15 Minutes From Asoke. It Can Be 50% More Affordable

[00:00:00]Well, hey, what's going on? Good afternoon. Woo, that's kind of sketchy.

[00:00:04]He's pulling out of the Department of Land Transportation. Maybe he just flunked his motorbike test. He almost plowed into that guy. But, that's where you go down that way on the other side of that building to get your Thai driver's license and motorbike license.

[00:00:19]Just a short distance ahead on the on the left there is the Bang Chak BTS station.

[00:00:28]So, I'm going to go up and over the station onto the other side.

[00:00:33]And let's take a look. Let's take a walk down this somewhat affordable area where that white building is. I know there's a hospital down there.

[00:00:42]Uh, I can't remember. Some kind of car dealership.

[00:00:46]Let's take a peek at an affordable area of town that's uh, just one stop and you're in On Nut.

[00:00:58]And from here to Phrom Phong, I think less than 10 minutes.

[00:01:07]So, you're not that far out.

[00:01:10]Things get a whole bunch cheaper couple of stops past On Nut, even one stop.

[00:01:16]You can still find some bargains in the On Nut area, but not like the old days.

[00:01:21]Actually, let me walk down here just because I never have.

[00:01:24]I don't even know what this is. This would be close to 99, something like that.

[00:01:30]Well, that's interesting. I'm I'm walking right next to uh, a guy doing a like a smog test on a motorbike, I think.

[00:01:37]At the 5-year mark, cars and and bikes.

[00:01:43]But, I'm not positive. It makes sense.

[00:01:45]It's right next door to uh, to the DLT.

[00:01:52]I keep thinking DMV, like in California. Yeah, these are these are just private homes. Let me spin a U-turn get back on Sukhumvit.

[00:02:00]Yeah, can ask my girlfriend. I don't know anything. I'm seeing 3 plus 2 plus.

[00:02:08]Consultation on the matters of import export customs So, here's 99. I knew 99 was around here somewhere and here's Homeless Tattoo.

[00:02:19]Get that tattoo your family is already disappointed. All right.

[00:02:27]With a name like Homeless, how could you go wrong?

[00:02:32]And I do want to go up the Bang Chak uh station there over to at least that Life building. But, I can't remember on the odd side here What's up, 99? You know what?

[00:02:48]I'm going to walk down here because I thought there was a building under construction the last time I was here, but I know it's in this area somewhere. It might be 97.

[00:03:01]And I won't know until I walk down here.

[00:03:04]Good Boy Coffee Great House 99 Getting the shade over here.

[00:03:14]No, cuz that new building was like you could see it almost from here.

[00:03:23]But, still I'm always up for a neighborhood explore exploration.

[00:03:31]Even going into whatever it is hour five or six I've walked around today.

[00:03:38]Not the best time of the year to be uh out walking for this length of time at uh in the heat of the day.

[00:03:50]April, May, June, July.

[00:03:52]It's just roasting.

[00:03:55]Yeah, I'm not going to go too much further.

[00:03:58]Looks like just some private houses.

[00:04:03]I was interested in that brand new building.

[00:04:07]What is this? Maison Morgana.

[00:04:13]Uh by appointment only, invitation only.

[00:04:17]I guess it's over here.

[00:04:21]Huh.

[00:04:23]Yeah.

[00:04:24]I don't think I've been invited.

[00:04:27]You can look that up. A lot of those private clubs around town, especially in the uh Tong Li area, there'll be all kinds of Japanese and Korean exclusive clubs, membership type places.

[00:04:43]I guess it's no different than uh some of the yacht clubs around the marinas I used to hang out in.

[00:04:50]I was never a big San Diego Yacht Club guy, but I probably I was in there once or twice, but I spent a lot of time in uh some of the ones associated with the beer can races. Just kind of the barbecues and goofing off.

[00:05:08]Some of those yacht clubs, I was never a member. I was an associate member of a couple of them, but some of them would uh not the San Diego Yacht Club. That was crazy money, but some of the other ones, every now and then they would run specials and it was 3,500 dollars, something like that.

[00:05:27]And then you'd get on a big long waiting list, and when you could get your boat in there, it was a fraction of the cost of the normal marinas.

[00:05:35]And it was cheap drinking, cheap food.

