Hi Mikhail,

That’s unfortunate but not really unheard of. To many foreigners – especially those without a lot of worldly knowledge – Thailand is known for three things – food, whores, and monks. I think many Thais would actually be surprised and probably a bit angry to learn that. Take that stereotype and put it in the minds of a conservative white couple – who, let’s say for the sake of argument are anti-gay – and the prospect of seeing two men together on a date would probably set off all types of prejudicial bells.

But who knows? Maybe the woman saw you or your partner and was insanely jealous she couldn’t have you. Maybe she thought you were famous. Maybe she was looking past you at the server who gave her terrible service. There are a million reasons why she COULD have looked at you, but you’ll never know. Best to just go about your way and let the haters hate, because those types of people will always find problems with everything, even in the land of smiles. 🙂

So I came here recently and on the first night, we were judged by a [please note] white couple in a restaurant. The woman was sitting with her back to us but keep turning to look at our table with an unfriendly expression every 5 mins or so.

We really got the vibe that she thought my bf was a hooker, which is ironic since he is both older than me and we were dressed very conservatively [i burn really badly so try to expose as little flesh as possible]. To add he actually comes from a slightly richer family than my own.

To sum up, I really did not expect this level of unfriendliness in Thailand especially from other white people.

You shoulda been there. Terrifying.

Idiots get ripped off everywhere. I recommend you don't include yourself among their ranks.

"There goes another falang speaking bar-girl-Thai"

Although its probably better than my approach of not learning it at all!

In all seriousness, don’t underestimate the bars as a place to practice your Thai. I don’t have a lot of opportunity in my everyday life to use mine: I don’t really use it at home or with friends, because I don’t think it’s fair to impose my Rainmaneque fluency on them, but for the price of a few drinks I get a chance to improve my fluency in both speaking and listening, and occasionally even learn a little bit more.