You don't need AI to go for a deep dive into the diverse neighborhoods of Bangkok. Bangkok Pat has become the unofficial Bangkok Historian whose videos provide the background and context of the places he covers. This enhances the experiences of viewing. What I like is how Pat weaves the local history and personalties into stories of the present. His storytelling abilities are excellent and you won't find a better guide to the city than on his channel.
@@DT-gs3wi Someone I know tried to be clever and said ''Look you don.t need to keep doing all the research" then tried showing me how ''convenient'' Chat GPT is...it was a load of crap
I don’t know why this channel doesn’t have over 100k subs.. this is definitely one of the best channels about BKK, so many things to explore that you’d never think about on your own.. I will be there on August 8th for 3 weeks!!!
@@BangkokPat geeks and nerds know their stuff compared to ones been living in a condo in say Asoke for 6 months know everything about Bangkok I'm sick of klong toey slum videos only you have shown the real klong toey people don't realize Nana is part of klong toey there's 4 districts only you have spoken and showed the how the port and the bars were the semen hung out 😊❤
@@BangkokPat I was going to say the same, then I saw your comment. Totally for nerds which I am. Great stuff and makes me realize how very little I know about Bangkok.
I just moved to Bang Kapi and it's pretty nice so far. Even without the new MRT you can take the boat in 30min to Sukhumvit for 20 baht or so. Hotels are super cheap. New budget hotels with nice and clean interiors for less than 500 baht. Many hotels have a deal when you stay 5 nights you only pay 380 baht/night. The monthly rent for a small furnished serviced apartment was 6000 baht.
The klongs are polluted with sewage and stink !! Bus no 8 or other buses will take you to the MRT on Lad Phrao road will take you to Sukhumvit or, a taxi via Ramkhamhaeng road but not during rush hour is fast
Pat I stayed on that housing estate 2500 per month it was a lovely Neighbourhood really friendly people a thai man who became a lawyer was born there and bought two of them for 800 000 and made a bigger place he would by ice cream for the whole block every Sunday or Saturday I actually only spent £700 per month and lived really well 😂
Hey Pat! Thanks for all your great videos. I’m not sure this area you featured is right for me. You didn’t show a single Starbucks! And no co-working space? No sushi bar? Impossible to live! Geez! Lol. Bill
Always interesting content and in depth review of an area to allow us as viewers to make positive choices if we intend to move to Thailand at any future time…Thanks Pat 💯👍🏾
Klong Chan flats, the one closest to the police box at the traffic lights on soi Burapa across the road from NIDA had a sign offering a flat for sale for 1.3 million baht😮😮 if you carry further on up Seri Thai you can buy a brand new one for the same price.
Packed with nuggets but Pat missed what residents find most attractive. Between Bang Kapi and Ratchada is land&house subarbia where we pick mangoes off our trees and the loudest noise is someone's annoying cockerell. New train lines make it easier and more pleasant to travel.
Another cracking vlog Pat. Enjoyed every minute as I always do. Never get bored watching your vlogs as they are so thoughtfully constructed and executed. 👏.Looking forward to whatever is coming next.
I've been near there when stopping off at Hua Mak, when chasing trains on the Eastern Line. I can't see any of those plane parts being re-used, there's a glut of 747 spares on the world market due to the amount withdrawn during covid, and those in the park weren't exactly looked after, companies that part out aircraft look after the spares they acquire! Another area ripe for gentrification by the look of it, 10 years time it will look nothing like today, and another old part of Thailand disappears......
Those planes were already knackered when they were put there, probably all scrapped. Planes had been taken apart bit by bit over the llast few years anyway.
Another quality documentary, Pat. Good pace, good editing and so much more informative about the city than other youtubers. I'm hoping to book a walking tour before xmas if I can finally make it over. If not, some time in the new year. Keep up the good work.
Great vlog on the area Pat Iv only passed through it. BKK has changed so much in the last 15-20 what will it be like in another 15 years 🤔🤔 keep up the great work and keep those classic jokes comming 😂😂
You should do a video dedicated to the Pink Line once it opens next month. And make sure to come and visit my neighborhood, Lak Si, again as the video for it was, I would say, too short, and you only did cover mere area around the intersection, while excluding other interesting parts in the somewhat big district, in the process. Anyway, thanks for showing more obscure places to farangs and Thai, like me, alike.👍
Cheers for the support, I only ever diid a 5min run through of Laksi for my Red Line video and it will get a deserved proper video sometime hopefully soon.