[00:05:38]Cheapish for waterfront in on San Diego Bay.

[00:05:45]Now, I'm not sure why there's a big Phra Khanong right there feet from the Phrom Phong BTS station.

[00:05:57]Huh.

[00:05:58]Okay, is this is this in the Phra Khanong area? I I don't know.

[00:06:03]I don't know my districts so well. Maybe uh Phrom Phong and and On Nut and Phra Khanong are all kind of one in the same.

[00:06:10]Anyhow, let's cross over that is Sukhumvit Soi 62 and take a peek. These BTS stations are kind of long. So, at the other end of Phrom Phong is uh the Ideal building. Those are smaller, but affordable.

[00:06:25]If you're not wanting to live in a cracker box and on and on, that's not going to be the building for you. If you're okay with a smaller place, save some cash, really 15 minutes from uh Central Bangkok and, you know, all that type action, it might be ideal for you.

[00:06:46]It's oftentimes the uh people leave comments like that, you know, "Hey, I need 1,500 sq ft minimum."

[00:06:52]Well, they'll leave comments like that for years and never even come over for a visit. So, I I don't know what to say. The The other folks kind of understand that um any world-class city, any capital city, hey, real estate in kind of a prime location, it's going to come at an extreme cost and uh kind of do like the rest of us, get that 30 35 40 sq ft uh uh square meter apartment. I lucked out on the 52. And um those deals are out there, but sure, I would like 100 sq m and two bedroom and a huge balcony and heck, throw a little soaking pool on the patio while you're at it. And I I don't want to pay any more than say, $800 I'm dreaming in the location I want to be of of Prom Pong, but you know, I'm out here kind of getting it done where some other folks are uh just leaving a bunch of comments that these are all shoebox-size apartments that they could uh never tolerate.

[00:07:57]And that's all fine because they'll probably never come over.

[00:08:02]And the folks that uh that do come over, hey, you kind of realize pretty quick that you don't need all that space. You don't need all that junk.

[00:08:16]I can't believe how many things I had in that house when I got rid of my house.

[00:08:22]And then even again um I helped my parents uh last year uh get rid of their house and it's like, "How How did you end up with 22 shovels and hoes and rakes?"

[00:08:35]It's crazy.

[00:08:37]When I sold my house, for whatever reason, I had three working lawnmowers.

[00:08:43]I was a mailman and uh I just couldn't uh I couldn't pass up a a Honda lawnmower for 20 bucks at a garage sale. Yeah, lay it on me.

[00:08:54]Put it on the side of the yard with the other two lawnmowers that are working.

[00:09:00]And they were so valuable to me.

[00:09:04]I just left them there when I sold the house and said, "Hey, there you go, a lifetime supply of lawnmowers and rakes and shovels."

[00:09:14]I offered all those things to my buddies and they said, "Are you kidding me? I got my own problems with three lawnmowers over here myself and I have a gardener."

[00:09:24]All right, so we're going up uh 62 and at the top here a Bon Chok gas station, a KFC, a Subway.

[00:09:31]Um I'm not going to know how to pronounce that.

[00:09:34]Uh I'm just going to say Rum- Rum Rak.

[00:09:36]That's wrong, I'm sure. Romarock Hospital down on the left.

[00:09:43]And I think there's a MG dealership something up here on the right or left.

[00:09:51]And that over there is the uh the highway, the toll road.

[00:09:56]And that's pretty much where this street ends. Oh, it's an MG dealership on the left.

[00:10:03]And I'm going to say this Life building is the most popular kind of expatty building in the area.

[00:10:11]Close to the train.

[00:10:13]But there are some cool little apartment buildings also tucked away in the area.

[00:10:21]I'm not going to do it right now. I'm getting a little pooped after uh being out since about 7:30 this morning.

[00:10:30]It's now 12:30.

[00:10:33]But there's some little neighborhoods that snake around back there with some interesting little houses.

[00:10:44]Office building S&P.

[00:10:48]That's some nice older architecture.

[00:10:58]Okay, Ford. I knew there was something.

[00:11:00]MT&T Ford right there.

[00:11:03]And this is the Life.

[00:11:07]Uh tucked away back there.

[00:11:10]Yeah, see I've wandered all back through here and it's uh it's all houses. I think there were some townhomes for sale.

