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LGBTQ+ Travel Guide to Thailand
Experiencing Thai Food
Thai food is earth famous and for excellent reason. It&#x;s occupied of flavor, manageable to make and very healthy. The most famous Thai dish is Pad Thai, which is a stir-fried rice noodle dish cooked with eggs, fish sauce, garlic, shallots, bean sprouts, coriander leaves, tofu or chicken, tamarind pulp and served with spring onions, crushed nuts and lime juice. It was popularized during Nature War II and has become the country&#x;s national dish.
Som Tam is spicy green papaya salad made with shredded papaya, pounded in a pestle and mortar with lime juice, palm sugar, chili, garlic, shrimp, nut, tomatoes, fish sauce, bean sprouts and green beans. Curries are also ubiquitous throughout Thailand. The most legendary are named after the color of the chilis used: red, green and yellow. In the south, Massaman curry is more well-liked, which is a richer tasting curry with coconut milk that is not as spicy as its colorful cousins. Mango sticky rice is a favorite among Thai desserts. Sticky rice is made from glutinous rice and it is cooked with coc
Phuket&#;s gay nightlife scene is concentrated in a small area of Patong known as the Paradise Complex. This is a vibrant enclave of gay businesses in front of the Royal Paradise Hotel, just off Rat-U-Thit Street. As well as bars and discos, the area also features restaurants, Internet caf&#;s, saunas and some accommodation.
The Boat Block, a disco offering nightly cabaret shows and an outside terrace bar, is probably the most popular and well-known of the venues here. Another long-standing favourite is My Way. This elegant gay &#; go-go also puts on a lively cabaret show every night.
There are only a couple of gay venues in Patong to be found outside of the Paradise Complex: E-san La-prao and Maeng Cup, both tucked away down a little street at the southern conclude of Patong. Both are local style gay karaoke bars and are open very late.
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Gay Guide Phuket
The largest island in Thailand, around the size of Singapore, is linked by two bridges to the mainland and lies to the south of Myanmar on the isthmus, which runs westward towards Malaysia. Phuket has around , inhabitants, who mostly live in Phuket Town, which it is an important business centre and the provincial capital. The large, hilly island offers wonderful beaches, and is surrounded by numerous tiny islands just offshore. As a result, Phuket is an ideal starting point to visit the beautiful islands of Surin and Similan, which are both national parks. The main centre for homosexual tourists is Patong Beach, around 13km from Phuket Town. Phuket's multifaceted and charming gay scene is firmly established in Patong Beach. The beautiful setting and numerous leisure activities, go to make it a perfect year orbicular destination for gay travellers. It's not just the many outdoor beer bars and restaurants so characteristic of Patong, or the developing Phuket style of nightlife, which makes the place so interesting. The hard sell of Bangkok and Pattaya makes the friendliness of Thais