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Why are Starbucks Coffee Shops such a popular hangout joint for every Lo-so misfit degenerate farang in Thailand? Yesterday I see some 70 looking 'BOEING' t-shirt wearing farang intimately holding hands with his 20 year old Thai girlfriend/wife in Starbucks or you see some farangs that spend four hours sitting in Starbucks every single day playing on their MacBook laptops. In another Starbucks their was a couple of old sexpats doing nothing but talking about 'boom boom'.
It's like Starbucks Coffee Shops are a magnet for all the 'undesirable' farangs in Thailand.

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LOL - so which category do you fall into?

Seriously, I went in once, quite a few years ago (before Market Village) to get out of the rain. I was soooo shocked at the price of a cup of coffee in Thailand that I vowed never to go in again (I seem to remember it was about the cost of 3 beers at the time), rain or no rain.
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They go for their daily energy hit as they can't afford heroin. Toooo much sugar

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I remember my first week in Thai, in BKK. I went out and had a very good street food dinner for 60b, then went to s"bucks and had a coffee 80b--Something wrong here i thought.
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Much worse now, many coffee shops selling these iced teas with cream on top for 125baht
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Back to the original post, I don't like SB's mainly due to the unhealthy drinks but may I ask why so negative? Do you really thing SB's has more low lifes than say Soi 80 or 88 food court.
It is not just SB's you see 70+ with a 20s chicks, this is Thailand and sadly this is life here, I don't agree with it but if not so why does HHAD have an entire section for "Night Crawlers" where the sole purpose is to find bar girls (prostitutes) and sex massage shops.
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As a tea drinker, I like SB. I can get a huge mug of tea for 90 baht. Okay silly money really, but so many coffee shops here don't sell tea or just flavoured stuff. Amazon sell Twinings English brekky tea for 40 baht, but I don't want a small cup or have to go and sit in a garage.
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Does the "OP"believe that Starbucks in Hua Hin is any different from their branches anywhere else in Asia?
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Thistle wrote:Does the "OP"believe that Starbucks in Hua Hin is any different from their branches anywhere else in Asia?
Also does the OP think it's one or all of Hua Hin's coffee shops?
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Maybe the OP is just grumpy as he did not have a 20 year old on his arm. :laugh: :laugh:
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Since when has a visit to Starbucks been mandatory?
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70 yr. old men have 20 or 30 yr. old women because there aren't any 70 yr. old women who want sex on a regular basis.
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hmm...I thought it was about Starbucks coffee...
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Big Boy wrote:LOL - so which category do you fall into?

Seriously, I went in once, quite a few years ago (before Market Village) to get out of the rain. I was soooo shocked at the price of a cup of coffee in Thailand that I vowed never to go in again (I seem to remember it was about the cost of 3 beers at the time), rain or no rain.
I don't fall into any of those categories.
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Hahuahin wrote:hmm...I thought it was about Starbucks coffee...
Nope the OP was about aged low life's who frequent SB's with 20 year old chicks. Personally I would not visit as my life is sweet enough without 20+ spoons of sugar in a coffee.
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