[00:11:20]And this just most of these just dead end.

[00:11:28]But I told you I'd take you as far as this Life and I will.

[00:11:32]Back there with you see the hospital.

[00:11:35]That's pretty much the end of the line.

[00:11:45]And there's the life building again, the tree on the roof.

[00:11:49]Usually an indication they have a a pool up there.

[00:11:55]I also remember down on the left was a piano lessons. I think in this little shopping complex.

[00:12:05]And these guys do their best with their little flags to try to get traffic to stop and and let their person out.

[00:12:13]I don't know how much traffic stops, but at least uh this guy couldn't have pulled out any slower, but at least uh folks are aware somebody's pulling out. But that little car had some limo tinted windows, but I think they were filming me filming them. Okay.

[00:12:34]I'm not trying to uh freak anybody out, just showing you the street, showing you some buildings, but I get it. If I'm driving my car along and somebody's holding their phone on me, I'd probably uh wonder what's going on myself.

[00:12:53]My good buddy, he asked me, he goes, "I know you're pretty discreet. I mean, you're not sticking a phone in some guy's face sitting with a lady at in a bar.

[00:13:01]That might ruffle some feathers and that that's absolutely true, but he asked me just walking along the street, you know, you're going to accidentally film somebody. Have you ever got yelled at or a dirty look, that kind of thing?" And uh the answer's the answer's no. I mean, one time I was uh sitting at O'Shea's and I had my phone on a tripod and it was in selfie mode. I was talking into it. I don't know, doing some kind of some kind of little talking head video and um out of the corner of my eye, across the way at um Laughing Tiger, somebody's giving me the bird.

[00:13:39]And you know, I even turned the camera around and showed "Hey, I'm filming myself, you know, I'm not I mean, I get it. It'd be like this guy giving me the bird as I'm standing here filming myself." And I don't know, he wasn't having it. Just he wasn't yelling or screaming. He just had a frown on his face and was giving me the bird.

[00:14:00]So, message accepted.

[00:14:04]But just walking around Bangkok 90% of people are on their phone.

[00:14:11]So, it's not super unusual for me to have this phone in front of my face.

[00:14:19]Half the time people are doing video chats.

[00:14:23]And I I do have it sideways in in I guess landscape mode, so that's a little bit more like "Okay, he's filming."

[00:14:30]And here's a a sign for And it's confusing to me because this says the Bangkok Land Transport Office, which is where you get your driver's license.

[00:14:40]But over there, I guess they do call it the BLT.

[00:14:43]I'm starting to overheat a little bit.

[00:14:47]BLT same as the DMV in California, Department of Motor Vehicles.

[00:14:56]Think I mentioned it in in another video in this area.

[00:15:01]If you're down here in the On Nut side of town this will be your BLT or the most convenient.

[00:15:09]Or there's a second up in the Mo Chit area near Chatuchak Park.

[00:15:18]But from what I understand you can go to a little small office in a in a province. I mean, getting your driver's test in New York City or downtown Los Angeles, that's certainly going to be trickier than uh some little smaller office.

[00:15:40]Back in the day when you when you couldn't do things online, there wasn't an online, we'd have to either mail in or you'd go into the DMV to uh uh get the stickers for your dirt bikes.

[00:15:55]Whatever the whatever the case was, and I would always go to this little town whenever I'd go out and for some family function.

[00:16:04]If it was a funeral unfortunately or uh just a get-together.

[00:16:09]Or I had to take somebody take my grandma home back to her little small town 100 miles from San Diego.

[00:16:15]I would pull into the next small town that had a Department of Motor Vehicles, and there's two people in line.

[00:16:22]You know, some guy getting stickers for his his tractor.

[00:16:28]Another guy maybe registering his car, but I imagine it'd be no different here in Thailand.

[00:16:37]It's probably a lot less hectic outside of Bangkok, Thailand, to get your driver's license.

[00:16:47]I know there was a two or three month wait, but I avoided that problem hiring an agent and just uh paying about 100 bucks US to kind of skip to the head of the line.

[00:16:58]So, we're still under the Bang Chak uh BTS station.

[00:17:02]Walking in the direction now of On Nut.

[00:17:04]There's not a whole bunch.

