Wandering/Wondering

Tag: Thailand

  • Why are Chinese communities so much more visible in Malaysia than in Thailand?

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    Kuala Lumpur was strikingly similar to Bangkok in many ways. Ultra-modern infrastructure, skyscrapers, and massive shopping centres, right next to tattered, grimy streets in oppressive tropical heat. But there was a key difference: where Bangkok had the shining spires of Buddhist temples and the Grand Palace, Kuala Lumpur had mosques, Hindu temples, and at least…

  • How much Korean cultural influence is there in Thailand?

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    In the midst of Bangkok’s teeming ecosystem of adverts, all over the walls of the metro and infesting the huge shopping centres, something occurred to me. Thai people can have a wide range of skin tones, but the people grinning and holding up products in the adverts were exceptionally pale. This could be attributed to…

  • Thailand & Singapore

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    Day 1 Through windows of the train from the airport, I could see the spires of temples emerging out of a green tropical landscape. It was such a textbook definition of exotic, but the hours upon hours of air travel had numbed me to it. The numbness may not have been an entirely bad thing,…