Showing posts with label Thailand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thailand. Show all posts

Saturday, 6 February 2016

How to spot fake goods in Thailand

Spoiler alert: This week's blog post features fake bags, fake socks, and even fake shops!

As well as writing, one of my other favourite hobbies is travelling, especially to the tropical islands of Thailand, where you can find some incredible bargains in the street markets, with designer t-shirts, sportswear and other goods available for bargain prices which seem almost too good to be true.

And of course that's because they are too good to be true. If it seems too cheap to be genuine, then that's generally because it is. However, even without the tell tale sign of a cheap price, there are a few giveaway signs which can help you spot whether an item is fake or genuine, and I've highlighted a few examples below...

1) Open from 7am in the morning until...


As you can see from this first photo, sometimes it's not just items of clothing which are faked. Sometimes it's the entire shop!

7 Elephant. Open from 7 am in the morning until elephant pm at night.

At first glance everything appears to be perfectly above board with this 7-11 logo, but on closer inspection you may notice a very subtle mistake that the copyright infringer made when copying the 7-11 shop logo.

Sunday, 1 February 2015

The fire hoop: Win or fail?

Drunken backpackers risking life and limb in the pursuit of entertainment.


A brave/foolish backpacker throws himself through the fire hoop.
I've previously featured the fire skipping rope on the Charles Fudgemuffin blog, but the fire skipping rope isn't the only fire related nightly entertainment in Thailand. The beach bars and clubs in Koh Phangan are obsessed with fire and also have fire jugglers, fire limbo, the fire hoop, and other fire related activities.

This week I've decided to focus on the fire hoop, and below is a video featuring drunken backpackers attempting to bravely/foolishly leap through a hoop of flames. However, rather than just editing together a compilation of people jumping through the fire hoop, the video instead takes the form of a quiz.

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