[00:17:07]I think this is like a 62/1 or there's no uh marker.

[00:17:13]But, I've walked up there. It's a couple of welding shops.

[00:17:19]What's this? A dry cleaner.

[00:17:23]Yeah, it's a whole bunch slower up here, but that's nice.

[00:17:30]Maybe a nice quiet place to live.

[00:17:33]I'm not exactly right here on Sukhumvit, it is going to be nice and quiet, but just a block or two off.

[00:17:42]I know two or three people that live in this area and uh my good friend, he owns three condos up in uh Bang Chak area.

[00:17:55]I'm trying to say it correct. That's how the uh BTS lady says it.

[00:17:59]Like every other foreigner farang, I said uh Bang Bang Chak forever, but the BTS lady says, "Bang Chak."

[00:18:09]So, I'll try to uh copy her a little bit.

[00:18:14]And this is all that little neighborhood I I was telling you about behind the uh hospital. Well, this actually kind of winds off to the right. It's an interesting neighborhood. That's a I think a hotel, but it's a cool like boat-shaped building.

[00:18:31]That's an interesting street back there as well. Um right next to the IDEO.

[00:18:36]I don't know if that's Soi 97.

[00:18:40]Let me see.

[00:18:41]Let me see if I can put my eagle eye on it.

[00:18:46]And walk up a little bit more, but Okay, it is the Viva Garden Residence. For some reason, I thought it was a hotel.

[00:18:52]Interesting looking building.

[00:18:54]Very close to the train.

[00:18:58]Huh, I like those balconies a lot.

[00:19:03]Uh let me see across the street. Power lines in the way.

[00:19:09]Okay, well, it says it's the IDEO Sukhumvit 93, so I'm going to go with that uh Soi 93.

[00:19:15]But, 3-minute walk, if that, to get up and onto the train.

[00:19:20]There it goes, off in the direction to On Nut.

[00:19:26]I know a lot of people that live uh in that ideal 93 building.

[00:19:31]And I believe right under the the blue sign there, when you walk up 93, just going by memory, I think that's where the Jim Thompson the silk scarves guy, I think that's where his uh factory outlet is. I've been in there two or three times. Way back in the day, it had a lot of merchandise, but after the pandemic, there was hardly anything in there, and and they were kind of saying, "Yeah, I mean, we're lucky to keep the the stores stocked, much less move things out of the store that weren't selling so fast over here to the factory outlet." So, it was uh kind of slim pickings, but maybe in 2026, it's picked up.

[00:20:11]And we're coming up to Sukhumvit Soi 60.

[00:20:19]Sure I've been on it. I've been on all these sois, but let's at least uh take a peek up 60.

[00:20:32]Now, the main large street is going to be down at um Soi 50, right at the On Nut BTS.

[00:20:41]Back of the house.

[00:20:47]Okay, yeah. There's nothing really here except the a hotel.

[00:20:52]Oh, no.

[00:20:53]I thought there was a hotel here on the last That That might be the next street, but here's a restaurant Italiano.

[00:21:03]Huh, and a spa. Yeah, this just kind of winds into a a network of houses where you can go around and pop out on the next soy.

[00:21:12]Maybe it's soy 58. That would make sense.

[00:21:16]But not always. Sometimes it's a 60 60 60/1 etc. Some hair some hair salon some uh massage some hippie lettuce and across the street is a a furniture guy.

[00:21:36]And that's where I got my uh coat rack.

[00:21:38]You see the coat rack standing out front? He had a I aluminum one, I guess. It was silver.

[00:21:44]And I picked that up for can't remember. 450 baht, something like that. 20 baht?

[00:21:50]Yeah.

[00:21:55]Nice guy sitting in front of his uh lettuce store.

[00:22:03]Tire shop across the way Pirelli Continentals.

[00:22:08]Boon's a character. My girlfriend, she um when she got her car, it was a repo and her boss is in charge of uh car financing for a huge bank and all the branches all over Thailand. So, he put the word out and they they found Boon a really good car with uh heck, I think it has about 11,000 US miles on it.

[00:22:28]But it was a 2022.

[00:22:31]Um so the tires were 4 years and 2 months old and I guess the repo man, heck, you know, said, "Oh, let's get some newer tires on there."