Thank you for this interesting video, Pat. I spent 15 years living in Bangkapi and the video brought back so many memories of a fabulous time that I spent there. On my first ever visit to Thailand in 1985, we drove up Ramkhamhaeng Road and beyond Happy Land, the road petered out to a single untarmac'd cart track surrounded by rice fields. Today, that road is a multi-laned highway and totally built up as your video shows. And how that area has changed! I visited there last November after a a six year absence. You'd think after 15 years I would still recognise the area as I used to go to the Mall several times a week. But when my daughter drove me there, I could not recognise a single building nor a single street until we were bang outside the Mall itself. I think the old Bangkapi is still there, tucked away down the small sois and along the canals, but the new cannot be resisted and change is a constant. Such happy days, so many happy memories.
I first went in 2002 and there are a few small changes but in the 80s l can't imagine how different it was, that photo l talked about from 1981 sums it up!
I needed a plaster for my finger and as it was the days before 7-11 , I went into a local mom and pop store and they sold me, not a pack, but a single plaster for one baht!
Thank you VERY much for this tour of Bangkok. I enjoyed it all and as someone who has spent most of his time in the Nana area I learned again how much this town has to offer in many other places than the most visited.
Absolute pleasure, lovely area to explore and wish I could have done much more but there's always the neighbouring areas like Ramkhamhaeng that I plan to do very soon. Cheers!
0:16in, hope you didn't miss the bus m8! 10:12in these electric boats are really quiet. Think we've been past the Seri Thai Gardens, unless there are other Rotundas like that elsewhere? Bus 8, Yeh. Interesting walkabout Pat Thanks m8!
I was there June 22-July 19 and it scarcely rained a drop. I stay in Ramchamkeong, but would love to stay closer to Siam or Asok f/ 650-700 THB a night low season
I'm OK with exploring most of Bangkok areas but Ramkhamhaeng... Mmm, I did find it dull (apart from the decaying modernist apartments) and not an area I'd be keen to go back to. As for the airport graveyard being dismantled, how are RU-vidrs going to make highly uninventive vlogs and pass them off as highly inventive now? 😂 Of all the RU-vidrs I have seen do content on it, only two or three seemed to actually approach it differently, you included
Great work Pat. Love the Bangkapi area, used to sometimes walk there from Minburi. Sometimes have a beer at Drama Cafe on the side road between the indoor market by the Mall and where Makro is on Lat Phrao Road. This video inspired me to take the Yellow Line there on Sunday back from town via the mrt to go market shopping with my wife. Sad to see the market next to the Mall, with so many vacant stalls when it once teaming. Happy Land Mall has some amazing bargains for those struggling with cash.
Just moved across the city having lived in Bang Kapi for 2 years. This is a really good and authentic review of the area. Some cool bars near ABAC University. The canals are amazing for walking, cycling and getting into the city via the klong boats. As you mention, some great parks in the local area too.
Excellent overview and history. I visited the area, several times about 3 years ago via Canal Taxi, which I always enjoyed from Sukhumvit Soi 71 to Bang Krapi Mall. One day it will be a less congested area.
Excellent video, Pat. I used to take the canal boat from Asok to Bangkapi Mall and then walked to the market for some cheap fruit. Had my backpack full of fruits on the way back. But it was many years ago. Feel like doing it again. Thanks for some nice memories.
Great video Pat, really interesting about the war history regarding the Japanese. I was in Bangers earlier in May and by chance struck up a conversation with a Thai lady who turned out to be a school teacher, she was well impressed with my knowledge of Bangkok history and related topics, even more supprised where I learned it from 👍👍
It's nice area ,good location and lots to do..Tawana food market is good 👍.Bought a condo 7 years ago across from the bangkapi mall by the canal on Ramkhemheng rd. Just keep your nose clean and you be ok in that area. 😂 lol
I lived in Bang kapi for two years, while attending University a nice area of Bangkok, nice the rain season isnt great but I love the food around Bang kapi mall thx Pat
As always. Your videos are just awesome. What a list of historic information. It must take you days, weeks and months to get all this together for a single video. Well done. PS: I do love that Bangkok is building so much public transit, showing that it helps to grow a city, enabling everybody to go anywhere.
Love your videos pat currently staying in bang kruai with my Thai girlfriend. I’ve Been in Bangkok for last 7 months and I’m leaving to go Kuala Lumpur this Saturday!! But I will be back in the new year😎
Bangkapi is quite interesting. I was there too and film around this area and also take the yellow line which let me end with some mixed feelings about monorails. Good Video Mate :)
@BangkokPat wait for my bangkapi video mate. I come with khlong boat and walk through this area, took the yellow line and wonder about the bumpy drive with this monorail
Great content. As one of Thai living near Krungthep Kreetha area. I love how you make this video. Superb editing. 🎉 Already subscribed and look forward to your new vids!
