"You Like Seafood?"
Trip Start
Apr 01, 2008
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Trip End
Apr 28, 2008
Well, outside a new hotel on the Silom, I get into this Tuk-Tuk. They all seem so eager to help! So one driver asks if I like seafood. "Of course" I say, "I love Seafood!" "I take you to good restaurant!" So we go, I am with a friend and I know something is up, but I really want to see just what the scam is. We end up at this seafood place at the Suan Lum Night Bazaar. The place is really jumping and the meal ends up being so overpriced that I finally figure things out. The establishment pays the Tuk-Tuk drivers to bring fresh Farang over for a overpriced meal and the drivers get a cut of the business-Duh. Ok, everybody's got to make a living, underhanded though it may be, and at least now i'm initiated and am no longer considered fresh farang (I hope)!