[00:22:44]And they um put practically a brand They were still used, but practically a brand new set. I think they just took them off another car, one that maybe uh you know, they're not going to worry so much about the tires being 4 years and 1 month old. I I don't think that's earth-shattering, but I guess 4 years is supposed to be the magic number. Anyhow, they swapped her tires and put on these Dunlops.

[00:23:10]Brand new looking tires. I mean, maybe 95% tread still on there.

[00:23:15]And she said, "You know, I'm going to take those off sooner than later and put on some Michelins.

[00:23:21]Michelins are number one."

[00:23:23]I'm like, "Hey, cool your jets, you know, wait till you wear those things out." But, she's going to do what she's going to do. I have a feeling when those tires are maybe half worn, she's going for the Michelins cuz I think Tik Tok said they were number one.

[00:23:37]Don't know.

[00:23:39]Me, a tire's a tire if it's a a Dunlop or a Continental or a Pirelli, it's it's all about the compound of the tire, how soft it is.

[00:23:49]Soft tires just seem to wear out in no time, and I'm not a big fan of uh kind of those off-brand Chinese tires, but taking off some Dunlops. Watch yourself on the sidewalks.

[00:24:04]Um yeah, I'll probably try to talk her out of that. She'll probably talk herself out of it when she realizes what a set of four Michelins is going to cost even in those tiny little sizes.

[00:24:18]But, I like that she's uh trying to take care of her her car.

[00:24:23]There goes the Bangkok to Pattaya government bus.

[00:24:30]She's probably had that thing washed and waxed two times in the last uh 2 months for a a whopping whatever she paid, 250 baht probably.

[00:24:50]All right, here's Soi 58, and there's the street sweeper hard at work.

[00:24:58]Trying to remember. Oh, okay. Yeah, I think down this 58 is um I'm not going to walk all the way down there. It's past past those cars, but there is on the right This is a I was going to say a hotel on the left, but I think that's an office building and then I think that's a hotel.

[00:25:16]Oh, it is a hotel. The the court courtier courtier.

[00:25:21]Okay, I can't say that three times in the heat. The the Well, I'm just going to call it the quarter. But um down the way is some hoops. It's It's kind of an indoor basketball court and they do lessons and classes and I don't know different league action in there. Something. But there's a little Vietnamese place hooked almost into the basketball court in in In fact, I walked by it a couple of times as I was looking for it cuz um you know, my Google Map was saying, "You're here."

[00:25:57]And I'm like, "I'm at a basketball court." And it was kind of like the pro shop. You go into the pro shop, they're selling shoes, and they're selling banh mi sandwiches. Delicious.

[00:26:08]Really really good so if you're up here in the Soi 58 area across the way, that's Sukhumvit Soi 87 and the high-rise, the Siamese Towers, and it's also part of the I I think I think it's part of the Ramada um service departments or time share.

[00:26:31]Half Ramada, half Siamese.

[00:26:33]I'm not sure. I'm going to assume the top floors are the Ramada and the other are the Siamese, but I'm not sure. Here's a some kind of performance shop. Sometimes these are open and there's some kind of racy racy-looking cars sitting there.

[00:26:51]Batteries.

[00:26:56]Soi 56 and a sign that says the Chateau de Sukhumvit Hotel down this way.

[00:27:07]Oh, yeah. I've walked all the way down this 56. Not a whole bunch down there.

[00:27:12]Again, put in eager expat Soi 56 if you want to check out the whole walk.

[00:27:18]You're kind of in between Bang Chak uh BTS and and On Nut, but there are some interesting uh possibilities to rent a small house. I think there's a couple of uh Thai style buildings maybe with like a wet bath and all. Again, could come at a a terrific savings.

[00:27:41]Now, we're walking all the way up to On Nut BTS. So, we're going to pass What are we on? 56. That's Soi 54 and 52.

[00:27:48]There's all kinds of cool little low-rises back there. There's a the tree.

[00:27:54]I know there's two or three the tree buildings back there. And they're kind of interesting. They're always super affordable.

[00:28:05]Probably because they're small.

[00:28:09]But, that's the trade-off.

[00:28:12]Wells International School.

[00:28:14]That is some top value top money.

[00:28:20]You'll see the uh the Wells vans all over town dropping off the uh the kids.

