The principal transgender cabaret venue in central Bangkok, the Golden Dome Cabaret Show occupies a purpose-built theatre on Soi Ratchadaphisek 18 in the Huai Khwang district of the central city. The theatre opened in 2003 and is one of the principal long-running venues of the famous Thai kathoey or transgender cabaret tradition, which has been one of the more distinctive forms of Thai popular theatrical entertainment continuously since the establishment of the first dedicated venues in the late.....

Stretching across approximately thirty-five acres of central Bangkok immediately north of the Mo Chit BTS Skytrain station, the Chatuchak Weekend Market is one of the largest weekend markets in the world and the principal historic flea and handicraft market of central Bangkok. The market operates only on Saturdays and Sundays, with around eight thousand individual stalls organised across twenty-seven numbered sections and approximately two hundred thousand individual visitors during a typical we.....

Set on the second floor of the RCA Plaza shopping complex on Rama 9 Road in the Bangkapi district of central Bangkok, EasyKart Bangkok is one of the principal indoor go-kart venues in the Thai capital and provides the standard year-round karting experience accessible without leaving the air-conditioned central city. The venue opened in the late 2000s as one of the original anchor tenants of the second-floor entertainment zone of the wider RCA Plaza complex. The indoor go-kart venue format devel.....

A small specialist culinary school in the PD Mansion on Soi Rung Rueang in the Samsen Nok district of central Bangkok, the Siam Carving Academy provides intensive courses in the traditional Thai art of fruit and vegetable carving. The academy is one of the few institutions anywhere in Thailand offering structured instruction in this distinctive traditional craft to international visitors and operates principally on a short-course basis for tourists and culinary professionals visiting Bangkok. T.....

Set at the centre of a large traffic circle at the junction of Phaya Thai, Ratchawithi, Phahonyothin and Ratchathewi Roads in the central Ratchathewi district of Bangkok, the Victory Monument is one of the most distinctive individual landmarks of the modern Thai capital and the principal symbolic monument of the wider Thai military tradition. The monument was completed on 24 June 1941 and commemorates the Thai military victory in the brief 1940-1941 Franco-Thai War. The Franco-Thai War of 1940-.....