Welcome to the latest video for @KhonKaenDen. In this video, I go an a bit of a nostalgic walkabout, searching for some of the bars and clubs that were popular when I very first visited Khon Kaen on holiday back in the year 2000 (though it could have been 1999 - I can't quite remember haha). There were more bars and clubs that I went to but most of which have been knocked down and replaced rendering it impossible to work out exactly where they were. Can you remember any other places? Let me know in the comments section. Thanks for watching and don't forget to like, comment and subscribe! Cheers, Den.
Sawasdee kap. Do you live in KK ? I saw your video, I will be happy to share a drink with you to speak about KK because I know the city from more than 20 years ago. See you soon maybe! Chok dee kap.
@@KhonKaenDen Anyone remember the lighthouse restaurant just past the main gates, on the left hand side going into KK. They had water there, can't remember if it was a small river or pond. Never understood why it closed. Always busy and great atmosphere.
First visit, 2002. Dave and Noi moved east of Khon Kaen to run a farm steading mainly goats and growing mushrooms. Met Noi a couple of times around 2014 2016. Im still in the province but never go to Khon Kaen. Not the same as before, pretty desolate and no spark. Last visit was 2017. Your haunts were taking me step by step on my walk around the bars. Very similar. Svens corner was sold on and the last I knew was what it looks like now, a Thai restaurant and think you can still sit at the bar on the outside. No1 Bar was my first bar as I stepped off the bus. Dave is indeed Scottish and lived as a postman in NZ. It was a joy to chat and drink with a fellow Scotsman. I stayed in the city 2013-2016 next door to the new Tawandaeng. It was a busy night life scene with many bars, live music and eateries on the roadside opposite. Loved it but burnt out. Took up the outdoor lifestyle and live at my house in the sticks content with the been their done it attitude no need to further explore. Hope you enjoyed your visit, you certainly have a good memory. The Silver Bullet was mainly for lady pleasures and obviously the police had a lucrative hand in it. Thanks for the walk around.
I lived in Khon Kaen for a few months in 1968-9. I keep looking for familiar things (besides the Kosa) in videos and see not a one. Population was around 35,000. The only nightclubs I remember were the Kosa (restaurant by day…club at night), and the Silver Star. (There was also a little grubby GI bar, the Jun Pen, which the owner gave up and converted to a ramwong hall before I was gone-soldiers were too rowdy for him) There was a lovely outdoor restaurant on the Beung Kaen Nakhorn where my friends liked to go after work for beer, followed by dinner. ..looks like the whole area around the Beung has become a running path with food carts.
Being hammered in Thailand and giving directions to tuc tuc driver to get home - "Temple. Temple." That was funny, Den. Glad you made it home that night.
I lived above Sevens Corner Bar in around 2010 for a few months. Happy days! There were a few other English teachers living there. I was in KK over Songkran last year, the Black House is a coffee shop apparently. It wasn't open when I went to have a look. I went for Christmas Dinner in Number 1 Bar in 2010, I think the owner used to be a chef. Good times.
may very well stay at the Chaipat Hotel next month, not far from the train station. Saw a guy stayed at the Roma in August for 260 a night, but it's "high" season now. Not that it makes a big difference in a Uni town.
I observed the increase in duty (or tax if you like) on alcohol over the years killed the bar and night scene in Thailand. Obviously for the monied tourists coming in it was still cheap though so the foreigner bar scene kept going. When I first started coming to Thailand alcohol was really cheap and over time it got more and more expensive. But yes Thailand is a much more serious place than in years gone by! I prefer country living in Thailand these days than the cities.
You can see by the Ducatis and Triumphs out front that those inner city areas are getting gentrified, even in esarn.....begs the question can a town ever have enough coffee shops ?