[00:28:30]T and Noodles.

[00:28:37]Huh, what's going on here?

[00:28:39]This used to be It's not anymore, but it it was uh kind of a plumbing junkyard. There were what appeared to be hundreds of toilets and I don't know, piping.

[00:28:55]All kinds of things, but I guess the lot is uh for rent or for sale.

[00:29:03]I still see some fixtures.

[00:29:10]Oh, anyhow, uh well, let me I'm not going to walk back there, but uh you see those Is that focusing? Those buildings off in the distance, right on the other side of those there's a bunch of uh those small buildings I'm talking about, the tree and The only issue is there's some kind of a machine shop or sawmill back there.

[00:29:33]You're going to have to pick your spots if uh you like super peace and quiet, you might not want to have a machine shop and right across right across the way from you. Ambient air quality monitoring station. All right, is is that another smog check?

[00:30:04]I don't know what this is. Some type of government building.

[00:30:08]If only there was some kind of device I could hold in my hand and translate Thai with.

[00:30:17]All right, here's Soi 54. And you know, I was wrong. It wasn't behind those buildings. It's it's behind 52. I'm starting to overheat a little bit.

[00:30:26]Yeah, this is a another interesting street, 54.

[00:30:30]Bunch of condos um down here on the right. Well, not a bunch. There's two main units. And we're not far cuz the BTS is up in between 52 and and Soi 50.

[00:30:42]I'm trying try to get across without getting uh shellacked.

[00:30:46]Right here by this Jets gym is uh Santa Monica Diner.

[00:30:54]Right there. And a pizza company.

[00:30:58]Ooh, it might be in my imagination or you're not supposed to be out walking this long, 5 and 6 hours in the heat, but it just seems to get 10° hotter.

[00:31:12]It might.

[00:31:13]Then again, uh it seemed to be the hottest of the day right when the sun comes up.

[00:31:26]Hot is hot.

[00:31:27]And here's all the buildings over on the Soi 81 side.

[00:31:32]Lot of action right near the On Nut BTS station, and you have the the Lotus and down below the Tops.

[00:31:42]But that's about it. I mean, uh you have Cheap Charlie's and and that little bar complex on uh Soi 50. Otherwise, they kind of roll the sidewalks up about 10:00.

[00:31:52]I'm not sure if it's still here. There used to be a Caterpillar dealership.

[00:31:59]Yeah.

[00:32:01]There's two There's two sitting there.

[00:32:06]And yeah, back there, that's that area I was telling you about. You can't access it from here.

[00:32:13]There's a a Burger King on the corner up here near the On Nut station.

[00:32:21]You take a left turn at the Burger King and go back into that neighborhood of uh those low rises, those trees.

[00:32:31]Yeah, this is all Caterpillar, I I suppose, on both sides.

[00:32:35]I see Metro Cat here.

[00:32:39]Across the way, the Ideal Mobi.

[00:32:46]And Caterpillar's a big name all over the world.

[00:32:49]Oftentimes, uh just on on different road projects, I'll see the uh Ah, is it Japanese? Is it uh Ah, heck, my buddy had one of those little diesel engines in his sailboat, a a Kubota? Kubota? K U B U T O, something like that.

[00:33:09]I'm sure it's probably cheaper to uh to get Japanese things here than uh US, but with that being said, they might make some Caterpillars over here. I know they make some uh John Deere products out by uh Suvarnabhumi.

[00:33:29]Yeah, so these buildings, they're going to be smallish. Even a two-bedroom is, you know, two-bed, one-bath, I don't know, 45 square meter.

[00:33:41]It it's not unheard of, but here's the Burger King.

[00:33:45]And if you go left off into this neighborhood behind that Hop Inn, there's some very interesting low-rise buildings.

[00:33:56]Burger King's not bad over here. I It's better than I think, better than McDonald's. You might get some uh interesting choices like spicy chicken with uh rice.

[00:34:08]But, they're also uh running the burgers through the flame griller.

[00:34:14]What did I get? The uh Angus barbecue bacon.

[00:34:18]Little bit of a heart attack on a bun, but you need that once in a while. So, yeah, going up here, this is 52, I believe.

[00:34:25]This is the Lotus Shopping Center on the right. But, you go back up here, and all these little buildings and it dead ends back there are just six and eight-story buildings.

