010-2011, 589/7-9 Ranindra Road, Khannayao, Bangkok 10230

Chateaubriand House of Steak is brand new, it just opened May 18, 2012 in The Promenade shopping mall. In this posh new mall there are lots of great restaurants but Chateaubriand looked the best at first glance. The food was delicious, the service was very good, and the atmosphere is nice. For 2 people the cost was about 1000 baht. It’s worth checking out!

The Menu: There are a lot of different steaks, from grilled sirloins, seared salmon, blackened cod in arrabiata sauce, pork chops with shitake mushrooms in a cream sauce, grilled beef ribeyes, rack of lamb steaks and also some basic pasta dishes too. There’s also a couple of desserts (only 2 on the menu at this time).
What I Ate: I tried the seared salmon, was also very tender, juicy, laying in a bed of spinach and cream sauce. The grilled sirloin steak, tasted so juicy and tender, almost as if it’s a roasted beef, it was delicious. Also a side order of french fries, they were great too, they are the crinkle cut type, I love those!
The Staff: Very friendly and helpful, no problems there!
The Bathroom: It’s right nearby Chateaubriand, walk outside the restaurant and The Promenade provides very clean and fancy restrooms.

I was told by my Esplanade customer service rep that Sukhumvit 23 and Siam Paragon California Wow’s will stay open. So yesterday, Sunday July 22nd I went to Suk23 location and it’s closed with a sign that says:

“Dear Members, please be inform that building electrician found that our instigated circuit has a problem and it will be fixed by Monday, The club is closure on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd July 2012 and will operate as normal on Monday 23rd July 2012. Sorry for your inconvenience.”

So today, Monday July 23rd I go there expecting a great long workout, and it’s STILL not open 🙁

Sign this weekend, about closing for the weekend

Sign Caliwow Suk23 power problems

Today, Monday, still not open as the sign says they would be 🙁

Sukhumvit23 Caliwow closed today

This is really horrible, I seen so many other disappointed California Wow members going up and reading the sign, frustrated and disappointed. I really wish Caliwow can at least inform it’s members properly, open some kind of solid line of communication. Even their own employees were there reporting to work to see that it’s not open today!

EDIT: California Wow at Esplanade (Ratchada branch) is now open 🙂

Anymore info about California Wow and it’s problems, opinions, or anything please let me know by contacting me

Bangkok is quite fortunate when it comes to food deliver services. We’ve been blessed with 4 solid Bangkok delivery service companies (that I know of). For those of you who use the 4 Bangkok food delivery services, I’d like to get everyone’s feedback and experiences dealing with the 4 popular sites.

1. Food By Phone
Food By Phone – This was the first delivery service I was introduced to back in 2007, but it was founded in 1998 by Marc Hagelauer and Rungrudee Suwannake. I like a lot of the restaurants they have here, also they have a top 50 items ordered (the top 3 being 1. Hummus from Beirut, 2. Shawarma Chicken Sandwich from Beirut, 3. Tabuleh from Beirut), safe to assume they have a huge customer base of Beirut Lebanese Restaurant lovers! To be totally honest though, the mark-up prices combined with the delivery fee at Food By Phone makes them quite overpriced compared to the other food delivery services I know of.


2. Chefs XP
Chefs XP – Chefs XP is what I normally use when ordering food online in Bangkok. They advertise as usually having no mark-up pricing on their food items, and delivery fee is only 60 baht per restaurant, so usually Chefs XP is


3. Food Panda
Food Panda – Food Panda just opened in March this year 2012. I have no personal experience with Food Panda yet, but I will post my experiences soon as I plan to try them. I like their aim to have a food delivery service in every major city in Thailand eventually. I also like that you can search restaurants in your specific districts in Bangkok. Lets hope they are success!


3. Go Tasty
Go Tasty – GoTasty is the smart online food-delivery in Bangkok, Thailand. We offer a convenient, easy and reliable way to order a variety of food from one of our many restaurant alliances, delivered right to your doorstep! Currently, we are open for delivery in Bangna and Phra Khanong, Mon-Sat 10:00-21:00 hrs. See their Facebook page here.

Please post your experiences in the comments area or email them to me here.

Hard Rock Cafe Bangkok
“Great rock, great foods, great fun!”
Open everyday: Daily 11:30AM – 1:00AM
Website: hardrockcafe.co.th and hardrock.com
Call: 02-2510792, +66-2-658-4090-3 or +66-2-251-ROCK
Address: 424/3-6 Siam Square Soi 11, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330. Thailand (BTS Skytrain Siam Station exit #2)

Hard Rock Cafe is a great place to enjoy lunch and dinner and even a night out with friends. The food is great and every night they have live music after 9:30pm. You can even shop for souvenirs for friends.

The Menu: Hardrock has tons of all American favorites, like the Legendary 10oz. Burgers, Hard Rock nachos, pulled pork bbq sandwiches, steaks, ribs, any many more.
What I Ate: I ate the hickory-smoked pulled pork sandwich, with french fries and baked beans, also a side order of their yummy twisted mac and cheese. The pork sandwich was jam packed with pork! I asked for an extra dish of bbq sauce so I could drench the sandwich in the sauce, it was very delicious!
The Staff: The staff at Hard Rock mostly speak really good English, I think quite a few of these employee’s studied abroad in England or USA, because very fluent English skills.
The Bathroom: Bathrooms are very clean and well kept up.

I got an email last week, about something the people of Thailand, tourists, locals, residences, everyone should take part in, that is helping the animals effected by those horrible floods.

Here’s an exerpt from the email I received:

“The Bangkok floods have now disappeared and we hope for no reoccurrence this year. Thank you for your support during the floods. With your help thousands of animals were saved!

Khun Ruen spends 7 days a week selflessly caring for the dogs at Phuttamonthon. Will you help Khun Ruen to keep fulfilling her promise to the animals in her care? Please consider helping Khun Ruen by donating to the Phuttamonthon Shelter appeal today and help these now all but forgotten dogs.”

Please take a moment to watch this short video of the evacuation of Khun Ruen’s dogs during the flood crisis:

A few pictures of the dogs and Soi Dogs foundation

Please Donate Here