Thailand - 2026: Does that year look wrong to anyone else?

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I was then off to Ek Teng Phu Ki, a Tea/Coffee/Breakfast place that serves a great Ceylon Milk Tea and an outstanding Coconut Egg Custard Toast in a tiny upstairs AC room.

Good to hear that Ek Teng Phu Ki has an air-con room upstairs now. It was pretty much stuck in a time warp when I visited it in 2017. I was so worried then that it might not survive the onslaught of those generic modern cafes that young Thais flock to.

[Bangkok] Traditional coffee at Ek Teng Phu Ki (เอ็กเต็งผู่กี่)

Ek Teng Phu Ki (เอ็กเต็งผู่กี่) is one of Bangkok Chinatown’s two oldest traditional coffeeshops, together with sister-coffeeshop Eiah-Sae (https://www.hungryonion.org/t/bangkok-eiah-sae-the-89-year-old-traditional-hainanese-coffeeshop/3544). And like good traditional coffeeshops all over South-East Asia, it’s run by the Hainanese-Chinese, just as it is in Singapore and Malaysia. [image] Whereas Eiah-Sae has “gentrified” to a certain degree, catering to “outsiders” - non-Chinatown denizens who…