[00:34:37]That's the very popular Soi 81.

[00:34:40]Uh the Chambers up on the right, that used to be the spot. Everybody lived at the Chambers that hung out at uh Chief Charlie's up here on Soi 50 and you know, they kept talking over and over and over, "Why would you even consider living down in There goes the uh Bangkok Pattaya bus. Sometimes they'll pull over here and let you off. Not sometimes. You need to let the driver know and you can't have luggage under underneath, but they'll pull over and and drop you right here at On Nut BTS. I did that a bunch of times when I uh when I lived up here.

[00:35:16]But what was I saying? Uh with the Chambers. Yeah, back in the day these guys were like, "Hey man, come on up there and get the uh whatever, I'll make it up. The small room, 6,000 baht. The large room, 9,000 baht. The uh two-bedroom, 11,000 baht."

[00:35:30]It was prices like that. I think those have really gone up with the popularity of uh On Nut.

[00:35:39]And here's the uh the parking lot for the big Lotus and all the uh restaurants that go along with that. There's uh all the international options, including McDonald's. That's also 24 hours.

[00:35:55]KFC. All right, I did my share of walking today, so now it's time for a little sugar. I'm going to go in there and uh here's the McDonald's. Nit noi on the sugar cuz they use this kind of I don't know if it's I'm calling it like a corn syrup. It's it's some kind of sweetener.

[00:36:11]It's just pure sugar, palm sugar, whatever it is.

[00:36:16]But just a little tiny bit of that and some pineapple or orange, that really hits the spot.

[00:36:25]They have a pretty nice food court. It's not huge.

[00:36:28]Where am I at? What floor am I on?

[00:36:33]I think it's on the floor below me.

[00:36:35]No, floor above me. Yeah, it's right when you walk off the BTS. So, it's one level up off the train, one level up off the ground, and there's a nice uh cheap food court. But even even this food is reasonable. In fact, I need to get a screen put on my my phone here. I thought I jacked my phone up. It was really broken-looking, and Boon just was laughing at me and just peeled off the uh film and goes, "You know, there's not a mark on the phone." Those Those screens it looked like somebody shot it.

[00:37:10]I don't normally damage my phone like that, but it was an accident. Anyhow, the phone's fine.

[00:37:16]I just need to get another one of those covers on there before I drop it a second time. Let me see if I can find a place in here.

[00:37:23]And I just had the guy put on the phone screen. Um zero bubbles, looks perfect.

[00:37:28]300 baht. Yeah, maybe I could have found one for 190. I don't know. Boon said, "It's 60 baht on Shopee. I'll put it on." But I don't know. He He had some cheapies, and then he said this one is the best.

[00:37:41]And the way I shattered that other one, yeah, I'm uh I'm not going to go cheap to save three bucks plus my screen, cuz that thing was toast.

[00:37:52]Some nice grilled corn.

[00:37:56]I like corn. All right, there's my smoothie lady.

[00:38:00]And she just took the nice fresh no sugar 100% natural orange juice.

[00:38:05]Tucked in some ice.

[00:38:08]Off we go. None of the uh sweetener. I don't know how much it cost. Most of the choices are 50 baht. I only have some junky cook ware, the lightest brand. I don't know, it was a mistake. I just bought this make my beans and uh soup.

[00:38:26]But Boom, she's always ordering different soups from Grab. So this nice heavy pot was 800 baht a T-fal.

[00:38:37]But it's the top of the line one the sous chef I guess.

[00:38:41]It's a sous chef but that was the T-fal starter it was 600 baht. 825 I'll go with the best here. Nice and heavy. So I'm going to head on home I got my uh screen protector on that was one of my main goals.

[00:38:55]Landed at Lotus somehow spent a couple thousand baht on some different supplies. Then I go jump on the train here at On Nut and zip on down to Prom Pong. I really appreciate you running along this walk from where did I go like Bang Chak down Punnawithi?

[00:39:12]Or no I started at Punnawithi. Started at Bang Chak. That's right and then ended up here in On Nut. Anyhow it's all kind of a blur after 5 or 6 hours but good times out looking around.

[00:39:23]And I'll be out walking around soon making more videos. So you take it easy and we'll see you then. All right see you.