Thank you so much and glad you liked it, that's a very cool and underrated neighbourhood and I really liked exploring, I first visited that area in 2002 and always had interesting memories, now finally I did the video!
Personally,I can't stand the area. My new girlfriend has a condo there Maybe it's just me! definitely not as friendly as my area. I find the men ( of a certain persuasion) aren't very friendly because my girlfriend doesn't dress in their choice of clothing. She Buddhist by the way 🙏 not the happiest bunch
Wow, can't believe you included my former home from 2007 to 2013 at BR Condo on 142! Amazing, Prices are still the same I see, lol. Kinda miss it, although living here in Phra Nakhon old town isn't really half bad to be honest
Enjoyed this one. I lived out there in the 90s, and it has changed so much. I was back in Jan. of 2023, touring around with friends who live out in Mooban Sammakorn. Thanks for the new view.
If you could one day, please do a review on the neighborhoods of Ramkhamhaeng. Its one of the places I love to visit every year. Including the Ramkhamhaeng Night Market just outside the university. Amazing food, and incredible local pricing.
I certainly plan to but for now you could watch my MRT Orange Line video where I walked the route along the whole of Ramkhamhaeng Road. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6ytTuRBXvOk.html&pp=ugMICgJ0aBABGAHKBQ9NcnQgb3JhbmdlIGxpbmU%3D
I use the Rode Lavalier 2. The sound is meatier than the last one I used, which was just the simple Rode Lav mic, but they make very good mics for the cost. Rode Lavalier 2 is about $100
Hi Pat, I subscribed after seeing you and Rob from Project Bangkok. I really like your style in presentation and things you share and show. Greetings from Australia
Fasinating history and outstanding research (even if some of it was googled 😊) again Pat especially the about the Seri Thai movement during WW2. With that goatee you seem to be cultivating, I reckon the security guards at The Mall probably thought you were some shady character from a Christopher G Moore novel 😊
Great video Pat. Your knowledgable much more than Thai peple. I'm actually Thai and Budthis, but so amazing that you know alot of Thai history, but one thing that may be misunderstood. In the picture that you talk about buffolo, that is not buffolo, it's a cow. Usually Muslim people, they raised Goat and Cow not Buffolo, because they need the milk from them. But anywway your video is so great that Thai people like me should ashame that you are foreigner but you know alot better and me. Keep doing it.
Thanks for the compliment and correction, l think only you noticed it was a cow! I have studied history since a young age so l love researching...l'm not fully a foreigner, half Thai 😎
Very nice. You could continue down to my neighborhood, near Rmkhamhaeng University and Ram 24. It is still Bangkapi but different from areas near the mall. The reason why I mention it is because someone else did a walkthrough a few years back that was not very complimentary. It seemed that people were quite put off by it. It has since been removed :)
I have been down Ram 24 for an early video, certainly wasn't rude, whoever would do that is obviously trying to shock people, and knows nothing of the true charm of that neighbourhood around the SAT....I do intend to visit again, as last time was the height of the virus and everything was closed but I did my best.
Recently found your channel - great and useful content 👍 Q: As you know the Lat Phrao area very well - do you have any knowledge of Ma Maison and its history? (A big condominium near Town in Town).
It would be interesting to know more about the area surrounding the New Lumpini Stadium, now that Pink Line is operational..namely around Lat Pla Khao and Ram Inthra mrt stations. This is absolutely the best channel on Bangkok
This was my ol 'hood. My fine other half n I lived right in the middle of the Rattana Bundit Uni. area, a short taxi bike ride to Happy Land and Mall Bang Khapi. It was a really nice culture mash up and a cheap easy 40 min. khlong boat ride to down town.
I've noticed quite a few had this area as their 'hood at some point, from a couple of months to over a decade. Only very few had bad things to say about it!
Do ypu have a video on how to research relatives from the Bangkok area. I will be coming to Bangkok to find my sister in laws family since she has passed away. I should be there jan24
Hi Pat, Haven't commented for ages but simply had to for this one, great content mate, it must have taken a few days to get all the footage together, great episode!
Thanks 👍It was a lot of fun exploring and filming this, must have been the canals and lovely park that did it, and the fact that it's now just 20mins by MRT!
My pleasure and many thanks to you too. I often claim to be a professor, you can ask May, she'll tell of my wild claims of professorism....(is that a word?)
I always thought that capuchin was a bit of a long shot. Wonder what monkeys they were. It was actually 'krabi' which has it's origins in monkey symbolism
